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  1. :lol:

    Did I do something wrong? Or do all newbies get LOL'ed at? I'm confused and embarrassed. :unsure:

    That's just Chuck- don't worry :g

    Chuck mellows out a bit after he gives you the initial rip. I went through the same thing with him when I first started in. And in the future, you can tell your grandchildren about the time that you got trashed by a legendary jazz producer!

  2. Will do.

    I saw him once in Columbia, Missouri when he was playing in Milt Jackson's group in mid '90s. I didn't know him back then (I was new to jazz then), but now I have very high respect for his contribution to jazz.

    I saw him at a show with Shirley Scott on a Sunday afternoon back in the late 80's/very early 90's at the Ethical Society in Philly. The show was a disappointment (Scott, on piano that show, was uninspired, and some very poor horn players sat in the second set), but I got to talk to Mickey between sets, and he was delightful.

  3. my local Barnes and Noble has stopped carrying the new batches of RVG's entirely. Since like last year I have found nothing in the store I want

    Yes! Same in Hudson Valley, NY

    Barnes and Noble in Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Albany NY - NOTHING

    Borders in Poughkeepsie - NOTHING; Albany and Danbury had one copy of each new RVG each, I think

    Tower in Nanuet, NY - NOTHING (which sucks, because BN titles are 20% off right now)

    FYE in Poughkeepsie and Kingston - NOTHING

    Best Buy in Kingston and Poughkeepsie (who used to carry new RVGs up until about a year ago) - NOTHING

    Man, I miss my New England days. I haven't been to Newbury Comics in TOO long. They were somewhat reliable for new BN reissues and new releases.

    I live within two miles of Tower and Borders, never bother with them or any other brick and mortar stores. I do everything online. CD Universe has it at your door the day after it's released, and much less expensive than the brick and mortars. Or, if you can be patient, you can usually get them a few months later from yourmusic.com for $5.99 + free shipping.

  4. I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF WATCHING THIS MOVIE FILMED BY WARNE'S DAD RIGHT NOW, well the reason for this post is because THE WAY WARNE'S DAD PHOTOGRAPHED MOVIE IS JUST AS OUT OF CONTROL AS A WARNE TENOR SAX SOLO. THE WHOLE MOVIE IS IN BLACK AND WHITE, EXCEPT THERES THIS ONE TECHNICOLOR SEQUENCE IN PERFECT COLOR, NOT THAT TYPICAL LATE 30's TECHNICOLOR GARBAGE. ANYWAYS THE SHOT, THE STAGE IS IN COLOR W/ ALL THE HOT CHICKS DOING THE FASHION SHOW, BUT THE REST OF THE SHOT IS BLACK IN WHITE, WITH JUST THE LITTLE COLOR STAGE, THEN THEY PAN IN.

    the movie is called 'the women' and joan crawford is in it, who scares the shit out of me. she is hot but scary-hot. like elvira or something. it also has joan fontaine who is more normal-hot. anyways the point of thread is: warne's dad filmed this movie just as crazy as warne plays the saxophone. see what im sayin'?

    I think we must have very different ideas of what constitutes an emergency...... :wacko:

  5. W'oh!

    Just found this on a Brit website:

    THEONIOUS MONK. IN PHILADELPHIA.

    Radio broadcast 1960 plus other miscellaneous broadcast sessions. With Steve Lacy/Art Farmer/Hank Mobley/Charles Mingus/Art Blakey/Thad Jones

    RLR RECORDS RLR88623 CD £8.95

    Hank with Monk? Can that be right? Or did they throw in some Hank radio broadcast from somewhere else?

    Breaking down the syntax in their listing, it sounds like some broadcast of Monk from Philly, 1960, plus other miscellaneous broadcasts, apparently from other miscellaneous artists. Gives credence to the sessions stated by those much more knowledgeable than me about these sorts of things.

  6. the McLean, Handy, Washington, Young, Smith all sound great to me. Also, the Art Blakey Roulettes, especially 'Gypsy Folk Tales', which introduced the mind-blowing Bobby Watson to the world (at least my world). Also, the missing McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson 70's Blue Note material if the Mosaic Selects aren't going to happen (they keep getting bumped).

  7. Thanks for the update but what about these 2 Tracks I've mentioned?

    According to my old Prestige disco Stitt didn't play on them and they were released under Ammons' name.

    I have the LP version of the Ammons 78 era and the credits there confirm this.

    Interesting, as the credits on the All-Star Sessions CD name Stitt as the tenor.

  8. How's that Elvin Lighthouse LP? He plays tenor exclusively on that, no?

    Fabulous recording. :tup:tup The whole thing makes up the last two CD's of the Elvin Jones Mosaic set. Mainly tenor, yes. Exclusively, I can't recall, and don't have the set here in front of me. Liebman is superb, too. A great example of two tenors utilizing the lessons and vocabulary of 'Trane in a very positive way, five years after his death, and after the dust had settled down, so to speak.

    There's some soprano on 'Fancy Free', but I can't remember if it's just Liebman. The entire set is almost all double tenors, which Elvin did better than anyone. Farrell, Coleman, Liebman, Grossman.... The Mosaic is spectacular, and somehow still in print many years later, I think.

  9. Yeah I picked up the Aretha 2 CD. Good music. Suprisingly the sound quality is something of a let down considering it was mixed from the multis. The sound isn't bad, but certainly doesn't rival state of the are location recording of the period.

    But I think it's a big improvement over the original CD, isn't it? I picked up the Aretha, very happy with it.

  10. For those that already have the Mosaic box, why is it so important to get the repackaged CD single?

    For the 99% of us who don't have unlimited funds, if you can buy the 7 individual Hill CD's for $70 and sell the Mosaic for $200, that's $130 that can be used for groceries, mortgage, gasoline, etc.

  11. Found a website named itsaboutmusic.com which is offering digital downloads and CD's of some artists I have been seeking obscure work by (It's A Beautiful Day, Ten Wheel Drive & Genya Raven). They also have jazz available by several artists, including Philly mainstays John Blake, Sumi Tonooka, and Byard Lancaster. Has anyone acquired CD's from this site? Are they legit? I thought the It's A Beautiful Day titles were tied up in litigation with Matthew Katz, and the the Ten Wheel Drive titles were just flat-out never released on CD. Thanks for any info you can give me on this.

  12. Does anyone know if Bock edited solos out of the multitrack tapes or just the stereo mixdown masters? Just curious because he was very liberal with editing out music to fit the confines of Lp running time.

    So with CD reissues of Pacific Jazz material, is it often a case of multitracks are missing so edited masters are used? Or did Bock actually chop up the multitracks instead--so that even if they remix from the multitracks they still contain edits?

    I know that several of the Pacific Jazz CD releases contain restored full-length performances, so I guess that would indicate the editing was done on the masters. I'm sure you'll get a much more complete and precise answer from others on the board.

  13. It's not all that far from "On The Corner" to "Remain In Light" by the Talking Heads.

    It's not that far from "On The Corner" to a lot of things, although again, not too many of them are "jazz".

    Which is what my problem is with it, I think. It's why I can't really "hear" hip-hop either. Robert Christgau wrote (at least) once that the music you enjoy most will be that which reflects the rhythm of life as you hear it, and for me that isn't funk. I realize it is for hundreds of millions of people. Talking Heads really weren't a big item for me either, more of a novelty. It's not that I'm too old to have never enjoyed this stuff ( I was born in '54), but rather that it isn't how I'm wired. "Heart Of The Sunrise" and prime Motown provide my rhythms rather than Talking Heads and George Clinton. Helpful comments from all to make me understand that my objections are subjective rather than objective.

  14. They'll reissue all this for the upteenth time, but stop all work on the box sets of On The Cornor & Get Up With It. Go figure.

    Has anyone really been that anxious for an 'On The Corner' box set? I own 'On The Corner' because it's Miles and I'm "supposed" to, but can't imagine sitting through 5-7 hours of it, and paying to do so. Yet, if/when the box set appears, I'll wait and get it from yourmusic.com because it's Miles and I'm "supposed" to. I'm glad he retired for awhile in '75 - gives me a natural jumping off point in his discography, so that I don't have to feel compelled to own the 80's stuff.

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