Dmitry

With that kind of damage you should be giving it away.

$10 apiece before sale or this is the sale price?

It's too late in the game for me, I'll be watching till the show ends production, but wtf?! These guys are starting to look more and more like cartoon characters. What's up with Phil Leotardo talking trash about Johnny Sack in public for 3 episodes? Either p&*ss or get off the pot already... I almost wished for Artie Bucco to go postal on some fruit & vegetable supply driver, to get things going a bit... BO-RING!

Ballads , the extended 2-cd set. I wonder why Trane stuck with the tenor for the whole album. I wonder what some of these standards would have sounded like with his soprano horn.

He's set to appear tonight at the Sista's Place in Brooklyn and since I'll be visiting town I was thinking of popping in. Haven't heard anything by him in years [decades, more like]. Anyone seen him live lately?

I know that. You would too, had you read my post more attentively. Heh.

Try these - Ron Miles - Woman's Day Jon Hassell - Fascinoma John Abercrombie - Open Land Pierre Favre - Window Steps Kimbrough & Locke - The Willow Kenny Wheeler - A Long Time Ago It's hard for me to explain, as I am not a music critic, but these [not uniformelyl ECM recordings, btw] carry a certain similarity. I could list 20 others in the similar vein.

Obviously I am not trying to put all the ECM releases under one banner; I'm referring to their more recent offerings, like Kenny Wheeler's Angel Song or Marc Johnson's Shades of Jade. Since ECM has produced more than a few cds of this somewhat cold, mediatative music and I'm slowly entering my cds into the Cattrax database, I might as well give these discs a sub-genre title. I was thinking just christening them as "Jazz:ECM Sound". That wouldn't apply to just the ECM discs, btw. What do you think?

In my experience most ss amps will give you a certain shrillness in the upper registers, sandpaper-like trumpets, etc, so for my money, if I had these speakers, I'd go with something like a NAD or a a Rotel 100 wpc receiver/integrated amp for like $500-600, no more than that and invest the rest of the $1,500 in some oil/gas stocks..

What a shame... I have seen him play in New York on numerous occasions. Beautiful piano player who was just beginning to get his due in the last couple of years.

Tracks: --1: Dell's Bells --2: One For Prez --3: Man I Love, The --4: Easy Swing --5: Great Lie, The --6: Dell's Bells --7: One For Prez --8: Man I Love, The --9: Easy Swing --10: Dell's Bells - (previously unreleased) --11: Dell's Bells - (previously unreleased) --12: Dell's Bells - (previously unreleased) --13: Man I Love, The - (previously unreleased) --14: One For Prez - (previously unreleased) --15: One For Prez - (previously unreleased) --16: One For Prez - (previously unreleased) Notes: Personnel: Wardell Gray (tenor saxophone); Dodo Marmarosa (piano); Red Callender (bass); Harold "Doc" West, Chuck Thompson (drums). Recorded in Hollywood, California on November 23, 1946. Includes liner notes by Alun Morgan. Producer: Alan Bates

An awesome cd! A tribute to the post-1964 Coltrane, imo.

Right from the git go I tell you I'm not very well versed in the oevre of Wardell Gray, so a few days ago I dropped his "One For Prez" cd in the player and went about my business in the next room. Then all of a sudden I hear this tune that sounds like Monk, but it's othing like I heard before and it's so cool I drop whatever I'm doing and go check it out. Dell's Bells! Holy Smokes, this sounded like something Monk wrote. Easy Swing is even more Monk than Dell's Bells. What the @#$ is going on here?! As the cd kept spinng I kinda figured out that Charlie Rouse must've listened to a lot of Wardell Gray in his day. So did Monk, probably. The connection is definitely there. Am I imagining things here? What do you think?

Sopranos slid into the abyss of canoli-colored stronzo. What a shame...

This sounds very promising. I wonder whom the author interviewed for the book.

There never is any resolution. You know that. I thought it was the "Satisfaction"?

I have that Japanese Philips Lp. You have the C-Jam Blues and I've Something to Say ? We might work something out...

What the hell happened to my show ???

That kind of mission would simply be ... impossible! From all of us here --- happy birthday!!!!!!!!!

Allegedly Humperdinck plays a decent tenor sax.

How about a teaser - who killed Lenny?

Berigan, I may very well be wrong, but I don't think this chair is Chinese. The style is strongly reminiscent of the pieces produced by the RJ Horner factory in New York, ca. 1885 - early 1900s. See if you can find the factory label on the chair's bottom.

Here are my Top 10 Most Unlikely Sopranos Plot Twists -- 10. Carmela hires Kevin Finnerty to install the heating system in her spec home. He botches the job and Tony has him clipped. 9. Lauren Bacall finds Chrissy and bludgeons him with her false teeth. 8. Uncle June busts out of prizon with the help of a 7-foot tall mute Indian they call the Chief. They settle in Western Canada, somewhere near Vancouver. 7. Silvio becomes the lead guitarist of the Asbury Jukes. 6. Johnny Sac uses his prison gay sex "pass" to get more cigarettes. 5. Benny gets beat up by Bobby Bacala's fat kid. 4. Tony kills Phil Leotardo in a freak quayle hunting accident. 3. AJ stars in Van Helsing 2 with Ben Kingsley. 2. The bear shows up at the next big family get-together at Tony's and Carmela's, ripping everyone from limb to limb, until Artie Bucco pops a cap in the bear's ass. 1. Rusty becomes the "cleaver" and finally kills Tony.

I bet it would be a minor cd hit in the jazz community if the stereo tapes were to be issued.