Dmitry

Sounds like a very tough racket for a small label. Things must've improved in the internet age?

What happened?

I know nothing of record business, but wouldn't their exposure have been exponentially greater if they sold through retail?

Two happy lovers. Lady looks quite happy in the egg chair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Levy This reads like a mob movie script. What a character... I'll never handle Roulette albums in the same way.

Where was Mosaic advertising in the pre-internet years? Downbeat, I'm sure. How about major record store chains? Any reasons why they didn't want to distribute product in the record stores?

Otoh, just reread a couple of old threads re:Hardbop, and I retract my retraction. Dude was definitely no lamb.

Wonder Bread was a sad revelation when I first came to this country. It tasted like cotton. We don't generally buy big name baked goods, I prefer local bakery-made products..other then the Oreos, which my kids like. Bread is a killer, I've gained so much weight from it. I do love it though. Nothing like freshly-baked bread from a neighborhood bakery, some good local mortadella, mustard with seeds. I've got to drop 15 pounds. Not easy.

No, I haven't had the Balvenie yet. Lagavulin is Islay, does it tastes peaty, like Laphroaig? Wife gave me a 18 y.o. Laphroaig for B-day, and it's still here. Wayyy too strong for me. The 10 y.o. is a lot more palatable to me. That being said, I'm not a Scotch cognoscenti, more like an amateur admirer. I must say that Johnny Walker Platinum is a pretty amazing-tasting scotch.

Just bought and tasted the ABERLOUR 12. While not a big fan of the double-casked scotches, like Glenmoranghie, and sherry-casked ones in particular, this one is not too fruity, and I wouldn't add ice. Price was right. $45/750cl.

I'm less than a casual football fan, but even I've heard about the almost universal disdain for the Pats. They are revered here in New England. Why no love in the rest of the country?

I'm mildly dyslexic, and am profoundly thankful for your correction.

Well, it's all fitting now, isn't it?! Coming back from a certain defeat...and how! I knew there was an other-worldly explanation for it. Now we know WHO helped... Also, another connection between Sun Ra and Massachusetts is that the previous Governor of that state Deval Aptrick is the son of Pat Patrick. So there's that too.

Very nicely and succinctly put! Remember the story of Coltrane walking the bar, and walking out of the said bar? Obviously his alternative to the bar gig was something we all know.

Are you positive on that? I've played some of it on youtube, and I'm not so sure. Honestly. And I do agree, it's music. This is music too. I could actually sit through a good hour of it.

I will go on the limb and wager that I've been to more gigs in last 15 years than Jim. From Zorn to Dixieland... Requests were happily taken by the latter, because that's what their music is based upon - the standards. If a delicate genius refuses to play the standards, and has nothing to offer as a replacement, but the Sound of Two Seagulls Fucking, i.e., TSOTSF, then no wonder that jazz music amounts to 1% of all music sales, most of it based on performing at least some standards as part of the program, I'm sure. Re:utilizing the spelling ARTISTE. Sure, I implied a higher level of artistic consciousness, separating the cerebral proponent of the music from a mere hack, who takes requests and plays the standards. Like these three hacks

It was not recorded on tape. It was originally done on acetate. This 10" came out in 1951, well before Lion met rvg.

Validity?! Sure, it's valid to you. Naturally, you, or me, can listen to whoever we want. I'm just asking, can the man carry a tune? Has he been known to break into a recognizable melody, spontaneously? Never mind Hodges, you're right, not many can do that. How about Mary had a little lamb? Just curious.

Can Mats carry a tune? That's what I meant.

Can anyone post the track list ? I'm not so hot on this yet. Hank sounds prime, the rest of the band...not so much. Imho, naturally.

How about, Hey Mats. Can you play some Johnny Hodges? What happens next? crickets..?

Sigourney Weaver was hot. Arsenio Hall - the worst interviewer since interviews were invented in Egypt by Ramses II.