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Sure wish this one would get the RVG treatment.

No.....but I will!

Heard this, too. Also, how could Rodney be a more central figure than Dizzy?

I just wish I could buy a U.S. release of BLACK NARCISSUS on cd. I don't need the Henderson box because I have most of his material. I just need to fill a few holes.

Had a conversation with Jackie McLean about this film. He HATED it.

Just curious, did you mean Freddie Redd or Sonny Redd, the composer of "Mustang"?

Good album. I usually play it with BLACKJACK, back to back. Companion pieces IMO.

News reports, today, that Roethlisberger has been cited for not wearing a helmet and not having a license to drive a motorcycle!

Sorry to get to this thread so late, but I want to be fair to Floyd Patterson. To say Patterson was mediocre is unfair. First of all, at the time of his reign, Floyd was said to have the fastest hands of any heavyweight in history. He was carefully guided by Cus D'mato because he did have what some called a glass chin. However, except in the Liston fights, Floyd always got up when he was knocked down. In the loss to Maxim, whom Floyd fought when he was 19 years old and still fighting 8-rounders, it was roundly viewed as a very bad decision. All 11 ringside sportswriters had Patterson winning. This info can be found on boxrec.com. As far as a "dearth of good heavyweight fighters at the time", remember he followed Marciano, and there was a "dearth of good heavyweights" when Marciano fought. Marciano was lucky to come along when the good heavyweights were past their primes (Louis, Walcott, Charles (who was a blown up light-heavyweight)). He was knocked down in his last fight by Archie Moore, a light-heavyweight who Patterson knocked out in 5 rounds. And it was said by people who knew Marciano that he retired so that he wouldn't have to fight Patterson. He didn't think he could beat him. Eddie Machen was a former # 1 contender, who, incidently, was also knocked out by Ingemar Johansson and lost a close decision to Sonny Liston. Floyd defeated Machen. And getting knocked out by Liston! Well, duh. Liston had knocked out 11 of his last 12 opponents leading up to the Patterson fight (Machen was the exception). In fact before Ali (AKA Cassius Clay) fought him, Liston was thought to be invincible. I'm not saying Patterson was the greatest heavyweight champion, but it appears that he would have beaten most of the champions who preceded him.

Being right won't soothe his injuries. Any adult who doesn't wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle or bicycle is a fool. Especially, any professional athlete who makes millions in another sport.

Loved the artists Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, Wood and Jack Davis (man, nobody could draw like Elder!). Elder and Kurtzman wound up doing "Lil' Annie Fanny" in Playboy and Davis has done countless movie ads and posters. I really liked the humor but LOVED the drawing! Kurtzman, the founding illustrator, left in 1957 and the artistry did a very slow, gradual decline (IMO). The illustration has remained good, but does not compare with the work of the 50's. My dad was an artist and he brought home the first issues of Mad Magazine. We would spend hours and hours studying the drawing in those revolutionary comics.

I think of INTERSTELLAR SPACE and STELLAR REGIONS as bookends.

DOMINATION was reissued in 2005. Just saw it, again, tonight at Tower Records.

I'm sick of these women getting a slap on the wrist for sexually abusing children. Everytime this happens I see the same comments. Comments like "my teachers never looked like that", or "that's wrong (wink, wink)". That kid that Laterno (sp) screwed is fucked for life. He didn't graduate from high school, been in trouble with the law and has a drug and/or alcohol problem. Just because the woman is attractive doesn't nullify the fact that a serious crime has been committed. I say throw the book at all these 'ho's. If some woman did that to my kid and wasn't seriously punished, I would take the law into my own hands. I don't think it's cute.

That's the one! Thanks! I'm ordering this ASAP. P.S. I think Hazel is Hazel Scott.

Is this the one with the great (live) MOANIN' solo by Lee Morgan? I have a friend who was a music major at Howard University in the 60's. Said all trumpeters had to learn that solo.

Don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Tower is having a sale on all Blue Notes, in-store and on-line, until May 8, 2006.

Used to live in the same neighborhood as Mr. Land during the 80's and early 90's. Would see him at the corner convenience store on Fridays and Saturdays when he was on his way to gigs, looking very dapper. Always a very nice, pleasant man. Also, would hear him play at Billy Higgins' World Stage, which was down the street from me during that same period. Harold has a son, Harold Land, Jr., who is a good pianist.

Everything I have by him, and that's considerable.

Oh man, this one really, really hurts.

There's also, "See how that sounds, Teo" and "Teo play that. Teo...Teo...Teo. Teo play that", from MILES SMILES. In fact Miles says something at the end of most of the tracks on MS.

Recently, I went to a CD store that I have been going to for years. I was selling some Blue Note cds that I had replaced with RVG versions. I was offered only $3.00 per cd as opposed to the $4.00 - $4.50 I used to get. My CDs and cases/booklets were in pristine condition.

"It's Magic" is magic!

Those would be my choices, also. Oops, also, Horace Parlan's ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT.

There was a Japanese CD of this a few years ago, Victor VICJ-23138: Do you know the title of the CD? Thanks.