Chas

It's those damn bots again ; they never sleep , and neither apparently do you Mark

Yeah , but loansharks never had websites Now they just mail out credit cards. Yesterday they issued mortgages. Something new in the morning. 'Fraid so , since achieving prosperity through income growth and savings is about as fashionable these days as sock-garters....

Yeah , but loansharks never had websites

Fresh Sound reissues Eddie Costa's Dot but not Johnny Costa's Dot and we're supposed to pore over their catalog like they're some kind of serious "collectors' label" ?

Shame that record is so hard to find . It , like the Eddie Costa Dot , is very rare , and goes for huge money . Finding the Japanese CD of it is no easy thing either . Not surprisingly , there are at times touches of Russ Freeman and Kenny Drew ( especially on Clash By Night ) in her playing . Her distinctive treatment ( a blues dirge wrapped in Debussy ) of Close Your Eyes is one of the high points of the record for me . P.S. -- Aside from Lorraine Geller , the only other notable jazz figure from Portland Oregon that I know of is Rod Levitt . Are there any others ? P.P.S. -- Another West Coast female jazz pianist worth checking out is Joyce Collins .

One hoax record I've long wondered about is this one : Just which instrumentalists were masquerading as Mexican peasants "Juan & Jose Santos" ??

Actually , The Discovery of Buck Hammer and the other Allen hoax record , The Wild Piano of Mary Anne Jackson , both came out on the Hanover label ( under the aegis of both Allen and Bob Thiele ) . Here are the covers : That's Allen's maid posing as "Mary Anne Jackson" !

Don't know . I only remember the cat's name because his intonation on the head of Spring Thing from the first Awakening album bugged me so much . What a tune that is though - so beautifully , joyously , evocative of rebirth . Ken Chaney recorded it again last year with a trio. It's a fine somewhat more impressionistic version , but missing the triumphalism conveyed by the original horn arrangement . It's on this self-produced CD-R :

is that the name of a cut on the album or the name of the album? It's the title of an album under Bulgarian pianist Milcho Leviev's name . It was recorded at Ronnie Scott's in 1980 . It was out on a Japanese CD , but hard to find .

I look at that mug and I don't see "gorgeous" , I see the androgynous results of anabolic steroid use for which East German female athletes are infamous !

I remember my trepidation about ordering from that website years ago because of the "Black Jazz ® A West Africa Company" at the foot of the home page , and because when I called to ask about payment options it took about 10 rings for someone to pick up , and the guy on the end of the line seemed more annoyed than pleased that I had called . In spite of this , I went ahead and ordered a few things and everything then ( and with subsequent orders ) was fine . Haven't ordered anything for awhile though . Black Jazz has a store on Ebay , and the CDs are cheaper if you buy them through there . Given the good feedback , that's the way I'd go if I were you .

R=Right channel output - Red G=Right channel ground - Green L=Left channel output - White H=Left channel ground - Blue

IIRC , Jaki only recorded on tenor with Herb Pomeroy's band . On the basis of recording frequency , he had a greater affinity for the alto .

Also recorded on February 29th 1960 was Horace Parlan's Movin' and Groovin' .

Noj, I bet you didn't know that Groove Holmes' recording with Gerald Wilson was the first jazz organ with big band recording. I had thought that the first was a Jimmy Smith with Oliver Nelson effort, but I was wrong. Milt Buckner played organ with Lionel Hampton's orchestra a decade before Wilson's recording with Holmes . And Count Basie played organ with the Count Basie band in the thirties. I knew Basie recorded on organ with the orchestra in the Fifties but I cited Buckner because I thought he did so slightly before Basie . The Basie organ recordings from the Thirties were with smaller groups not the orchestra weren't they ?

Noj, I bet you didn't know that Groove Holmes' recording with Gerald Wilson was the first jazz organ with big band recording. I had thought that the first was a Jimmy Smith with Oliver Nelson effort, but I was wrong. Milt Buckner played organ with Lionel Hampton's orchestra a decade before Wilson's recording with Holmes .

Argh! Now I really want to hear these ... He really changed his sound , I mean nothing on that record sounds like Little Red Corvette or Purple Rain................er , wait a minute .... he did change his name right....... O.K. , expecting everyone to get the David and Goliath connection is one thing , but expecting them to remember the Old Testament details like the sheep is another thing all together

As one who has suggested such a set before , I welcome this news . The first two Zeitlin albums were reissued on CD by Collectables in incomplete form , so this will be the first proper reissue of this music . Those first two albums will appeal to anybody interested in piano jazz I would think . Since Selects have a possible 240 minute playing time , it will be interesting to see if they can fit all four trio albums , plus the unissued material , plus Zeitlin's debut with Jeremy Steig which is also on Columbia and which has never been on CD . My fingers are crossed . Buks speek. Meaning what specifically ?

To codify the men and dancing thing - Being able to dance does not mean you're gay Being interested in watching dance competitions means you might be gay Being interested in ice dancing , either as participant or spectator , means you are definitely gay

Since the choice was between the absurd and the truly absurd , I voted "Other" . Would any of those who voted for the extension care to tell us all how it is that intellectual property monopolies of such duration are good for society when everywhere else monopolies are economically indefensible ?

Talk about your 'bulk discount' ; $1.07 per unit ! To see what a depreciating asset that collection was , consider that $ 1.07 today is the equivalent of .15 ¢ in 1960 , .19 ¢ in 1970 , and .38 ¢ in 1980 , and consider that the guy wasn't an industry insider so his weighted-average cost of acquisition probably exceeded that range of figures by a good margin . By his own reckoning , " many millions have been invested in the acquisition and storage of the collection " . A public service perhaps , but an investment ? If you're going to take those kinds of liberties with language you have to buy her dinner first ! Best quote from the guy's website : " Digital preservation would be fine were it not for the fact that CDs have a life-span of just 15 to 20 years. In a few short years, the information on your CDs will just begin to disappear. Forever. " Not that the RIAA wouldn't that !!

Except for all-you-can-eat corndog night , neither can I . Wonder how their smell abatement program is going....

I had problems with my telephone connection, static caused by a nearby electric fence, starting in September, and I upgraded to a satellite ISP. And they say prison life is hard O.K. , I'll stop now before someone mistakes me for AllenLowe

You might want to cut back on the bran