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My favorite Christmas recording is Jingle Bell Jazz.

The Art Pepper will be my first pre-order from Mosaic. I mean, Art Pepper, Malcolm Addey and Mosaic? It's a done deal.

Does 'surface' mean it goes by ship versus by airplane? Do you know why the customs people are more apt to check the package if it's airmailed versus the surface route? I'm just wondering...

...and got my box today! No customs this time! Cool, very cool! Only a month and a half till you received your Mosaic box? The shipment gets stuck going into your country? It simply sits in the customs building? For what? Till somebody looks at it and passes it on through? I ordered something from Belgium in the Spring of 2003. It was at my front door in Arizona, courtesy of UPS, in five days.

I have met Soulstation1. He is a very genuine lover of jazz music, jazz photography, jazz history and the like. I guarantee he is not 18 years old (he is older) nor is he a moron.

If you like Steely Dan, don't forget about this release from my man Walter Becker. If you listen you'll hear the other half of Steely. You'll know the part of Steely Dan supplied by Walter Becker. 11 Tracks of Whack

The first few times I saw this title in the stores I wanted to pick it up and look at it even after I knew what it was. The colors on the cover would constantly cause my brain to tell my hand to inspect the CD. Something about the orange on black with the white letters, my brain would register this as being a new Impulse! release, something I didn't already have.

This is a breath-taking version of 'My Funny Valentine' to be sure. It's one of the best versions of 'My Funny Valentine' I've heard. The song is eleven minutes long. Yet, I can listen over and over.

I want to see a picture of this:

I'd like an RVG of this Harold Vick just because I believe the cover is cool.

There have been several Blakeys and Horace Silvers in the RVG series. Several Hubbards, Joe Hendersons, and Wayne Shorters too. Yeah, how 'bout something different this time? Something like a Lou Donaldson, a Baby Face Wilette, an Art Hodes, a George Braith, or an Ike Quebec.

This isn't a cheap box to purchase. It's really a nice box to look at and to page through. Nice pictures, nice inner liner with the appearance of lace, and nice fabric on the outside of box (although it picks up dust like a somebitch). The disks, however, are housed on each side of the box, on the inner-side of each outer cover. No protective liner, no room for the disks to breathe. Just slide the disks right across the hard paper. If you're lucky, you can get some dust caught between the paper and the disk. If you listen carefully you can hear the dust particles grind against the disk each time a disk is removed/replaced.

Yeah, man, you're such an asshole on the Organissimo board. Tee hee hee.

I remember when we, from the BNBB, decided to land at the Harlem.Org site. Wayne wrote that he didn't "have time for riff raff. Not politics. Not sports." Memories from Harlem. I will not hesitate in closing threads, accounts, banning IP numbers. I want 90% of the people to have a good experience. I simply don't have time for riff raff.

Yes. A very accurate description of this music. I hear Monk and Trane in Smith's music recorded live at Small's. Due to the Trane-ish sound of Smith's organ I can sense a bit of Larry Young. I know Larry Young arrived after Jimmy Smith and John Coltrane. It makes sense that Young would have been affected by both players. I wonder how much influence Coltrane had in 1957? Would it have been enough to make an impression on the style and technique of Jimmy Smith? Or did Smith and Trane develop a sameness of style, so to speak, due to other developments that affected jazz as a whole?

I'm in deep with Jimmy at Small's this morning. I'm listening to Jimmy's version of 'My Funny Valentine' as I type these words. I wish I could go back in time and see him play it live at Small's. I'm amazed at the quality of the sound in this 1957 live recording. I can hear every note from Smith's organ as well from Eddie McFadden's guitar. The notes are crisp, precise, and clear. Some have written that the two disks worth of this material are too much. This morning, for me, the two disks are barely enough. I intend to listen to the entire set before I'm done. When Jimmy hits his groove I have no choice but to go with him. Jimmy Smith and Eddie McFadden play off each other as if they've known each other forever. Jimmy doesn't seem as crazy and wild, to me, as has been written regarding the GROOVIN AT SMALLS session. This is bare bones Jimmy Smith. Right there in your face, yet visible at a safe distance if you prefer. Smith sounds funky, groovy, jazzy, very inspired, warm, and friendly.

Chuck's comment caused me to laugh. And, I have to agree with Mr. Nessa. Generally, when a friend decides to play some 'new' music for me, something from the Top Ten Bestseller list, something to enlighten me, my initial reaction is, "Great, now... let's listen to some old music."

I remember taking a flight from somewhere in New Jersey to London in 1976 when I was 10 years of age. The flight seemed neverending at that age. I remember listening to the airline's tape-loop of music through the headphones. I listened to every offered channel many times through, over and over, till the airplane landed in London. There was a country channel which I was familiar with since I'd grown up on country music. There was a classical channel which seemed too serious. There was a rock-n-roll channel that made no sense to me. I knew nothing about rock-n-roll when I was 10 years old. Finally, there was a jazz channel. I knew nothing about jazz but it seemed very cool to me. Almost too cool to touch. I remember listening to several of the jazz tunes that were amazingly appealing to me. Sometime during the 1980s I discovered that the tunes I'd enjoyed on that flight, which I never forgot, were from George Benson's BREEZIN' record. In the very late 1970s, before I discovered the mysterious tunes were from Benson's BREEZIN, I purchased my first jazz record. I liked the cover and I liked the tunes contained within. The music made me feel 'uptown' and 'jazzy' and really happy all over. I couldn't believe I'd discovered (and owned) such a treasure of music. If was nothing like the country music I'd been raised on. This music reminded me of the great songs I'd listened to during the flight across the Atlantic ocean, but a bit different, more modern. The first jazz record I purchased was Earl Klugh's HEART STRING. I remember spending many hours listening to the tunes and staring at Earl on the cover. The way he was dressed, the feel of the environment surrounding him. I imagined he was standing in the hallway of a jazz-based apartment or hotel or restaurant or studio. Earl's music spoke to me and said my life and the world would be okay. I was 13 years old in 1979.

Duke won. Sheesh.

Yes. Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Clifford Brown, Herbie Nichols, maybe Erroll Garner? Anything from this page.

Let's see... we've got to have some more Horace Silver. There hasn't been enough Horace Silver RVG'd yet.

I'm awaiting the Michigan State & Duke game. It looks like the game will be on ESPN in about an hour.

I watched the 'Super Size Me' movie last night. It was enjoyable, interesting, and funny. The end of the movie, after the guy ate McDonald's for an entire month, was more depressing than I'd have expected. I didn't know too much fast food would have a negative effect on the liver. It's difficult to avoid McDonald's completely in the good ol' USA. If you're on the road, traveling, need a quick lunch, etcetera... McDonald's is just too handy. I don't believe I'll be eating at McDonald's again for a long while, however. And, what is in those McDonald's chicken nuggets? Anything an average person can purchase in an average grocery store? McBleck.

This is an actual Milt Jackson RVG. I believe part of this session is included in a Monk Mosaic. I'd like to see something else RVG'd from this 'era' of the Blue Note catalogue. I used the Milt Jackson cover as a symbol of the era I'm interested in. Unfortunately, I don't know what is worth RVGing from this time period. I don't have the knowledge to provide individual session recommendations. Maybe somebody else can offer a suggestion from this Blue Note era?

Something from this era of the Blue Note catalogue. Wizard Of The Vibes