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  1. Just broke down and purchased a copy of this book on eBay last night, for only ~$20 with free shipping. Looking forward to it! Edit: I love how I can find a 17-year old topic here on a very specific subject, and revive it again so easily! Such a nice benefit of forum-based discussions. Plus also having a board that hasn’t had the need to close/archive old posts like other higher-traffic forums (probably justifiably) have a need to do.
  2. Just a fraction of what all he and Monk plotted at their frequent ping-pong games.
  3. Gosh that’s sorry to hear, and with my dad almost 97 now — I have to confess I don’t think of 84 as being “that old” — even if I do realize otherwise. RIP.
  4. Literally just saw American Fiction — finished moments ago, in fact. What a great movie!! Noticed Patrice Rushen did the score and much of the soundtrack.
  5. I thought Oppenheimer was mostly pretty riveting (my wife did to) — and walking out, I left wanting to see it again in another week or two (but never did). And I’d gone into it half dreading a 3 hour film on the Manhattan Project (especially after work, since I work weekends now) — but the only time I glanced at my phone to check the time was shortly after the point in the film after the bombs had been dropped… and I was actually relieved(!) that there was almost a full hour of the film left! — and the last hour was as riveting as the first two, imho. I saw someone mention online that you see very little actually being done in the film… that it’s almost 90% dialog and very little ‘action’. But I thought the film demanded my attention and kept my interest pretty much throughout (or at least 80% of the time). Also, I haven’t seen much Robert Downey Jr. — mainly Chaplin over 30 years ago, and 2-3 other films he had smaller parts in (all back in the 90’s). But based on Oppenheimer — I will absolutely go see any ‘serious’ film he’s in from now on (especially anything that’s a period piece). I also hadn’t ever seen any Christopher Nolan films — other than his first Batman film (which was fine for what it was — maybe the only Batman film I’ve ever seen, come to think of it) — but I need to go back and see some Nolan stuff at some point too.
  6. Track-listings would probably sell me on either or both of these — if anyone can dig that up. Thx!
  7. No, actually it was at Record Exchange on Hampton (just south of 44). I hadn’t been there in 15+ years — maybe 20 years! But it was such a disorganized mess back then, I just stopped going all together. Its a LOT better organized now, but their jazz selection (at least CD’s) — while pretty darn large, actually — looked like it had been well-picked over years ago. I might even go back again in a year and go thru everything again, A to Z — but I also don’t think I’ll really discover any more than another small handful of half-interesting discs (and it looks like their jazz stock barely changes year over year). A friend who’s been there more over the years says their Rock CD’s change a lot more frequently — and those seem to be their bread and butter.
  8. I’ve been on the lookout for John Dennis’ lone leader-date on CD for about 4 years… but I’m visiting my dad this week here in St. Louis, and yesterday I finally snagged a nearly mint used copy of New Piano Expressions on CD for just $8. Pretty sure all the copies I’d ever found/seen online were always for like $20 (give or take), plus shipping. About dropped my teeth when I saw it too — I’d never seen one out in the wild before, ever.
  9. Me too (re: “Hello Dad, I’m in Jail”). Never exactly caught the Was Now Was bug, but for a couple months my senior year of college I had “Hell Dad” as the greeting on my answering machine (all 2 minutes of it).
  10. Not jazz, but I had a dream just last night that Keith Richards(!?) and I were trying to make a mushroom risotto. It started with both of us sifting thru dozens of different risotto recipes online, trying to pick one — and then we tried to make the best one (or some combo of several different recipes). And now. reflecting back on the dream as I’m typing this, I’m convinced it may have actually been a scene in some sitcom too — i.e. there may have been a laugh-track and/or studio audience watching while Keith and I were trying to work it all out. (Note: I don’t like mushrooms, but I have made shrimp risotto a few times.)
  11. This was uploaded to YouTube about (or at least) a year ago — with the same “cover” image that Dusty has in their listing. (Which makes me wonder if the image Dusty has up will really be the actual cover of the legit release coming out next month.)
  12. I know Buck Hill’s story, now that I live in DC and literally have a 5-story reminder that I walk by several times a week… https://dcist.com/story/19/08/28/theres-a-new-tallest-mural-in-town-honoring-local-jazz-legend-buck-hill/ (And for the record, I did learn about Hill’s story before the mural, but only because Hill became part of my education about “DC” musicians, which I felt obligated to learn more of when I moved here a dozen+ years ago.) THAT SAID, what was Wes Montgomery’s similar story? Had he specially been a postman? — or what other non-music job did he hold? — for what I gather from your post was a longer stretch. (My Wes knowledge is pretty limited.)
  13. So, in the parlance of Siskel and Ebert, that makes two thumbs up! 👍👍
  14. You know, that’s a pretty fantastic album actually — long been a favorite of mine (of hers) for 25+ years. Some great modern big band charts, and interesting arranging. 👍
  15. Just stumbled on this footage for the first time — which seems to be a newer upload of the same thing that started this thread a few years ago.
  16. Land and Hutch live in ‘71, great color footage!! Never seen this before this moment, seems to have been uploaded about a year ago.
  17. Yeah, opening that link triggers my WashPo app to open — but no story appears for me. I’ll try on our laptop at some point (maybe tomorrow), but I sorta doubt it’ll work any better.
  18. I can’t seem to find a link to any sort of WashPo obit for him — but my wife and I are WashPo subscribers. Also, searching on “roland cumberland“ on the WashPo app doesn’t seem to bring anything up. But if you or anyone can provide a link, I’m glad to get behind their paywall and share what I find.
  19. Who was it that quoted the Woody Woodpecker theme?? — more than just once, iirc. I know Woody Shaw actually recorded the tune (in the studio no less). But somebody, Woody? — and/or maybe Dex too? — did it as just a quote in one or more solos. That always sorta cracked me up — although I haven’t heard it in decades now (which leads me to believe it was Dex).
  20. Willette doesn’t have enough general name recognition, even among jazz fans — would be his argument (not mine). But if Grant Green was on the date, sure! — Zev would go for that quick, I’d bet. That said, Zev has helped get a few obscure-ish things out… Larry Young in Paris (helped that Woody Shaw was on a bunch of it) — and Roy Brooks at the Left Bank (also with Woody Shaw). Probably some others I’m forgetting.
  21. I imagine all of us do. What some of us might not have are the bonus material that only surfaced in the last decade, and only in Japan. That would be the only reason for many folks to upgrade — and it’s a real shame they didn’t include those ‘new’ (newish) alternates. Real missed opportunity.
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