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Just saw this elsewhere, and thought I'd share...

Don't worry, it really plays. Says so right on the box.

Happy to have had the chance to put you guys up for the night. Really, people, don't miss Johnny's band if you ever get the chance. Top drawer!

Pettifog Saw it in quote by John Stewart in this story. What a cool word; I hope to remember it when I have a chance to use it.

Fun project, and often overlooked. I see copies in the dollar bins to this day, and often pick them up to pass along to the right people.

Heard the band for the first time last night, and for those of you in Denver, Boise, Ketchum, Missoula, and Moscow -- do NOT miss this group between now and Sunday. At the risk of hyperbole, "amazing" doesn't even begin to cover it. Kind of like a little more hyper version of the Either/Orchestra, with great writing and arrangements, and even better soloing. Johnny, that's one hell of a band you've got there. Thanks for a great night!

Great! Thanks so much for this, both as a guitarist and a jazz musician. Christian got me out of my musical diapers at around age 17, when I first heard him. There was no turning back, and R&R would never again be taken seriously. I'm still working on what I got from Charlie Christian. Can you forward this to the guy? Or show me where you found it and I will. I'll be glad to direct him here, and you can find him at either of the links in my original post -- the first to the board he posted on, and the 2nd to the blog entry where the actual interview is found. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend seeing his full interview with Goodman - it's the link that you quoted that's in dark red text.

It's my go-to for documentation of Tyrone Washington's brief stay in the Messengers, of which I still have some vague hope a tape will turn up some day.

That would be this: Chronology of Art Blakey (and the Jazz Messengers) By Steve Schwartz and our own Michael Fitzgerald.

I don't know this date, but an Amazon review HERE says... Bit more complete list of personnel, recording date, and the track-listing HERE. And here's some sales info and/or a review, HERE.

I don't know 100% for sure, but several of the Saturns I have look pretty much exactly like that. What color is yours? (That looks like a B&W picture.) I think mine are all a sort of yellow, iirc. All my LP's are 1,000 miles away at the moment, remind me again to check in mid-June.

My thoughts exactly.

Tyrone Washington: Blue Note (though I wish to hell they'd make him ineligible for this thread!) Perception Blue Labor

FWIW, these are the first 6 jazz albums I owned (and could listen to repeatedly): "Kind of Blue" & "Nefertiti", and "Mode for Joe" (Henderson) & "Power to the People", plus Sun Ra's two latter-day dates on A&M ("Blue Delight" & "Purple Night"). Then I went crazy on Miles, mid-60's Blue Notes (with Joe and all of the sidemen from Mile's 2nd quintet), and LOTS more Sun Ra. At the time, Brubeck seemed really square to me. And the only alto players I liked were Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy, and of course Ornette; then later Steve Coleman and Greg Osby. So a guy with a tone and approach like Paul Desmond's, seemed REALLY square to me. So the few Brubeck things I heard back in college were funneled through that frame of reference. Everyone has holes in their listening experience; it's just that mine tend to be some more obvious things that aren't holes for most other people. Thanks for the Youtube posts below, Jim. FYI, I'm on a PC without any sound until I get to DC in 3-weeks - so don't take that I'm not responding to them directly personally. (I'll check back to this thread when I get settled.)

I heard "Time Out" and probably 1 or 2 other Brubeck titles some 20+ years ago back in college, and never gave them another thought. But I just stumbled on a promo disc that I forgot I had ("Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World"). It has two tracks from "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia", namely "The Golden Horn" and "Thank You (Dziekuje)" -- both of which I'm finding surprisingly convincing. A quick search around here and elsewhere, and I get the idea that a couple of the deeper Brubeck titles might be "Eurasia", and Jazz Impressions of Japan. Yes? No? Anything else 'Brubeck' that I should consider instead?? Based on the two tracks I'm hearing, I think my wife might like "Eurasia" too. I'm probably only up for 2 Brubeck titles, or 3 max.

Just saw this thread on another board I'm on, and had to share...

Do people with guns at the ready (while they're playing!) really read sheet music?

Now that I'm seeing it in a bigger representation, I'm pretty sure that the 10-inch I have only has "This Modern World" on it (not "City of Glass"). The cover I uploaded earlier (the one with both This Modern World" and "City of Glass") must have been a 12-inch. All this time I thought that 10-inch was part of "City of Glass", in part because I knew it from the CD-issue of "City of Glass" -- and I wrongly presumed that "City of Glass" was originally an LP-length work. You can tell this from the framing of my original question up above: "Hey, why are there two covers for (what I thought was) the same thing?".

Really?? When?? I should get to DC by about the 1st or maybe 2nd weekend in June. Waiting on tons of stuff yet to be done on our house (by people other than me), so I'm not comfortable buying that plane ticket quite yet. Repainting a significant part of the outside of the house, and some roof repairs - so the weather is a factor too. Yeah, that's what I'm seeing here, a thread on another board I should keep my eye on!

The image I uploaded might not be the exact same as the cover of one I have, but I'm pretty sure it's that same globe wire-frame superimposed over Kenton's face. (It's in DC at the moment, or I'd check.)

May 12th, this just in: Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant . More here.

The 10-inch of City of Glass that my mom had (the one I still have), is the one below on the left (with the expanded globe). But I just noticed this different cover (the one on the right) on-line (with the cool, translucent buildings!). What's the story of two different covers? - for such an crazy work that it would be hard to imagine there being two different covers for. I kinda wish I had the other one with the buildings (here it is even bigger). That's a pretty cool cover!

I've never cared much for Chopin myself. Too overwrought, and I've heard too many 'overly-romantic' interpretations.