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Gerald Wilson, for sure. Such a great set, on so many levels. Everything swings, but it's pretty heavy stuff too, even (and perhaps especially) the covers of other jazz classics, like Milestones and All Blues (or is it So What - I forget which). In any case, you get 10 albums worth of material, and really - only one of the 10 is in any way less than 4 or 5 star material. That'd be my vote. -- Rooster T.

Time-Warner Cable is my ISP, and their homepage (which is what I have my PC's homepage set to), has links with AP headlines, and other family-friendly stuff on their site. Just now, they had a picture and a link for "Games for Kids". The graphic (below the "Games for Kids" link) showed this picture of Bert, as in Bert and Ernie... So I'm thinking, what the hell is up with Bert these days?? He seems strung out on somethin', for sure!!!! ========= Here's the general Road-Runner homepage, though it won't probably have the same link for any longer than about 24 hours. http://www.rr.com/v5/home/0,1793,73,00.html

OK, Peter --- it sounds like "Feelin' Good" is already yours, in so much as the Maupin is yours too (and has been for months, in my mind, as it were). Then, e-mail me your snail-address again, and I'll see if I can get this in the mail to you next week sometime. I've got some CD's to mail to Conn500 too early next week, so I should be able to kill two birds with one stone. I didn't pay a ton for the Maupin (nor am I looking to get much out of it), so we can work out the details of what I might like in trade later. (I might look through my LP's again too, and see if I see anything else you might like.) We can take this off-line, to e-mail, from here. Drop me a line... -- Tom / RT

Just as long as you realize that the LP is really a mess. I wasn't expecting anyone to actually want it to play it, but I guess that's an option too!!

By the way, the back of the album has a stamp (from a rubber stamp) on it that says... Rhythm Record Shop Distributors INDEPENDEND PHONOGRAPH RECORDS 2615 WELTON STREET - DENVER 5, COLORADO TA. 5-4227. TA. 5-4228 === NY address on the LP and on the cover. Damn, I just looked - and it has "RVG" stamped in the inner groove (between the grooves and label), and hell if there isn't some sort of 'ear'-lookin' thing there too - on both sides. Is that the "Ear in the dead wax" that I read about every now and then?? (I ain't no vinyl nut, if you can't tell.)

Found this one for $2 yesterday in Columbia MO. Side two of the LP is playable (based on how it looks), but side one has a pretty deep, ugly scratch in it that mars the first two tracks on that side. (But even without the 'big' scratch, I think most would grade the album as being in poor condition - or perhaps "OK" condition, but they'd be lying.) But, I would grade the cover as being in "Good" condition. Not great, but good. If anybody wants it, like to hang on their wall - it's theirs (which might be even cheaper if you don't want the LP, and only want me to send the cover). Or maybe somebody wants the LP so they can make a clock out of it or something. ===== Dan Gould has right of first refusal, cuz -- well, he was the "Gene Harris Fanatic" in a past life, so how can I not give him first crack at it?? Peter Johnson has right of second refusal - since eventually he and I are going to get around to me sending him my LP of Bennie Maupin's "The Jewel In The Lotus" LP --- so as long as I'm sending someone an LP (which is a rare event), I might as well throw the 3 Sounds wall-hanging in there too, with basically no extra cost or effort on my part. Other than that, operators are standing by!!

Hey Eric, what is "Urban Core"?? Afraid I'm not aware of that group - although it sounds like I should be!!! FYI, I live in the Westport area, near the K.U. Med Center (just south of the 39th Street district, and north of the "West Plaza" area). PS: I just went to www.kcurbancoregroup.org, and see that they are an organization that I should hook up with, for sure. Thanks for the tip!!!

Just to clarify - are you asking for any/all clubs (per your specifications) in our own hometowns??? (reguardless of where those hometowns happen to be, meaning anywhere in the U.S.??)?? Or, are you only looking for Florida hometowns??? Or clubs (per your specs) in hometowns in the south in general??? I'd be glad to let you in on the skinny for places to play in Kansas City, St. Louis, and maybe even in Iowa City (if I ask some friends of mine), and perhaps a few other midwestern cities. But, alas, they all be in the oposite direction from your Florida trip.

Very cool as well!! B) I'm definitely gonna use these in rotation on the KC board. Thanks a bunch!!! (And keep 'em comin'!!) By the way, I think that's the Mutual Musicians Foundation building on the cover of that album... http://www.umkc.edu/labor-ed/kclh/10.htm MUSICIANS LOCAL 627 1823 Highland Ave Pete Johnson and Dave E. Dexter, Jr. immortalized Local 627 in their 1940 song The 627 Stomp. The Mutual Musicians Foundation remains a center for the development of jazz, particularly the "Kansas City Style," one of America's distinctive art forms. Originally constructed in 1904 as an apartment flat, the building was purchased as a headquarters in 1928 by the former all-black Musicians Union Local 627. Musicians Local 627. The photo was taken in 1930 Many of the nation's leading jazz performers have been members of Local 627 and/or the Foundation. These include band leaders Bill "Count" Basie, Bennie Moten, Jay McShann and George F. Lee; singer Julia Lee; trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page; tenor saxophonists Dick Wilson, Hershel Evans and Lester Young; alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker; drummer Baby Lovett; and pianist Pete Johnson. The building and Local 627 are immortalized in the song "627 Stomp," an original boogie-woogie tune by jazz greats Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner. Kansas City in the 1920s and 1930s became the western center of American jazz. The art form was simultaneously being perfected in New York City, New Orleans and Chicago. During the regime of political boss Thomas J. Pendergast, nightlife flourished in Kansas City during and after Prohibition. Large bands formed throughout the region and gravitated towards Kansas City, where nightclubs and dance spots remained open around-the-clock. The most famous clubs were the Reno, the Subway, the Sunset and the ballrooms El Paseo and El Torreon. The clubs nurtured jam-sessions, a Kansas City specialty, and jazzmen vied in contests of virtuosity. Today the union's building has become the Mutual Musicians Foundation ======================================= (You can see why I wasn't 100% that was the same building, given it's redress, sometime in the 40's (I would guess).

Yup. That settles that. Welcome back, Aric!!

Andrew Hill (piano) Jimmy Vass (alto sax, flute) Chris White (bass) Leroy Williams (drums) ( source )

Very cool, Jim. Very cool... B) B) B)

Woulda, coulda, shoulda... (Hindsight is always 20/20.)

Hell if I know???

I've recently joined a local board (for discussing Kansas City issues), specifically "city" issues - like development of the downtown and midtown core, mass transit, city infrastructure, etc... I've been using the following (the cover of Herbie's "Inventions and Dimensions") as my Avatar on that board, cuz it's very 'city'-like, and it still reads pretty well (as being 'city'-like) at only 80 x 80 pixels -- which is the maximum Avatar size-limit on their board. Can anyone suggest any cool jazz album covers (Blue Note, or otherwise) that would have some sort of 'city'-related theme to them, that still look cool when shrunk down that little???? Thanks!!! -- Rooster T. PS: I wanna project my interests in 'city' things, while also giving an "insider's clue" about my jazz interests. Thanks!!! PPS: Or, if you like, suggest any jazz album covers that still look cool at 80 x 80 pixels. Before I picked "Inventions and Dimensions", I briefly had Larry Young's "Unity", which also was good for a 'city' board that discusses, among other things, issues related to an entire metro area (Kansas City) that spans two states, and a city (Kansas City), that spans parts of 5 different counties.

I've pretty much sucked at sports, all my life. I swam as a kid, and I guess I was OK at that. But as far as organized sports (meaning "team" sports), I was always "two-left-feet" on a good day. I played water polo for two seasons, in 8th and 9th grades (ages 13 & 14), and I was just barely OK at that. But I played basketball, and was lousy, and tried tennis, and never got the hang of it either (not that I tried all that hard, in retrospect). I never played sports after 9th grade. BUT, I did start to play pool (if you can consider that a sport), when I was bartending part-time years ago. Then, when I moved to Kansas City, I played in a pool league, and actually got pretty good. I haven't played as much in the last few years, but if I put my mind to it - I could get most of my game back in a couple months.

I know, I'm in the same boat. (Hence my even starting this thread.) Thing is, I love the image -- and I mean on about 6 different levels..... [*]Elvin is one of my all-time favorite drummers (for me, not as much from his work with Coltrane, but more from all his sideman work for Blue Note). [*]Blue is my favorite color, especially dark shades of blue. [*]My favorite necktie (yes, a Rooster brand necktie!!!) is all-various-shades-of-blue (with some black), and is a ‘mosaic’-type image. [*]All of my favorite color schemes are all muted colors (especially medium or darker-medium shades), like this image is mostly made up of. [*]The image has a "forward momentum" to it, so much so that it almost seems to be in motion. [*]The picture has some geometry to it, but it isn’t abstract – nor is it entirely “un-abstract” (meaning concrete) either.

For the record, the full-size version of my current Avatar is this...

I've had this Avatar longer than any prior. My habit was to change it about once ever week or two, usually to various album covers. What should I do???

Yup, a little less than $6 a baker's dozen here in Kansas City (at a real bagel place, not the grocery store - I wouldn't touch those things - they ain't bagels, I can tell you that!!!). My wife and I usually buy a dozen bagels, once every 7-10 days or so. I think we buy 'regular bread' maybe 3 or 4 times per year, at most - usually when my folks come to visit, or if we need it to make 'stuffing', or for strange reasons like that. Bagels rule!!!

Unfortunately, this is probably true. Thanks for the link. I haven't been to Hill's site in several months, and perhaps there is some new content there to feed my interest.

Aren't there a couple great legal minds here on the board?? I seem to remember at least one or two offering to take on Musicboy during that mess, when he threatened to bring in the wrath of the DOJ, and shut down this board. A strongly worded letter from an attorney, on their law firm's letterhead, might just do the trick with CD Street.