B. Clugston

Both Standards 4-CD sets are still available. Two years ago, Leo said that 23 Standards was sold out. Then a bunch of them were found sitting in a warehouse.

I like walnuts. I use them in pesto and salads. Lately, I’ve been getting into pecans. For munching and nut butters, I prefer almonds.

Metallica will be about as hip as Styx by the time this kid can talk. Kind of like if my parents named me Bill Haley.

Keith Jarrett had one of his hissy fits in the liner notes of the 2-CD reissue regarding the initial CD release, which was on one CD, dropped a track IIRC and had a different running order.

I've had this box for a week and am still only half way through. Fantastic stuff. Great band and the addition of Nicole MItchell was an inspired one.

Andrew Hill's April 12 trio concert in Vancouver has been cancelled for health reasons.

Both are excellent. I also recommend Conversations with a Goose.

Paul is dead.

I often snipe myself. While rival snipers are too busy reacting to my old bid, I'll up the ante in the dying seconds. I rarely use eBay anymore. It's so 2002.

You've hit upon a classic big box store ploy. I've seen it with book stores as well: start up with a deep selection, including quirky titles the specialty stores stock. Watch the competition die. Stick with the popular titles and don't replace the interesting stock and instead sell candles and gift wrapping paper.

Nice to see there’s plenty of Kenny Dorham fans on the board. I had always overlooked Dorham, until I heard John Zorn of all people cover a couple of Dorham tunes and thought, wow, that’s some great writing. I’ve lately been buying up everything I can find of Dorham’s (Afro-Cuban, Trompeta Tocatta, Matador/Inta Somethin’, Quiet Kenny) and love everything I’ve heard. Afro-Cuban and Matador, in particular, are hugley under-rated. His writing is great—I can’t understand why his compositions, aside from “Blue Bossa,” aren’t more well-known—and his playing is fantastic. He plays with a lot more restraint than many of his hard boppin’ blow off the roof contemporaries, a strength underlined by his occasional nods towards classical territory. But in his later work, he would throw in a few smears and I wonder it that was part of why Lester Bowie so appreciated him. My favourite Dorham trumpet moment: “Autumn in New York” on Cafe Bohemia.

Great video. I'm really looking forward to this. It will be great to hear the music develop over several nights.

Sadly, another one of our music stores went belly up, but a 40% off liquidation sale helped cheer things up. Picked up: Uri Caine's Toys, Goldberg Variations and the Wagner disc Ike Quebec's Complete 45 sessions Solomon Ilori's Blue Note disc Raymond Scott 2 CD set of electronic music

Wow! I can never get enough of this band.

That is hilarious! What an incredible spoof.

Interpretations of Monk has some nice moments but never added up to the sum of its parts for me. The band as a whole doesn’t gel, but there are moments where some of the musicians with long-standing histories with each other really lock in (ie. Lacy and Waldron, Blackwell and Cherry). Rouse and Lacy are in fine form, however. That being said, the Mal Waldron disc is fantastic. The Barry Harris disc is also good, while Anthony Davis does a great homage and it’s great to hear Abrams in this context.

followed closely by the Matt Pierson collection on Warner Bros. Or the Schaap collection on Columbia: Classic albums with the wrong takes.

The Viola in My Life was the one that jumped out at me. Feldman would seem a natural for ECM.

It is nice to see the Henderson seeing the light and I'll pick up the Dorham, but I don't get the point of of mucking with reissues that have already been K2ed.

I'm getting a little tired of these non-musician ego-driven reissues. The RVGs on Blue Note were fine, but Keepnews is a stretch. What's next, the Crouch Collection on Columbia?

I have many favorite albums by Kirk, but these are certainly part of that list. Interesting covers too! One of my favorite albums that are pre-Rhasan is We Free Kings, especially with that blazing opener Three For the Festival. Then there's Domino. Wow, so many good albums from him. Much like Booker Ervin, nearly everything he did is good in my book. Two of my favorite tenor players in jazz. Rahsaan's taste in sidemen deserves mention. Charlie Persip kills it on We Free Kings (love how he calls in new choruses on "Three for the Festival"), but the list goes on and on: Elvin Jones, Richard Davis, Jaki Byard, Ron Burton, Leroy Jenkins, Hank Jones, Horace Parlan, Pepper Adams, Jimmy Hopps, Steve Novosel, Roy Haynes, Dick Griffin, J.C. Moses, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Turre... ...Andrew Hill...

Is that the one where Bill Wyman is in the audience? On the Dog Years in the Fourth Ring version, Kirk quotes quite liberally from "A Love Supreme."

If OP is the worst thing we can come up with, that's a heck of a lot better than Bush Jr., Kenny G and the pilot of the Enola Gay.

Slightly Latin is a big favourite of mine. Other favourite Kirk moments are his solo on "Perdido" on the Mingus Carnegie Hall date and "I Say a Little Prayer" on Dog Years in the Fourth Ring. What always impressed/amazed me about Kirk is he could take songs like "Ode to Billy Joe" and Bread's "Make it with You" (!) and make them great.

Never was a big fan of Freedom & Unity. Sounds very time-warped. The Panther and the Lash, on the other hand, is fabulous. Btw, Jason Guthartz has done a Thornton discography at http://www.restructures.net/Thornton/thornton_disco_home.htm.