Jim Alfredson

Dont forget "Bluesmith" on Verve. With Teddy Edwards on tenor and Jimmy playing with a bassist (Leroy Vinnegar). Not out on CD but the vinyl isn't too hard to find. Good record. Swingin' like crazy. I really dig the Verve big band stuff. Bashin' has some great trio tracks if the big band ain't your thing, Conn500.

Enjoy! Especially if he has the Turbanator with him!

Playing tired standards all night doesn't appeal to me at all. That's one of the reason why our record is all original tunes and why strive to write our own tunes or do new arrangements of standards.

Well, I guess that's just the equipment he had available at the time. Back in those days there wasn't much available in the way of audio recording equipment. Nobody made mixing consoles and such. You had to make stuff yourself. I agree with you, but if you listen to the records from that era on Atlantic, that's just how they sounded. Kind of like how those old Motown records are sonically not that great, but later on, when they sold records, they made money and updated their gear. I've read that Rudy Van Gelder modified or built much of his recording equipment, and treated the equipment and his methods with more secrecy than nuclear missile plans. I suppose that's what separated him from the rest. Yes, and that's why everyone in the jazz community wanted to use him. Atlantic, back in the late 50s and early 60s, was just a startup label, not the behemoth it later became. I probably have better recording technology in my cell phone than Tom Dowd had at his disposal back then. Also, RVG only had to record jazz. Atlantic recorded all kinds of music. The techniques for recording different types of music are different.

Happy birthday my man! Hope to see you soon!

The should call the perfume: "Hummer: More Money Than Brains"

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

Welcome!

Nope. It's a red X. CJ, is you need help with it, let me know.

Well, I guess that's just the equipment he had available at the time. Back in those days there wasn't much available in the way of audio recording equipment. Nobody made mixing consoles and such. You had to make stuff yourself. I agree with you, but if you listen to the records from that era on Atlantic, that's just how they sounded. Kind of like how those old Motown records are sonically not that great, but later on, when they sold records, they made money and updated their gear.

Wow. I wonder if she saw that photo and said, "I'm an idiot."

Will do. As many of you know, I'm as involved in the recording aspect of music as I am in the playing of it. I love this stuff!

Y'all hip to this? I just ordered the DVD. http://www.thelanguageofmusic.com/

The Coen Bros. are brilliant! I love The Big Lebowski but I've noticed that it's a guy's movie. I mean, my wife's sister, who is a fanatic movie buff, doesn't even like the movie. If any woman dug it, it would be her. Do you know any women who like this movie? O Brother, Where Art Thou? I could watch that movie a thousand times! The atmosphere, the acting, the movie, the music, the cinematography... it's all brilliant.

This hasn't been re-issued yet!? WTF? I could've sworn this came out a few years ago but I must be thinking of "Peter and the Wolf". Why hasn't this been re-issued?!? I can't even find a Japanese CD copy. They haven't re-issued it either!?

I can't stop: More artsy-fartsy-ness: It's tough work being such a small babykins: What's that?!

Thank you! She's a cutie... I have to admit!

Or put him in the "bad mofo" category.

Amen.

Wow. That was over 5 years ago. Hmmm... probably a Jimmy Smith record or a Hammond clock. I honestly can't remember!

Today was a beautiful dark fall day in Lansing, MI. Overcast the whole day and very cool after some very high temperatures for this time of year (into the 80s last week). We have a frost warning for tonight! Brrrr! I like rainy days sometimes. Come winter I'll be saying "WHERE THE HELL IS THE SUN!!?" though! The grass is always greener...

I've read enough interviews with Wynton, thanks.

I love digital cameras! Zora and I went all aRtsy_fArtsy today.

j lee, we would love to come up to Buffalo. PM me some of those contacts and we'll see what we can do.