Man with the Golden Arm

while i don't want to feel like the skinny guy during battle ball team selections i would love to segue up a good'n. wish i still had my lp of the 'ohio state penitentiary big band'. you all would never get that one.

During college I used to be a yardman at a place called "Busy Beaver" and almost got fired for spray painting a huge facsimile of the logo on one of the giant lumber sheds. I thought it was art! But...my favorite beavers...why aren't these guys on DVD yet!?

B) what a great line!

c'mon AB you can make that spit spin can't you... well my heart is back in old 'O' for tomorrow but, speaking of open fires, you gotta love a town that gets together for a hash-fest every year (better than beer)...let's hope M's Chris Perry chuffs some nice lebanese blonde before the big one.

you should see what that cat looks like when you microwave it!

I was on the phone with my Dad and his quick take on this was that "they should just put up a sign outside that says "NO BOYS ALLOWED!""

c'mon you all know would happen if you had a rigg this cool! B)

Warhol dis guy ain't and at $500+ US there should be some kind of law. Reid Miles probably doesn't even see fit to roll about.

Might be nice too start up a thread of famous jazzers on pop albums...ie: Ronnie Ross on Transformer Sonny Rollins on Tattoo You Shorter on Aja and, argh why do i know this?, Junior Walker on a Foreigner album. eek. and on and on...

I was hoping for that call and going to sing praises myself of the whole Boston sinew running through the session. JSngry do you care to elaborate on the meat of those two vibes?? While I am not from Boston and removed from it's jazz more than I'd like (even though I can see it from certain lookout points) I can only imagine what must have been going on in those days. Little has been made of Herb Pomeroy's initiation of Rivers as well as Byard's hold on much of the educatable community at that time. Anyone here be familiar with what these guys might have been like 'live' as Jim alludes to? Twardzik was a legend for just a decade, Byard was at Lennie's and folks from "the city" were staking claim at Sandi's in Beverly, MA. To have been able to hear and just witness a barely drinking age Williams stoking (drj, it's truly perfect here as one can envision one of those cartoon trains taking tracks and all over the edge of some blind curving precipice while keeping right on course) behind someone of Byard's phenomenality must have been something to behold.

ya know rooster it's not the link. whenever you try to get a shot at that thing -poof- it just disappears.

happy birthday... looks like it's two three packs of rolling rocks for you!

Don Pullen and Jack Bruce: "Rawalpindi Blues" from 'Darn It: Paul Haines / Kip Hanrahan'. You can almost see Don's knuckles coming through the speakers. Just freakin' beautiful stuff!!! oh yeah ubu! "Ain't Necessarily So"...Yikes!!! come to think of it "Blue Pepper" from FES! "Snagglepuss" from Naked City.

Ned Rothenberg's "The Crux"

don't know whether this has formerly, or formally, been posted but i just wanted to say that "little j" is one cute babe. great to see the progress in avatars. now how much does dexter charge for baby sitting these days? we can barely get ours to put dishes in the sink let alone solo on the saximophone.

...and also on Clusone 3's Soft Lights Sweet Music. The whole family likes Hipsters holiday. B)

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ol' roger's packing some serious favas there boys n girls...tommy can ya feel me

...or roger daltrey...the who were all about the beans, eh?

I'd love to hear you guys shread and funk up some Vervy Jimmy Smith, like some of the Lalo groovers or "Ape Woman".

Don't know why I've never posted this but right up the road is the inventor's digs-The HAMMOND Castle! Looks like a fine excuse for a summertime pilgrimage for the Organissimos. The front door of the joint: Mr. Hammond's little toy: and after checking this out you will "head" right over to the humble abode of the inventor of the flush toilet at Cranes Castle (or rent "the Witches of Eastwick"): where you will play to throngs of folk: while nestled in the rear facade of the castle: while over looking this: sounds like a plan to me jazzbos...plus it'll rock those stuffy folks down to their whale belts.

Probably been discussed on the old BNBB (& I know it's all about the music) - but, would anyone care to weigh in on the quality or even the ethos of the Vee Jay catalogue as documented by Blue Moon, Barcelona. I see items re-re-issued by Collectables and Koch but having recently purchased a Koch release I have snobbily chalked up their quality as one to be wary of. Thanks.