Man with the Golden Arm

impossible has tagged me for the next pick. Sam Rivers - FUCHSIA SWING SONG (click here to buy) certain most everybody here has this title in one incarnation or another now that the disc is readily available as a connoisseur. while i know much has been written about it i am curious to hear some more visceral takes on what is probably one of my favorite albums (considering that i only first heard it in it's entirety with the release of the mosaic set). i have passed copies of this along to many, championing that it is the most solid showcase for that bridge from everything before the middle of the sixties to what is the future.

Happy Birthday Weizen!

i guess $16 ain't a bad price for one disc, considering disc two is a toss and how can one listen to jungleland w/o meeting across the river as prelude? and one would think the 'boss' might have some say so in what's handed out to the public. maybe you can find this for the essential version of small things!

just picked this up per the recs here. excellent disc. very fresh reading of blues connotation! anyone able to compare the koch to the blue moon? this koch sounds as if there's about five ton of goose down in the mix. someone must have leaned on the bass knob, shows how great van gelder allowed blakey to sound!!!

check out the folds at the bottom of lou's london fog! beauty!!

"mmmmmmmmmmmoooooose"

just curious as i really enjoyed lurking at the last couple and would like to join in on the fun. i will delete this topic if it has been so decided and i'm just missing the link.

Well I asked before about Ware's "Threads" and getting to the bottom of it decided it was not my cup o tea. Here we have another release, "The Sorcerer Sessions", on the Thirsty Ear label and AMG again gives this one up as the greatest disc since who knows when. I gave some snippets a spin to see if it's the honest truth. My urge is to go to Particle and Reformation for just a laff. I can't help but think someone over at TE is pullin' Thom's Jurek. Thirsty Ear and Shipp might now be on one of those David Murray crusades. But seriously can anyone honestly shed some light on this?

the rollins is outstanding!!! nice if you could put some strut in cool struttin'!

Possibly in need of his own thread but I was on a bit of a Gainsbourg rant a while back and have the J et C discs as well as these Mercury comps: Would you all have any recommendations or favorites for this genre that is most leaning to the Les Loups, Strip Tease etc...I just can't seem to warm up to much of Gainsbourg's later pop / psychedelic cinema work but his afro-cuban grooves kill me. Also are there more jazz leaning sides from his alliances (er liasons) with les femmes that come to mind as essential (while i know those early Jane Birkin lp covers would be)?

up! any reviews so far??

I think Hollywood oughta get Eastwood and Stone together to sort this whole thing out.

looking forward to this too! beautiful stuff!! aside-there are to be some clues as to the coastal massachusetts in-jokes within the set. director andrew stanton grew up in rockport and based the premise on the fantasies he would create as a kid in the aquarium filled dentist's office (which was actually next door to where my wife and i lived for a while). i know what lon means though, will never match the experience of the big screen.

Get thee to a Trader Joes...whoa baby just had a few of those dark chocolate covered pretzels of theirs last nite (melted and reformed into a quadruple knot conglomeration). Don't get there much as it's bit of a hike but I'd be happy to zip out a bag next time I go.

Great line ! but I do wish they'd lower that bar cause she'd look really good limbo-ing with some some Belafonte in the background.

FLASZCH-TAZTIQUE

My two girls are going trick or treating tonite. The oldest at eight decided to be Santa and the just six is going to be a reindeer. My wife puts together a great Santa Suit a couple of weeks ago. So I go to Walmart and find a brownish hooded pullover and last nite apply some furry felt to the belly, make tri-color felt tubes stretched around sweatbands with a v-notch in them for hooves that just slip onto the wrists and still allow full hand mobility, stuff and apply a nice little two tone tail, hot melt and stitch a set of lined ears to the hood and then hot melt some more felt together for big antlers that I had to stuff with a chop-stick. Freakin' cute as Rudolph's red nose... and now what do I hear from the front today ? is that they are going as something else cause the oldest doesn't want to be Santa Claus anymore. Hot melt is not the best for fine seamstress work...going to play 'Helter Skelter' tonight. And I'm gonna eat all her candy!

Someone slap this thread with a gag order!

Guess if he'd a used that ol' Marlon would still be able to fit in the tub!

Perfect forum for this. I always thought that the Zamboni driver and the organist should be one and the same. I would think it easy enough to stick a Wurlitzer in the cab.

AL-Right! Just got this set yesterday from CD Universe. Shipped in one day!!! Have yet to crack it open but can't wait to get into it. Will eagerly await my favorite "Gorilla My Dreams" in future volumes. For some reason my girls don't find thai stuff as belly-achingly funny as I do. Well there will be no more One Saturday Morning at my house. It's on to a strict regimine of a half hour of these every weekend! So what's everybody bitchin' about? (see CNN above) To have just a big smattering of this stuff finally out in this medium is fantastic. That Michigan Frog bit is not even really all that funny anymore. Give me Daffy doing Groucho on mescaline anyday! Struggled through those weirdly ratio-ed lazer disc collections that contained all the oldies, and even the war years that have yet to make it out for fear of political incorrectness, but happily I sold those off before the bottom fell out. Having four discs now followed by some others is the only way to do it. With Brandon on Avery. Those "cartoons for big kids" are essential. I'm sure we will see those soon. Still hoping for some Angry Beavers to see the light.

Hey RT, was that a T.H. Benton on your previous avatar setting? I liked it!

Might be available on the net soon enough. Fresh Air! edit for linkage

Man I must be old cause my lunch box was one of those consruction worker types with a rounded top that housed the thermos behind a 'v' of spring metal. The shape was perfect for the barn and farm animals graphix that adorned it.

Happy Birthday Catesta! I thought of too many captions so I'll leave it at that.