Man with the Golden Arm

I think the most recent Ornette on record might be the diddlings he did on Joe Henry's "Scar" album. It also features some Marc Ribot, Brad Meldhau and others and is a very nice disc when paired with Joe's previous "Fuse". Much recommended for those with that urge for an "elvis costello at the cross-roads selling his soul to david byrne" thing.

One of my favorite "real" CD packages was that Willem Breuker Kollektief 'cheese wheel box':

Too bad they took their design cues from that barrage of AOL tins. Those things are quite handy though for keeping a half a dozen or so burns dust free before tossing around.

I couldn't imagine havin' just one. You go girl!

Any downtowners know whether 'Zete Peabody's Sugar Reef Cafe' on lower Second Ave. is still in business there or anywhere. That was the livest place to go for food and tunage from the lower hemisphere about ten years ago.

Timely thread daganabbit, since it was in the twenties and snowed in Massachusetts yesterday! Obviously for this board the Jimmy Smith Verve is classic. I always toss Jackie McLean's "Nicely" onto the yule mix. Has that wintery feel to me. And cap off the set with Clusone 3's "White Christmas".

I really love those conga sides. To me it represents that Latin swank that is other side of the Blue Note sound of the late fifties. Having never heard 'Light Foot' nor 'Midnight Sun' I guess I'm sitting on the fence regarding that Mosaic.

I'm visualizing the actual mantle piece as a be-guilded chitlins garbed neo-hip icon festooned in a whirling leslie beret whilst teaming minions are cavorting and debauching around his plinth. Have to have one of these sculpted up.

Thankfully no problem on my 'FSS' and of course the opposite goes for the last half of 'Sonic Boom' . And skeith, I can't say Tony is "down in the mix" any more so than Carter is. The drums sound phenomenal on this one and I can do with less treble than was evident on the brittle Mosaic. For the most part to my ears many a Blue Note silver disc from the early days has that hiss and crackle cropping up somewhere.

That's hilarious jacknife. I don't think it's the shirt at all but maybe those cute little palm trees on the flannel sheets. Wait til that little monkey man sells his lucky coconuts.

Ace label / BGP (beat goes public) two-fer called "The Loop / New and Groovy". Gotta be available over there. Make sure to cull out the cheese for the ultimate in grease. ACE The other double is 'Got That Feeling! / Moon Child' or the OJC of The Village Caller. You can get a few of his cuts comped elsewhere but that first one is the key.

SS1 and Big Al...the 'Groovy Vibes B) of Johnny Lytle' track list: got that feeling big bill the man possum grease the shyster the snapper screamin' loud hot sauce selim big john grady lela come and get it the soulful one trick hips the loop moor man killiano the village caller moon child summertime with, in no particular order...milt harris-organ + wynton kelly, bobby timmons-piano + milt hinton, bob cranshaw, keter betts, steve cooper-bass + peppy hinant-drums + willie rodriguez, ray barretto-congas

Credit where credits due my man. Sent that slippery-er than silicone wafer to SS1 ways back and glad to see he's hefted it to someone most appreciative. That Lytle stuff is killer. You should grab the real-deal off of Dusty. Worth every penny. And even more kudos to MikeB who painstakingly clued me into a bulk of Johnny's post "Loop and Groovy" LP sides. Been discovering a select few more Lytle tidbits as of late but unfortunately his cannon is in need of some serious merkin swabbin'.

I've purchased a few cuts from itunes just to see and hear what it sounds like. I burned some Jimmy Smith Verve cuts within a compilation of other 16 bit tracks and really have a hard time telling the difference. Thought this webpage a classic that all should check out regarding who gets what in the deal of the down load. iTunes! Alas there is much at fault within their POV, too.

Yeah the beauty of opinions on sports, huh...someone yank the "pitcher" who's tellin' all us bat-girls how we should analyze this (just kiddin', really!). Too Little too Late! That's that!!! Just heard a little blurp of Garciapara explaining that the fans should be thankful and proud because no one out there realizes or quite understands the tremendous stress and pressure they are under every single day. Oh, I guess I forgot they're making multi-millions playing a kids' game. And here I though policing Iraqis and healing the sick was just a day at the park.

Anyone familiar with "Soul Groove" by Johnny Griffin? I think Patton is on a few cuts there. I do like the sound of the Holloway / Patton session though. Anyone have that Holloway Acid Jazz twofer?

Grady "Little" must have gotten that nickname in the showers. If he had the anything in the rosin sack he carries in his shorts he'd have stuck w/ first instinct instead of cow towin' to Martinez. Whaddaya think Pedro's gonna say when asked if he wants to stay in the game? Sheesh! what ta do now. Pull out the old Chief Wahoo and hope the World Series gets cancelled this year.

Hans, have you heard, or care to comment on any discs from the 3D System label? I see a previous release by Hanna and Mraz [probably not your cup o tea for the arco] that was a vinyl beauty listed at Early. Thanks!

Can't say much about the disc but to add to your proclivity for all things Hello Kitty, the cover is by a very famous for the day Japanese artist. Here's a blip: "Yoshitomo Nara " Born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan, Yoshitomo Nara is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movement of the nineties. Yoshitomo Nara's paintings and sculpture of stylized cartoon children and animals evoke a range of memories from childhood, "both sad and fantastic." Since his initial U.S. solo exhibition at Blum & Poe Gallery he has had one-man shows at the Institut fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Yokohama Museum of Art. His work was recently included in "Super Flat" at the MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood and at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. He continues to live and work in Japan. Yoshitomo Nara's work is influenced by Japanese comic books (manga) but he is unique in the contemporary art scene here for bedeviling his typically cute and vulnerable figures with a horror like image. Nara's tapping into horror through the medium of the innocent child is particularly poignant in Japan's controlled society of rigid language and social structures, especially considering recent shockingly violent crimes in Japan involving children as the aggressors. Nara's work really instills the viewer with a juxtaposition of the innocence of children and the evil nature of humanity, or the fall from grace. Nara is also a Pop artist, representing works from his generations youth, and mass producing them for your home.

Unfortunately "The Night Chicago Died" comes to mind today.

Yea Lon that one was the one to get. It was a "very limited" edition according to both DGA and Hiroshi. Surprised about the 'ban'. What was that Steve Lacy quote about French Jazz being like American Champagne that shrugs used? We've seen what can happen when you mix politics and jazz,,, someone always gets banned!

Thanks for the info...Dusty Groove just informed me that they are now under a "French import ban" and do not know when this title will be restocked.

ubu or others: has this title been issued yet over there? i only see the old polygram 1988 issue on amazon fr & that thing still sounds iffy after all these years. looking for this in a newer issue with ALL the cuts. I know that this has been discussed elsewhere & the optimum version was the uni japan issue but that was a very limited edition & has since gone way oop. any links would help as i've scoured the choices i can think of. thanks

conn500 you gotta give "shades of redd" a little more love. that's like not liking "jackie's bag". i'm in agreement with roach's "good move" being a bad move...especially after one of the BNBB alphas said it was the greeeazzziest. couldn't get rid of it fast enough

cs500, I'm glad somebody else noticed and posted as I thought it was just my system ducking out from under some sort of lack for headroom or that I was listening to one of the earlier RVGs. Must be in the tape as the left side sonics competely change especially during "Stormy Weather" and "Mr. Johnson". Odd that the stand out first cut "Free Flow" off the second session sounds quite nice at the onset and then seems to deteriorate. Being the first I've heard either of these sessions they are night and day apart for me. (What Chuck said above) Still a for a load of tunes