Man with the Golden Arm

i hope it's that microphone that he swings around all-the-fuggin-time!

The cover / book design was not what I expected as well. I have a couple older Japanese issued XRCDs that have that audiophile feel. I know it's just a placebo but the slick varnish gloss and half the pages dedicated to the format cheapened it a bit. Too bad some constructive crit got under the skin. You are carrying on the lineage of Reid Miles as well here and it probably does not take much to make these beautiful.

same here ... different cover and includes a series of the Wolff out take shots. The track listing is mixed up from the original release (i imagine in order of chronology of the session?). As for compl'e'(thanks but I did hear the XRCD saying it dug the other shots of Ruth's gams)menting the XRCD it is simply that I gave away the original McMaster to pick up the RVG (first day it was issued with the slipcase etc), could not get rid of that one fast enuf for fear that the RVG introduced snakes hissing inside the hi-hat would eventually take over the room and luckily found this TOCJ mono issue. I had not heard 'CS' in stereo for eons and the audio wave remastering is perfect ... McLean almost sounds warmer here where the TOCJ has that 'Freedom Ring' tone. 01.ブルー・マイナー 　BLUE MINOR 02.クール・ストラッティン 　COOL STRUTTIN‘ 03.ロイヤル・フラッシュ 　ROYAL FLASH 04.シッピン・アット・ベルズ 　SIPPIN‘ AT BELLS 05.ディープ・ナイト 　DEEP NIGHT 06.ラヴァー 　LOVER

please please please don't pass "JUDGEMENT!"

Just did some listening to my only splurge - 'Cool Struttin'' - and compared it a bit to the other version I have which is the "Complete" TOCJ in mono. I always thought that was a fantastic sounding CD but must say this XRCD compliments it nicely. Being a 1500 were there mono and stereo mixes of the original 4 tracks at the time or was the stereo faked? "Cool Struttin'" is spread beautifully here where the TOCJ has that in your face - raging Philly Joe on "Lover" - mono which is rocked up a notch on the XRCD's "bonus cuts". Highly recommended over that RVG which I have not had since a week after it was released - ouch.

You must love vocals and inaudible instruments. I recall when looking at the post release mayhem on the SH board that this title was the unanimous best of all the lot re: stereo vs mono. hmmm.

oh sure, blame the dog.

welcome ponz... missed this one first time around so interested as well. doing some toy deadlines myself - coincidentally some air driven musical toddler play - and should probably toss on something more avant garde to get the gears moving.

The Chicano would have toughed it out! 2:15!!

could of saved a lot of scientific bookkeeping and drove it straight onto the L.I.E.

and ta think they get Severance pay everyday, too.

thanks for that! ... led me to find a Chuck Jones blog: http://blog.chuckjones.com/chuck_redux/ and a "Swank" ? ? cover by my hero Pete Hawley!!

I just hope they don't let that drunk gal from "Lost" drive them heliocopters.

you must must must check out a friend from Cleveland's creations! Monster talent ... the trains on the blog are just a sampling. HUGE things - three to six feet in length - all hand built, machined parts, distressed paint jobs. The guy is simply amazing. My favorite is his Captain Nemo: http://jmelliott.blogspot.com/

That's now "view new content" at the top right-hand corner. Isn't that the counterpart to "View new posts since your last visit"? "Today's active topics" rather displays any topic active within the last 24 hours, you may have viewed it or not. yes, it seems one can only click to "today's active topics" from the main forums page and not at the bottom of a thread as it used to be.

Kirk's "Berkshire Blues" McLean / Sonny Clark "Nicely" Clusone 3 "White Christmas as a closure to any gifted mix.

I only have the '99 Legacy CD (no doubt got rid of the earlier version that I should have kept) and have "The Shoes of the Fisherman's ... Slippers" on LP so no need for the new issue w/ Dynasty. So what CD release contains those original edited tracks as well - as djcav is asking? please.

lower left cabinet, silly! those folks are no doubt limber.

The Baxter sounds interesting - I'm hoping for real issues of 'Jungle Jazz" and "African Jazz" someday. I think TTK oughta open up a "soundtrack corner" thread!? just finished listening to selections from "The World of Suzie Wong". it was alright!

C., That MMW Radiloarians series is some of their best work IMO. III is my favorite and then reverse. Big new box set coming this week as well. Saw them a few weeks back and they were unstoppable! While I don't have III yet (I need to get it soon) I will say Radiloarians II is the best album MMW ever made and its the album I kind of always wanted them to make. I think what makes it so great is that before they went into the studio to cut these tracks they toured with them for a year so they had the optimal arraignments and familiarity with them for the improvisations as opposed to the normal way of recording a brand new song for a album and they having the tracks develop into something better later on tour. I missed the pre-larians shows but I was just blown away at the musicianship they are now so comfortable with. Medeski is the Dick Butkus of the groove!

C., That MMW Radiloarians series is some of their best work IMO. III is my favorite and then reverse. Big new box set coming this week as well. Saw them a few weeks back and they were unstoppable!

Yeah, and she apparently "went public" after being upset to learn that she wasn't Tiger's only mistress!

i supplied my own Bevis & Butthead to this one and it was much more appetizing.

The driveway might be deemed a cart path but she still should have moved him only a couple of club lengths and back toward the garage. Winter rules I gather as she did "pick and clean".