Eric

I think about running - doesn't happen all the time, but my tethered headphones do pop out occasionally. Having to stop and look for the damn thing just once will be a pain - if I can find it at all. I don't get it either. "Taking away something useful" is not the same as "creating something we don't yet know we need" ...

Yeah, I didn't mean to mute your enthusiasm! I had high hopes for this one - maybe too high. I was hoping for more of a snarling guitar fest. So part of my reaction is really more "too much Jagger" and not enough of Keith and the guys.

I think I fall in the YMMV bucket I have listened to it a couple times and to me it sounds like a competent, if somewhat sterile blues album. Nothing wrong with the Stones putting it out and if helps bring attention to the genre, great. I don't think it is either a remarkable Stones or blues album.

And a score some won't find all that exciting, the Sunflower Showdown: Kansas State - 34 .... Kansas 19 (after beating Texas last week, my Jayhawks beat the spread, made it respectable) GA - was that State/Carolina game in Raleigh or Chapel Hill?

There is a new KD Uptown album coming out next week. I don't have a link handy, but it is searchable at Amazon. Half Note from '62 and '66 if memory serves, with Joe Farrell on one date and Sonny Red on the other.

"Ferocity of playing" indeed. Freddie Hubbard playing an exceptional version of Freddie Hubbard.

The Resonance web site has a new sampler which includes unissued tracks from the Three Sounds and Wes Montgomery (both to be made available later). The sampler is on iTunes - listened to the Wes and it is very nice - a high fidelity studio date.

Interesting read, thanks for posting.

Thanks all. To celebrate, we saw Alejandro Escovedo here in KC last night. Great show!!

Thanks for the post. Very interesting. Like the George Freeman reference.

Jim, Placed an order but could not find a track list. Would you mind to point me in the right direction? Sounds very interesting. Thanks, Eric

I adore My Point Of View and in particular, "A Tribute To Someone". The absolutely perfect "softer side of hard bop" track. The tune is so tuneful and just plain gorgeous - I love the way it alternates between Byrd and Mobley in the head. Their solos as well as Herbie's are in the pocket perfect. The "Blind Man" is great fun and nice to hear Grant Green on the track. "King Cobra" and "The Pleasure Is Mine" seem to be moving in the direction of Empyrean and Maiden.

This one, and I played the hell out of it:

Looks like there is also a Hancock set: Herbie Hancock

Thanks for the post. My favorite Lonnie Smith album - title track is just a killer.

Thanks for alerting us.

Have to back and watch all of it, but I am struck by how young Wes looks. Hard to believe he died shortly after the interview.

I have listened a few times through. It really is beautiful music - well said.

Apologies if posted elsewhere. Any typos courtesy of HMV. Picked up a couple of these from the Bastards. Would appreciate comments on any of the more obscure titles ... Airto - Free Airto - Virgin Land Art Farmer - Crawl Space Art Farmer - Something You Got Claudio Roditi - Red On Red David Matthews - Dune: sand planets Don Sebesky - Rape Of El Morro: El snatch of Moro Esther Phillips - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes: Love is a different thing Esther Phillips - For All We Know Fats Theus / Grant Green - Black Out Freddie Hubbard - Sky Dive Freddie Hubbard - First Light Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together Freddie Hubbard - Polar Ac Fuse One - Silk Gabor Szabo - Mizrab George Benson - Body Talk George Benson - Bad Benson Grant Green - Main Attraction Hank Crawford - Wildflower Hank Crawford - Tico Rico Hubert Laws - Crying Song Idris Muhammad - House Of The Rising Sun: Rising Sun house Idris Muhammad - Turn This Mutha Out Jackie & Roy (Jackie Cain / Roy Kral) - Wilder Alias Jeremy Steig - Firefly Joe Farrell - Moon Germs Joe Farrell - Upon This Rock Joe Farrell - Joe Farrell Quartet John Blair - We Belong Together Johnny Hammond - Breakout Johnny Hammond - Higher Ground Lalo Schifrin - Black Widow Milt Jackson - Olinga Patti Austin - Havana Candy Patti Austin - Body Language Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song Stanley Turrentine - Sugar Man Urbie Green - Senor Blues Yusef Lateef - In A Temple Garden

Interesting - are there other titles in the series?

What was the other title - can't recall?

You know, we did not, but a friend in Miami county did. Actually he and his wife felt the bed shake. He tried to take credit ...

Excellent points. I forgot, I have a couple of those too Another bonus with Apple TV ... if connected to a TV, you get a nice display of the cover art on your screen. Note the actual resolution is better than appears in the photo.

Same thing here, set up in six different rooms of the house. You can play the same music multiple rooms at once (i.e. "rock the house" mode) and/or everyone can you do own thing in their own room, simultaneously. The little-known, little-hyped Apple Airport Express makes all this work seamlessly. http://goo.gl/PywSK3

yeah, that is a good one ...