Harold_Z

Yeah...I've been digging it gradually over the past week or two and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Glad I've got it and it will get a lot of play from here on. I had maybe half of it on vinyl since the 70s. Diz is in great shape on this stuff.

I walked into a bookstore on St Mark's Place in the East Village sometime in 1968 or 1969. I picked up a paperback by an author I wasn't familiar with. It was Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I flipped. I got to the end of the book and immediately reread it. From that point on I read every book KV wrote. I read them as they came out and I read what I had missed before the Sirens Of Titan. If I had to name a favorite Author it would be him

RIP Kurt. He was one of my favorites. What he wrote years ago is still as relevant today.

Amos Kaune, the owner and operator of Gulliver's in West Paterson, NJ through the 70s and 80s used to have a sign on the door telling people that it was a jazz club, people were there to listen to the music and to keep quiet during the sets. If patrons were noisy Amos would speak to them personally and tell them to be quiet or leave. He wasn't afraid of losing the business. It was one of the best places to hear music in the NYC area. .....and to gig at.

OK. I'll be a phillistine. I really like Chock Full O'Nuts Original Blend. Not expensive and it's what I regularly use at home

I dunno man, that one looks like it might be pretty intense... I'll let you do the listening What if I don't survive? You'll survive. Gloria Gaynor to the rescue.

Yeah.....but what the hell. I still can't wait to see the next show and the hour goes by in an instant. It's just a non stop action thriller with plenty of flaws, very unlikely coincedences and a lot of non sequtitors. It's an updated Perils Of Pauline. What is really beginning to dawn on me is just how bad Fox News is. I don't know if this is true of every viewing area, but in the NYC viewing area, 24 is followed by the news on Fox and they run some blurbs during the showing of 24. They are ridiculous beyond my ability to describe them. Just pure right wing propaganda.

For some reason I think musicians and music people would dig this.....I LOVED it ! The Magician And The Card Sharp by Karl Johnson From a blurb: Dai Vernon, considered among the most influential magicians of the 20th century, could do just about any trick that called for sleight of hand. He was obsessed with learning the secrets of crooked card dealers. But there was one move he couldn't master. In the The Magician and the Cardsharp, author Karl Johnson documents Vernon's quest to find the one man who was able to perform the holy grail of card tricks -- the so-called "center deal," dealing a specific card from anywhere in the deck, undetected. Vernon's search took him from one sleazy dive to another: bars, nightclubs, pool halls, and smoke-filled back rooms. In 1932, the trail finally led him to a little white house in Pleasant Hill, Mo., where Allen Kennedy lived. Kennedy didn't disappoint Vernon, showing him exactly how to perform the trick great gamblers had assumed was a fairytale. Vernon died in 1992 at the age of 98. But at the Magic Castle, a Los Angeles club for magicians, there's a seat permanently reserved in his honor.

Bottom line: COFFEE IS A NECESSITY. I CAN'T DO WITHOUT IT. ESPESCIALLY IN THE MORNING !!!!

Just about my take. I would maybe toss in the "Pet Sounds" cd.

I remember him getting very popular among my "in" crowd for a short time around '69 or '70 . Some friends had the records so I didn't buy any. Probably should have.

I'm no authority on downloading, but the downloading is really from Rapid Share and that's the same no matter who you're getting there from. Rapid Share will annoy you into getting a premium plan.

He was a fine swingin' drummer. That's why he was with Pops. Sorry to hear this news.

Zeca - you can call me Mr. Z, or just Z . I like that random icon. It's a great way to get turned on to something that you may otherwise never hear.

Hello Zeca! Welcome - It's great to see you here ! I've been spending a lot of time at Loronix and really enjoying the music. I've been downloading like crazy and also watching the videos. There are not enough hours in the day to absorb all I want. I have some friends that love Bossa Nova that I can't wait to tell about Loronix and Zeca.

He's hangin' with Howdy Quicksell.

I downloaded O ENCONTRO and had a ball digging it. I was surprised by the vocal group harmonies. I guess the Four Freshman were everywhere. Jim, I dug that recomendation. Any others?

Sonny is still alive and lives in New Jersey. Several friends of mine that are good drummers studied with him, Including DEEP, Kenny Bolds, and Arnie Kinsella. Great drummers all.

BTW...Tom Barney on bass. FINE FINE player.

It probably has more to do with a better royalty deal on the newer stuff than anything else.

I definitly think Red and Monk would have been wonderful. How could it not be? Ruby and Earl would have beeb great to hear too. Too bad neither encounter occured. I wonder if Red could have sat in with Monk at Minton's? Certainly seems like a possiblity.

Yeah, but in one case it's sales hype and in the other it's enthusiasm and love for the music,

Don't miss the Baden Powell/Marcia video currently on Loronix. It's absolutely beautiful. Jim, How long do they keep those videos on? The Baden Powell cd that Teasing The Korean mentions early on in the thread is available for pre-order price at CD Universe. I orrdered it along with a Elis Regina disc that's coming out at the same time. Baden Powell / Vinicius De Moraes : Os Afro-Sambas De Baden E Vinicius,

No, c'mon, where's the real discussion? I guess we had similar reactions to that thread. Apparently THIS is the real discussion!

I hope this thread keeps going. I'm very interested in Brazilian music but don't really know enough about it to contribute much here. In the past couple of years I've been listening to the more obvious and well known names. Jobim, Vinicius, Paula Morelenbaum, Gal Costa, Baden Powell, Elis Regina, etc. I love what I've been hearing, but I realize that there must be a whole lot that I'm unaware of and in a sense I've just scratched the surface. Threads like this and Jim R's Hard Bossa help point out what I've been missing. So on these thread's I'm a lurker.