Harold_Z

You guys have said it all. I'm sorry to see him go.

Thanks for posting that list MG. I'll have to figure out what I don't have and get after some of those. I dig Gator. As he said in the article you quote: "....It was a thing at the time. Illinois Jacquet was doing it, and Arnett Cobb. People expected to see showmanship playing, the honking type of thing, lying on the floor, walking through the aisles. But you know, you can do that and PLAY too, if you can.” And HE played his butt off ! One of the great record buying bargains I ever came across was in the mid or late 60s when the Stern's department store in Paramus NJ ran some kind of record liquidation. I bought at least 15 or 20 Prestige lps all by Gator, Lockjaw, or Shirley Scott for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS each! It was my intro to them. I bought the records 'cause they looked good! And I was not dissapointed. Great score!

I think Sony may be sitting on a remaster. Phil Schaap played a remastered version on FM maybe 5 years ago. At various times before that he had played the remastered ANATOMY OF A MURDER and Benny CARNEGIE HALL some time before official releases. Like Lon I have the lp transferred to cdr. Here's hoping Sony gets off it's keister.

Horrible songs are in the eye of the beholder.

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Coincidentally - Ellroy was on "Murder By The Book" on Court TV last night at 10:00 pm. He pretty much went over the ground covered in "My Dark Places". The show was pretty interesting. altho Court TV pretty much stretches what should have been a 1/2 hour show into a full hour by repeating A LOT and by A LOT of commercials. Anyway...it was worth watching so check around for repeats if interested. Good news about Clooney doing "White Jazz". He'll probably do a good job on it.

Thanks for posting that Ghost. I haven't read it all the way through yet, but I will. I dig Ellroy, but at one point in The Cold Six Thousand he had me wondering. He writes of a Vegas lounge trio consisting of sax(sic), drums and bass. Not likely for a Vegas lounge trio! Not unless Sonny Rollins clone bands were playing the strip. Hey! Nobody's perfect.

I was at the NYC store at Broadway and 66th this past Monday. Cds were at 40% off then. The inventory was prettty well picked clean but I still managed to find some things I wanted and to spend 70 bucks. At 50% off I may take a ride to the Paramus store this week. We asked the clerk when was the last day. She told us it was the 21st of December.

When I first bought the 30 gig I thought pretty much that I wouldn't use the shuffle feature much. Now I use it almost every time I pick up the iPod. It's great...espescially if you're an eclectic. The device is loaded with all things of your choosing. Sometimes I have trouble deciding on what to hear at a pareticular time, or maybe there is a cd I've been meaning to listen to, but haven't yet....just toss it on shuffle and here comes a wider variety than you would ever get if you planned. Plus...as Duke City pointed out..you don't HAVE to use the shuffle feature. AND..... ......this thing is so small you can clip it to your t shirt during the summer and take it with you anywhere!

I saw it yesterday also. I agree with you guys. GOOOOD FLICK ! Totally entertaining. It held my interest all the way through, and the final "Bond....James Bond" made me laugh out loud.

I tried to get one yesterday but everywhere I went they were sold out. I can't wait to get it. That small is SOOOOOO conveniet. I just bought the 30 gig a few weeks back and I'm glad I did, but this seems like the answer for a good second machine.

Bak's Bison Grass Vodka. On the rocks. Pretty smooth.

I have that Black and White on vinyl and it sounds pretty good. There was an also a single cd on RCA in the late 80s or early 90s that sounded pretty good. I guess now the only way to get the RCAs in thier entirety is the SUNBEAM set. I agree - it would be nice if RCA released a complete well remastered set.

All kiddin' aside... Pardon me if I state the obvious.......there was Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Carter, Pete Brown........ all came before Bird. The players that came after Bird all came from Bird. He changed music. The thing is - I first heard Bird (RCA Encyclopedia) maybe in '56 or '57. He was already gone and I was maybe 10 or 11 years old but heavily into music......BUT most of my exposure was to the earlier guys. So to me, while I loved the earlier guys, Bird was obviouly KILLER. Now in retrospect, when there are so many subsequent great players many of whom are heavily influenced by Bird, to someone coming along a little later, it is hard for that person to get the same feeling of innovation from Bird because he has already heard Bird's innovations as part of someone else's oeuvre. Same with Diz, Clifford Brown, etc. Maybe even at this stage of the game - same for Cannonball. So maybe actually it takes an immersion into what preceded Bird to really get Bird. And isn't that what some of us are doing when we delve into the farthest reaches of early jazz. Trying to understand how we got from there to here and in the process finding and enjoying some great music.

Geez! Another one of the greats, RIP Anita. You're uptown now.

I bet that Red Holt album swings !

Is there any Bebop you dig? Dizzy, Moody, Fats Navarro? Maybe you don't dig bebop in general. I remember reading a story about Doc Severinsen. He didn't get Louis Armstrong. Couldn't see what the fuss was about. A friend of his locked him in a room and played Pop's shit for a couple of hours. He got the message. Maybe you need immersion in BIRD SHIT ! Please don't be offended Big Al...sometimes when the line hits me I can't help myself.

I just took a look at what's currently out there. Best bang for the buck is the JSP until you decide to go complete.

All of the above. Stay away from just about everything else. Most of the other issues I've heard have been pretty dismal in terms of audio. There was an RCA single disc that had good audio

Well said, John L. I'm sorry to Lockwood go. I espescially dug the sides he did with Otis Spann on Candid.

As just one example of why this is true - just listen to the "a" and "B" takes of "Embraceable You" on the Savoy/Dial set.

Would you envy me if I told you I had one of the Warner Brothers LP boxes? Same thing, I think, only it's a box set. And "fancier". And we all know how much better music is when it comes in a fancy box set. ...............MAnnnnnnn! Woulda, shoulda, coulda!

I'm in agreement with those of you saying that fidelity should not deter anyone from listening to great music, and, in Bird's case, there are very good sounding issues available. The Verve, Savoy and Dial material is all in available in very acceptable sound. I would caution against obtaining some of the earlier reissues (Stash, Rhino). I envy those of you that have the Spotlite issues on vinyl.

I know I had a Phillips, and while I got five years of use from it, it became increasingly "tempermental" and only certain brands of CDWR would work and eventually only the older ones of those would work. Also the finalization process became increasingly difficult and finally failed altogether. At that point I threw in the towel and bought an hbb (which so far is terrific). I know several people who have had Phillips and I think their experiences were similar to mine. Most were worse. Also, I briefly had a teac. I returned it to the store. The levels of the final cdr were exceedingly low.