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I just took a fast peak at what's currently available under Bobby's name at CD Universe. I would go with the Live At The Roosevelt Grill series for starters. Great stuff...PLUS Vic Dickenson! A lot of the Bobby Hackett I espescially like are things under Eddie Condon's name on Commodore, Decca and Columbia. Hard or expensive to find on the issues I have, but I did see this Quadromania. It has A LOT of the Commodore sides. All of the important ones. I don't know how these quadromania issues sound, but the repetorie and the price is sure right. Click here for tunes etc

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Happy Birthday Chris.

It figures, sad to say. Music seems to have become very unimportant and dispensable to a large portion of the public. Maybe it's the result of the cultural dumbing down that's been going on for so long now.

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Thanks for posting this. Bechet is one of those artists I never stay away from for too long. In the past two days I've been going through the RCA stuff. After an immersion in lp burns I did on the Blue Note "Jazz Classics 1 & 2". How do you find things like this?

I'm with FFA...in the sense that it's not the tune...it's who's playing it. Sure we all have our favorites,ect. Mine seem to change over time. That's the great thing about music. One thing I know for sure is, that my favorite players...I like every tune they play on. I stayed away from this thread because I didn't like the concept. I just checked it out for the hell of it and Soul Stream and FFA have it exactly right.

As I recall it was comprised of the raps between tunes. It's something you listen to once.

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How is this so? Would a stereo cartridge take a click and put it to one channel instead of both? Yes. With a mono cartridge you'd get the same thing on either channel. But, if you have one quiet channel, take a Y chord and use that channel for L and R. In general, mono records, whether 33. 45. or78 sound better played with mono cartridges.

Hot. In general I thought the women were better cast than the men.

ghost of miles: Did they strip BLACK DAHLIA's storyline down as well as the writers did in L.A. CONFIDENTIAL?I thought so. The flaws in my book were a certain quirkiness that I'll attribute to De Palma and possibly the casting and acting of the two male leads. Werf: What a bummer. Werf, I can see you're a JE fan and you really disliked the movie. And that seems to be the opinion of most of the criticism I've heard and read of BD. I don't see where it's that bad.

My wife and I went to see it it yesterday. Clifton Commons multiplex theatre. The theatre I was in was empty. Myself, my wife and maybe two other couples. I guess this flick is offically a flop. I dunno. I dug it. Was it as good as LA Confidential ? No. Not imho. My wife thought it was good. Nothing special. Not bad. When I read the reviews panning it I thought ..well..that's what someone who doesn't dig Ellroy as an author would say. Also, I dig Ellroy; so I'm going to see this flick. At the end it all comes together. Anybody else see it? Anybiody else who is an Ellroy fan?

Has Horace ever made a bad one?

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For starters - I'd like to know if it's variable speed. Nothing in the blurb about that. Edit to add: AHHH! it IS variable spedd. I missed that in the first read thru. I wonder if there's anything like this that would play 78s. http://www.amazon.com/Ion-iTTUSB-Turntable...0320722?ie=UTF8

If it's funny ... it's funny. Hip people take the humor as intended, racists make something else of it. And the (majority of?) people who are neither...? MG Those who get it being hip and those who don't (or misconstrue it) being unhip.

If it's funny ... it's funny. Hip people take the humor as intended, racists make something else of it.

One more thought about Amos and Andy. Do we make a distinction between the blackface white guys doing it as opposed to the black actors who did the 50s tv show? Did we enjoy one more than the other?

I think Clem's got the microphone on this one and I pretty much see things as the same way. This is wayyyyy complex and cuts all ways. Almost to the point of the Fats qoute ( or Duke quote - or whoever said it). If you don't get this you'll never get it. (Or it will take a lot of thought and experience.) BTW #1 - I know what HNIC is. BTW #2- I bought "Check and Double Check" for 99 cents in Paterson last year. I still haven't watched it. I bought it because of Duke. I've seen that clip. I think a lot us here have. It's the one where Freddie Jenkins fans his ax. I thought I'd like to see it in context. Haven't watched it yet and I suspect that there is no context. Just a flick with Duke in the middle of it.

Has anyone noticed that ALL the pop stations, whether oldies or contemporary, are really WAYYYYY over compressing everything? I can't stand the sound of these stations what ever they're playing !

I've recently reread "The Sirens Of Titan". After 40+ years. I still think it's one of the best books ever written. Chuck...you're fortunate to have hung out with him. That HAD to be interesting.

What Lon and Brownie said pretty much sums it up for me as well. In SOME cases the sessions ARE complete. The first session on the set (McKenzie/Condon) IS complete most others are just a sampling. The entire Bud Freeman Decca lp "Wolverine Jazz" is there and the entire Bud Columbia "Comes Jazz"lp. The Rhythmakers is just a sampling, but if you can find the whole set - don't miss it. There is one Art Hodes session with 3 of the 4 tunes recorded that date. AFAIK that is the first appearance of any of those 4 sides on cd and maybe even lp. I would love to find that 4th tune !

I don't believe so. The chepness may manifeest itself in relativly bad sound, but I don't believe the pitch is affected.