Harold_Z

I'm with Patricia on this. I'm mainly interested in whether or not I'll be able to get the necessary equipment to play the vinyl I already own own and have aquired over the years. Buying contemporary vinyl seems to be just buying a cd issued on vinyl.

I got 86 also........just like the booze I drink.

Yeah - great band and great rhythm section. I espescially dug their 2nd lp - "Soul Dressing"

That's a pretty funny site, Claude ! Check out the "you're a drunk" part.

Get it. There's been a few threads on this reissue - try a search and you'll get a lot of opinions - mostly positive. I have the set and it's great. I like the sound better than any other cd issue I've heard.

As a guy who doubles on piano now and then...Chris is 100% right.

There's some good Lee Allen on a Shirley and Lee Collectables. I imagine the Bear box of Shirley and Lee must be a treasure trove of Lee Allen. As long as we're in New Orleans I think Sam Butera deserves a mention. He plays this bag.

We're OLD !

Yes it is. VERY. It's a little tougher going than some other P.K.D. I've read, but it's well worth the effort. Jazzmoose - give it another shot. For me it's taking a lot of concentration, but I'm hooked now and it's, as Lon said, amazing. I'm reading it from THIS paperback. I was surprised to find that this is the first edition (even tho it says so on the cover - I always thought that was paperback hype). It wasn't out in hardcover first.

Revisiting "Valis" (P.K. Dick) for the first time since it came out in 1982. It's like reading it for the first time and I'm enjoying it.

AFAIK...no cd issues as of yet. .....but I'd wait on line for a copy !

If we were only limited to one - I guess this is it! This solo became a staple. A lot of tenor players, even (espescially?) on the lounge band circuit of the late 50s and early 60s, knew it note for note and could deliver it with amazing accuracy and conviction. Even King Curtis recorded it 3 times (that I know of), In chronological order: Prestige cd NIGHT TRAIN. It has 2 lps - one of which is the reissue of OLD GOLD. Billy Butler from the original record by Bill Doggett is on board as is Jack McDuff. Very close to the original and very nice. Capitol version (on the Bear Family box). Short version. but Curtis does his routine of modulating into G from F for the tenor solo. Nice. Atco Version: EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' lp. Great version. Curtis overdubbed into a trio on the head- Cornell takes his own solo (not the Billy Butler) and sounds ON THE MONEY - Curtis modulates into G for a great delivery of the Clifford Scott solo. Great Record.

I bought it when it came out. I listened once or twice and haven't revisited it. At the time I was somewhat disapointed. The Thin Man sounded as if his chops were down and the band was a very ordinary and contempary sounding "modern" blues band. That's how I felt at that time, but I wouldn't mind giving a relisten now.

Noble "The Thin Man" Watts' "Hard Times". Great record. I think it's Lee Allen on Amos Milburn's New Orleans version of "Chicken Shack". I dig Maxwell Davis on the original too, and on "Let's Have A Party".

I'm trying to picture Miles and Hoagy hangin' out. It reminds me of story I heard from a musician friend. A friend of his (I know - this is reaching hearsay level) said he was in LA stopped waiting for a red light when he looked over at the next car and saw........Stan Getz and Keith Richards !

Is this the same as the Jazztone lps ?

This is a good example of why a lot of this is highly subjective. I thought the late 80s reissue was terrible and a casebook example of digital scrubbing.

Very nice !

LOL

It's kind of a moot point. People own things and have the right to sell them. An interested organaztion or individual can purchase them for either altruistic or selfish reasons. That's reality and anything else would be stepping on somebody's toes.

HEY CATESTA....YOU LOVE JAZZ AND ITALIAN FOOD ! Not necessarily in that order. Right? WELLLL.......North Jersey is the JOINT !! You're minutes outside of THE APPLE (Jazz capitol of the world - for the unitiated) and the Italian restaurants in Newark, Lodi, Garfield, and many other North Jersey locales are one step beyond. There are none better. ANYWHERE ! ANYWHERE !. YA' UNNERSTAND !? YA UNNERSTAND !!?

It certainly looks like it would be great music.

Danny D'imperio sent me the following a few weeks ago: Following a succession of heart problems, Joe Dodge died on August 18, 2004. He was 82. He was a gracious, forthright and often very funny man. Joe was an invaluable source as I worked on Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. He and Desmond met in the army and loved one another's playing. Paul wanted Dodge in the Brubeck Quartet from the beginning in 1951. It finally worked out in 1953. When Dodge quit in 1956 to spend more time with his family, he was succeeded by Joe Morello. Doug Ramsey

It shouldn't matter - just be aware and listen for speaker distortion. If you hear any just back off on the volume and you should be fine

It shouldn't matter - just be aware and listen for speaker distortion. If you hear any just back off on the volume and you should be fine