Harold_Z

For a single disc, the new RCA "Centennial Edition" cd that came out last year has a good overview of tunes that Fats is known for and has the added benefit of a DVD consisting of "Soundies" that Fats did. I agree with the previous posts. Dive in anywhere - you can't really go wrong.

Peter Sbarbaro aka Pete Spargo: Saw the obit in the local paper yesterday. Pete was a record producer and the son of ODJB drummer Tony Spargo.

I know I've said it before, but here it is again. The Electric Bass is as valid as any other instrument and properly set up and played, it can swing as much as any bass. The sound can get very close to upright given the right player, techniques, knowledge, etc. The problem has always been that there are a large number of electric players with NO jazz knowledge that occasionally find themselves on the bandstand with jazz guys and can't deliver the goods. i.e. CAN'T swing and dont know the tunes. The bass is taking the blame for the player's lack of knowledge. The same player with an upright would suck just as bad and have rotten intonation too !

Good set. I recently found it used also. The music is great and the notes are beautifully done.

I find it hard to choose between Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfullingness First Finale. I think all three are great.

There's a place near where I live that has a flavor they call almond joy. It's vanilla Ice cream mixed with chocolate chips, chocolate covered almonds and coconut. Zowie !

ICE CREAM .............. I LOVE IT !

Anybody else see this ? I got right back into it. I taped it and I'll think I'll rewatch it to catch all the dialogue. Looks like it's going to be an interesting season. Allready open hostility between Bullock and Swearengen and a thickening plot between Cy Tolliver and Joanie.

Yeah Chris - great stuff. Thanks.

I think I read somewhere that the noise on Jack the Bear is a result of deterioration of the original metal parts. I really don't find the noise so unbearable that it takes away from my enjoymnent of the music and overall I think that the sound on this set is excellent, and the music is essential. Yes, it would be nice if JackThe Bear was cleaner, but you'll still get the essence of the music. Anybody know if JRT Davies ever remastered any of this stuff ?

Practice, practice, and more practice! I'm practicing right now. the man said: practise more! Believe me, I am. Let me say this about that......

Yeah...this is bullshit. I don't think there's many people posting on this board that hasn't allready bought RAM more than once.

I envisioned an animated Uncle Remus with Leo doing the voice over. Still LOL.

LOL ! I thought it completely plausible !

That's too bad. I really don't believe in altering anything in the realm of entertainment artifacts from the past. Let's see it the way it was - not with somebody deciding what I should and shouldn't see. If there's warts on it - so be it. It smells of censorship.

I saw it sometime in the early or mid 1950s. I didn't think at that time that it was offensive to any racial group, but I was a kid (under 10) so any racial undercurrents went right by me. I just saw it as a happy movie with tunes like Zip-a-dee-do-dah that I liked. It would be interesting to see it now.

Is "Pender", Mark Pender - the trumper player on the Conan tv show?

Looking forward to the new season. The building I work in houses Cablevision on the first floor. When walking to the elevatiors I can look through Cablevision's glass door facade and in the lobby of that office is a life size Seth Bullock cutout publicizing the return. I reread the previous posts. I still haven't really read anything about this period, but I did pick up the dvd edition of the first season. I couldn't resist Costco's price. The "extra" disc contains a lot of interesting background on the real characters and the research that went into the series. Really interesting and highly recomended.

Author Peter Straub is a jazz fan and frequently mentions jazz artists in his writings. The earliest one I can remember is "Shadowland" whre he mentions Coleman Hawkins..and if I remember correctly "Shadowland" was the name of the piece that Louis Armstrong heard B.A. Rolfe play and which inspired Louis to explore the upper register of his horn for as an approach to stating melodies.

Pickett gets my vote. I love the explicit drug referances in "Sugar Sugar". I mean like it's hipper than "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" !!!

I saw Smokey more than once back in the day - in the early 60s Murray The K shows at the Brooklyn Fox. The Temps - all the then current acts. One time I saw the Temptations in a small club in The Bronx called the Riviera Lounge. It was right after The Way You Do The Things You Do. It was GREAT! They had an excellent backing trio of Guitar,Fender Bass (not Jamerson - but GOOD)and drums. They were obviously jazz cognizant players. It was a small room - no bandstand. They were on the floor at one end of the room. David Ruffin was standing at the bar having a beer before the show. It was before they were stars. I looked at the book Standing In The Shadows Of Motown. Here's a quote: Veterans like Barry Harris, Kenny Burrell, Hank Jones and Yusef Lateef would take aspiring jazz players like Jamerson or future Motown keyboardist Earl Van Dyke, and teach them the ropes. I would think it likely that Jamerson and Donald Byrd's path crossed at some point

Leaving the shrinkwrap on will eventually cause warpage. I've seen it.

Never heard of anything like that. I think it's tip off that the new owner is a nickle/dime scammer. Next he'll be cutting the bread on slow nights.

What's a hair band?

I agree.