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Harold_Z

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  1. 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.
  2. Yeah Chris - great stuff. Thanks.
  3. 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 ?
  4. 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......
  5. 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.
  6. I envisioned an animated Uncle Remus with Leo doing the voice over. Still LOL.
  7. LOL ! I thought it completely plausible !
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Is "Pender", Mark Pender - the trumper player on the Conan tv show?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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" !!!
  14. 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
  15. Leaving the shrinkwrap on will eventually cause warpage. I've seen it.
  16. 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.
  17. What's a hair band?
  18. Yeah...if you don't have this material this is a good shot at it. I prefer the sound on this to even the JSP (and The JSP is great ).
  19. Actually this is one of those classic albums that no collection should be without...like The Sidewinder or Song For My Father. When those records first came out in the 60s you were definitely a square if you didn't have them. You can add the Lou Rawls Live Capitol album to that same list. Even the people with just a passing acquaintence with Jazz had those records. Not a dud track on Chicken Shack. I love the contrast Jimmy creates with his bassline on the 9th and 10th bars of the head on Chicken Shack (to name just one nice moment of many). When I Grow To Old To Dream is also a gas from start to finish and for my money is quintessential Stanley.
  20. I agree with Jim that the player on the Jon Hendricks is most likely not the "alternate" Jimmy. Time and locale seem to work against that.
  21. Mike, the Jimmy Smith on the King Curtis and Cornell Dupree dates isn't the same Jimmy Smith. The "alternate" Jimmy Smith is from Brooklyn and has played quite a bit with the guys associated with King Curtis, Cornell Dupree, Gordon Edwards, Chuck Rainey, etc. I last saw him play about 3 years ago with Gordon Edwards and Cornell Dupree at a "Stuff" reincarnation.
  22. Frank Assunto was the trumpet player for the Dukes Of Dixieland, who were recording for Columbia at that time. He was completely comfortable in a mainstream setting such as the "The Midnight Roll" (the Herb Ellis lp that appears here) and I believe Columbia was trying to show his versatility away from a Dixieland setting. Unfortunately Frank Assunto passed away sometime in the late 60s or early 70s.
  23. I'm with Herb on this one! There are great moments on ANY Jimmy Smith recording I've heard.
  24. Thanks John L.
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