BruceH

GA, you must be on a similar wavelength to me! Cool Struttin' is one of my old favorites. One of the first Blue Note albums I ever bought (along with Dexter Gordon's Go!) and long my favorite Sonny Clark LP. Now I'm not so sure I could choose between it and several of his others, but still a big sentimental favorite.

For me, Soul Station is more like "Album of the Quarter Century." Got it as a vinyl reissue back in the 80s. Back then I just played it a few times and filed it away. A good solid second-tier hard-bop album, I thought, nothing world-shaking. But two or three years later I dug it out and kept playing it more. I would go through cycles of playing it a lot, and each go 'round it seemed to get better. Eventually, during the 90's, I started collecting every Mobley session (both as leader and sideman) that I could find. But it all started with Soul Station. I've recommended it to countless people (along with Workout) as one of the ideal places to start with Mobley. Still one of my favorite Mobley albums, too. So for those, like Shawn, who say that it took a while for the album to sink in for them, well, I can really relate to that. It's one of those albums that sneaks up on you.

It was proposed just recently. Lots of details to be worked out, but I think state and local movers and shakers will make this happen one way or the other. Gov. Crist has already expressed concerne about the state losing clubs to Arizona during spring training. I believe the Marlins have a new downtown stadium proposal as well. Not sure what's going on with that. They are supposed to break ground on the New Marlins Stadium in November, 2008 and if all goes well it should open in 2011.

Perhaps Harry James was a big fan of The Jetsons.

Does Lord list a location and/or a show name? And does he love a duck?

I certainly hope the same. The whole thing is outrageous.

It's news to me that Harry James was still on the scene in the 1960's... Good stuff, though! The early electric piano: always sounds like a party! Who was that on alto sax? He was good.

Who did you watch the final episode of M*A*S*H with?

Maybe that's why there were Tommy Udo fanclubs on college campuses across the country.

We should be so lucky.

Chicken & Thai rice. Maybe.

To go along with all those other very, very good years...

I like Dr Pepper more than I like Guns and Roses. Actually, there's a lot of things I like more than that Well heck, I like Moxie more than Guns'n'Roses. (And I hate Moxie.)

I don't even like Dr. Pepper.

sorry but I just got one and it's the same old (bad) cover. Noooooooo!!!!

are you forgetting? i know this was tv, but it was his most famous "good guy" role. widmark played a hero, albeit a flawed one, in many films, like Elia Kazan's "Panic in the Streets" where he's a doctor chasing down a plague carrier (Jack Palance!). That's a really good movie, one of Kazan's better efforts I think. With Widmark's passing TCM will probably do a retrospective of his films, like they did of Jack Lemmon's films when he died.

One of my favorites. He had a great career and a very long life. RIP My wife and I just saw him at the noir festival a few weeks ago in Roadhouse. A good little film with Ida Lupino. Found out that his daughter married baseball great Sandy Koufax. Whaddaya know?

I just wish those damn kids would stay off my front lawn, dag nabit!

Seems like the end of an era, somehow.

Jo Jones was clearly one of the all-time greats.

Good God, yes! The lion's share of my favorite Ellington albums are from this period, among them Blues In Orbit, Such Sweet Thunder, Jazz Party, and The Nutcracker Suite. Then there's the live albums, and the Anatomy of A Murder score. Helluva run, indeed.

I have it and I LOVE it, but in addition to being a Desmond fan, I am also a Simon and Garfunkle fan... You mean some people aren't?

Low---David Bowie & Eno

Cool site! Thanks Randy! (The fact that one of the records pictured on the site is put out by "Gadget Records" really adds to the cover I think.)

Glad I missed that one.