BruceH

Hey, the Andrews Sisters were no slouches either!

It's not Christmas morning, it's the evening of the day after Christmas.

Hank Mobley's A Slice of the Top And here I thought it meant Squirrel On The Tree...

Bad news indeed! RIP

Dawn in the big city. There are eight million stories out there...

Wow, so HUAC got clubs closed too.

I've never been all that impressed with Hancock.

Is this the thing JSangry is on about never having got from Santa? MG You mean the book? I doubt it.

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card, by Michael O'Keefe and Teri Thompson. Interesting and depressing in equal measure so far.

Happy belated birthday!

Hey, I've got that Charly CD! As I recall, it's good listening.

Merry Christmas Dan. (And to all a good night.)

I've got pieces of the Mozart set, will probably never get the whole thing. You can always tell when a smaller CD set is part of this because it'll say "Complete Mozart Edition" in the Philips stripe at the top, and on the spine. For instance, I got the String Quartets box (8 discs) because I found it relatively cheap. For the three-disc String Quintets box they used my favorite performances of these works, so I was happy to get it.

I think it was in the Collector's Choice series as mine has the white inlay tray, which looks like that first issue of Conns from 1994. ed: I meant tray, not card. OK, it was a Collector's Choice. I bought a few of those back in the day, but I only came across this around '02 or '03.

Now I'm glad I didn't get the RVG. I've been a big fan of this album for the last 4 or 5 years when I happened to find the Conn at a record store. Turned out to be one of the more fortuitous purchases of my life.

Don't remember this show, but I'm still waiting for them to put the cartoon Fantastic Voyage on DVD. It was only on for one season I think, so it wouldn't take many discs.

I ordered it. Should get here in a few days.

Rainy.

Their TV/DVD boxes are great.

You can always just buy the Connisseurs and then not bother with the RVG versions when they come out. (OK, I should admit that often enough I break this rule myself.)

I like "A Patch Of Blue."

It's a rat the size of a cat!

Who cares what the record sounds like with that great cover art! It ain't THAT bad anyhow. Certianly not on the level of his Contemporary LP's but still listenable enough, no matter what Down Beat and Gioia said. Looking at the Down Beat review (2 stars) I've got a hunch that beyond recording quality issues they picked this record as one of those where they failed all the participants summarily for being "derivative" (one of their favorite derogatory terms of those years, it seems ), not creating something substantially new, etc. - i.e. their pet peeve they seem to have nourished at that time, proving you can downgrade anything if you feel like it. Just my 2c - and yes, at times I do take the liberty of disagreeing with certain review "authorities" Sure, it's not the best Counce album, but I'm glad I have it and think any fan would be. My copy says "Boplicity" AND "Dootone" and I just chose the first one. Don't overlook that Harold Land album, Tom!

Beethoven. Lester Young. Paul Desmond. Talking Heads.

Count me in. I've been into Counce since reading about him in, I think, Gioia's book West Coast Jazz some years ago. There's also an album called Exploring the Future on Boplicity with Rolf Ericson on trumpet instead of Jack Sheldon and Elmo Hope replacing Carl Perkins on piano. Then there's a fine album by Harold Land called Harold In the Land of Jazz that's basically the Curtis Counce Group without Curtis Counce (Leroy Vinnegar is on bass instead.)