BruceH

Same here. I feel the same way about Davis Cup.

Good though Cornbread is, I always felt it needed just a little butter.

Indeed (so to speak.) Many of the tunes on the Vol. 2 and 3 albums are also Golson compositions if memory serves.

Happy Birthday!

Three Boetticher/Scott westerns will be shown on TCM tonight, two good ones, one not-so-great, and a documentary about Boetticher the director. If it's the one they showed before, along with Seven Men From Now, it's damn good. In any case, Western fans, be there!!

Yikes!!

Smithville, of course! I want that released bigtime!

"..now if I make a record date I will make sure, much more sure that everything is done the way it's supposed to be done, and that the musicians will be the right musicians. Like, on that record date I did with Blue Note I had a trumpet player, Dizzy Reece, and I shouldn't have given him the date. I should have given it to someone else because he didn't jell with Turrentine, the saxophone player. It was a wrong combination and the record date didn't come out the way it should have". Duke Jordan, interviewed by Roland Baggenaes, Coda, September-October 1973 WOW. I thought it came out friggin' great. Well, just goes to show, you can't always go by what the artist says.

Sorry, didn't read the whole thread.

"Work"

Live At the Whitney----Ellington City Lights----Lee Morgan Almost forgot: Wanda Jackson: Queen of Rockabilly

This series reminds me of The Perfect Storm (book version.) A lot of stuff in there about the hazards of the fishing trade and its long history in New England.

The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel That is one big building.

I'm a little late, but... CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Good for you and way to go, man!! Very good news indeed---and it's 'bone!

Izzy's!

Seeing Fallen Angel a year or two ago is one of the things that changed my mind about Preminger (that and Where the Sidewalk Ends and others)---before he began churning out tiresome prestige pictures he was quite the noir director.

Yoda?

Makes me glad that we stopped getting the Wall Street Journal.

Agreed. Granted, his composing slowed down to a trickle (and finally stopped) but to my admittedly non-musician ears his playing stayed sharp.

I love it. Nothing ground-breaking here, but wonderful, hard-swinging music. A few years ago I happened to find the Conn on sale for about $10 and bought it thinking it might be OK and it turned out to be one of those surprise gems. It's one of my favorite sideman turns by Stanley Turrentine, and has to be my one top fave sideman appearence by Reece. The bonus cuts are great, too.

I'm also amazed by how many of these I already have in one form or another. But I'm looking forward to getting Delightfulee.

My wishes for RVGs (or Conns, or whatever): New Faces, New Sounds - Wynton Kelly Julius Watkins Sextet Vol. 1 and 2 The Opener - Curtis Fuller Look Out - Stanley Turrentine Plays Fats Waller - Jimmy Smith Steppin' Out - Harold Vick Wahoo - Duke Pearson Bring It Home To Me - Blue Mitchell The Empty Foxhole - Ornette Coleman Contrasts - Larry Young Heads Up - Blue Mitchell Natural Essence - Tyrone Washington Introducing/Now Hear This - Duke Pearson's Big Band Grass Roots - Andrew Hill Extensions - McCoy Tyner Wayfaring Stranger - Jeremy Steig Odyssey of Iska - Wayne Shorter Chant - Donald Byrd A long list, for sure, but I'm just barely scratching the surface. I would add: Leapin' and Lopin'---Sonny Clark

I think J Larsen said made an interesting point in another thread a while back (too lazy to search the archives) -- even if intelligent life exists somewhere else in the cosmos, the relatively short life span of any given civilization means that contemporaneous existence with ours is much less probable. Guy Well of course, but I used to hear the argument (before 1995) that there may not even be any other PLANETS out there, orbiting other stars. After all, we hadn't detected any. Well, now we sure as Hell have. LOTS of 'em. That's kind of cool.

What was lost?

As soon as I can secure a copy for free, I'll give it a listen.