BruceH

Well, people have been tolling the death-nell for the album-as-artistic-statement for years now. Maybe it's finally here. But I don't know...call me a relic, but I still kind of like There's A Riot Goin' On, and Forever Changes, and Another Green World. Even Kind Of Blue and Such Sweet Thunder somehow work better for me as a whole than as isolated, random files on my ipod. Don't know why, but there you have it.

Skitch----no.

Yes, that sounded fishy to me too. I'd think even McCartney might choke on 2.4 billion pounds.

I remember when this show was on in prime time (1972 or so). It was mildly entertaining for the time, but with all the animated series that have come since I'm not so sure it has aged well. It might be interesting as a reflection of social/political topics (and stereotypes) of that period, but I really don't remember it being that good. I am interested in some of the other 70s TV shows, not so much this one. I thought I'd seen at least an episode or two of almost every obscure H-B cartoon series in existence, but I'd never even heard of this one before. I remember when this show was on, remember kind of liking it (I was only 10 or 11), and even remember being disappointed that it only lasted one season. But perhaps it says something that I can't remember the plot of a single episode.

If these go out of print, that's it! I'm swearing off music buying. Or just swearing.

Good call! A big favorite. Yes! You're battin' 1.000 my friend!

Just heard a report about the latest Cannes film festival. Apparently it was the best Cannes in quite a few years. Interesting.

You truly are an intrepid Mosaic listener ubu!

I heard that too!

I know what you mean, but only the seventh (and final) season is really bad, I think.

Shhh! Don't tell anyone about these! Yeah, wasn't this on Conan O'Brien?

Indeed! Bring on the jazz covers of Britney Spears!!

The Duke set. Hands down, period. Not a hard choice.

Hang in there! You'll reach it someday!

It's just jazz with everything you like about jazz subtracted. Either that or the giveaway bin at your local flea-market.

I stand corrected. Can't wait for Cyrus Chestnut's version of Purple Rain, too.

As if I needed further incentive to avoid Starbucks... Indeed.

I'm guessing that their argument, while somewhat hyperbolic in nature, is pretty much right. This has a lot to do with "developments" in straight ahead post-bop music in the Wynton and post-Wynton era. Guy Maybe but more to do with developments in the MINDs than in the actual MUSIC itself. Throughout the 80s and 90s contemporary jazz musicians never stopped turning to material by Prince, Radiohead or Nirvana for inspiration, seemingly in spite of Marsalis. It's just that this was no longer perceived as proper jazz. No one had any problem with Coltrane turning My Favourite Things into a jazz standard even though it came from a a dodgy Rogers and Hammerstein musical sang by famed jazz heavy weight Julie Andrews. So why does the establishment have a problem with Nirvana? At least they played their own instruments! I think that the only real difference is that the people who confer "jazz standard' status on music, stopped listening to contemporary music in 1980, the year of the "last jazz standard'. Meanwhile, the label non-obessed world kept listening, borrowing and copying from whatever source around them, just like Coltrane did decades earlier. Perhaps more jazz musicians would've played stuff like Karma Police, Kiss or Come as you are, had the establishment been as ready to give them "standard" status as My favourite things in 1961 Wow, I can't wait to get a four-disc box of jazz versions of Kiss songs.

To me this set exemplifies Mosaic at their obsessive/completist worst and best. But I'm damn glad I got it! A lot of great stuff here.

The alchemy thing is a bit tough to take as well... Exactly.

I liked him in Nobody's Fool, but missed Empire Falls. How is that film? The Hudsucker Proxy has to be one of the most misbegotten films of all time. Not his finest moment, by a long shot.

Truly intimidating hair.

I'd say leave the poor guy alone; his forehead has enough problems.

I completely agree.

Yes. Anything he did with the Goodman small groups is essential jazz in my book. Can't really go wrong with Hampton.