BruceH

Well, I've never met Junior Cook, but I've got to recommend the Blue Mitchell album The Cup Bearers. Hasn't the BN album The Thing To Do been re-released? Cook is on that too.

Clubhouse inspired me to re-listen to a lot of Dexter's albums lately. Go! is still my favorite, but Our Man In Paris is right up there.

Finally got "Let Me Tell You 'Bout It" by Leo Parker. I call this type of music "R&Be-Bop." Both bonus tracks on the RVG are very good.

It's not a "hard-hitting" album to be sure. More of a subtle, middle-of-the-road album. Nothing earth-shaking or ground-breaking here, but one of those albums that seem to gain in depth the longer you own it. I must admit, I may never have caught on to it as I did without the Tina Brooks connection. Someone mentioned it being hard to find on vinyl. Oddly, it was one of the few RVG's that I owned on vinyl years and years before it came out on CD. (Can't remember where I got it, but somewhere in Boston.) For ages it was also the only Freddie Hubbard album I owned. Listening to it again, the track I like almost as much as #'s 1 and 3 is "Hub's Nub," the sole Hubbard composition. It's a keeper.

I was just shocked and saddened by this. What a shame.

I'll take it!!!

I recommend listening to Gettin' Around very late at night. Sounds better then.

Just wondering if anyone else out there has been digging the recent RVG of Dexter Gordon's Clubhouse---sort of a "lost album." Sure, it may not be the absolute, tippity-top pinnacle of Dexter's creativity, but I've been groovin' to it a lot lately.

I think it might have to be the Bix for me...

Jimmy Dorsey is one of my favorite altoists in the history of jazz. (One of my dozen favorites anyway.) An amazing player.

Wonderful choice! It isn't often that one of my favorite albums is chosen for AOTW. I've long thought of this as sort of a partial extra Tina Brooks album thanks to his playing and TWO compositions that kick off the album. One of Hubbards' best!

These buildings will always remind me of The Bob Newhart Show.

Yeah, right.

Only 172 thousand tracks? Is that ALL?????

We certainly seem to be giving away the lead in stem cell research.

I already had the JSP Bix/Tram box remastered by John R.T. Davies so I stalled on buying it until last August's sale. I'm so happy that I bought it! I return to it often. While there are other strategies for buying Bix (namely the Bix Restored series, which I do not own - yet ), I'm also a fan of Teagarden, so I greatly enjoy his inclusion. Maybe I'm more used to the music of this period now, but honestly there aren't many vocals that annoy me on this set. Highly recommended. Frankly, I dig Teagarden's vocals.

Such a shock. I didn't know he was ill. My sympathies go out to his family and friends. Sad, sad news.

Go. Be on the safe side.

I've been hearing about this on the radio for more than an hour now. Terrible.

Better late than never.

I also love the black & white line drawing covers that some of them have, although I guess you should credit that to the Mode label. But kudos to V.S.O.P. for keeping the original covers and not going the "32 Jazz" route.

"Pimp"?

Medical science hasn't determined that the level of chemicals or lead is sufficient to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA has. And because of that highly dubious finding, and the litigious nature of our society, GE had to add that warning. Unbelievable. You can't imagine how relieved I am to live in Florida, where, obviously, I'm safe from any such "threat" - and you can't imagine how relieved I am not to be living in California, for other reasons. Me too.

James Naremore also has a book on acting that I found in a local library. Titled "Acting In the Cinema" it has some very good chapters on Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.

Maybe he just liked 'em.