BruceH

just make sure you mentally add the Herbie Nichols and Dameron/Navarro sets to my 10 - otherwise you might be unaware of an important part of my personality I must say, that's a really cool part of your personality.

Buster Keaton.

The works of P.G. Wodehouse.

I don't have this yet. Though that doesn't always stop me from chiming in, it's a good reason not to.

How could I forget this: Pepper Adams Quintet---a Mode/VSOP reissue, with Stu Williamson, trumpet; Carl Perkins, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, b; Mel Lewis,d. A real gem. One of my "desert island" jazz albums.

No Herbie Nichols? What was I thinking?

Tina Brooks---True Blue Walter Davis, Jr.---Davis Cup Hank Mobley---Workout Horace Silver---Finger Poppin' Joe Henderson---Mode For Joe Duke Jordan---Flight To Jordan Grant Green---Idle Moments Sonny Clark---Cool Struttin' Bobby Hutcherson---Kicker Andrew Hill---Judgement! Jeeze, ten selections sure ain't much. No Destination Out, no Royal Flush, no Go! or Ready For Freddie or Etcetera or Black Fire or Solid or Minor Move or Midnight Blue or Stylings of Silver or Roll Call or J.R. Monterose or Monk or Blakey... This is sick.

The main reason I bought Dakar was for Adams. (I understand some like it for Coltrane. To each his own.)

What he said. That too. I love Pepper.

He was "the un-crowned king"!! I recently (finally) got a copy of Trompeta Toccata, which caused me to dig Kenny all the more.

Finally got The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Transcription Sessions.

Well, Swing Affair is a little boring in comparison to Go, that I'll grant you, but then, Go is one of my favorite albums of all time so I can't get on board for that.

Yes, I agree.

Yeah, how about those Tina Brooks albums (all but True Blue, I believe.) Now someone is going to chime in that Brooks is overrated. Well, if you say that he's the best tenorist of all time, then yes, that's going a bit too far... Otherwise, no, he ain't overrated.

The Carmell Jones and the Benny Green are my most oft-played Selects.

Thanks for the recommendation Larry.

The June Christy/Peggy Lee: Been OD-ing on all of it.

Ouch!

Also, my wife pointed out that it's the only Bond film she knows of that has a flashback. (Bond/Craig flashing on his first kill as he's about to notch up his second.) She may be right.

I saw it last Saturday and was pleasantly surprised. Despite the good reviews I came to it with rather low expectations and so it was a LOT better than I thought it would be. Yes, it could have been tightened up (one false ending after another), and I could have done without the torture scene entirely, but I'm amazed at how adult (in the best sense) the film was. Still a Bond film, but they jettisoned a lot of the self-parodic goofiness, and gadgets, that the series became encrusted with over the years. And starting out in black&white was interesting. Ludicrously front-loaded with action sequences, and the villain seemed rather weak, but still...a startlingly decent film. But I'm not into the idea of my KIDS seeing it...that revolting torture scene...yuk. (They probably will anyway, but I'm not gonna take'em.)

Amen to that.

I like my old version fine.

Perhaps there should be a thread for "Most Revelatory Mosaic."

Yeah, include the early sets and things get complicated. Of the more recent sets, I'd have to say my personal favorites are the Mobley and the Shorter/Morgan Vee-Jay... Of all time? Maybe the Tina Brooks and the Herbie Nichols (and the Monk Blue Note.)

You could say that about almost any Mosaic set. It depends on how much of the artist's music you want at one time, ultimately. Of course there's also the remastering, repackaging and so forth to consider. Yeah, those liner notes and the photos in those huge booklets....yum.