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One of the great jazz singers of all time. There'll always be the music. Here's to you, Anita! R.I.P.

I heard this at the Amoeba store the other day. It was better than I expected, I must say. Had some intriguing moments...

"Someday, he knew he would return to her..." Yeah RIGHT.

No Bernard Herrmann? Actually, aside from Joseph Smith, the the list was predictable and boring as hell.

A long life and a helluva a career. Here's to you, Robert. R.I.P.

No, AFAIK Howard Hawks was the first director to make extensive use of the technique..... True that, Free for All has clearly never seen His Girl Friday! I haven't yet seen it, but I soon will. One of the best movies of all time!

Looking for 50% off at Tower.

Yes!

I loves me some Bix.

Yes, one of the Big Four on baritone sax, and also one of those brilliant Boston jazz musicians.

I can NEVER remember the name of a tune!! (Well, almost never.) I'm just bad with names. The fact that you can recognize that it's a Bird tune, or a Monk or Ellington or whatever, is pretty good in itself.

Do it!! Do it!! Later you may look back and wish you had.

Those would be my three choices for the pinnacle, Clem. Ellington and Monk as musical architects first and (amazing) soloists second, Parker the reverse. But there's no doubting that as a soloist, Bird burned the brightest of anyone. In fact, though I own a lot of Bird on disc, I don't listen to him as much or for as long as I should because he's so brilliant that really listening to him can be like staring into the sun. Time to pull out the discs and go burn those aural retinas again... I'd perhaps add Armstrong as another pinnacle, but yeah, Bird has burned a lot of holes in my cerebral cortex...which explains a lot....

But of course. Who would dispute this??

Thanksgiving: Turkey, taters, repeat; turkey, taters, repeat...

I first started listening to Bird in 1984. Then I started collecting all the Dial sessions on those import Spotlight LP's. Then of course I had to get the Savoy stuff, then the Verve, various live sessions... Well, what can I say? As with all the true giants of jazz, as with Armstrong, Ellington, Prez, and so on, there's always something more to appreciate, some aspect you've overlooked, some new layer you didn't notice before.

Dizzy Reece Select (I sense a trend here.)

i don't know alto madness but another broadly related session which I like a lot is Paul Quinichette's "On the sunny side" which (besides Quinichette) has Jenkins in contrast to Sonny Red (so overall it's Pres Bird Bird...) (plus Curtis Fuller and a rhythm section of Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins and Ed Thipgen) That's a nice album.

One of my favorite Ellington albums of all time. Got to admit, I prefer the sound and playing order of the vinyl, but still glad I got the recent CD.

But what of the Minutemen?

Ain't it the truth.

Yeah, same here. I saw the Dizzy Reece Select, but when I went back it was gone.

Nice one!

Larry, you've given me good reason to dig this out and give it a close listening or two; thanks! But I'm bummed that my CD is missing a track. I had no idea. Oh well....

Born in 1908, Williamson published his first SF story in 1928 and continued to write novels all his life, the last one appearing in 2005. Here's to you, Jack.