BruceH

I must admit I finally bought this upon hearing of Jackie McLean's death. It was just about the only BN album that he played on which I still didn't have. Nothing earthshaking, but a very pleasant, enjoyable album.

Rooster, I'm sure they've been mentioned again and again, but you've got to get The Far East Suite and And His Mother Called Him Bill. Absolutely essential.

When will they offer the Val Lewton box for 50% off or more...oh right, never. Sorry to see Tower go, though.

Andrew!!!---Andrew Hill (found it used) and Trumpeta Toccata---Kenny Dorham (one helluva good album, with one of the rare-as-a-hens'-tooth appearences of Tommy Flanagan on Blue Note.)

Pee Wee Russell, the Time/Life Masters of Jazz box.

I did happen to read that fascinating article. McNair was/is one of these sociopaths who have a great talent for 'reading' people and gaining their trust, coupled with zero conscience. Quite a story.

Saw I Walked With A Zombie on TCM last Friday. Very good. Just hearing the voice of George Sanders come out of his brother Tom Conway (who looked more like Errol Flynn than anyone else) is kind of creepy.

You know, if you're talking about the earlier Blanton-Webster box, that box has been replaced by BMG with this one: with significantly improved sound and more tracks. And it's reasonably priced (e.g., several Amazon.UK Marketplace merchants have it for about 14 pounds). "with significantly improved sound..." I should hope so!

Right, thanks. That's the album with the orange cover, I should have known.

I'm really curious about that Art Taylor album (A. T.'s Delight)---anybody know who's on it?

Same here. Barnes & Noble = el sucko.

In my case I bought the RVGs some time ago thinking they were (as usual) the way to go only to discover that I missed out on half a dozen tracks that were only on the old CD editions. Some people had been complaining that the old CDs had a different track listing/order than the LPs and Cuscuna got so annoyed with them that he made the RVGs almost straight copies of the LPs, leaving off most of the extra tracks that were added to the old CDs. Tsk, tsk....thin skin indeed.

"Who are you supposed to be, the Tin Man?" "I'm Gort...the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still." "Ya look like the frickin' Tin Man."

Not fair, that's not even candy!! Anything made by Brach's is pretty bad.

You know the old saying: "Either you GET more Hackett, or you just can't...Hackett."

Yesterday: The Conn of Bobby Hutcherson's Medina----which has TWO sessions on it, and Harold Land!

Not exactly the best album cover in the world, I must admit...but damn fine music!

I'll buy it, I'll buy it....I really will!!!

When are they going to put out the Saturday-morning-cartoon version of Fantastic Voyage on DVD???????

Indeed, the group Television always struck me as very much minimalism as applied to rock 'n' roll. Also working in New York, also at the right time... Then of course, there's the Ramones. Interesting. I agree with you that the Ramones were minimalists, but in a totally idiomatic Rock and Roll way. Television, on the other hand, garnered frequent Grateful Dead comparisons at the time; I mean, they had those long long guitar solos and shit. To my ears, Talking Heads was the NY band that at the time was consciously borrowing Reich and Glass's stuff, them being art school conceptual types and all. And, of course, Reich and Glass were themselves influenced by the brutal rhythmic primitivism of rock. Point taken. Of all the NYC bands mentioned, I think Talking Heads is far and away the most likely to have been consciously influenced by modern classical minimalism. At least on the first album. (Buildings and Food has always put me more in mind of Stravinsky and Webern...but maybe that's just me.)

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but has anyone gotten the box of Undeclared? It's the show that Judd Apatow did after Freaks & Geeks and only lasted 17 episodes. I've rented them all from my local video store, but I'm thinking of buying the thing.

Yes, I remember the nut case with the shipping container (pretty revolting)---when I rewatched Cracker last year on DVD, the last disc had "White Ghost" on it. Got to hand it to Jimmy McGovern though.

Perhaps someday the powers-that-be will see fit to release Boomerang on DVD, as they were supposed to last Summer. She was very good in Pitfall, though the film had some script problems. My favorite career moment of hers: When she slapped Spock in the face. Way to go, Jane!

I keep meaning to get this set, but still haven't taken the plunge. I dipped a toe in, though, by borrowing the first case from a library, the one with Cat People and Curse of the Cat People...VERY good. Subtle, artsy in the best sense, horror films. If the rest of the box is half as good, it's well worth it. My friend Kalo swears by this box.