BruceH

Wow. Time marches on. I still thought of Reich as being in his late 40's. Which didn't make any sense, but, y'know...

Has anyone felt him out on the subject of Ellinton?

Maybe he meant "insurers"...that they played like insurance salesmen. (Not that that makes any sense, but at least it's not antisemitic.)

Personally, Zorn's music makes ME want to put on a top hat and walking stick and trip the light fantastic also!

There are three Borders near here, and I don't think any of them stocked all of the RVGs, though one stocked a few and another stocked a few. The Borders around here has definitely been slimming down the jazz selection, although one of the three seems to have become a dumping ground for discs ordered long ago that were never sold, which is nice because when I browse through there I sometimes find interesting stuff. Where do you mean by "around here"? The Borders around the SF Bay Area have certainly been cutting down their jazz sections, but they were never that great to begin with.

Excellent idea. Even with the Mobley Mosaic in my collection, I'd probably buy such a disc if the packaging seemed nice enough. (Examples of good packaging? The entire West Coast Classics series, The Transition Sessions double-CD, etc.)

I picked up Royal Flush, Another Workout, The Cooker, and Here To Stay, so far. I already had the first two, but must say that the focusing effect of having Royal Flush as a separate album has made me really appreciate it all the more. Listening to it on the Mosaic, it just sort of gets blended in with all the other Pepper/Adams sessions. So much more of a "one-two-punch" as an album. (Of course, I always liked that cover.) The other favorite is Here To Stay. I long considered Open Sesame and Ready For Freddie to be my first and second favorite Hubbard Blue Notes, with Here To Stay a strong third. Now, I don't know---listening to it recently has moved it up a notch or two. Another very strong session that somehow didn't get released at the time.

WTF???

That's the first thing I thought upon reading this; a little town gets named #1 by a national magazine, retirees flood in, the place gets crowded overnight, prices go through the roof. Thanks a lot, MONEY. Oh well, I guess you've got to expect it...if there's a conspiracy to drive low-income people out of the nicest small towns in America.

I'd love to see this. Cartier-Bresson is one of my favorite photographers.

My mother went on a vacation trip to Holland, MI a few years ago. The pictures were very nice indeed.

If she really had a brain, she never would have gotten together with Brown in the first place.

"Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" When I read the Hornblower series some years ago, I skipped the first couple of books. Now I'm rectifying that.

I KNEW it!!! I always suspected spinach was bad for you.

I'll probably get Here To Stay and Happenings this weekend. (Can't believe it's September already.)

"I believe I just got the goodbye look..."

The 13-part "Vietnam: A Television History" is also very good.

This sounds good. Herrmann is probably my favorite film composer; certainly in the top 2 or 3.

Blue Note & Riverside

Right on.

Anybody mention the Soul Mates album by Charlie Rouse? I think it's still in print. One of my favorite albums of all time, but nobody seems to mention it much.

Remember seeing that on TV the first time they broadcast it in UK around 1985-ish (although I'd seen it at a private viewing years earlier). Banned for many years for fear that it would provoke mass panic. The same film-maker also did a TV docu-drama version of 'Culloden' which was broadcast at time it was made and was similarly controversial over here for its sense of realism. Re-broadcasted recently by the BBC. Always remember that scene in 'The War Game' where the police are shooting the looters lined up against a wall and the mass burials using quick-lime are being carried out. Too close to the truth if you ask me.. Apparently much of the detail was drawn from real experience from the Hamburg firestorms of WW2. Ah, so they only refused to show it for roughly 20 years. I saw it in either '76 or '77... Two scenes that stayed with me through the decades are when the firestorm rages, and the shots of traumatized children at the end, shaking and staring vacantly. The shooting of looters and mass-burials I must have suppressed, although when I recently viewed a tape of it, the whole thing was VERY familiar. Both The War Game and Culloden are being brought out on a single DVD soon. (It was Glenn Erickson's review of same on DVD Savant that made me search it out recently.) I'm looking forward (if that's the term) to getting it.

That one is great!!! I checked it out of the library so many times, I finally had to buy the damn thing.

Bob & David ...oh wait, that's comedy, not jazz.

When it comes to parallel parking, men might have an advantage, otherwise, I don't see it.