BruceH

I haven't picked it up (yet) but I've heard that the second disc only has a 1973 TV movie version with Richard Crenna. Hardly seems necessary.

Walter Davis, jr.-----Davis Cup Yes, I know it was previously issued as a Connoisseur, but it's long out of print. Perhaps as an RVG.

Looking forward to the Johnny Griffin (bonus tracks!) and Duke Pearson.

Several times I've heard OK Computer called "the 'Dark Side Of the Moon' for this era" or some such. This makes me not want to get it, as I've always loathed Dark Side. Never understood why it became such an icon as it's such a lousy album. Maybe it's a 'have to listen to it stoned' thing.

Still got that soulful croak.

Finally picked up Wayne Shorter's "Night Dreamer." What a great album! Don't know why it took me so long to get it; by rights I should have bought this album long ago.

The Benny Carter is excellent---I say jump in, the water's fine! Also, if you ever see the Bunny Berigan box for a good price, don't hesitate. ( )

"Go!" remains one of my favorite Blue Note albums, as well as my favorite Dex. Strangely, while I like A Swingin' Affair, and it's got the same personal and recorded only days apart, I've always felt it somehow didn't have the same magic as Go!----but I'll take this oppurtunity to play it again.

Thank God there's nothing wrong with my Royal Flush and Cooker booklets...and I'm sure I read them in the right order.

Single-malt scotch.

Yeah, you're missing the best one: Aftermath Check out the British (original) version; it's their Revolver.

The Ramones' 1983 album of all-Eno covers. Oh, wait, that wasn't in this timeline. Nevermind.

"Jazz Ultimate"

"Ceres." Minor planet, dwarf planet, planetoid, planemo.... They're all in the mix. (Though the planemos don't really have anything to do with our system.)

Nice!

I say the Periodic Table is the work of the Devil!!!! And Newton with his Three Laws of Motion----who does he think he is??????

I went cold-turkey on TV for 4 or 5 years in the 80's, didn't even own one. Then someone gave me one for Christmas and I got back into it. Started watching Law & Order and Homicide and never looked back.

Whaaaaa? What's next----are they going to axe astrophysics because of that whole 'Big Bang' universe-older-than-6,000-years thing?

I've always kind of liked the term "planetoid."

Horace Parlan, discs 3 & 4.

Piano Reflections demonstrates that too.

What, no Tina Brooks?

I agree completely. What also bugs me is when someone comes out to introduce a jazz concert and gives a fervent speech about how jazz is equal to classical music. A variation on this speech is that jazz is better than classical music. The person giving the speech always seems to shout, and to build to a mighty emotional climax when the jazz-classical music comparison is made. I always think, jazz and classical are not alike, and to compare the two head-on is foolish. I have noticed that this jazz is greater than or equal to classical music speech is often given by someone raising money, or campaigning for public office. Even in its more subtle form, I find this very embarrassing, embarrassing for jazz. It sounds like a cover for an inferiority complex. A number of Wynton Marsalis' comments on classical music and jazz really bother me in that respect. He talks as if he is on a mission to prove to the world that jazz can be as "serious" as classical music. He has even made statements to the effect that he only plays classical music for that reason, i.e. to gain more respect for jazz. The effect is just the opposite. Why put jazz on the defensive? It doesn't need to be. We have 100 years of jazz great music, much of it recorded. What else is needed? Nothing.

I don't have the Argos, so I'm all for it.