BruceH

Ooo! I've been waiting for them to RVG Royal Flush. Nice! I've already got most of these, but may buy a lot just on general principals. If they can manage not to screw up the covers, that is.

Try Brookline, MA. I always dug the mindset there. (Then again, I'm one of those people who also love the New England winters.)

But without, I'd assume, those annoying clicks. (The main reason I eventually got all of the RVG's of this material.)

I remember the Costello appearence. Would like to get these, just as a blast from (my) past.

Good ol' Edgar Pangborn! I trust you've read "Davy"?

Wait a minute...I do have that after all! (Dug around and found it last night.) Have to say that I like Hi Voltage more. But I'm glad I have Breakthrough. I just wish Hank's health had been better at that point.

I'm with Sangrey. Read this book. It's excellent. Same here. A book to read and reread.

I like Mel Powell a lot, just for the stuff he did with Goodman.

"Hinky Dinky"---what a name for a supermarket. (And here all this time I thought "Piggly Wiggly" was the funniest.)

Too bad about the Clifford Brown box. I'd have hoped they might have kept it in print longer as a sort of prestige item. Thank God I've got all of it in other forms. (And I'm glad I already got the Solal.)

Like Kalo, I don't have enough Buck Clayton.

I think so, but I seem to see it around anyway. I don't.

Damn, I don't believe I have that one.

None to offer, I'm afraid. It just hits that spot in me. Although, I guess I could say that to me, it's the perfect "transition" album between the mid-period Mobley & the late. You got that compressed sense of about-to-burst energy pared down to the essence, but with just enough of the earlier lyricism to distinguish it from the later, stubborn paring down to a relatively few phrases in the vocabulary (I exxagerate, but only to make the point). Very tense (in a good way), taut playing from Hank, and totally gripping where and what I like to be gripped. It's also one of Billy Higgins' most interactive performances of a career that was all about interactivity. And Lee & Hank were, afaic, his truest "soulmates" in the BN stable, so you're talking high level stacked upon high level. Not coincidentally, I think it's also one of his best recorded BN dates. But then again, I've been unknowingly listening to it in mono for almost 30 years, so what do I know? Bottom line though - it just hits that spot. Nothing else like it for this style of BN jazz, except for "Our Man Higgins" from Cornbread. That shit just hits me where I live. Interesting. I'm going to be playing Dippin' some more real soon. What's your favorite "late" Mobley album? Mine is High Voltage.

I recently had the pleasure of seeing Hutcherson perform live, and I have to say, that man rules. If I could vote over again, I'd change my vote to good old "Booby."

How is that new Clinton album?

A used copy of The Magnificent Thad Jones, an old Connoiseur. Not a world-shaking album, but a nice one, and I've been looking for it for awhile.

The Forty-Year Old Virgin didn't even get NOMINATED???????

Because you're an idiot?

I actually didn't much care for this. By trying to make the material more accessible he took a lot of the meat out of it, I thought. And the new illustration were strangely annoying. But hey, maybe it's just me...

I'm waiting for "White. Asian."

One of the best albums of all time. (Same goes for Satch Plays Fats.)

Actually, in some ways the American version of Rubber Soul works better than the authentic, British version. Don't get me wrong, the executives at Capitol were cretins to do such a thing, but the American version does have a more consistant sound (plus the fact that I heard it first.) The "Hey Jude" album----yes, it was a quickie corporate patchwork album (a "Frankenalbum" you might say), but it's damn good listening. Gives a nice brief overview of most of their career, and it's got "Rain" which blew my mind in high school even more than "I'm Only Sleeping" from Yesterday and Today.

I like him too.

Lucky!!