BruceH

Are you serious

Ellington--The Great Paris Concert

...And for me, he succeeded beautifully! Way to go, Bob!

No Tina Brooks?

I voted for DeFranco. But all-time favorite? Probably a tie between Shaw and Pee Wee Russell. Both very rewarding in quite different ways.

I'm very much looking forward to this! Thanks for the notice, and congrats!

This makes me feel pretty good that I got this album for only $10! B-)

Both of them are great, just terrific. I guarentee you'll get a lot of pleasure from them.

The Witches of Karres, by James H. Schmitz.

In reference to O'Reilly, as the immortal Bugs Bunny used to say: "What a maroon!"

I agree.

Reminds me of "Odessey and Oracle" by the Zombies.

I think you've got a good point there, Moose. That's why I think you're most likely to get into jazz when you're still at that stage of life when you spend some time really sitting (or laying) down and listening closely to music; say roughly ages 15-25. After that, most people no longer have the time or inclination for that kind of close listening. BTW, I noticed there was no room on the "gateways to jazz" list for people like Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderly, Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, and so on. Helluva gateway!

My personal Alternate Album of the Week: Brubeck---Jazz Impressions of Eurasia

Ellington---1941, Smithsonian.

Same with me, really. Though I have both the American and British versions on vinyl.

INDEED! I felt somewhat the same way about the ending, but I was inclined to be generous on this point. After all the characters had been through, I felt they'd "earned" a nice happy ending, sentimental as it may be. (You're also very right about the depiction of prison life of course. Almost all the men in Shawshank are depicted as basically decent guys. But this just seemed like a throwback to an earlier type of Hollywood movie, and probably an older tradition of prison stories in print as well. You know, the prison's a metaphor, blah, blah, blah... Maybe the rape was thrown in to make it seem more realistic.)

According to the DVD Savant website this version looks much better than the earlier, 1997, version that you mention.

And that's a bad thing?? (I agree, however, that Tina Brooks is great on this.)

Been listening to a lot of Horace Silver lately.

Good movie ---in fact, has to be one of the best prison movies of all time. You know, it's been re-released on the big screen (in a limited way) as publicity for the new DVD. You should try to see it in the theater if you can. I saw it when it got a short rerelease because of all the Oscar noms. It's the kind of film that just enfolds you; the big screen helps. BTW, Gump and Pulp Fiction came out in 1994, but Shawshank DID get lost, no doubt about it. It found it's audience in the years since, on cable, VHS, and DVD. That's how it is, these days; audiences aren't given time to discover a film on the big screen, no 'sleeper hits' anymore, they have to discover a film in the aftermarket.

Strangers On A Train has commentary by M. Night Shamalyan?? What's up with that?

In N Out is the one we go to most often. I'll have to try Chipotle's, if I can find one. We used to love a fast-slice pizza place called "Pizza A-Go-Go" but it closed a couple of years ago.

I think most quotes just sail on by me.

Me neither!