BruceH

I really liked Dangerfield. Didn't respect him, but I liked him.

Hey, the Hackett rules!

I just got two of them at Amoeba for $2.99 each. Not bad!

Pee Wee Russell---Time/Life Giants of Jazz.

How about "Two Times Two Minus One"?

Another listen makes me agree with bertrand that the sextet material is particularly good.

What's that in her nose?

NPR replayed a 1995 interview with her, and sure enough, most of it was about the shower scene in Psycho. Like most charming actresses, she was wasted by Hollywood. RIP.

I was under the impression that NTSC was playable on US machines (Region 1).

It seems to me that you don't necessarily have to be "innovative" to be "influential." To be inluential you just have to be lucky enough (or good enough) to have lots of people immitate (be inluenced by) your style. Also, you don't have to be innovative to be great. I think jazz fans and critics put entirely too much emphasis on "innovation." There are plenty of ingenious "synthesizers" out there whom jazz would be much, much poorer without. I would nominate Hank Mobley as another talented synthesizer. BTW... I loves me some Henderson.

Nice to see a jazz-related article on the cover of the Journal. I really feel for the guy; they shouldn't have used his name without permission.

Good question.

Why?

'Dance With Death' is one of the best Hill albums from his BN days. One of his very organised and also readily accessible session. Tolliver and Farrell shine thoughout but the musician I love on that album is Billy Higgins who gives a unique impetus to the date. Dance with Death is indeed one of Hill's better Blue Note albums. I agree with Brownie's assessment. Gotta get it.

When I listened to this yesterday "Appointment In Ghana" stood out for me this time... Don't know why. Leeway's comments about albums that are put-togethers from two divergent sessions are well taken. But somehow this album works pretty well for me, and Vertigo is also one of my favorite Jackie McLean albums, despite being cobbled from two sessions that were something like a year or more apart. I guess I approach them as being almost like 10" Connoisseur reissues---two on one disc, so good value if you like both.

Brown, Roach would be kind of nice to see live, if I had a "Way back" machine. With Land OR Rollins.

Affinity was a subsidiary of the British "Charly" label----that's all I know. Maybe they discontinued it. Whoops! Michael beat me to it.

Wow thats weird because I got half a Donald Byrd with mine! True, true.... All depends how you look at it! B-) Byrd's playing is very nice on this, as I recall, particularly "Quadrangle."

You didn't ever catch repeats of the show? I was born during, I believe, the third season, and can remember watching repeats of it back in '66, '67, '68, and so on. The thing is that it seems a lot funnier as an adult because you get all the jokes, but kids still love it. (In that sense, it was sort of The Simpsons of its time.)

Amen to that!

A favorite of mine---used to have it on vinyl. The RVG edition is like having half a Sonny Clark album and half a Tina Brooks album. Will listen again tonight!

The connecting and beginning ones for each episode; for instance, the music playing when Rocky jumps off the high-dive board and flies around in the air while Bullwinkle lugs the water tub all over the place.

Yes. we picked ours up at Target today. I don't know about anywhere else, but here in Arlington, Target is selling it for $24.99. When you consider this is a 4-DVD set, with each DVD having stuff on both sides thereby making this the equivalent of an 8-DVD set, this is a steal!!! And yes, it is still just as funny!!! I took your advice and bought this in Target. Good price! Did they change the music cues though? Sure seems like it.

Very much so. I was taken to see it as a kid and a lot of it creeped me out. And the boat ride sequence was kind of scary. (Part of it was that Roald Dahl, the writer of the book, had a pretty wide nasty streak.) As for The Wizard of Oz, when you're little (like 3-5) lots of things in it scare you: The talking trees, the flying monkeys, the wicked witch of course. Still, it was great watching it once a year on TV.

This STILL doesn't have all the gems, but it sure looks good! I can't wait either!! (And it's got "The Three Little Bops"---thank-you Warner Brothers!)