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  1. 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!
  2. My personal Alternate Album of the Week: Brubeck---Jazz Impressions of Eurasia
  3. Ellington---1941, Smithsonian.
  4. Same with me, really. Though I have both the American and British versions on vinyl.
  5. 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.)
  6. According to the DVD Savant website this version looks much better than the earlier, 1997, version that you mention.
  7. And that's a bad thing?? (I agree, however, that Tina Brooks is great on this.)
  8. Been listening to a lot of Horace Silver lately.
  9. 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.
  10. Strangers On A Train has commentary by M. Night Shamalyan?? What's up with that?
  11. 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.
  12. I think most quotes just sail on by me.
  13. I really liked Dangerfield. Didn't respect him, but I liked him.
  14. Hey, the Hackett rules!
  15. I just got two of them at Amoeba for $2.99 each. Not bad!
  16. Pee Wee Russell---Time/Life Giants of Jazz.
  17. How about "Two Times Two Minus One"?
  18. Another listen makes me agree with bertrand that the sextet material is particularly good.
  19. What's that in her nose?
  20. 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.
  21. BruceH

    Prez is here!

    I was under the impression that NTSC was playable on US machines (Region 1).
  22. 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.
  23. BruceH

    Cecil McBee

    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.
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