BruceH

Since the Parker/Benedetti box is not limited edition, I'll think about getting it after I've got all the limited edition Mosaics that I want. (Which may be never!)

Yeah, I had one of those for a few years. Ugly damn thing; don't miss it.

Wait, so at the beach on a sunny day, if you close your normal eye you see purple mixed in? (Personally, I'd prefer heat vision.)

Looks like an 8 to me.

"Are we gonna go to Hell? ...I don't wanna go to Hell." --Bill Havechuck

Hot yesterday, hot today. HOT!! (I need a sweating, sweltering smiley.) Perhaps I shouldn't complain----no floods at least.

1. Atlantic New Orleans Jazz 2. Tristano/Konitz/Marsh 3. Morgan/Shorter Vee Jay 4. Chambers/Kelly Vee Jay You be groovin' Wes. I also dig'em all, but #'s 2 and 3 are particular favorites.

Woah! Really? I'd always heard That Benedetti only turned his recorder on for Bird's solos.

I wonder if this is true for any jazz CDs? You get the lowest-priced CD for free? If my local Border's store had let me know this, they'd have been able to sell more CDs, for sure. Getting further off topic, I know... but has everyone's local Borders' jazz stock gotten anemic, or is it just mine? There's 3 here and they used to have the deepest jazz selection in town. Now every shelf is half empty. Sad. None of the Border's I've been to has ever had a decent jazz section. Some worse than others, but all of them pretty lame.

Don't feel too darned bad about yourself. I've purchased 4 Mosaic sets in the last couple of months due to this board. Of course, all the sets are so good that I'd have been ticked if I'd missed any of them. Which four?

Yeah, so supposedly this set will remain available as long as Mosaic exists asa functioning company. Somehow I don't consider it a 'real' set though. I mean, c'mon, live recordings of solos only??? Please.

Well, yeah. Cooking as this album is, on the whole it strikes me as something to get AFTER you've collected all the studio albums by this quintet. The studio stuff is the gold standard. Good thing to have though.

Two or three days ago, picked up Cannonball Adderly Quintet Plus---thanks to the Album of the Week thread. See there for reaction. Hint:

Hot. It is hot here. Hit the 90's today. For here, that's HOT!! Uncle!

"Who's your Dad? Hitler?"---Ken Miller

I've seriously thought about getting the Koch reissue of Introduceing Wayne Shorter just for that damnfine cover.

Polypeptide...?

Yes!!! I voted for Dazed and Confused, but Freaks and Geeks nailed it even better, for me. Each of the episodes is like a small movie, too. The main difference between my high school experiance and the one in Dazed and Confused (which edged out Fast Times by a nose) was that in my school we didn't have that bizarre tradition of the upper classmen hazing the freshmen like that. This must have been an East Texas thing. (There was bullying and harrassment, but it was a lot less organized.)

Hey, I'll bet they get paid vacations. (Not that I'm complaing, mind you.)

Quincy, that map rules! Interesting that there's a big blob of "soda" around St. Louis. In the show Freaks and Geeks they always say "pop" and, sure enough, according to the map Michigan is almost pure "pop." Thank God I grew up in New England, which gave me the propler grounding in "soda."

I thought Sarsaparilla was just the mid-western name for root beer? I've tried Birch Beer and Ginger Beer and didn't care for them. Dan, Altoids deserve a thread all their own. They're that good.

Many congratulations! Sounds like a tough delivery, glad everyone's all right. You've got a lot ahead of you, and it sounds like you're up for it! Hurray!!

I remember going to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Iowa as a kid, my Uncle would say "pop" instead of "soda." So we would get into this groove: "It's soda." "No, it's "pop." "Soda!" "Pop." "Soda!" "Pop." Ahh, good times, good times....

YES! Take off "Yellow Submarine" and put in "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" (from the same sessions after all) and you've got one of the best albums of all time! "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is one of the weakest in my book. A song that you've really got to pull the wool over your eyes to like. The other least favorite/worst are the usual suspects: "Let It Be," "The Long and Winding Road," "Hello Goodbye" etcetera. "Mr. Moonlight" they didn't write so I'm not counting it. Besides, I always felt they did it as a goof and taken it as such. BTW, Bev's comments above seem very on-target to me.

Finally found a copy of this, and I've been enjoying it mightily. I can't add much to what's already been said in this thread except to agree with it. The sound is very good, Victor Feldman (the "Plus" of the title) is great on piano and vibes, and it's just a fantastic record. Cannonball continues to amaze me. I used to think of him as someone from whom one or two or three representative albums would suffice. But over the last year or two I've bought over 15 albums of his and they all rank from solid to great. You'd think that someone who recorded so much would, understandably, have a lot of mediocre commercial efforts in there, but the ratio of wheat to chaff seems astonishingly high. Thanks, jodigrind, for choosing this as AOTW!