BruceH

Lately it seems to be mostly mid/late 50's to mid 60's hardbop. Gee, you don't think this board could have been an influence there do you? B)

deus, that bunny's never come to my house (which is probably just as well.) I plan to be hiding, and hunting, Easter eggs.

You might enjoy renting Adaptation---the first half is great!

Wait a minute, you mean Wynton Marsalis is still around?

Maybe I'm just squeamish, but this creeps me out. Yuck!!!!

Well, they're not the same old run-of-the-mill predictable Hollywood crap. That counts for a lot.

You're keeping the Mosaic you say? Heck, I'd take it off your hands for $50! ( ) I was just talking to a friend about a related, but milder, phenomenon: You don't "lose" some artists, but you don't feel a need to listen to them anymore, either. Particularly rock artists. There are some that I still respect, probably always will, but their music is so deeply engraved on my cortex that there's no need to actually PLAY their albums, and hasn't been for quite some time. The Beatles, for instance. Most Rolling Stones too; early Dylan...all stuff that I still think is GOOD, but there's no reason to play it other than so my kids will know who they were. I've been at about that point with Miles Davis as well. Davis was my entry-point into jazz, and from about 1979 to 1982 I pretty much listened to him and almost no one alse, jazzwise. Now I find him the least interesting major jazz figure, at least as for as listening goes. Mind you, I still think Kind of Blue is one of the best albums ever recorded (at whatever speed) and still put on Walkin' or something once in a while, but I haven't played him REGULARLY in many, many a moon. But I don't think of it as "losing" Davis so much as putting him on a backburner. Or, better yet, putting him on the upper shelf of my metaphorical bookcase of cultural artifacts. Ya dig?

Musically, at least, you won't regret it Wes.

Indeed. I have it too, and I'm waiting for it to become a $500 collectible.

While we're dreaming, how about Sonny with Clifford Brown, Clifford Jordan, Paul Desmond, Pepper Adams, Shadow Wilson, and Ray Brown? .....mmmmm...

Yeah, except that Miles would kick Mobley out of the studio!

Man, you folks have pretty well covered the bases. But how about: Stan Getz/Cal Tjader Art Pepper/Warne Marsh and of course-- Morgan/Shorter and did anyone mention Beiderbecke/Trumbauer? How about- Goodman/Wilson

The Whole Wide World--Wreckless Eric

That reminds me: Gotta Gettaway--Stiff Little Fingers

Found a used copy of something I've been wanting for quite awhile: It's MISTER Fathead, the 32 jazz compilation of Davie "Fathead" Newman's first four albums on 2 CD's. The first two in particular are really nice; first album has Ray Charles himself on piano, the second features Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Charlie Persip. Not bad! How I wish 32jazz were still in business, bad covers and all (and this one actually has a good cover!)

Anarchy In the UK--Sex Pistols Blitzkrieg Bop--Ramones I'm So Bored With the U.S.A--the Clash I See No Evil--Television Boredom--the Buzzcocks Non-Alignment Pact--Pere Ubu Roadrunner--The Modern Lovers Flashlight--Parliament Blank Generation--Richard Hell & the Voidoids Teenage Kicks--the Undertones ....they all sound like anthems to me. B)

As usual, you hit it right on the button, at least for me.

I love it when a switch gets flipped in my brain. Seriously. All of a sudden you "get" an artist----it's a great feeling. Just happened to someone on this board with respect to Sonny Clark; I envy him. (It can be tough on the wallet though.)

And the thing is, I've noticed how young kids are just so "into" jazz these days...as well as collecting expensive Japanese CD's. My kids talk about that shit for HOURS... (not)

Yeah, welcome! It's all about the jazz.

Jim, hang in there man! And every once in a while, you've got to tell the important work that needs to be done to go fuck itself, kick back, and relax.

Eddie Higgins told me a wonderful story about Mancini and Mandel in our interview, but you'll have to wait til Cadence publishes it to hear it! Damn!

Just picked up the box. The show is just as good as I remember, which is saying a lot.

That "Bob Edwards" guy has put a whole new spin on the term.

YES to that!!!! Also, "Five of One" by Charlie Rouse "A Shade of Brown" from the album Katanga "Too Much Sake"--Horace Silver "Melody For C"--Sonny Clark "Nomad"--Brubeck/Desmond "Mighty Moe and Joe"--Mobley "'Smake It"--Walter Davis, Jr.