BruceH

Planet? Interesting concept, that jazz luminaries should have a planet named after them. I'll think that over here on Konitz IV. (Just over from Mobley Prime.)

You did good!!! I have the O'Day box and I would be very surprised if you aren't blown away by it (pleased as punch at the very least). A pile of good-to-great stuff by a major artist. Go forth, my son, and feel not guilty; thou hast NOT sinned!

What seems amazing to me about JSP is how they used to do "authentic" high-quality sets (the Django, etc.) and then all of a sudden started flooding the market with quickie rip-offs. Quite a change, and sad.

This is the mark of a really good radio show! I don't listen to This American Life all the time, but occassionally it will strike me like that (usually the more depressing stories). As the show has gained notoriety, more people have praised Glass's anti-announcer voice, that nerdy, affectless monotone of his. I don't know... There are times when I could use a more "normal" voice, a Ray Suarez type voice for a change.

I just got the last one on the list, Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joy, used for $5. Pretty good compilation; plenty of music on it.

Words to live by.

REALLY?? I'd be interested in that.

Chuck, the Sedaris story you mention is a big deal to my kids. It's in one of his books (Me Talk Pretty One Day, I believe) so I read it out loud to the family, and the kids said I'd better not act like THAT Dad. So one day I'm driving and I hear Sedaris reading that story on the radio. Then I said to the kids, who were also in the car at the time, "Hey, YOU guys should really play some instruments and start a band--" They screamed and yelled. Then I got a book-on-tape version of Me Talk Pretty out of the library. Great for driving, because the whole thing is read by Sedaris himself. Played parts of it over and over. The upshot of it is that I only have to say something like, "You know, you guys should learn a jazz instrument; it would be great, you could really swing..." to get my boys to scream in mock horror. Ah, the innocent joys of parenthood. Funny as the story is, I really feel for the father. He discovered jazz all on his own and had a real passion for it. But it sounded like nobody else in his life gave a crap about it.

KNOW about her?? I love her work! I've just got four of the songbooks, but they are soooooo good. Originally had them on vinyl, more recently picked them up on CD. Maybe not the most technically impressive singer of all time, but there is something very winning about her style. (BTW, one of her performances, "Looking At You," was used in the movie LA Confidential.)

I agree that it doesn't really matter; but I'd just as soon keep it... I keep wondering what new names they're going to come up with for the highest posters. Hyperfunkateer? Posterplex?

Best of luck in your new home!

Will this get into stores at all?

What do you think of Curtis Fuller?

Impossible to choose...so I voted "Cookin'" more or less at random. (The fact that it was the first that I bought way back when has nothing to do with it!)

What a bummer! My sympathies, Moose.

Ah, up to 109 Ellington discs and counting!

Getz, Getz, and more Getz.

Just started The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Don't know if I'll finish it, but SO far it's not hard to understand.

Gil who?

Love Bechet. Great "bite" to his sound.

Now reading: "Jersey Diners" by Peter Genovese. Yum.

Flute, harp, electric piano. There are always exceptions, of course, but in general I'm not a big fan of these in a jazz context.

The Way It Was!--Art Pepper, Contemporary Probably because I still don't have it on CD.

Louis Smith--Smithville C'MON!!

You're not the only one! Yeah, I like this a lot. Something about the sound still sounds a bit funny to me, but I'll take people's word that it's a whole lot better than the original LP. (Actually, a lot of albums from the seventies have something wrong with the sound, to me anyway.) When I bought the CD a few days ago I didn't even know the thing was produced by Becker and Fagan until I got it home and looked at the liners. What a dream come true, getting to produce a session by a couple of your jazz heroes. So far I like the music, but I've got to listen to it a lot more closely. Some new liners putting the album into historical perspective and talking about the bonus cuts would have been nice. Oh, well.