BruceH

I just listened to this again, and disc 2 strikes me as very good. No, it's not Earth-shaking music, and perhaps won't grab most people as quickly as Turrentine's other early BN albums, but it's certainly worth having.

AB, I'll bet Texas is looking better than ever right now!

Actually, my favorite Tina Brooks is True Blue, but I agree---you should not hesitate to snag Back to the Tracks and Waiting Game. If you're anything like me, the longer you have'em, the more you'll like'em. Brooks just reveals more depths and riches with the passage of time. Absolutely essential.

The Buzzcocks, the Ramones...why not Eric Dolphy? Though that IS a bit 'out there.' In the end, there's nothing they can't trivialize in this way. Too bad Dolphy isn't still around to at least benefit from the royalties.

Great choice, Jacman!! But I thought Mervyn Le Roy directed The Wizard of Oz... The Crowd, man, The Crowd! Great film.

And of course, there's always Benny Carter, "The King."

Not a great moment for our democracy. At leat you've got an actual keepsake that you can point to and say, "This is an example of when our military lied to me, personally."

Yeah, I gave the Beatles a nice long rest of about 10 years. Now I'll play some albums or tapes for a day or two on occasion, mainly so my kids know who they were. Right now I seem to be giving Bird a rest. I used to listen to some Dial or Savoy sides at least every few months, but for the last year or two I've had the feeling that it's all imprinted so deep on my brain, why bother putting it on?

Yuck!! No, double-yuck!!! What were they thinking? I'm with PD---the departmental head who signed off on it should be drop-kicked to Mars.

Did you ever have those little candies called "Smarties"? Red Bull tastes like liquid Smarties. It's also absurdly expensive. Stick to Coca-Cola or coffee.

Finally caught this last night. One of the Cohen brother's better efforts. Too bad it's not doing well in the box office. But then, The Big Lebowski didn't do well either and now it's some kind of modern cult flick.

Wasn't part of the problem that some sort of invading bark beetles had killed millions of trees? Added to dry conditions and Santa Ana winds, this is a major disaster. I can't remember hearing about a worse fire outbreak in California, ever. My very, very best wishes to anyone and everyone who lives in Southern California.

What everyone else said. Get this and you won't be sorry! With the Clark/Green Mosaic out of print, this is the way to go. One of the best double-CD sets out there. Great, great music. (Of course, I'm a huge Sonny Clark fan, but still....) B)

This is how much of a Chaloff fanatic I am: I already had Boston Blow Up on vinyl, but I STILL got the Mosaic. Sahib Shihab --YES!

That sounds great to me! If that's geekiness, then shake hands with Mr. Geek.

Yes, indeedy! And why can't the World Series go back to best-of-nine? I don't see anything wrong with that.

I've always seen it as sort of a cult or pyramid sceme too. Some of my wife's relatives are into it (or used to be), but naturally, when I met them I kept my opinions of Amway to myself. My sife shares these opinions, but tends to look on the relatives who do it as sort of a harmess eccentricity. BUT... Before we were married, a former roommate of my wife's started to get sucked into the Amway treadmill, and he invited us to a small meeting to be held in his living room. My wife thought we should go just to be nice, but I felt reeeally uncomfortable about it. Finally, I went against my better judgement. Things went OK for a while, then all of a sudden I felt like all the oxygen was being sucked out of the room and I had to get out of there. I made some lame excuse and beat it. I thought my (future) wife would be mad, but she told me later that she was surprised I lasted THAT long. Amway....

It's very good. If you like Konitz at all, you should pick it up. Go for it!

Wow, the bop originators getting no respect. Who'da thunk it? My single most important jazz era is 1920-1965.

C'mon, out with it!! What goes on here?

You hit the nail on the head----Rubber Soul is the only American Capitol re-working of a Beatles album that works aeshtheticly. I used to have a tape I made of the British version with "I've Just Seen A Face" and "It's Only Love" added to sides one and two, sort of a mondo-Rubber Soul. (How's that for geekiness?) Taking those three Lennon songs off Revolver was just WRONG! Like lopping off a hand and a foot. "And Your Bird Can Sing" has one of my favorite Harrison guitar solos, and a killer bass-line to boot. Now, imagine if the Beatles had thrown the "Paperback Writer/Rain" single on there, done at the Revolver sessions after all, to make for a 16-song album? Youw! Without a doubt, certain singles should be listened to in tandem with certain albums. A thoughtful reissue program would put these singles at the end of the appropriate albums (there's certainly enough room on a CD).

I'm also a big Pepper Adams fan, but has anybody mentioned Serge Chaloff? He did some GREAT stuff! Also, there's some nice bari work on Soul Mates, Charlie Rouse's last album I believe, played by Sahib Shihab in burning fashion. I agree, too, that Cecil Payne deserves more attention.

A Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul, and Revolver, if a lot of time and care were put into it. One thing an acquaintance of mine said that stuck with me, apropos Beatle imports, the Japanese know how to press them but not how to master them. (He was talking about LPs of course.) I'd also be curious as to what Rudy (or someone like him) would do with The Beatles (the "White Album") and an early one, like With the Beatles. Then there's the whole issue of singles....

Let that be a lesson: Don't ever let yourself be cast as a high schooler in a TV sitcom.

For me it's Such Sweet Thunder tied with The Far East Suite. Sorry if that's cheating... It's so hard to choose.