BruceH

The Edison is solid! Been in heavy rotation at my house.

Amen to that, Bob. Actually, for sometime I've been waiting for them to RVG True Blue. Seems like an obvious choice.

I haven't seen it in stores though.

No, but I buy a lot of reissues.

Did any of you guys dig the Red Holloway/Plas Johnson album that came out a couple years ago? The name ecapes me, but it was good!

BTW: Big thumbs up for At the Half Note Cafe, v. 1 & 2 by Donald Byrd!!

I don't have Soul Sister in any form, so it makes my short list of titles that should be RVGed ASAP. (Along with Davis Cup and Here To Stay.)

I've also gotten several replies to my suggestions from Michael. Considering how busy he must be, I wouldn't blame him for never bothering with individual e-mails!

Good news. Even better if I still lived in New England. One of my friends used to work at New England Comics. I'm glad to report that he escaped and bears no lasting scars.

Hey I just noticed: If the Morgan was titled something like "Sonic Blip" or "Sonic Skip" then all the ones I'm going to buy Tuesday morning would rhyme! (Almost. The "s" at the end of Passing Ships doesn't count.) Day of the Rhyming Conns....

Boy, Rooster, you must be popular there!

Hope it wasn't an aesthetic judgement. And you've got to marvel at that alternate Columbia cover for Kind of Blue. How did that corporate back room discussion go, I wonder---- "Hey guys, let's take possibly the most famous jazz album of all time, one that STILL sells well, and arbitrarily change the cover!" "Sounds good, but why not reverse the image as well?" "Good thinking! And don't forget to get the photo from a completely different era, say, the 70's." "Right you are. Ooo, I just can't wait!!"

Huh. And I've got the darn thing filed under "Adderley." Good album though.

Boy, am I glad it's October 7th because I sure.... ...oh, shit.

Electric for me; Norelco.

I'm with Bev on this subject. For a long time I find myself switching genres periodically---I'll listen to a lot of swing for months, then go through a hardbop cycle, a lot of New Orleans, then maybe a blues jag, or a classical phase, or whatever. Lately I've been mixing up the rock and the bop. If you cycle through the styles of music (or "rotate" them) you'll rarely burn out on anything I find. Having said that, I have to admit that I listen to Kind of Blue exceedingly rarely, having burned every note into my brain long ago. Still love it though, but 'play it in my head' so to speak. BTW, I think most of Steely Dan's new album is just fine, but I did give their music an eight-year rest before Two Against Nature came out.

Man oh man, the Passing Ships cover absolutely rules!

Don't worry! I'll let you use "Fox News Sucks Donkey Dirt" gratis. Always glad to help out.

COOL! Okay, that's it, I'm moving to Brussels.

Hey! Today I just found a used copy of the Harry Edison "Swinger/Mr. Swing" for a reasonable $12.50!! Maybe they didn't know it was a double CD. Wah-hoo!!! Now I only have about 16 or 17 more to go before I have all the ones I want.

While all of his Contemporary stuff is great, I've got to vote that you check out "The Way It Was"----on four tracks he's paired with Warne Marsh and it doesn't get much better.

I pretty much stand by this. Maybe Hank Mobley on the quarter.

I only have a handful from this series: the Blakey, Sonny Criss, and Lucky Thompson among them. Seems like an excellent series though. As usual, reading this board makes me want to go out and spend more on CD's than I should.

Satanic? I've got to admit, the last Muzak version I heard of "Fool On the Hill" (also at a grocery store) was soul-suckingly terrible. But maybe it was a different arrangement than the one you're referring to.

My post-Imperial Bedroom favorites are King of America and Brutal Youth. Took me a while to warm up to both, but they repay the effort in my experiance. I saw Costello on Letterman a few days ago, but though he and Dave talked neither mentioned the fact that Lee Konitz is featured on the new album. My wife was not surprised (and I wasn't REALLY surprised) but I had to say, "Well, I would have brought it up," to which she of course gave the stock reply, Not-everyone's-a-jazz-fan. Alexander, I actually kept The Juliet Letters for about a year before finally getting rid of it. But I always thought Punch the Clock was unfairly maligned.