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Walt Dickerson: Relativity Benny Carter: B.B.B. & Co. Cosmopolite Blakey: Indestructible Dex: Our Man In Paris Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers; Utopia Parkway

It's "Whisper Not" for me. Could easily have been "Along Came Betty" too. "Are You Real" should be on there.

Because for every 100,000 Harry Potter fans there's one Grant Green fan. When as many people buy RVG's as Harry Potter books, believe me, they'll take notice! (Imagine, the new RVG release being covered on TV news, people camped out in front of the stores for days, lines around the block.... ****sigh****)

Happy Birthday and all the best, Lon!

I've long thought of Richman & the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" as the unofficial state song of Massachusetts. Good luck with the search, J.

I'm pretty sure I've seen it at Green Apple Books. Their used prices are on the steep side, but there is the advantage of it being right there in front of you! Give them a call when you get into town. Plus you could stop in for a bite at the Toy Boat ice cream shop at 5th Avenue and Clement. Yum!

Agreed. I've got some Charly re-issues of early Sun blues/R&B on vinyl and it is a valued part of my collection. But GoM, you say some of those sets were "seized and destroyed"???? What the HELL???

Right now I don't think there's anything. Back in the late 80's Rhino came out with a CD called "The Best of the Beserkeley Years" that looked like a good selection of highlights, but it's out of print now. Perhaps I should have bought it, because I've got all those albums on vinyl only. I recently made a tape for my son that has quite a few of them on it (as well as his favorite song, "Dr. Worm" by They Might Be Giants). Most of the Beserkeley Richman stuff (with the exception of "Pablo Picasso") seems like it would be good for kids, but you never know what they're going to like. Hopefully a new compilation will come out before your kids are in high school.

I love Pepper Adams. Putting in my order at CD Universe NOW!

This is probably the most enjoyable "black box" Mosaic set that I've gotten in the last couple of years. If you're a fan of both Shorter and Morgan, then you shouldn't hesitate. I agree with Claude that the Shorter Vee Jay albums are just as nice as his Blue Notes. All of the Shorter and Morgan Vee Jay albums that are in this Mosaic set can be purchased as inividual re-issues now from the Koch label, by the way. Original cover photos and all the trimmings. Supposed to sound fine, too. So it depends how you want them. Either way, this is music that should be in every jazz fan's collection, IMHO.

I second the recommendation of P.G. Wodehouse's novels. A good place to start is "Code of the Woosters."

Okay, the book is called "In the Groove: Vintage Record Graphics, 1940-1960" by Eric Kohler. Just the sort of thing I'd be likely to buy on a whim at Green Apple Books. Reminds you of what was lost, graphically, with the change-over to CD's.

Thanks for the link! I think there's a book of covers by artists like Flora. The name of it escapes me right now...

Mule, that Kid Ory cover ROCKS! Jazzbo, that Peggy Lee picture ought to be an album cover! Then I could buy the album---ah, strictly cuz I love her music, of course.

Yes! This has got my vote, bigtime!!

Another big thumbs-up for the Riverside Johnny Griffin Sextet. Also, the Byrd/Adams album Out of This World has just been re-issued. Well worth a listen.

I don't have all his albums but Search for the New Land is a favorite.

One of those "impossible" lists (I dig 'em all) but I voted for Lester.

Seriously, with only one CD or LP it would be wrist-slitting time for me.

Bill Evans & Jim Hall: Undercurrent Kenny Drew: Talkin' & Walkin' Freddie Hubbard: Ready For Freddie, Here To Stay, and Open Sesame Marshall Crenshaw: What's In the Bag? Cyrus Chestnut: You Are My Sunshine Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers, Utopia Parkway The dB's: Stands for deciBels, Repercussion, Like This Herb Geller: That Geller Feller Elmo Hope Ensemble: Sounds From Riker's Island The New Pornographers: Mass Romantic, Electric Version Steely Dan: Everything Must Go, Showbiz Kids Chico Hamilton: Gongs East! Billy Mitchell: "This Is __" The Raspberries: Capitol Collector's Series Doug Watkins: Soulnik

Lots of great suggestions here. I've been saying for months, and I'll say it again, I'd like to see a Dizzy Reece and a Clifford Jordan Select (especially a Cliff Jordan.) Complete Verve Jimmy Guiffre, Lee Konitz, and Tal Farlow would be on my Christmas list to God. How about Elmo Hope? How about something that brings together much of the work of Gigi Gryce? I also want to second the idea of a Blue Note 10" compilation, and the idea of some sort of monster Lucky Thompson set. The first I think is actually do-able, the second will only get done in some parallel universe. Finally, I'd like a huge, full-Mosaic compilation of the music of various swing territory bands. It'll never happen, but I've seen it in my dreams.

I usually wake up in a foul mood----not a morning person. If we had a CD-playing alarm clock, it would probably get smashed within a day or two. However, when we had a friend staying over a couple of years ago, he told me he was kind of surprised how every morning I would shuffle into the living room and put on a CD or tape. I honestly didn't realize that I did that. So I guess I listen to whatever was on the stereo the night before, not that I really notice it.

I love Pacific Grove, but I don't think I can face watching Turner and Hooch just for the scenery of the town in some backgrounds. Hanks sure has come up in the world, hasn't he? Does anyone know if the scenes of downtown Erie, Pennsylvania in That Thing You Do were actually filmed in the real Erie? The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), probably Mitchum's best late-career movie, has a lot of the real flavor of seventies Boston and environs in it. Groundhog Day, the very likeable Bill Murray movie, is supposed to take place in the small town of Punxatawny, PA (I'm not sure of the spelling) but was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois. In some scenes you can actually see a storefront that has the town name in it. Seems like a heck of a nice town anyway, though I've never been there. One of my favorite small towns of all time, Ferndale, CA, is in two movies that I know of: Outbreak (they called it 'Cedar Creek' in the movie), and the maligned and/or ignored Jim Carrey film The Majestic. If you don't like The Majestic, don't hold it against Ferndale; it's really a nice place. More of a village than a town. Eventually I think every town, city, village, and hamlet in the country will be used in a movie.

I've also been listening to Fountains of Wayne lately (obsessively, in my case). Just discovered them late last month when a 1999 interview was repeated on NPR. Their new album, Welcome Interstate Managers, is a genre-hopping pop-rock masterpiece that I can't seem to go a day without listening to at least once. Their second album, Utopia Parkway, is full of good songs as well. "It Must Be Summer" has 'hit single' written all over it. Why these guys don't absolutely rule the radio is beyond me! Going to see them tonight at the Fillmore.

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