[Now that S.W.A.T. Has finally made it to DVD]

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show

[You Can't Do That on Television]

Kevin Ku-bu-ches-ki

[You Can't Do That on Television]

Me and a friend of mine use to watch this all the time. I loved the father character & Ross the stage hand. "Don't-don't encourage him." I had a crush on Christine McGlade. I wrote to her once and got sent vital facts on the cast (height, hair color). I was surprised and saddened to find she was about 7 years older than me. Though she actually wrote a PS on the note. I asked if she like The Psychedelic Furs (first 3 albums are the good ones) and she wrote her favorite song was "India" from "the black album" (first album). Wonder what Moose is lookin' like now.

[Mingus-Complete Debut Recordings]

Has anyone else gotten this? I've recently gotten into Mingus & liked what I've heard, but I really didn't care for anything on this 12 cd box. I didn't realize it was mostly him as a session player. I've read his musical personality was still forming during 1951-55. I've got the Bethlehem, Atlantic & Columbia boxes and liked them all. If you have this, how do you feel about it?

[Looking for live Ornette]

Is there a live version of SOA w/ Prime Time? Is there a live version at all? Looking to get a copy.

[Mono or stereo]

When listening to a mono cd (in this case), what's the difference in the sound compared to stereo?

[EMI Reports Drop in Sales]

I've been buying everything used. EAT IT RECORD COMPANIES!!!

[Live Charlie Parker ...]

There's a couple of complete live Parker sets coming out this month (?). I saw them on the Jazzmatazz site.

[Shared birthdays...]

Some more for May 19th:

George Auld *1919 Sonny Fortune *1939 Cecil McBee *1935 Tom Scott *1948

[Shared birthdays...]

May 19, 1969: Coleman Hawkins died the day I was born

My best friend shares Miles Davis's b-day: May 25th

[Looking for some good humorous novels]

Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul-also a Dirk Gently book. Very funny. The first one seems like two different stories. It's interesting how he tied them together.

[Album of the week: John Coltrane - Olé]

There's a song on Miles Davis's "Someday My Prince Will Come" called "Teo" that Coltrane played on and one part sounds just like "Ole". This was just 2 months before Coltrane recorded it. I think this may ne where the idea for the song came from.

[Norah Jones]

P. Diddy. That way her next album can be all covers and be called "No Jo".

[Wayne Shorter: with Messengers & solo]

I'm talking about in terms of his compositions. I don't have any Messengers or his solo stuff, though I do have the Miles 1965-68 set. I think I'm definetly going to start getting some Messengers albums, but was wondering about his solo albums.

[What albums *really* exceeded your expectations???]

Miles Davis.

I didn't like his muted trumpet sound or his stuff with Gil Evans or Birth Of The Cool when I first heard it. What happened was the part in Burns's History of Jazz where they show the 2nd quintet playing Gingerbread Boy (I believe), I thought that riff was so cool. A friend of mine had a radio sampler of the box set with that song on it. I liked everything on it so I slowly went further. After I realized his muted trumpet sound was as annoying as I first thought, I opened myself up to all his stuff (up to 1975, I'm not going to bother with the 80's stuff). Now I can't wait till all the box sets are out! I dislike that box #3 (1963-64) will be the last one as I've been recreating the original albums on tape for my car, and can't go any further until that box is out.

Ornette Coleman & Prime Time.

It's the same idea as his acoustic stuff, just electric. I liked Body Meta because it was so crazy.