Patrick

Careful what you wish for. Call all those things on superstar LeBron, and then you gotta call all the hacking and bodying that that great Detroit D gets away with. LeBron may be built like a tight end (and travel, and use his off hand, and actually live up to all of the hype), but that doesn't mean he should be bodied like a tight end. If he was smaller like Rip or Gilbert Arenas, ant still attacking the rim, he'd be at the line even more. I say the hand to hand combat, on both sides, pretty much balances out. And Rip needs a few more flopping lessons from Bill Laimbeer. Those were pretty sad last night...

Give me a break. Every scorer in the NBA travels like crazy. Refs want to see the amazing finish and don't look at any footwork, and they haven't been for decades. It's not just LeBron. Kobe, Arenas, Rip, Iverson, beloved M Jordan (as much as LeBron if not more), Ewing, ...

Have and enjoy the Blue Note box and Love Gloom... Does anyone have discographical details and/or opinions about the Monk/Nichols Savoy recording M & N? Finally, anyone have suggested venues for nicely priced Herbie Nichols Project Soul Notes? Thanks

James Blunt has come so far, so quickly. Apparently only Madonna is more noteworthy among Warner Music artists....

If I could swing back to the music... Is the Gil release a CD issue of the contents of Pacific Standard Time which Scott Yanow tells me includes New Bottles, Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards, originally on World Pacific? Or are these the Pacific Jazz titles Cannonball Adderley and Gil Evans and America's #1 Arranger. Or are these a bunch of new titles for old recordings. Please educate me.

Destination Out, Capuchin Swing, Bluesnik, Vertigo, Action, 4,5,6 to start with. definitely need to play "Poor Eric", and Dynasty, and...

You may also want to check out Daedalus Books and Music. They have a lot of Naxos titles (jazz and classical) in the $1.98 - $6.95 range. Daedalus

My J.J. Johnson set (#4412) arrived on Wednesday. A number of comments, several of which have been made before, but are worth repeating. 1. Thanks for the running low alert. This community, my friend, is quite an Organ-i-zation (best pronounced with long "i"). 2. That Mosaic customer service still impresses. Ordered Monday evening, on my doorstep Wednesday afternoon. [better than my recent experiences at J&R and alldirect.] 3. Together with Byrd/Adams, Jazztet, and a tall stack of OJCs (from J&R and alldirect), I have plenty of new material to enjoy before Bird/Diz arrives. 4. My amazon order for Bird/Diz just got pushed back to October. I guess I won't be listening to this before it cools down a bit outside (hopefully this will be sooner than when hell freezes over). 5. I need to pause now for a bit from acquiring. 6. That O'Day lady sure photographs well.

tasty tunes Organissimo!! (...and nice radio pipes Lazaro)

Thanks Ron. I've placed my order for 11 of the 12 items that J&R ended up not shipping to me. Of the titles I was after, appears only Nat Adderley Much Brass is out of stock at alldirect. Will be interesting to compare J&R and alldirect--my first orders at each. And then no more shopping for awhile (...unless J.J. Johnson Mosaic goes last chance)! So many new treasures to enjoy. I share the paranoia about OJC given these sales at multiple websites.

So now 7 CDs have shipped, 8 have been cancelled (including Lucky Strikes), and the remaining 10 are still processing. Called again to ask about this last group, and the agent said they'd ship what they could. I had hoped to beef up my Farmer, Golson, Gryce and Waldron. Still a chance, but this is rather irritating--especially when I read about other's success[es]. What they say has shipped: Adams- 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot Eardley- The John Eardley Seven Farmer/Gryce- When Farmer Met Gryce Golson- New York Scene McLean- 4, 5, 6 Taylor- Taylor's Wailers Terry- In Orbit What's been cancelled: Dameron- Magic Touch (I obviously don't have it) Gryce- Rat Race Blues Land- The Fox Monk- 5 by Monk by 5 Russell- Stratus Seekers Thompson-Lucky Strikes (Not to my order) Timmons- This Here is Bobby Timmons (not here) Waldron- Impressions What's still processing: N Adderley- Much Brass Blakey- The Jazz Messengers Farmer- Farmer's Market Harris- Bull's Eye Haynes- Cracklin' Lateef- The Centaur and the Phoenix McGhee- Maggie's Back Russell- Outer View Waldron- Mal-1, Mal 2 Time to turn to the Jazztet Mosaic, which appears to have been even more affordable. Thanks again to those that put out the alert regarding the Byrd/Adams last chance, as well as J&R.

Last I checked, my May 30 order is still "processing". But one can't check online right now because their website is down. So I called. Agent has no idea what happened to my order, or what item(s) they're waiting for. Said she'd get it authorized and have a partial order shipped today. Not holding my breath. Asked if the website was undergoing routine maintenance/updating. No, their system crashed.

My Byrd/Adams set (ordered last Thursday evening) arrived today, #3245. Fabulous! Now if only J&R will honor me with some notice about my OJC order from two weeks ago...

Hey Jazzkrow, My order of May 30 has generated no response beyond the initial order confirmation. Everything is still processing...

What Big Al, Free For All, and Quincy said. I'm always grateful for the sales tips I learn about here, whether its Blue Notes at Tower, Jazz in Paris at DustyGroove, OJC's at J&R, or what have you. Often I don't pull the trigger fast enough and miss out on some of the more obscure items (like the Complete BN Gil Melle at some "graveyard" site way back when). I like to think of myself as patient. Eventually I'll get some message, and hopefully part of my order. If not, there is always the epinions link on the one J&R email I received asking for feedback...

I ordered 25 OJC titles on May 30, and the order is still processing all items. Some titles have switched from usually ships in 1-2 days to 7-14 days, and some have switched in the other direction. 11 days down. Some communication would be nice. Is this sale really going anywhere?

I placed my order 9pm last night (along w/ Jazztet set and Schizophrenia), and got a confirmation noon today. If my large OJC order at J&R looks to go largely unfilled, I guess I can afford a couple of Mosaics. And if the J&R order does come through, well then I'll have a lot of great music and a lot less cash for other distractions...

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Wynton Marsalis?

Hey Matt, nice drawings, may have to order a few. Could you tell me a little bit more about the dimensions of the images (maybe a little larger than what I saw on the website??), and frames? Thanks

Don't forget Joanne Brackeen's cover of the Wham! tune "Everything She Wants" on Havin' Fun (Concord). On an album of Arlen, Mercer, Porter, Cahn, etc., nice to see JB has a bit of a sense of humor,...or that she's havin' fun. Too bad the tune has one of those irritating fadeouts.

From Daedalus Music [salemusic.com] George Braith, Complete BN Sessions (finally picked this up!) really digging the first disk Geoff Keezer, Zero One (Dreyfus), nice version of Footprints Clifford Jordan, These Are My Roots (Koch) Emily Remler, Catwalk (Concord) Don Braden, The Fire Within (RCA Victor) Dorough/Frishberg, Who's On First? (BN) don't know that I'll be playing this one too frequently... Anyone try, and recommend, any of the Naxos Jazz titles?

I purchased one of these so-called "rare" Pullen Selects from that seller and experienced no problems. Even purchased an actual OOP Donaldson Blue Note title as well . At least this seller uses the word "rare" and not OOP like some sellers of the JJ Johnson or Mobley sets.

Just saw the quartet tonight at Blues Alley in Washington DC. They played many of the tracks from Suspended Night (my only exposure to TS thus far has been this recording). Tomasz certainly is not a technician on trumpet but the compositions (what first interested me), and especially the interplay between the members of his young rhythm section were electric. Highly recommended. Find that babysitter [...or arrange for passage to Poland]!

How 'bout switching it up a bit and adopting a "Pat" theme? Pat Martino, Pat Barber, etc. Yours truly, Patrick

great show GOM! Gotta get this Jazztet set, and tell 'em it was due to your show. How long is the Night Lights show?