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Always thought "Being for the Benifit of Mr. Kite" was an underrated tune

One of my favorite all albums, and a key player in making me a human being who loves music. May it be listened to by all generations for all time!

How funny, I was just coming to this thread to post some comments about this film, which I viewed on the excellent Criterion DVD last night, and I see this. Thanks Stefan! I had seen this film a long time ago, but watching it now was just a completely new experience. This is one of those films that is so powerful, beautiful, sad, important, etc....that it should be seen by everyone. It is drama at its peak, and is difficult to watch at times becuase of the suffering experienced by some of the characters, but one will be challenged to watch a more humane film. I am so moved by this, that I think I'm going to take a short break from watching any other films. Need to give some time for the effect to wear off a bit, as I'm getting the feeling that other films will probably seem silly in comparison.

For me personally, I don't care about skin color....if the music is good, its good.

Some wise advice, though you're eventually going to want to get that Footprints Live CD, as well as Beyond the Sound Barrier. Some of the best jazz recorded this millennium.

You'll eventually want all his Blue Notes from that period.

My apologies, Jim. Began my above post before seeing yours. I'm done.

So I don't like it when people try to pimp Christianity, or any belief system, to me......I don't see how that has any relation to my earlier post. The board member's comment that I defended was not anti-religious. It was a comment pointing out a flaw in an individual's reasoning regarding their defense of creationism, as the entire argument made by that individual made vague scientific (?) statements that continued to revert back to the Bible rather than ground themselves in science. How a criticism of that is anti-religious, I don't see. What I will speak out on is when they try to shove their religion down your throat. Religion is a great thing for people if makes them happy, and I'm all for people doing what makes them happy, as long as they don't harm anyone in any way. And as far as all these anti-religious statements that I supposedly read and remain silent about, I assume they are in the political forum? I am not in that forum very often....maybe 5 minutes a day to read the latest spat between the usual parties. I'm not too comfortable discussing religion or politics in an open forum. Over the years I've have seen a few sporadic anti-religious and pro-religious comments and kept my mouth shut. But seeing this stuff pop up outside the politics forum is a bit annoying, especially in a thread that is discussing something very serious such as care for our elderly, a topic that is very dear to my heart given the unusually high number of people I've seen die for someone my age (I'm 30). But I assure you, jazzypaul, that when I'm reading a thread about the Hank Mobley Mosaic running low, and someone chimes in and says that the only reason its running low is because so many board members believe in Jesus, and that they should really become atheists or else more sets will run out quicker, I won't keep my mouth shut. P.S. Sounds like a good idea to me, as long as we limit the talk about religion or politics! And I dig your radio show....with all due respect to Bruce Oscar or John Benet (sp?), I much prefer your taste in jazz.

I hate writing this, Shrdlu, becuase I normaly really enjoy reading your posts and I think you're a great member of this board and are probably a really nice person, but you should really stop to consider if posting stuff like this might offend some board members. If it needs to be posted, there are pleanty of religion threads in the Politics forum. Carry on.

Nice thread. Andrew Hill - "Time Lines" Jason Moran - "Same Mother" Eric Dolphy - "The Illinois Concert" Herbie Hancock - "Takin' Off" Joe Lovano - "From the Soul" Wayne Shorter - "The Soothsayer" John Scofield - "Time on my Hands" Greg Osby - "St. Lous Shoes" Herbie Nichols - "Complete BN Recordings" Lee Morgan - "Live at the Lighthouse"

Without a doubt! I don't own more than 2 of his recordings, but I've seen him perform live a few times and he's a fine player.

I don't listen to much pre-bebop jazz, but Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens are some of my favorite recordings in my collection. Such moving, emotional, and fun music. Haven't spun them in a while, will remedy that this weekend.

Pat Martino - "Live at Yoshi's"

I want that Horace Parlan Mosaic bad, but will probably wait til its running low. I keep thinking about grabbing more OJC's as well, as well as more Impulse re-issues. Basically the stuff that may not be around much more. Other than that, like brownie said, I've cut my music purchasing quite a bit this year. I've bought less music this year than I have in the last 10 years. I've quite enjoyed going back and just really absorbing and enjoying what I already have.

"The Sting" is superb. And I'm glad that he was able to go out on a big screen high note with "Road of Perdition". His performance there was so touching and sad....better than the film itself, actually.

This gets my pick for best new release of 2007 thus far. I just listened to it for the first time. This music has reached me like only my favorite music does. Roscoe is the best.

Gotta add the Elvin Jones Mosaic as well. LOVE those trio sides with Joe Farrell.

Randy Weston Mosaic Select.

Congrats!

Nope the weird shit had been going on for quite some time by then.

Cool!

Its amazing how Lynch can make corridors/hallways, particularly those in apartment complexes, so damn scary.

No disrespect to anyone on the board, but the fact that Mosaic does not ship in numerical order seems to have been clarified numerous times in many threads that I can remember. Yet it still seems that on practically every thread that deals with the availiabilty of the Mosaic sets, people still say something to the effect of "well, I just got shipped number _____, so we are still safe" or "I just got shipped number_____, hurry up and get yours!" I'm not sure why this is. Mosaic has indicated to myself and other board members that they don't ship in numerical order. Perhaps this fact should be clarified in its own thread? The numbering system still seems to cause alot of stir around here. Like I said, I don't mean any disrespect to anyone, and I'm sorry to vent this in your thread, Big Al. Anyways, carry on. P.S. For my money, those early Selects are still some of the best products Mosaic has ever released. Get em while you can.

Damn......oh well, Milan has a fantastic squad. As great as it would have been to see Liverpool win, Milan deserves it.