Jazzmoose

Yup. There's the infamous Cannibal Corpse LP that played backwards repeats over and over "clean your room". Absolutely chilling!

Wait a minute...did the original really have that style of inner sleeve???

Who's on the cover?

The Tom Peron/Bud Spangler Quartet at the Garden City in San Jose in March of 2000. Hey, I'm a relative newbie to this stuff, remember? I remember sitting there amazed that live jazz was so much more than recorded jazz could possibly be...

As to what Blue Note is marketing, I'd agree with Jim S. in general, though I'd probably put it differently (and not as well, I might add!). Blue Note is primarily marketing the basic cornerstone music of jazz. I see the basic Blue Note package as the perfect "entry point" (gateway drug?) for those who want to get into jazz. Maybe it's just me, but I see Blue Note's big names (I'm thinking Blakey and his former 'students' as it were primarily) as the perfect place to start with jazz. Hard bop is real jazz, yet it's accessable in ways that many forms of jazz, both older and more modern, aren't. Plus, it can lead you to pretty much any point in jazz, depending on which path appeals to you. While I think a lot of people who start out with Blue Note's classic output probably get a little too wrapped up in it and stick with it longer than they should without exploring other aspects of jazz, it seems likely to me (and admittedly, I have no proof other than my own experience) that it's easier to start with this stuff and move to other facets of jazz than it would be to start anywhere else and get the same wide exposure to the language of the music. Is this making any sense?

Got it, Chris. I blame the decaf. I'll get off my ass and grind some real coffee.

Sorry, Chris, but pet peeve time: no, it's not out of line, but if my opinion is that such approaches are misguided, that' not out of line either. This sounds a lot like the "I have a right to say what I want, so you can't disagree with me" argument...

No, she genuinely seems to like it. She also sings along with Hank Williams and Bob Wills. Just a very odd cat, I guess...

Well, my first obvious pick is season two of Twin Peaks. Maybe I just missed it, but I sure would like to find The President's Analyst on DVD as well!

What do you mean, I was supposed to pick out a lobster????

If that's food, Jazzboy, you'd damn well better have mine!

You know, of our four cats, three run from the room if I put on Coltrane. Or darn near any other jazz. The fourth will stay, but prefers Brotzman. Go figure...

Not a thing, Chris. It's certainly there on my shelves. Filed in the jazz section, apparently to the horror of a few...

I really don't understand the article. I really don't think of the Blue Note of today as being the same entity as the Blue Note of the fifties and sixties. The Blue Note then was a record label; the Blue Note today is a marketing term used by EMI. Pretending that they're this small jazz label on the cutting edge seems to be a bit odd. There are other labels that fill that niche today; the Blue Note name is primarily a marketing tool.

Makes sense. I think the point that led me to my interpretation was the hair. It doesn't seem that it occurs that much later than the previous scene, as the news is still fresh, at least in Cybill Shepard's mind, yet his hair is the same as before the mohawk. My thinking was that, in his minds eye, he still saw himself as he had been for years, rather than as he now looks, making this a fantasy rather than reality.

So now can we discuss why Jazz Groove is "buzzing" like that?

I wish I could offer a better response than "someone I know said", but that's the best I can do: supposedly a lot of stuff has been lost/discarded/etc. as well. Whether or not this applies to the category of jazz recordings or not I don't know...

Well, duh; obviously you build more shelves!

This sucks. Chris, I'd definitely get the Mobley first as it's been out a while. I can't believe it's still around to be honest. The Eldridge just came out recently and should be around for a while. But then that's what I thought about the Stuff Smith. As Sundog points out, we seem to have found a flaw in the "running low/last chance" method...

Wow. I must admit that I read the ending far differently than I see here. Mind you, I've only seen it twice, and that just in the last couple of weeks. However, I took the entire ending (after the "finger aimed at the head" shot as more of an internal fantasy of Travis. Maybe I'm just being simplistic here, but it just seemed a little too neat to be real, after what he'd gone through and experienced. The "oddness" of the final scene to me was just a cue to the viewer (in my uninformed opinion) of just how far gone he was: even in his idealized "perfect world", things weren't going to go right. Even his fantasy wasn't "normal"...

Glad to see it isn't just me. Bad art, bad writing, bad waste of trees. Good memories should often remain just that...

Drink water straight? I don't understand... We use bottled. We go through six jugs a week. The tap water here is really hard, and if I ran it through the coffee pot, it would be clogged up with the minerals before long. Besides, I hate the taste. But hey, I'm in California, so it's expected...

Pat Metheny's As Falls Witchita, So Falls Witchita Falls. But the first one I bought actually knowing it was jazz was an unknown Dizzy cassette that I lost while in Japan. First vinyl was Kind of Blue in 1986.

Duh...I zeroed in on the BIN and didn't even consider the starting price. Well, I'm sure someone will bid...

Got mine today; y'all won't regret it!!