Jazzmoose

I most definitely have the "collector gene", but I don't think it affects my music buying that much. I mean, it dawned on me pretty early in the game just how impossible it would be to find every recording out there (even assuming immortality!), and I've never been good at "specialist collecting". While my collecting attributes affected me at certain times in my jazz buying (particularly during my Lee Morgan phase!), I don't think it ever took control. I just don't have the loot or the time to go that way. I'll save my collecting for other areas.

Substitute "droop" for "drop"; I'm tired of having edits!

Uh...yes, I'm married, and I scored a 2. I brush my teeth twice a day, minimum. I shower once a day, minimum. On the other hand, I don't spend two hours in front of the mirror every day making sure my hair is just right. (Well, to be honest, I should say "what hair I have left is just right"!) I figure that if your idea of finding a mate is to devote yourself to the physical and shallow side of life, you'll get a mate who is physical and shallow. Now the physical side is nice, but I don't care what she looks like now, eventually they're gonna drop, the wrinkles will come, and the hair will gray. If that's all she's got, you're in big trouble...

I must confess that, as a relative jazz newbie in this crowd, I'm not at all familiar with Junior Mance. I will correct that situation!

I'm going to be smart and NOT click on the link!

Actually, number six is valid out here as well; we've just given up... But this was fun; takes me back to my youth in Georgia when the bizarro tourists were coming through on the way to Florida...

Notice how you can't help but cringe when you read something like that? Still, I think I'd have stopped after the first cut...

Hey, I admit it; I'm a slob. And I haven't seen the dress shoes in month, but I counted them. Every once in a while I get the urge to wear something other than tshirts, jeans, and a pair o' Vans, but a few minutes with a tie around my neck usually cures that...

Your time will come, Sonny...and at 38 it ain't that far away!

I don't read on the toilet; I grab my electronic "Battleship" game, and er....start sinking things.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title!

Hey, does anyone know who the artist was on that cover? Isn't it by the same artist who did the cover for "Miles Davis and Horns"? I've been wondering about that for years; it reminds me of Don Martin of Mad Magazine fame in a way, but I know it isn't him... Edited to add this... Couw, are you saying that this art is Warhol?

Well, as others suggested at the time, it's obvious to me now that I should have given that Blossom Dearie CD a bit more time before selling... Then again, that's easily correctable; just takes a trip to Tower to fix that mistake.

Assuming The Dain Curse actually is a classic, and I contend that it is, I got a "2". Hey, sue me; I've got Gephardt eyebrows and this one black hair right in the middle. Drives me nuts!

Wow...I'm surprised as hell to see you guys again! I thought for sure this was going to be at least a one week deal. This is fantastic!!

Just wanted to see what happens ... Simon Weil So, did you pop out on the other side, or were you reduced to neutrinos?

The wife and I caught Open Range last weekend. It's not bad, but I can't really recommend it. It's a decent grade B western; nothing more. Hey, at least she didn't drag me off to see the next "Waterworld" or whatever. My choice next; I think it's going to be American Splendor...

Sorry; Bob Wills only qualifies as INCREDIBLE! Although I must admit, my wife gets tired of me singing "Roly Poly" to our cat who fattens up every winter...

I have none, and don't plan on ever buying anything in the "mini-LP" format. I'm still miffed about the Complete Bitches Brew coming with these stupid cardboard sleeve thingies...

None. Gotta a couple o' Pablos, a handful of Columbias, and a few odds and ends, but no Blue Note on vinyl. And you feel left out?

So this pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel mounted on his privates. Bartender says, "Hey, buddy; did ya know you've got a steering wheel mounted on your crotch". Pirate responds, "Arrrrrr, it's driving me nuts.."

Reminds me of a favorite book from my youth, Wasp, by Eric Frank Russell. Good stuff. And completely off the subject...

Okay, here we go. Just for the sake of space, could everyone just assume the "i'm not sure"s, "I don't really know, but"s, and the "I'm probably embarrassing myself, but"s in the sentences below? And if I don't take a guess at the performers, just assume I have no clue, okay? Thanks! And a word about my "ratings": I'm stingy as hell with the 4 and 5 stars; after all, I figure if I give a song a rating over four, I'd darn well better get it, and I'm cheap. So 3 or 3.5 ain't bad in my book, okay? On to the embarrassment... Track One: 1.5 stars This seemed to fall into the realm of "competent, but no surprises", and didn't really grab me. I didn't like the piano at all, but something tells me that it very well could have been the piano itself, or the recording, not the pianist. It just seemed muddy or something. The whole performance just never seemed to get going for me. Track Two: 2 stars A nice blues number, but nothing special to me. Fun, but it doesn't stand out. Track Three: 1 star Either this is Stand By Me, or the bassist should be sued. This one sounds very old fashioned to me, almost "prebop", as if the solos are just variations on the melody rather than using the chord changes or whatever. You musicians out there can hopefully decode what I'm trying to say. Track Four: 3.5 stars Watermelon Man for sure. Nice bop, reminds me of Lee Morgan's boogie numbers, but of course without a trumpet, odds are it isn't him... If I had to guess, I'd go with Mabern or Timmons, and at least one and a half of those 3.5 stars are solely for that piano solo. Cool! Is the sax Turrentine? Track Five: 4.5 stars Gimmegimmegimme; I want this one!! The drumming on this one blows me away, and I'm not the type who normally gets carried away with drumming. This one is just plain cool! I wish I knew who this was... Track Six: 2.5 stars Sounds like my kind of music, but something's missing. Some spark of soul just isn't there for me. It's well done, but just doesn't grab me. Track Seven: 3 stars Gad, it's some Bird tune, I know. Billie's Bounce is what I wrote down in my notes, but with five question marks around the guess, who knows? I should know this stuff by now! Very nice piano, trumpet is cool (not much trumpet on this disc, is there?). Very bebopish. Track Eight: 2.5 stars This is going to sound strange coming from a nonmusician, but I penalized this one quite heavily simply because I didn't agree with the interpretation. I knew it was Since I Fell for You from the first organ chord change in the intro, and it's one of my favorite songs. But it's just performed too "peppy" for me here. This is an incredibly depressing song to me (except that I love it!), and this interpretation just didn't make sense to me. So take my rating of this one with a grain of salt. (Like the others should be taken as gospel, eh? ) On the other hand, if I ignore that, the performance was excellent. Track Nine: 3 stars This sounds very familiar, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it's somewhere on my shelves. And isn't that embarrassing, because I still don't know who it is. I don't know the name of the song either, but it sounds a lot like It Never Entered My Mind. Track Ten: 2.5 stars Very "gospelish". I love the bass solo-is that Ron Carter by any chance? Over all, I'd say it's okay. Track Eleven: 3.5 stars Footprints (thank you, KCSM!), but I don't know who did it. I've yet to hear a bad version of this song, though, and this one is nice. Track Twelve: 2 stars Another song that is well done, but just doesn't speak to me. Track Thirteen: 4 stars This isn't blues piano, this is GDMFing down and dirty blues piano! Shit!! This is the kind of thing that, if I was hearing it in a club and someone started talking behind me, I wouldn't turn around and ask them to be quiet, I'd just slam my bottle down in the middle of their clueless heads. Wow; I can't wait to find out who this is. (Sorry to neglect the sax, which was also incredible but that piano...wow!) As far as the theme, I won't even try to guess. My "live jazz" and "trumpetless jazz" theories got shot down at various stages, and I couldn't come up with anything else. Now to read the thread and see how stupid I look...

And shrugs is so short, he can't reach the keyboard anymore...

That'll larn ya to ask questions around here!