Jazzmoose

I don't recognize the name; that's strange as it sounds like what I was into at the time...

Exactly! I could not believe how incredibly sick I was...

I'll be damned if I can choose between the Morgan and the Brooks; two of my favorites. I love the Procrastinator, but damn.... Maybe I can make up my mind later.

I started smoking cigars and pipes when I was about 16. Switched to cigarettes at 19 in college. I smoked until just shy of my 41st birthday, and quit on December 9, 1998. I tried to quit for decades, but it didn't click until then. Thanks to an attitude change (you don't try to quit, you quit. Hiding the ashtrays and lighters doesn't cut it; throw 'em away!) and the miracle of Nicorette gum, I made it. Since then I've had one cigarette (two years after I quit); sucked it down as I used to, turned green and stayed that way for four hours. I don't think it'll happen again... You know, I always said that I'd never become one of those anti-smoking jerks if I ever quit, but of course, I have. I simply cannot stand the stench, and the smell of a smoker is worse to me than the smell of actual smoke. Can you believe that??

Today's choices: The Doors: Morrison Hotel CCR: Green River B.B. King: Live at the Cook County Jail Cream: Disraeli Gears Son House: The Original Delta Blues Willie Dixon: I am the Blues We don' need no stinkin' jazz!

I think I'll watch this one from a distance; whatever it is, it can't be good!

Cool! Another "poster from the past"!

Hell, it's still Saturday; I can sneak one more comment in... Yeah, I love the drumming on this one myself, and I'm normally not that into the drumming enough to really care one way or the other.

Man, I did the Gregorian Groovers' Back at the Chicken Abbey...

Hey, I thought about that at work today; I think Lee really smokes on Blue Train!

Fuggetaboudit... I'll go with the imports, if that's how I can get the music. I really don't care which company is issuing the music if it's the music I want. If American companies want to complain about that attitude, tough. They lobbied for these laws and won. Now they get the results of their victory.

The answer that pops into my head is "Hank, of course!", but I think I'll walk over to the shelves, pull out my favorite Lee and see who's on it...hmmm; says here "Wayne Shorter"--I'll be damned! (Search for the New Land, if you're curious...)

I agree with you, Parkertown...Black Saint is the one Mingus CD on my shelves that I rarely reach for. However, Mingus X 5 (Released shortly after "California's Newest Hit Makers, the Rolling Mingus", if I remember correctly...) is my favorite!

You know, that makes sense! As far as the pop elements go, let's face it. There are a hell of a lot of great country songs that were ruined by over-the-top strings-and-background-singer arrangements that were entirely unsuited for them, but made sense at the time. Listening to my wife's TIME-LIFE series of country/western hits, I hear song after song that annoyed the hell out of me when I was younger. In most cases, I realize now that it was the cheezy strings and "uncountry" backing vocals that annoyed me; the songs themselves are gems! (Except Wolverton Mountain. God, that's bad...)

I've got nothing by Tolliver that I know of, but I don't think we have to stay so broadbased that every choice is something everyone has. If the pick is announced early enough, those of us unfamiliar with an artist can, if we choose, run out and grab a copy to try something new. If not, we can skip a week; no biggie. I agree with the idea that albums that aren't universally loved could lead to more interesting discussion. I certainly hope no one picks Kind of Blue; I mean I'm sure not too many of us would have to run out and buy it, but the damn thing's an icon, not a record...

That's the way I read it as well. And I need to add Bjork to my list.

I really liked the first two Garbage albums. ( Didn't care for the third nearly as much, or maybe I haven't spun it enough yet. ) Shit, I didn't even know there was a third! Has it been ten years already?

Nah, man; give me a second...last time I passed it too fast Aric grabbed it and ran out the door...

Hmmm. Hendrix Talking Heads The Band Steely Dan Little Feat Garbage (don't ask, okay?)

Whew! Fortunately it's one I have, so no trip to the store is necessary...I wasn't sure I could afford another dinner out near Tower. (And any restaraunt near Streetlight Records is met with instant suspicion!)

Grrrr! I had to edit; I think "Mephisopholes" is by that Wahne Shorter guy I keep getting confused about...

J.A.W., as to your earlier question, I for one would enjoy hearing why a person didn't like a particular album, even more so if it was a favorite of mine. I mean, hell, we're jazz fans;we know everyone doesn't agree with our choices! As for the album at hand (you guys were wondering if I was ever going to comment after picking the album, weren't you?), I can't say it's one of my "top ten faves" or anything, but I think it's interesting, and does contain one song that might make my "top forty" list anyway. The one thing I love about Wayne Shorter's music is that, even with my untrained ear, he's probably the only artist other than Monk that I can spot. Even when someone else does one of his tunes, I can immediately say "Yeah, Wayne wrote that. I don't know what it is, but that's a Shorter composition". I'm just not that musically advanced to do that with a lot of artists, but Shorter and Monk have fingerprints that make it obvious, and yet their stuff doesn't all sound the same. (Well, it does at first, but only because it's so distinctive.) The All-Seeing Eye reminds me in many ways of an album that is in my "top ten", Dolphy's Out to Lunch. There's something about both of these albums that makes them more than "just music". There's no way I can explain this properly, so bear with me. With both of these albums, I get the feeling that there is more than one sense in play. I'm not just listening to the music, it's coming in through another sense as well. What sense? Well, it's sort of halfway between sight and smell, but it's neither. (I told you this wouldn't make sense!) There's something speaking to my "soul", if you will, that most albums, even jazz albums that I love a lot, just aren't able to articulate. Anyway, enough of the mysticism... Oh, the song that might make my "top forty"? Mephistopheles. Whenever I listen to this disc, I always have to replay this one. Absolutely amazing...

Sounds like she made out like a bandit to me...

Just curious as to where the new info came from...?

But Jimmie Rodgers at thirty-fucking-three????? That's like putting Louis Armstrong at number thirty-three on a jazz list. It simply makes no sense... And with some of these names I see, it's probably the wrong Jimmie Rodgers anyway.