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Claude — you made me laugh on that one! But the photo you forgot to include was of the same model — the toy driver ejects himself through his sunroof, flies through the air, and, upon descent, falls through the offending driver's open sunroof and lands on said driver, whereupon toy fisticuffs ensue. Toy Barbie drives by, flashes her augmented bosom to the dueling ingrates, and they, oblivious with hate, don't even notice the kind gesture of driverly love.

Outside of my window right now are: • juncos • a Townsend warbler • a kinglet (male; flew away just now) • two chickadees • one thrush Curious to hear if there are other fans of birds here, and what's outside your window!

I recently did the same thing (— downloaded from eMusic). My first exposure to Malik as a leader. Great stuff! Too bad Prestige had to create such an ugly cover for the two-fer. I much prefer the simpler version from Sounds -- attached below.

Whoa. Didn't even know that Barron side existed. Do you have it Chas? I'm guessing that Kenny's on it as well. Now you've got me jones-ing to hear it! Must resist the Caps Lock! I'm enough of a Bill Barron fan that I sprung for the "complete" Modern Windows (simply meaning the Japanese mini-LP version) when it was reissued. Great album. Barron is usually tagged with "playing under a Coltrane influence," and I don't think that's always accurate. Some of his harmonic vocabulary does have a precedent in what Coltrane was doing when he recorded for Atlantic, but Barron does take some interesting detours — if not harmonically, then certainly compositionally — from this so-called influence. Savoy in the 60's is a hugely under-examined goldmine. And I'm not even really aware of any Savoy recordings from the 70's ... though I'd like to be!

That YouTube television segment that Brownie linked above is indeed fine. I love the look on Newk's face at the very end of the clip.

I think there were about 400 of these total. Man, you guys have a lot! ( ) (I wish I had those Jacksons! Will have to start looking.)

Thanks David. Funny -- today I listened to "Tomorrow is My Turn" no less than seven times! Something strangely engrossing about that tune. And so many words crammed into a fairly short melodic line. I agree -- something about Simone's singing actually wears well with age. I find that, on the very contrary, the opposite is true (for me) with Fitzgerald. Ella always sings perfectly in tune ... and the content often falls amazingly flat. Others are sure to disagree, which is fair enough, but I just don't find much in Ella's singing any more.

Toothpaste. Kinda minty.

Right — I just meant that the first in this series started appearing, at least where I was looking, around 1990, which is why I typed "and then some." I definitely agree with you on the sound. The purple-and-yellow is generally a give-away for great sound! How many were there? Do you have any idea, Lon? Weizen — I agree. That Ronnie Ball session is (using my best Napoleon Dynamite voice) sweet! I missed out on too many of these. Didn't pick up the Cecil Payne (argh!), some of the Klooks (were there more than one?), and the Al Cohn. Would also like to hear the Herbie Mann with Eddie Costa. Thankfully, I snatched up all the Bill Barrons. Love those.

This has got to be one of the best jazz reissue series in the last decade, and then some — and perhaps with the lowest profile! They seemed to just suddenly appear, a lot of them, and at decent prices, and then ... slowly vanish. I have a fair number already, but then I'll see one used in a brick-and-mortar, and say: "What? I didn't even know about that one!" There isn't any place on the web that has neatly cataloged this series, is there? What are/were your favorites? I have a special affection for Perry Robinson's Funk Dumpling.

Instead of making a new thread, I thought I'd bump this one up with a discographical question on a recording of Payne's. I'm trying to figure out the songs and personnel from Cecil Payne's 1956 Signal recording, simply entitled Cecil Payne. The catalog # is Signal 1203. Half of this session had Kenny Dorham, and I have that part, but I don't know the other half. Anyone here with the original vinyl? I'm assuming this album is comprised of two different sessions, but I could be wrong ... Thanks for the help!

I have two RCA's (All I Want to Do is Swing and I'm Still Swingin') and the two Prestige dates you mention above. I forgot about that Mercury session! Anyone have this one? (Microscopic cover attached below.)

Maybe you should just write to Fresh Sounds? Jordi has left specific instructions at his Andorran post office box not to accept various breads. I'd rather see it come out "officially" on EMI as well. Always the possibility of bonus tracks that way.

This one was also for RCA. I haven't heard it, but I bet it's not bad!

Dig this cover ...

That's the only Tony Williams album on Blue Note that's not out on CD yet, right? I'm a bit saddened that Louis Smith's Smithville did not make the final list after all. Maybe next time. Tony Williams' Tokyo Live came out as a 2-disc set in 1993. It received a 4-star review in DownBeat (along with Gary Bartz's Shadows, also 4-stars) at the time. I agree — the Louis Smith is very nice.

Agreed. It seems like, because of that, he would have fit perfectly into a Mingus ensemble. Mingus would have loved (or perhaps did love) the way Joe could growl and squawk on the horn, and then slide right into a nice bop line.

It seems like Clark Terry gets the limelight, and Joe Newman — to my ears on par with Terry's playing, but considerably more interesting — gets the shadows. Any thoughts as to why? Fans of Joe Newman here? What records need to be sought out? I have only four at this point, in addition to numerous sideman appearances.

I agree, it's probably too risky — especially because Fresh Sounds reissued one of the Pomeroy large group recordings already. Now the Gil Fuller idea — the Spanish pirates have yet to pounce! I'll have to write Cuscuna again, and tell him that I'll mail a freshly baked loaf of banana bread (*) to the Mosaic office if he'll mull it over some more. * Goes well with Irish Breakfast tea.

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D'oh! I knew I'd read it, but forgot which thread. Thanks Chas. I see Cuscuna didn't bite on my Complete Pacific Jazz Gil Fuller Recordings idea. Or the Complete United Artists Herb Pomeroy Recordings. Ah well. Maybe in 2039. No interest here for the Smith, Turrentine, or Clarke, but I'll be picking up the others.

I don't have the new Japanese reissue of this one (yet), but, you're right, the 80's edition sounds terrible. I just listened to it, after listening to Bean Bags, which sounds great, and I went from to . Koch did a really nice job on Atlantic sessions when they were reissuing them. The Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, for example, sounds especially transparent and rich. I don't know if it truly makes a difference, but Koch's use of HDCD encoding (and consequently my player's ability to read it) added up to some brilliant reissues. Sometimes, though, I think I just like to see the little red HDCD light pop on — so I can say, a la Homer Simpson: HDCD.

Don't mean to be anti-climactic, but I know a recent list of the June Connoisseurs was posted somewhere here (I read it!), but now I can't find the thread where it was lodged. If someone feels like copying the list here, that would be great. The old 2007 "Wish List" thread is huge, so maybe we could also start a new discussion here of the upcoming Conns.

Anyone here have, or tried, the Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 2.0 System? Here's the page for it. A sub-less system, but it looks like it'd do the job for my small workspace.

What do you guys think of Brubeck Plays Brubeck? I'm listening to it right now, and, while I could see myself calling it "boring" at times, some of the numbers are fairly affecting. Nothing that will change your world, but nice with a snifter, the sky black outside.