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There's a reason they're called "Moe & The Poets": That back bay Boston blend was therapeutic for Charlie Marijuana, but not as much for tenor players ...

Agreed (even though I never knew the man). My feeling is — I want to celebrate the music. Any time a positive light can be seen through mental illness, which doesn't happen too often, that seems something worth hollering about. And I love it when Willis hollered. "Elvis Pres-LEEEEE!" ... or another favorite — "He's doin' time in jail. Now he's doin' time in jail ..." If anybody was ever given a natural right to use CAPS LOCK, it was Wesley Willis. Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions

... only if we CAN PUT IT ALL IN CAPS. :rsly:

I haven't heard the Select (yet), but on Lift Every Voice I've actually been struck by how close Garnett sounds to Wayne Shorter. I haven't made the Gilmore connection yet, but that's not saying it won't happen! I also think that Bennie Maupin, again on Lift Every Voice, sounds a lot like Joe Henderson.

My sentiments, too. I'm anticipating this set with more eagerness than I anticipated the release of Passing Ships. In fact, the day it shows up in the mail, I may just have to ban myself from the board into listening exile ...

Moe & The Poets currently have this one in stock for $26.99 — on sale. Marsh unaccompanied from 1987. I didn't even know this existed until today. Anyone here heard it?

Just got done listening to the VICJ of Coltrane's Settin' the Pace (courtesy of Hiroshi Tanno), and am very impressed. This one does seem a little louder than most VICJs (compression?), but the soundstage appears very natural, and Chambers' bass is exquisitely miked — full, but never booming. This session has always been one of my favorite Coltranes on Prestige, and it will now be receiving even more airplay! Right up there, soundwise, with the VICJs of Cookin' and Way Out West.

(Trying to suck up drool.)

No kidding. This is the kind of stuff that I pray some billionaire jazzophile (an oxymoron?) feels compelled to get out to the masses in a legitimate package before he/she dies (buried, of course, with Buddy Bolden's mouthpiece and lucky coffee mug).

Drool.

Heard back from Cuscuna on this one. Here's my initial e-mail: And Cuscuna's response this morning: So there's at least hope! What kind of "special encounters" McCann Select would work here? • It's About Time (McCann-Edwards) • That's Where It's At (McCann-Turrentine) • In New York (McCann-et al.) Anything else? Or substitutions thereof?

Thanks David and JG. Rainey goes onto "the list." I'm all for that approach to playing (which perhaps Lacy and Parker pioneered?). Frank — count me in as a Wilber fan. What I especially like about his playing is that his use of tremolo (I won't even say vibrato) is often more controlled than Bechet's. I wonder what kind of mouthpiece Bechet used ...

Yes, I do very much think so.

Yes. Well put, and perhaps the reason why I think this movie is a small triumph of sorts.

From that site: Fully. I was a Duck. But first I was a Mean Green Eagle. Lastly, I was an Anteater. (But I was never a Banana Slug.)

Actually, that's just what you were told. The real reason is the Pepper Estate just found out that the Select will include the previously unreleased track "Mogadishu Blues." Because of the politically sensitive nature of this track's title, the whole box has been yanked from distribution for an indefinite period of time. Those who received their set before this advisory have been asked to return it to Mosaic, or to sell it for astronomically high prices on e-Bay.

Yes, but the blue shapes against the black background are offensive. I'd rather see them be modified into dolphins (maintaining the Miami connection).

Anyone else spit up their drink watching this show? "Mom, get off the phone! I'm ordering a pizza!"

"Batman ..."

Honestly, I had no interest in this album until I saw Jeff's cover!!! YOW!!! Yes, and "W.M.D." takes on a whole new meaning ...

That's a good one. I'm glad that Sue Mingus has reissued that concert, along with the UCLA concert. GOSH!

Heckyeah it was; whattya think? GOSH!!! Oh, OK. (You shoulda said "You Idiot!" ) Maybe Blue Note could retitle the tunes from Basra with phrases from this movie. GOSH!

Hey, you went to Linfield? Beautiful campus. A fine school, too, from what I've read.

Agreed. I didn't even realize that Saddam was on the cover of that one ...