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Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! = 5 Flies Apparently it is a real restaurant, however. I'm not sure I'd want to use flies to help advertise a food service venue though.

I was hoping for a Dolphy/Little Five Spot box (Tarantino remastered, in recorded order), but alas ... .

So, Yazoo has, I guess, effectively closed shop. But thanks for the heads-up on the Blues Images label — I hadn't heard anything about it. Any discs you'd recommend and/or like from this label?

Has Yazoo not had a reissue since 2006?

Hopefully this title will make its way to U.S. distributors. I'm excited to hear the new remaster.

I've been digging Accent On Africa and 74 Miles Away lately. Joe Zawinul's contribution to Adderley's musical output can't be overstated, in my opinion. (Adderley Plays Zawinul is a great comp. Still available cheaply, too.) I also think Domination is seriously under-remarked.

I was able to purchase this title from a board member. (Thanks!) It sounds very good to me. More "mono" sounding than the other editions, and more natural (seemingly with less, or no, compression). It is, however, lacking the bonus track, so keeping TOCJ 9348 is imperative.

Thanks! Very cool that The Bee Gees are part of this series. In all seriousness, I'm going to have to order the Staton and Carter from Amazon France if these don't find their way over to U.S. retailers. Maybe they will, and I just have to be patient. (Not like I don't have anything to listen to in the meantime ... )

The Betty Carter sounds great. Are these available in the U.S.?

Are these the 1923-26 solo recordings? 1923 and 1924 solo piano recordings, on Gennett and Paramount. I'm guessing that you already have J.R.T. Davies transfers of this material on Retrieval? I just listened to them tonight. They don't sound like Off the Record transfers, but they don't sound too bad to my ears. Maybe a little too much noise reduction?

Noticed that Dusty Groove is selling Spotlite CDs currently for $9.99. I tried to purchase their Peter King titles, and then got the dreaded "sold out" e-mail. They'll probably get them back in stock at some point, however. I, too, first heard King on that Watts/Bird project. In fact, his playing is all I can remember from that recording (haven't heard it since circa 1992; it was my then-roommate's).

Are these the 1923-26 solo recordings? I don't know what kind of licensing nightmare it would entail, but perhaps those eight QRS sides could be combined with the four great Okeh solos from the same period and the 1932 Brunswick/Columbia solos (only two titles, but five takes). And throw in the two Blue Note tracks as well?

Dolphy's solo on the track "Iron Man" is probably my very favorite Dolphy (studio) solo.

Earl Hines' QRS piano solos. I'm not familiar with those sides, but they sound intriguing. I have very little Hines in my collection.

The film is definitely worth Netflix-ing, etc. Ringo's narration is (yes) charming. The (sometimes improvised?) script, from an animated feature point of view, also makes excellent use of interruption during dialogue — something you almost never hear in animated features. Characters commonly don't finish their sentences because others are persistently butting in. It's not an emphasis of the film, but it's there (and not in the soundtrack). Also, you get to quote The Count (a la Saturday Night Live quotes) over and over after you've watched it: The Count: "I groomed you. Oooh how I groomed you! I cultivated you like a rare flower!"

Norah was photo-shopped in?

Well, since this thread has turned into a discussion of McLean's sound/intonation, I'll throw my 2¢ in. My reaction is about the same as Clunky's. At first, I couldn't handle McLean's intonation — I even felt like his bandmates were doing him a disservice by not telling him that he was going sharp! (I think of Bluesnik as a reference here, where McLean doesn't seem to mesh with Hubbard for a lot of unison lines.) Then, somewhere along the line, it clicked in ... with a fury! Now McLean is one of my very favorite alto players. But, he actually can, and does, play in tune — check out the heads, for example, on Hank Mobley's Hi Voltage. McLean's totally in sync here — not impressing his sound/intonation on the band at all. I read an article (of course I can't remember what magazine) a number of years ago where McLean was attempting to explain Billie Holiday's sense of intonation, and how her singing deeply affected him. I think this was part of the "clicking in" for me re. McLean. I actually now hear their music (McLean/Holiday) very similarly. But I can appreciate how a listener would struggle liking McLean's sound (or, simply, not like it). Personally, I still struggle with Don Cherry's playing. I love his compositions, I love his improvisational ideas, but sometimes I just can't get with his execution. I think the contention over the idea of gimmickry is that it tends to preclude any sense of authenticity. To me, Jackie McLean is one of the most authentic voices in jazz.

Wasn't there a Blue Note Jimmy Smith record titled "Master of His Organ"? The title of this thread keeps making me think of the R/L switcheroo, which I'm guessing Mr. 201 Regular Pepsi Cola intended?

I'm guessing you've heard Nilsson's "The Point"? If not, I think it's a great record. I grew up listening to the LP (along with Bill Cosby's "To Russell My Brother Whom I Slept With"). The animated film that accompanies it is also fine — narrated by Ringo Starr (after Dustin Hoffman recorded/narrated the whole thing, but whose contribution wasn't used). Some non-jazz artists I've been paying attention to, and really loving: • Patsy Cline • Ernest Tubb • Otto Klemperer (conducting Mahler; great new French EMI set available) • Water Gieseking (playing Mendelssohn and Grieg, but not the awful U.S. EMI References set) • Long John Hunter • Little Bob & The Lollipops • Markos Vamvakaris (the 1932-37 JSP set)

Received my copy today. After my ears adjusted (I'd just been listening to "74 Miles Away"), it just gets better and better. Toward the last part of the disc (track 17 on), it's hard to believe that you're listening to music that was recorded in the 20's. Let's hope Off the Record won't have to wait another six years before its next reissue. What would be a good candidate?

Excellent book. I got it a couple of years ago at a similarly low price. Somebody (here?) scored the $7 copy! Not bad for a hardcover book + compact disc.

Blue Noted

Tapscott fans will probably want this book at some point.

(Attachments is the original cover; big pic is the CD cover.) This is Kenny Barron's LP debut, if I'm not mistaken.

That's an exciting prospect. I didn't know about this unfinished album. I wonder if it's related at all to the "Birth of The New Cool" project. I seem to recall that Tapscott had wanted different musicians for that session with Sonny Criss (— a session that still sounds great to me). Imagine Arthur Blythe in that setting! At any rate, I really hope The Giant Is Awakened sees reissue. Though I've lived with the music for some time now, it'd be great to hear this recording with the JLH treatment. As with the other IP reissues, I'll purchase a copy on Day One. I haven't heard a note of the Steig, but I'm purchasing a copy of this one too.