Brad

It doesn’t matter if it’s an acronym or not; correct rules of usage still apply.

Green Acres was a forgettable show. Will you be watching My Mother the Car next?

Sounds like potentially a good hire. He’s probably the safest choice. Apparently, the Mets execs are nervous about making a hire that the new owner to be may not like. He’s said to be a very hands on kind of person.

Not sure about a hit but it’s got a great groove. I read that his masters were destroyed in the Universal fire. What a shame.

Can’t believe he didn’t get signed until now.

Terrific album although it’s hard to say between 68 and 70, which album is better. They are all so good.

I’m sure there are more books written about non jazz musicians but that isn’t the title of the thread, is it?

Just released by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, a five cd set. Disc 1.

Not really. The latter refers to someone as in “Rooster’s (fill in the blank).” It’s possessive whereas CDs refers to more than one of something.

I don’t agree because you like — or at least I do — things to look like new or in good condition. Maybe it’s an analysis retentive thing but that would bug me.

In the same way we remember and listen to the greats who were no longer alive when we first started to listen to them.

JazzTimes is reporting that Claudio Roditi has passed. A shame. RIP. I was fortunate to see him once.

What John said. A long life. What more can one ask for? RIP.

Fascinating. I never heard that Malcolm and Booker were related and couldn’t find anything on the web. He was a hero of mine when I was in high school. I think I still have the paper I wrote.

I haven’t had that issue but since Mosaic now makes lift off tops, I’m sure it has been an issue in the past.

Courtesy of JazzWax, the poet Billy Collins wrote a poem on Hank Mobley: Listening to Hank Mobley around 11 O’Clock After a Long Fun Boozy Dinner, the Four of Us, at Captain Pig’s, Our Favorite Restaurant in Town I’m lying down now, solo on a couch, imagining along with the music that if I were, say, 15 or 16 tonight and in possession of a fresh can of pink or orange spray paint, I would climb the 4th Street overpass and write in big letters HANK MOBLEY SWINGS for all to see on their morning drive to work. But having sailed some time ago into the quiet cardigan harbor of my life out of earshot of the siren songs that lure men onto reefs of foolishness not to mention the bridges of bravado, it’s enough to let the soap bubble of that Hank Mobley thought drift slowly across the living room and burst with no warning, much to the amazement of the cat. https://www.jazzwax.com/2020/01/billy-collins-on-hank-mobley.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=Billy+Collins+on+Hank+Mobley

Belated Happy Birthday

Her obituary: Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 “In a 1987 interview with the music critic and historian Whitney Balliett, Ms. Wilson named Holiday as her major influence. ‘No singer has ever moved me so much,’ she said. ‘No one has ever had such pain and emotion in her singing. She is why I wear a gardenia in my hair every night.’”

Indeed. Probably no progress like that today.

Thanks. I listened to a couple of cuts yesterday and while I recognize their influence, they seemed to be lacking feeling. Allmusic calls them a little stiff. Maybe that’s the right word. I haven’t heard much Graham Bond so may check them out.

Thanks. Yes, it’s dirt cheap. This group doesn’t seem well appreciated to me. Do you have any Blues Incorporated? Thoughts?

Nothing to do with music but here’s an article on “the most interesting authors and their works that have entered into public domain in all jurisdictions where the economic component of copyright is exhausted on January 1 of the year following the 70th anniversary of the year in which the author has died.” https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4e97e694-538f-48f3-9234-eef0cd14b874&utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&utm_medium=HTML+email&utm_campaign=ACC+Newsstand+subscriber+daily+feed&utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2020-01-17&utm_term=