Brad

Do you mean the "annoying" moniker. That's kind of different.

On Wednesday night when I was driving home, WKCR played an interview that Schapp did with Helen Merrill from a few years ago during a Clifford Brown birthday broadcast. She got a last chance to talk and reminesce about the sessions with Brownie and I had never heard her talk before but she seemed like a person with a lot to say. She said that she didn't remember a lot of details because she was so nervous about the sessions but under some prodding from Schapp a lot of details came back to her. She sounded like a very interesting person and they played some of the music and she has a very beautiful voice. I've listened to the Brownie box but never really noticed before what a nice voice she had.

It would be nice to see the Elmo Hope come out again, especially in improved sound.

I live in northwestern NJ and it's coming down pretty good now. I don't mind being socked in. I get some guy to do the plowing. It's about $35 a pop but it's worth it, what with a bad back. Plus, how many times do we hear about guys getting heart attacks. No thanks I'd rather pay the guy to do it. Takes him about 15 minutes to get it done.

Didn't know you were into Elvis

The link isn't working. I get an error message that there's a bug in my Mozilla browser. Weird, since I'm using IE6... Same here.

I have only the Jazz Masters of the 40s but it's an essential part of a bop library. A good companion piece is Gitler's From Swing to Bop. An indispensible book in my view.

I haven't got the last 2 Dexters from SteepleChase so I'll be calling to get this and the 2 others. Mike, how do you know that the blurb is incorrect since so little info is given. Is there a bootleg or review copy out there?

Does True Blue fit in here or was that a Conn?

I don't see how some of the records mentioned could be way out (unless swing is your only thing). Setting the Pace? Wouldn't think so, not with Dex. Joe Gordon? Huh. Eric Dolphy, Eric Kloss, Prince Lasha, yeah that I could see but I don't think Prestige put out that much stuff that I would consider really avant garde.

Dude, when the Chuckster gets ahold of you, well, you don't want to know

Yeah, he'll be operatic or whatever label Jim is working hard on these days as Mr. S. plows throught the post stratosphere.

I find that to be a slow site quite often, more often than not.

Agustin, I just sent you some additional details on the questions you had about the Dex box.

It's in my head and that's a very dangerous plac

I saw that this morning. I'd love to take a look at some of these meetings. I'm sure it'll be expensive.

I just received this so I'll be spinning it tomorrow. Too bad not a lot of people have given views.

Couldn't disagree more. Hank fits in perfectly there with the mood of this album. But to each his own. We've disagreed more and I expect we'll do it again.

Good luck and congrats!

I have Tete! in the cd version (31029) and the release date is 1987. Short Story (cd) is 1993.

I noticed that Stefan is selling 3 volumes of the Bebop Revisited series that was issued by Xanadu. If you're into bop, this is an ABSOLUTE MUST! This is no drill. This series is that fantastic. Trust me, if you don't get these, you'll want to kill yourself. The pity is that these haven't been reissued on cd.

yessirree, Street of Dreams is fantastic. One of Grant's best.

I have to agree. I've never heard a bad Venus. I'm surprised that these don't have US distribution.

I organize it alphabetically and also keep an alpha list of everything I buy. I think that's important so you what you have.

Check this out from Soul Stream in response to a comment I made on a thread about Hank's Reach Out album: NO!!!!!! Grant Green's "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is absolute wonder. A lone Beatles cover done BEAUTIFULLY!!! Other than that, the titles are all straight ahead. One of the best organ albums ever made. GET THIS CD NOW!!!! Or forget about enjoying life.