Brad

I'll be picking up this up. I've never had a bad rec from Tony.

Probably a general discussion will be good although my collection of Patterson/Stitt is rather skimpy since that's not my favorite kind of Sonny. I know some (not many, I belive) people like the varitone. I don't particularly like it. Here's what what was said in the Stitt Mosaic: "When Stitt comes back to Roulette in 1966 to record five albums, Hugh Glover was producing and Sonny was playing mostly Varitone, a fiendish invention that attaches to a saxophone and produces an instantaneous extra sound an octave below the note being played on the horn. It also destroys the timbre of the saxophone and the personality of an artist's sound. Eddie Harris and Lou Donaldson were among the other esteemed players who fell prey to the contraption." Later on Zan Stewart who wrote the notes describes the attachment as "dastardly."

He was getting a good signal but then at times, it seems to go out and he can't connect to the Xbox network. Is it possible that it has to do something with atmospherics. Right now, he's so ticked that we've got an ethernet cord running from the Cisco router upstairs down to the xbox.

Al, Got the package today. Thanks a lot

Hans, Looks like you're right. I owe you an apology. Your sight is very impressive with images, facts and discography. Thanks to you, the bop clarinets cd is on its way to me now. Please keep posting new information.

I wonder how many horns they have. I've always wondered, for example, who has Bird's horns or Sonny Stitt's horns? I wonder where they are.

I'll have to dissent here. Except for one song, you've got Sonny playing the varitone, that awful attachment he used on his sax. Absolutely ruins the record. In my view, most of Sonny's work with the varitone is to be avoided.

To stop drinking those (flatted) fifths!

Just imagine if you had the cd, "the Jones Boys", where Leonard Feather brought together Jimmy Jones, Eddie Jones, Quincy Jones, Thad Jones, Jo Jones and Reginald Jones. Under which Jones would you file that sucker?

I guess Willie Wonka doesn't count

I'm going to ask a dumb question but what's a "boston" as in "But I will say that I’d rather hear him play a ‘boston’ than any other pianist."

Thank you for posting that. Wonder how you came across it.

I find I have a problem with this. We have the DSL line upstairs and the wireless connection upstairs and my son has an Xbox downstairs where he likes to play online downstairs. But it seems more often than not that the wireless connection doesn't work. Any suggestions? Could the weather have something to do with it (e.g., if it's cloudy outside)?

Hey- I named three, and he only named one! Granted, his was a bit tougher... Ok, hats off to Jim too

I was just looking the Verve downloads and they've got some albums like the Charlie Barnet Harlem album which was quite available until recently. I was hoping they'd put out some real unavailable items. There's also Listen to Art Farmer, which is at least available on the Mosaic. There's not a lot of nuggets there from the vault.

Sounds like a neat idea for a book. Doesn't seem that it will be pulled off though.

Hats off to Brownie. Was that a posed photo or was HRH a player? Dmitry may have started a new fad here.

Brad, I'm not sure I understand this. . . . Blue Note was founded in 1939 with boogie piano recordings, and blues/New Orleans style recordings, and small swing groups and grew to champion some modern jazz proponents who became icons such as Monk and Bud. Bu wasn't a force til much later. . . . I'm not discounting Blakey's importance or even his consistency. . . . But he wasn't the wellspring your statement seems to make him. Lon, I agree with you to a point but this thread is about the 50s and 60s and I think he was the wellspring during that period.

Leeway posted this on Dec 16: Yes, I thought I was clear but guess not. I know some of you picked him but not many. That's what I found (find) amazing.

I'm getting an ipod soon so thanks for the warning although I'll just use it to transfer existing cds to it. I had thought about downloading one of those Verve albums but will probably not. As Tony says, I just don't have time enough in the day to do all these things. By the time I get home from work, eat dinner and make sure my son gets to bed, I've had it. There's very little time left for listening. So the time I get is valuable. Modern living, it's such a joy.

I've seen several of them advertised in the british journal, Jazz Review. I may give serious thought to picking some of them up.

Milan, My disc, the original one you sent to my home, arrived today. I will proceed to listen to it now. Thanks.

I listened to some of the cuts and while they're jazzy I wouldn't exactly call most of them jazz although I suppose this has some appeal to some people.

It's mind bogglin' to me that Art Blakey, the personification of Blue Note sound wasn't picked by all or at the top of the list. He is Mr. Blue Note. Aside from Horace, every one else one basically springs from him. As far as consistently high quality recordings (and these were not middling at best) look at his late 50s material, starting with Moaning and just continuing on. It can't be topped in my opinion. He was basically a finishing school for would be leaders.

Does it actually move all the time. I remember eating in some place outside of Washington once. It moved pretty slow so I guess you could get used to it.