Brad

Maybe it'll be a reissue of what was on Mosaic ala Herbie Nichols. Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't have him singing. I can't take his singing. And whatever they do, I hope it has some Phil Urso. In fact, I'd like to see some of his stuff reissued. He's way underappreciated.

Happy Birthday to my musical godfather who is one great guy and always provides encouragement and since he's feeling blue.....

I see that you paid around $230 for the Buck. Not bad. I also see the infamous Len Burris is the seller. Don't ask me why he's infamous. I just remember that he had some notoriety about his ebay deals.

Happy Birthday to one of the founders (if not the founder) of our music. He must be great; he has two birthdays a year!

When I saw the Manchurian Candidate this weekend (which BTW is very good, almost as good as the original), they had a trailer for this new film by Taylor Hackford. It looks good but I hope it doesn't turn out like Bird, focusing on the bad things in his life. Anybody heard anything about this upcoming flick?

I go every six months. I'm no dentist but teeth should not be neglected. I've been very fortunate. Have had only about five cavities my whole life and no braces or everything else but my wife has bad teeth and it is expensive. Dental insurance pays for some but it's not as great as medical insurance. Better than nothing though.

When I was a kid, I'd scream like a stuck pig. My mother used to bribe me with ice cream cones. I still don't like 'em too much. When I have to get one I pinch another part of my body so I don't have to focus on the needle. Yeah, I'm strange.

Didn't realize we were gone. Got busy at work but glad we're back.

A couple of weeks ago tjazz had a question about this session and I pulled it out and listened to it again. 14 songs in all, originally issued on Mythic sound and reissued by Pablo. The first 6 are ok but not super from a session that his common law wife, Buttercup, made him record and better known as Bud Powell in Paris. The highlight is one hell of a Perdido. The better part of this disc are 8 live songs recorded in 2 different performances. The first session which features a rhythm section of Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke are highlighted by a How High the Moon with Barney Wilen and Dizzy. As the notes mention, you wish they had recorded more often. There is a very brief Bud on Bach that is simply so breathtaking that even my son paid attention. On Bebop, Bud has so many ideas going, it just blew me away, even after listening to it two or three times. However, the highlight for me was on the second session when Bud was in Edenville, France on vacation before his illfated trip to the US. There he played with Johnny Griffin, who is OUTSTANDING on Body and Soul. This is pure beautiful bebop at its best. I wish I could have been there when he played this. This has to be one of my favorite Johnny Griffin performance. He is just on. You gotta listen to him. After listening to these performances, anyone who thinks Bud had nothing at that point in his life just ain't listening.

Pick out almost any song on Rubber Soul or Revolver and you have a great song by whatever definition you want to make up, be it the Sangry one or whatever formula you can come up with. The same goes for many Stones albums of the early to mid 60s, especially Behind the Buttons, one of my favorite albums of all times.

Ya know, I actually thought about doing it. That's how annoying I find those things. It's like a desecration to me, esp. the back of the BN cds.

Marcus, Received the discs today. The other two will be on their way very shortly. Thanks again for putting this together.

I've picked up the two Piano cds and am enjoying the hell out of Piano in the Background. The A Train version reminds me of the Voice of America theme that I used to listen to over the short wave radio when I was a kid (hosted by Willis Convover, I believe); it brought back memories. That was probably my first introduction to jazz.

This sounds exciting. I'm going to try to check it out onlline tonight.

Mike is right. Looks like I had the wrong Marshall.

I hate that stupid FBI warning on all cds. Do they serioulsly think it's going to deter anybody. I seriously doubt it. Those who are going to do it are just going to do it. It ruins the back of the cd in my opinion.

Oh, get these by all means. Sonny Clark, Cole Porter. How can you go wrong. One of BN's better reissues.

This set has now been delayed to August 10. Bummer.

Probably the Wes Montgomery box. But I would also add the upcoming Verve Norman Granz Jam Sessions and the upcoming Dexter Prestige.

Still not at a bad price right now, $102.

I was there recently and agree with the Virgin Records on the Champs although the Virgin under the Louvre had a couple of good things too. I also went to Jusseau Music (if I'm spelling that correctly). It's a used store and they have a lot of stuff. BTW, if you're interested in more than jazz, they have a lot of other stores about a block away. There was a thread awhile ago in the Recs forum so if you do a search you can get more recs. There was also another store about a block away in sort of a back street but it's closed on Mondays and that's unfortunately when I went there.

Still waiting for mine. Hope it hits up here soon.

I think he's gotten a little bit of his due with the Mosaic. I think that turned a lot of people onto Sonny's magic. He was one never to back down from a challenge and often came out ahead. I think somebody said that when to records where he was the leader, he had the most. With his last sessions cd that was recently reissued it was said that he went out on top. He did!

I'm sort of surprised about some of these. Didn't several of them come out just a couple of years ago. That seems like a very short span in which to repress them.

This looks bad for Arsenal: Arsenal and Viera close.