Brad

Well, it's good to be back. 7/4, Wesbed and I agree: we don't have a life unless it's Jazz!

Why are you selling Bud Powell. That's sacrilege, man.

I would have loved to see a Garner Mosaic. Too bad. I guess I'll just have to settle for the Classics.

Hey Ray, What's with the hucklebuck? I assume you know that's from Now's the Time but Bird never got proper credit for it.

I just peeked at some of the other answers and some of the other conversation about Disc 2, esp. track 3. That is without a doubt Bird and there is no question that is Now's the Time, originally on Savoy. That's Diz on piano, sitting in for Sadik Hakim (Argonne Thornton) and Miles on tp, Curly Russell and Max. If I didn't know that one, I should be shot. Been working on that one at home.

Before Mike Weil send the BFT police after me here goes for Disc One: 16. This is the best song of the disc; everybody is in sync and the sax is really stunning. He's really conveying a unique message. I don't know who he is but he's gifted. I'd buy this. 1. St. Louis Blues but to me the percussion ruins it. They're trying to do much around a fairly good pianist. 2. This would be another buy for me. No idea who the horns are but I get a sense that this song has roots in the Caribbean. 3. cool song. Made me laugh. No idea who but jazz does wash those troubles away. 4. No idea. Not crazy about the violin. 6. Earl Hines maybe. I'm a sucker for solo piano. 9. Don't get this or know this. Assume it's African or African based. Reminds me at times of a child's song. Raffi almost comes to mind. 10. Again too much percussion. 11. Don't know who but a good arrangement of a Broadway song. 12. This was great. Really restrained guitar just sets a pattern, a tone. 14. I don't who these guys are but this was fabulous. Playing over and under the theme. Might buy this. Puts you in a dance mood. I'll try to post about Disc 2 later. Thanks again Ray.

Perhaps it's a poor choice of words on my part, but it's essentially the same thing. The end result is the same.

Well, I guess you guys can count me as one of the ones who hasn't yet thanked Ray. So thank you for getting this to me and my apologies for not having thanked you sooner. I haven't contributed that much lately to BFTs and if you guys want to rake me over the coals, so be it. I frankly don't have as much time as I used to, what with working until 730 or so every night. I believe that when you sign up, you should thank the person but I don't where you all think you get the right to ban somebody. This is not your board but Jim's. This is not an exclusive little club but something we hope we get something from, even if we don't participate. I'm not in this for the thanks but to spread a little music around. When it gets to be my turn sometime next year, I'm not here looking for thanks but to give others an idea of what I like to listen to. So, please, let's get off the high horse and if you guys would like to toss me of this forum because my participation hasn't been too active lately, suit yourselves.

Hope this is not too late but Happy Birthday Chuck for keeping us on the straight and narrow

My only thought on this, as you correctly summarized it, is that this is not old folks music even though I'm 53. I've only been a fanatic for six years and what that means is that you need to attain a certain maturity to appreciate this music (even though you may not understand everything you're hearing). I don't think that I could have appreciated Elvin, Art, Bird, Coltrane, Duke, etc. at that age. Some, of course, can, but I think a lot can't. The closest that an inexperienced person could get to understanding jazz would be soul jazz because it's so guttural. If you can't appreciate Jimmy Smith or Groove Holmes, you ain't got no soul, whatever age you are. And at that age, I loved soul. At any rate, with maturity comes wisdom and I hope that some of the younger generation will appreciate this music, that we're desperately trying to keep alive in our collective memories.

Just received my set today too and right now I'm listening to Disc 2, the Lee Morgan session. The number is 2032.

Gary welcome and hope you find a home here!

Essential? That's hard to define. A lot of those 10" Blue Notes from the 50s are essential and very overlooked, probably 'cause they're not in circulation. The George Wallington (part of the Frank Foster CD reissue) is essential as is the Maggies and Introducing Kenny Drew. For guitar enthusiasts (heck, for anybody), the Sal Salvador is damn overlooked and damn good.

Welcome Gary. Where It's At since Dan posted it has become a big favorite of mine. So thanks to Dan and you for keeping him alive.

I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch the Champions League final next week. At least, I hope it's more exciting than last year's nil nil result.

Larry, interesting analysis. What do you think of Scott Hamilton? I haven't heard that much of his other than a cd I picked up recently that he did with Eddie Higgins for Venus.

Second that recommendation.

Oh, I love this movie man, especially when Sigourney Weaver gets told off and when Melanie Griffith tells her friend where she's calling from at the end of the movie. Great theme.

I wonder how many people have just ordered the Jones Mosaic. I have and I see that Tony (Dr. J) has. I also believe Tony's words are right on the mark.

See this thread for your answer.

You the man! Come to SF sometime and see a game in Pacbell Park (or whatever they're calling it now.) The new ballpark downtown. It's right by the water; you'd love it! Who here can say they were at the old Polo Grounds or old Connie Mack? Me!

Clemens may be 7-0 but Piazza got some more revenge by denying him his eighth. Metsies are looking good, pulling another out of the hat tonight. Whoda thunk they'd only be one game under 500 at this point in the season

It's true; not winning more hardware is a disappointment but an incredible season they had. They just don't seem to do well in Europe. But with two league titles and 2 FA cups in the last 3 years, it's hard to complain. Has Chelsea fired Ranieri yet. I hope not. He's a class act. Perhaps if he's fired, Real Madrid will pick him because they are staggering to the finish line. It just shows that defense needs to be paid attention to. They were stupid to sell Makelele to Chelsea and not pay him his due. They're regretting that decision dearly.

Bill, those are some serious looking pictures. I'm glad you're ok. Deer are a perennial problem in NJ. A few years ago in our town one caused a fatal accident, killing a teacher and one of her students in her car. The deer crossed the road and ran into the car and somehow the deer's head wound up going into the driver who obviously lost control and hit a tree, killing her and the student, both of whom were not wearing belts. The teacher's children were with her but they were wearing belts and both survived. It was an incredibly bad tragedy.

God with God Elvin and thank you more than you can know.