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Fine player, just not of interest to me. No connection. Just one of those things.

For those down on Vista, I'd really appreciate hearing the specifics if your problems, as well as you system specs,

On the cusp or ordering a new system, comfortable w/XP, leary of Vista BUT.... My son has Vista & so far so good. He says that if you don't have a least 4 GB memory (which he does), it ain't gonna fly right. XP, otoh, he says, only (effectively) supports up to 2GB RAM. Is this correct? I want to believe him, and I want to do like I always do, which is to buy a system that'll be practical and functional w.o after-market upgrades for as long as possible. If Vista is really as bad as the buzz, I can't imagine some serious patches not coming out at some point, but....who knows... Plus, the systems I'm looking at that meet the above criteria all come with more than 2GB RAM. So to get that and XP seems kinda...dysfunctional. So anyhow, if you're using Vista and aren't happy, specifically what kinds of problems are you having, and what are you system specs, specifically amount of RAM? Likewise, if you're using Vista and are happy, what do you like about it, and how much RAM do you got? Got to make a movesoon, so any and all input will ne greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm not saying that there's no "wider meaning". There's always wider meaning. I'm just saying that what there is (or isn't) springs from the locus of entertainment.

Well, for one thing, it shows that the potential demand for cable in rural England is probably gonna be pretty low....

There was a CD from circa 1990 that had two bonus tracks. I have a fairly recent Japanese reissue (UCCU-5165) which also has those two bonus tracks. And the CD Universe listing also has two bonus tracks (could be in error from the previous CD reissue, I suppose). The original Argo album had 8 tracks, while these CDs had 10. However, Lord lists a total of 17 tracks of which 4 are unissued, so a complete edition would be the definitive way to do it. Not that Verve in 2008 will. I might be wrong about this, but think that maybe there's one that's only been released on a Chess/Cadet/Whatever 2-fer LP from the very early 70s called Cool Cookin' that was ostensibly a "best of" affair. That one had 2 previously unissued cuts, but I think that maybe one has since been reissued elsewhere.

Or to put it another way - did the Big Bands Ever Come Back? Well, yeah, but not like that. But does that prevent there from still being big bands of all sorts willing to go out there and provide product? Hell no. And some of them are actually enjoyable - for what they are, on their own terms, and, unless you really really need it, for the amount of time it takes to get what it is they're giving, which ain't too terribly long.

Life moves ahead irrevocably, people less so. There's always gonna be retro-something, and no matter what, it all comes down to it being entertainment uber alles. Looking at it as anything else - pro or con - is so much "wishful thinking. On the relatively rare occasions where it successfully becomes anything else, odds are quite good that it ain't gonna be "popular", because that's introducing an extra layer of....something that the people who want to hear it ain't gonna get. Usually.

Just don't confuse me with a bitchass punk, because that is one thing I'll never be.

Yeah, dude, you're a veritable punk ass bitch! But seriously, based on my experience, they'd only hear a difference in that Hamilton would likely seem more directly understandable, and therefore "better" to them. Now, if these were people about whom I might think that "if only they knew about/heard XYZ, I know they'd dig it", then yeah, I might get upset or something. But from experience, that's almost always just not the case. It's not a case of them digging this because they don't know any different, it's a case of them digging this because there's this...direct, A-to-B-Nothing-In-Between connection that is not at all unlike one sees in Pop Music, which might well in fact be what this is. There's a guy around here, 60-something car salesman, part-time jazz DJ, hardcore Concord fan. He "gets" this stuff in a way that I don't even claim to begin to understand, and has from the git-go - this is his music. Is there any way that this guy is ever gonna "come over to our side"? Short of head trauma causing a loss of identity, I doubt it. Then there's the younger fans - they want "a sound", period, don't care where it comes from, and ain't looking to expand. "History" is so not what they're about. This stuff meets their lifestyle needs, they're happy, and good for them about that. You ever meet the type person for whom 50s "cool" was the shit? They didn't go for before & they didn't go for after. Didn't know, didn't want to know, wouldn't have a clue even if they tried (or wanted to). Wgole 'nother world, that one is, and this appears to me to be somewhat the same. Aside from that, though, Dan's right, Hamilton has evolved/deepened as a player. I still get the above-mentioned "pop" vibe out of him vis-a-vis "serious jazz", but as somebody who's always dug the concept of pop anything on its own terms, I feel that he's serious about what he does relative to who he does it for and why he does it. I've more than once found myself digging him on the radio, not as a "heavy listening experience", but somebody whose swing & tone feel good while driving along on my way from place to place. Considering how much of what I hear on jazz radio (this is all more recent stuff, say from the last 4-5 years) makes me violently vulgar, that's an endorsement, believe me.

Yo' mamma a punk ass bitch.

Well, yeah, but otoh, I doubt that too many people who are really into this stuff to the exclusion of anything else are really thinking about it this hard. Whether or not they should be is another thing, but it kinda begs the question - if all you're looking for is a good time, and somebody gives it to you in a way that satisfies you, isn't it sort of a victimless crime? I mean, I know for a fact that Dan digs Percy France hard, but is the average "Scott Hamilton Fan" really aware enough of what the difference is to even think about it, much less think at length about it? Nah... Bottom line for all concerned in this scene, I think, is that it's about entertainment & craft, two venerable qualities of no small importance to Life In General. As far as that goes, they do it well enough to keep each other happy, and they, unlike the Marailisians (no BN, I'm not referring to you specifically) tend to leave the rest of us alone. I know a few people who have a few Scott Hamilton albums who've never even heard of too much of anybody else, nor do they really care to. It's "lifestyle music" to them, and hey, good for them about that. This is one case where "live and let live" has a happy ending for all concerned, at least in my experience. Would that is was always such.

Actually, that was one of Duke's stock quotes, iirc. He had a million of 'em. And also iirc, the "interviewer" in MIMM was actually Duke himself.

I've owned the LP for many years - always suspected it was Yusef, which was eventually confirmed to me by Dakota herself. Cover art on back of LP also suggests Yusef. I should be getting the LP in a few hours, so....good! Just got home with it, and see what you mean about the back cover art.

I dunno, I get that "Concord Dull" thing too, even with people I usually dig, like Al Cohn. I was really off into Cohn's Xanadu sides for a while, then picked up his Concord for more of the same, and...nope. Maybe it's their eq-ing or something, but there's a lack of...something, somewhat reminiscent of the "flavor remover" that Woody Allen claimed his mom put all her cooking through.

I guess what I'm finding now (for myself, mind you) is that those things are vessels, and that what's inside those vessels matters to me more than the vessel itself. Also, that as time goes by, the "general focus" of the "musical culture" seems (again, to me) to be more on the vessel than its contents. The age thing, though, that's interesting to me. Born in 1955, I've never lived in a world without "Rock & Roll", and music before The Beatles (yeah, I saw them on Sullivan in '64, I was 9, and oh yeah, it changed my life, like...instantly) as I remember living it (as opposed to having since learned it) seems like some primordial mist or something that only came into focus and began to evolve with that wakeup (startup?) call from Liverpool. But that's me & my time, and we all, older & younger alike, come at it from our own times & places, don't we...

Rava is looking really...old, and in the coolest possible way. If they ever make a movie of his life, they should dig up Lee Marvin to play him, and not bother to touch him up.

So Scott did the self-produced thing himself with this, eh: Interesting.

MAybe the reviewer heard a leaked advance copy via the internet & was too embarrassed to admit it. That shit happens all the time, ya'know. Somebody leaks it out on the net, and BOOM, everybody's heard it before they maybe even have cover art designed.

Up?

I've owned the LP for many years - always suspected it was Yusef, which was eventually confirmed to me by Dakota herself. Cover art on back of LP also suggests Yusef. I should be getting the LP in a few hours, so....good!

I have no idea who the hell Jesse Belvin is, but I take even greater comfort in the fact that even Jim thought it was Johnny Mathis. From what I gather, Jesse Belvin was kinda "under the radar" for most folks during the 50s, one of those guys who was always connected enough to make records, but never enough to really break through (as mentioned before, "Goodnight My Love" was his only "big" hit). But the cat left a pretty good legacy as an R%B snger of both "smooth" and "rough" material. He's got some stuff out on the Fantasy R&B reissues, but who knows if those are still available... Check him out, he's a name you probably will want to at least know about: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...3ifyxqw5ldse~T1

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