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Anybody who posts that much in a single day either needs to get a life or else is avoiding housecleaning.

Is this the beginning of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle revival?

Eddie Miller could play!

Same here. I had planned to pick this up at leisure, someday, sometime. Who knew? Well, obviously the folks at Rhino, but other than that...

For future reference, when it comes to anything I say about music other than provable historica data and/or technical detail, just assune that it's all opinion, nothing more. That goes for most everybody here as well, I'd suppose. It's all opinion, every bit of it, which is why it's fun to exchange and debate. Facts is facts, but opinions fly all over the map. If my opinions are strongl;y held, so be it. I've developed them over time and not without a lot of testing. They do tend to be strong, but that's how it goes. They're still just opinions, though, and if you prefer Young to Eaton, hey, that's what you dig and I'll only tell you that my opinion is different from yours, and tell you why. I'll not not that you're "wrong" for doing so. THAT would be wrong! Have an opinion. Have a strong opinion and an informed one. And stick to it, by god! Just appreciate that others will be doing the same.

A musician is a musician as long as he/she plays, even if it's in private, and even if it's only in their head. Working is the best/healthiest scenario, obviously, but the point is this - sometimes the Kosmic Kourt sentences us to time in the Karmatic Slammer. Sometimes the charges and the sentences are legit, and sometimes they're bogus. Doesn't matter. DOES NOT MATTER. You do your time and do not let the bullshit break you. To paraphrase Dr, King, if it befalls you to be a streetsweeper, be a jazz streetsweeper, and do so proudly and, if need be, defiantly. If it is your lot to become an office manager, be a jazz office manager. Etc. The music is the best and healthiest expression of who we are, but if need be, we can play the music in other ways. We must never lose sight of this! These are our lives we're talking about. OUR lives, dammit. and we must never forget that. Better to die on our feet than live on our knees, however that plays out for the individual.

Is yesterday ok? A new Half-Price Books & Records opened up in McKinney, and I just happened to stumble on it on the way to taking my car in for servicing. Serendippity, if only on a small scale. CD: Jimmy Raney & Sonny Clark - TOGETHER (Xanadu) Nat Cole/Buddy Rich - ANATOMY OF A JAM SESSEION (Black Lion) Don Byas - TENOR GIANT (Drive Archives) The Cole was $7.98 (star-power, I suppose...), the others $4.98. LP (all @ $4.98!): Sonny Rollins - EASY LIVING (Milestone -not a great record, but I needed a copy anyway) Carmen McRae - CAN'T HIDE LOVE (Blue Note - not a big McRae fan, but arrangers include, a.o., Thad Jones. Gerald Wilson, & Johnny Mandel, so hey, for that price...) Teo Macero - ACCOUSTICAL SUSPENSION (Doctor Jazz - feature a piano duet between Mike Nock & Mal Walron. as well as 6 cuts by a group that includes, a.o., Gato Barbieri, Dave Liebman, John Stubblefield, Jorge Dalto, LArry Coryell, and....Lionel Hapton How do you NOT buy that?) Dexter Gordon - MORE THAN YOU KNOW (Inner City release of the Steeplechase classic) And finally, the one that I nearly expelled a loud "WTF" over when seeing it... WILD BILL DAVIDSON & EDDIE MILLER PLAY HOAGY CHARMICHAEL, a 1981 RealTime Records Digital recording. I mean, jeez, Eddie Miller in Direct To Disc (sorata, I guess) Digital. Who'da thunk it?

Yo Tyno - Not surpringly, there's no AMG listing for Elder Don on a Little Willie LIttlefield album/compilation/etc. so help a brother out here and point a finger in the direction, willya?

Oh REALLY?!?! Pour me a cup, will ya'? Ill be right over.

Pretty depressing stuff. REALLY depressing, actually. But it's Bud, so that means something different, at least to me. So yeah, buy it. Just don't expect to be exhillerated or anything like that. And don't listen to it if you're even remotely considering suicide. I'm serious.

I'd not (usually) buy anything from DG rated lower than VG+. That's their "cutoff" point for me. Also, they seem to apply a chronologically sliding scale, so a 60s VG+ is liable to be a bit more worn than a 70s VG+. Plus, they give weight to cover condition, which is important for some people, apparently. But in my experience (and I buy lots of stuff from them), an item like this in VG+ is going to be a good buy, and if I didn't already have it, I'd buy it. What's it go for on eBay? As for seeing it "a lot", well, maybe in some places, but not everybody lives in those places, dig? Perhaps I should've been posted in the Vinyl Forum....

There appear to be many items of interest in that catalog...

Welcome, Marcel! No, I don't know of any other film of Bird, but that last item you mention is a new one to me. It sounds intriguing, even at only one minute. Where has it been shown?

Yeah, Wayne Henderson's trombone is so much so what, Joe Sample could (and still can) play great, but hey, so could/can lots of cats, & Stix Hooper's the same way (although I can hear litttle bits and pieces of regional flayva that hold appeal. The bass chair was an open position (so to speak....), & with Buster Williams they had a good'un, but still... It's Wilton Felder that gave that group the immediacy and personality that I like out of music. Now, when they got into the funk stuff, that's when the other cats' flava became more pronounced, but for the Jazz Crusaders, I'm listening to Felder first and foremost.

Yeah, I know, but it was just too easy.

Too bad Albert Ayler's dead. That's the guy that "got there" before Hendrix did. Not exactly, but for all intents and purposes.

Does an Oscar Peterson stamp mean that your letter gets there twice as fast but has its meaning removed?

http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzlp2.htm#7143 Carpe diem.

Oh, if we're talking porn, I once heard "Big Swing Face" in a porn film. In Vegas, no less! Can't speak for anybody else, but if I had to fuck to Buddy Rich, I think I'd just as soon go without. Either that, or try to figure out how to concoct (and survive) a massive Viagra/cocaine cocktail. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Whoa...Mike...think about this... I empathize with the sentiment, I really do, but, dude, that's a freakin' radical step. Just remember - gigs are not the be-all and end-all of what music really is. It's one thing to stop gigging, for a while or permanently. It's another thing to stop playing altogether. Only you know what really needs to be done, but once a musician, always a musician, in mind, body, and spirit. It's not like switching from Ford to Honda, if you know what I mean... Whatever you do, don't go and ho' out just for the money. Creative types who do that inevitably become the vilest of the vile. My prayers are with you, if that's ok.

I heard Sonny Rollins w/Jim Hall piped into a Jack In The Box ca. 1974. Didn't know enough of the material at that time to know what tune it was, but definitely knew it was them. Also heard "So What" (the KOB version) in a Kroger ca. 1987.

The main interest for me in this set will be Wilton Felder. LOVE that tone of his.

Thanks. It's been a few years since we had a regular venue, so here's to hope! Otoh, we're all pretty tough characters, but boning rawhide is the kind of thing that can cause irreversible damage, and we're so NOT all about inflicting on others what we ourselves have had to endure.

Lucky Strike. As well.

Yeah, but I think that Cleveland Eaton's bass playing on those sides is worthy of your consideration. Cat had a nice BIG tone on the wood, and more modern-oriented chops than his predecessor. The Young-Holt group is archetypical, to be sure, but the trios with Eaton (White wasn't with him all that long, btw) made more interesting (relatively speaking) music, especially once Ramsey started playing Rhodes. This is all just my personal preference, mind you.