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I dug him on Murphy Brown.

Paging Clem...

That's the same as the Bethlehem (or Urania) cd Lon mentions. Excellent. I did not know that. GREAT side!

I'll never pass through Knoxville again without feeling creepy.

Found here: I think there should be a Congressional hearing...

Indeed!

What's the "Columbia" EQ?

There was a thing out on Drive Archives w/Tea, Ruby Braff, Lucky Thompson, and Denzil Best (a.o.) that is as groovy as the personnel is unlikely. Well worth finding.

If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care. I don't care.

Did you get the single or double disc?

Well, yeah, any horn is meant to be played. But this type of display is a worthy one, I think. If the rods and screws are oiled regularly, the only real cause for concern would be the pads drying and cracking. And if the pads are kept oiled or otherwise treated, it's good to go at any time.

Very popular, actually. Conns were the horn of choice for many a fine player. In fact, one model is known today as the "Chu Berry model". Conns had a great sound, big and full. It wasn't until Selmer introduced the Balanced Action, followed relatively quickly by the (rightly) legendary Mark VI, that Selmer began to pull away from the pack. This was due mainly to Selmer's design re: key layout that facilitated rapid fingering, as well as the refinements they made to the horn's basic intonation and evenness of sound. Those old horns (King as well as Conn, and even Buescher, which was Ike Quebec's horn of choice) often need a little extra "attention" when playing them, and the key layout at first seems ridiculously spread out and unnatural), but the attention is rewarded by a sound that is simply beautiful. I had a chance to play an old Selmer "cigar cutter" once, about 25 years ago, and althought the intonation was hairy, to put it mildly, the tone was to die for.Which was what I was hoping the owner would do...

Combination of how they have the horn angled and the way the Conns were designed. Here's a Conn from the other side:

And some REALLY good suits that have been worn well, with some hip-ass wingtips that haven't been shined in a while! To say nothing of a bulky-ass Conn 10M and one of those Otto Link pieces with no neck on 'em. Yeah!

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/instrumen...ster-young.html

So, what does this Horsecollar cat sound like?

Great news!

B. Bopstein

But he did endose which brings us full circle, in a roundabout way.

And wasn't Horsecollar the guy who Dizzy referred to as an original avant-gardist (or some such) in his autobiography for hiw tendency to play whatever he felt like anywhere in the tune?

The Nessa stuff is my favorite official Von. His Steeplechase quartet things come real close to getting that vibe, though. Those would be my rec for where to go from here. Frankly, I'm in a slow-but-sure "if Von's on it, buy it" mode, and the rewards have been high.

Send 'em some autographed CDs! SOMEBODY will have a CD player, I'm sure.

I've got a bootleg of Boots playing "Introspection", and it KICKS ASS!!!! Another mystery solved!

PETE!

Step outside for another hit Jim. I'm already bruised and battered. Hmmm....battered....must be time to get FRIED!