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Hey, I'm old school. SOMEBODY gets some money somewhere along the line.

Giv ethe kid a break. He's putting the word out in more than one place. Same words, maybe, but what the hell. He's 19 and full of vigah. And if he's not 19, well, we'll deal with that...

Do a search of the jazz-Out-Of-Print items. No real "bargains", but I found the Woody Shaw thing on In and Out I've been looking for for years, and there's other stuff in there too. Better carpe diem if you find something, though, , 'cause I think I got the last/only Woody. Supplies might well be limited on these things.

Hey Tony, you got any fake books for sale?

Is Tati one of those things you either get or don't? I've tried. I recognize the brilliance. I'm a bit of a student of all forms of humor and the "science" thereof, so I understand what his deal is, and how superbly he does it. But I just don't laugh. I'll keep trying, though.

Reason says New England, and most of the gut is leaning that way. But I've got a funny feeling about Cajun power coming into play. Like I said elsewhere, there's a BUNCH of Cajuns in the Houston area, and if you think I'm trying to be funny, I'm not. That's a VERY tightly-knit culture, and the whole psyche/vibe thing might just prove to be the extra boost that bumps Delhomme up the notch needed to go all the way. Maybe. I'll be pulling Panthers, but if I was betting (and I'm not), it would be Pats. My 17 year old son, who has a better than 90% pick-rate the last two seasons (straight picks, no spread, and no gambling, not that I know of anyway, which is kind of a drag... ) is picking Carolina, but says he's not sure because the only playoff games he's missed on this season have involved New England, which kinda proves what I want to believe - New England SHOULDN'T win so much, but they do anyway, so there you are, dammit. Totally gut feeling, though - whoever wins will do so handily. Another Stupor Bowl. Hope there's good commercials this year!

Electric Bill:

Sounds like a good deal to me. To "civilians", the notion of fake books like these seem like outright piracy or such, but for working musicians, they've been a fact of life for longer than most of us have been alive. I'm a bit surprised to see them offered so openly (to say nothing of so DAMN cheaply), but I'm seriously considering ordering one for myself, my old ones being tattered and torn. To get REAL Real Books (not the bogus "official" books which are cumbersome and not necessarily more accurate) entails finding a "connection" and paying whatever the going rate is, which can vary considerably depending on supply-and-demand. Last I heard, the going rate was $35 each. But I've heard of them going for as much as $50. Each. Remember, these things are SUPPOSED to be "for professional use only", which translates to "honor amongst theives" if you want to look at it that way. They're not supposed to take the place of official sheet music for general public use. If you're not a working musician or a serious student, keep away from stuff like this - it's not intended for you. But I bet this cat will take your money anyway... (btw - are the SPACES books still in circulation?)

At the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, the music was consistently inspired and often historic. Count Basie welcomed back tenor great Lester Young and singer Jimmy Rushing for part of a very memorable set highlighted by "Boogie Woogie" and "Evenin'"; Young plays beautifully throughout and Rushing is in prime form. An exciting full-length version of "One O'Clock Jump" features Young, Illinois Jacquet, and trumpeter Roy Eldridge; the Basie band stretches out on "Swingin' at Newport"; and five previously unreleased selections (put out for the first time on this CD) include four Joe Williams vocals. It's a great set of music. — Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Ay88e4j471wal That's right.

In-fukkin'-credible. Some of the VERY best late-period Lester Young on record, Jo Jones rockin' EVERYBODY'S world, & Jimmy Rushing grabbing life by the balls and daring it not to like it. Life, knowing what's good for it, doesn't put up as much as even a token resistance. Do VMEs have bonus cuts? The bonus stuff on the older version (things by the then-current band, some w/Joe Williams) is good enough, and gives you value for the money, but it's ultimately ephemeral compared to the original album. Either way, you get to hear John Hammond's introductions, which give new meaning to the word "self-absorbed". Priceless!

YEAH!

Uh, AOW stands for ALBUM OF THE WEEK, not ALL OUT WANKING. Just so you know...

I had some jazz 8-tracks in the late 70s. Some even still play, I think, maybe. ON THE CORNER, SWISS MOVEMENT, i don't rembember what all. IMPULSE! ws distributed ny GRT (sic, not GRP, although they were later) at one time, and they purged 8-tracks, and later, cassettes, in a major way. If obsolete formats don't bother you, the various format and label purges that end up in cutout bins, or used to, used to be essential ports of call for anybody looking to build a collection.

Tom strikes me as somebody who's proof that you can be a nice (enough), well-intentioned soul even AFTER selling your soul to Satan. Talk about beating the odds!

It's still there, swinging than ever, 30 seconds of supreme hipness.

I think Brenda mentioned this when we were there. Yeah, she's a freakin' Cyd Chartreuse, that woman is.

It goes without saying that I'll be getting this one for some previously unavailable Sonny Rollins from 1951. But the opportunity to hear Lockjaw and Big Nick together justifies this one all by tiself, if you ask me. Tenor madness bay-bee!

To go back a little, and to contribute nothing, I was NOT a fan of Tom Landry or the Cowboys. Hated them and their robotic methodologies, to say nothing of the incredible hypocrisy and moralistic B.S. That ran through the organization. Didn't become a Cowboys fan until the Jones massacre, and although things got worse it terms of the teams PUBLIC "morality" image than they were during the Landry/Schramm years, they haven't really gotten worse. The team was comprise of coke heads and degenerates back then too, but all this bs about "America's Team", "God's Team", and the using of the genuinely clean Roger Staubach to shine so brightly as to blind the public and the media as to how rotten things really were off the field and with the front office's business dealings made it seem like Cowboy Camelot or some such. In retrospect, I can see that Landry was a great coach for his time, but truthfully, he was a limited one, qualities which are not mutually exclusive of course. He had his own little world, for football and life alike, and he was able to make it work over the course of a truly remarkable arc. But when both the game and the players began to pass him by, his vanity (which was significant) and/or general cluelessness rendered him both incapable and unwilling to make even minor adjustments, and he would have gone down in disgrace, I think, as a King Lear-ish type figure if Jones hadn't have handled his dismissal as cloddishly as he did.

I remember the Paar tonight show just a little, but I better remember the stint he did on ABC taking Dick Cavett's spot after Cavett got let go. He might have been past his prime then, maybe, and the show never really found it's groove, but the guy was definitely worth watching. But I still laugh at ABC's thinking - Cavett wasn't beating Carson, he was too "intellectual", too subtle, so who did they replace him with? JACK PARR, the King of the, as he said it, small chuckle. Oh well, it was my first chance to see Peggy Cass outside of a game show or a sitcom. She was a trip. It was a different country then. We valued the subtle things a lot more than we do now, and we had a collective sense of intellectual shame that made men like Parr both necessary and successful - you could watch him and feel good about it, because you knew that although you weren't getting anything too heavy, you were still getting something with some meat to it. I think I'll stammer more than usual tonight, and try to be a little drier in my wit while I'm at it. R.I.P., and thanks.

Yeah, track # 5 sounds SOOO familiar...

All I ask is that somebody teach me how to do The Shampoo.

Seriously, be pissed. Be VERY pissed.

Hey, they were just Improvising...

Ok, it's working now. Just another cyber-glitch it seems. Weird how something like that can come and go in a matter of minutes.

Lots of the early R&B tenor guys, the ones who played on the studio dates anyway, had roots in the Swing Era. either the big bands themselves or the jump combos which served as transition from Swing to R&B. Al Sears, Sam Taylor, Red Prysock, etc. Another branch of the tree.