JSngry

It's been a while since I checked it out. I remember liking it well enough, if not loving it. Now, that Montreux thing is SICK. Woody came to kill, and kill he does. I don't think there's a comparison really. But like I said, it's been a while since last I heard BLOW UP, so don't quote me, ok?

Love it. I cried the first two or three times I saw it. Dexter's NOT acting. Contrived dialogue or not (how is any fictitious dialogue not going to be contrived to some extent?), there's a lot of truth in that movie. Sometimes it brings a smile, sometimes not.

You're right. Told you I didn't know anything about this stuff...

Time to think outside the box. The board logo has given me an idea for a new canned pasta: FRANCO-AMERICAN ORAGANISSIM - Os!!!! Moms and kids both LOVE this stuff, and guys eat it straight out the can, so you CAN NOT miss!!!

I guess the "official" RCA Victor NYC studio was Judson Hall? (I'm really not sure about that...) Anyway, that studio had a sound that was every bit as identifiable as Columbia's or Van Gelder's. I think of it as a "hard" sound, compressed in a way. It shows up across the board, on pop and jazz sessions alike, and you can hear it on old 78s as well as state-of-the-art LPs. Also, I've hear some RCA Victor live stuff that has that a tinge of that sound. Why. I don't know. Somebody tell me if you know. please. So what was the deal? Was it the studio that had the sound, or was the sound the result of the RCA engineers equipment and recording techniques? I don't know squat about this, Educate me, please! As always, thanks in advance.

Distribution volunteers, you should have an e-mail waiting for you. (Some have responded already.) It's time to roll!

I mostly know of him through his early 60s work w/Stan Kenton, which is very nice, and pretty distinctive. The guy gets props from me!

Jeez, a stupid DVD player... It's not like it was a Who concert or anything like that...

Easy enough - it's a bootleg. Not that I know anything about stuff like that... Jim, I am not saying I don't know how he missed this one, rather, I can't see how he could miss with this one since it is probably very good. Just a point of clarification. Nice to know it is a bootleg. Wondered how I had missed a Harold Land! Thanks for the info. Just playin' with you bro'. I stumbled across this one entirely by accident about 10 or so years ago in the Austin Tower (not the Austin Powers!). I had driven down there to browse and pick up some legit import releases and stuff like that. Well lo and BE-hold, they had an impressive selection of "grey market" items such as this. There went the budget!!!

I realized that I had a personality deficiency when I started getting kicked back into places I'd been kicked out of...

Easy enough - it's a bootleg. Not that I know anything about stuff like that...

Concorde by the MJQ is one. The MJQ will prove to be a hotbed of jazz fuqality. Stan Kenton's Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra did "Prelude and Fuque" by, if I remember correctly, John Williams, long before he became Mr. Movie. There's more.

Smae here. I can write, but I never learned to read....

Reciprocal, yes. Les was quite prolific at Pacific Jazz. East Coast vs West Coast: East Coast: The Sidewinder West Coast: The Shampoo The difference is obvious!

That was Mark Knopfler...

Ok. SOME of that stuff is/was fairly common on various "budget" labels, but some of it wasn't. Definitely a series worth keeping an eye out for.

For me it's "Goodbye". If that's "acting", it's pretty damn convincing... (and do you notice the similarities between Nelson Riddle's writing here and Gil Evans'? Must be the Ravel in both of them...)

I certainly hope so!

Those things started out as cutouts, if I remember right. There was some sort of connection to the Sonny Lester group, since Solid State material turned up. But so did some happening live stuff. Where you finding these things nowadays? Oh, wait - there were tWO "Europa" series as I recall - one was something like "Historia d'el Jazz" or something like that, with dark covers, and then there was the ones with the white covers, which are the ones I've picked up some of.

Oh HELL yeah!

The band Cream? Or the magazine Creem? (gimme my prunes before I get cranky! ) The magazine. Bean wacker. Oh fuck, I'm gonna get a warning. Please don't take it too personally Sngry! 3 Have a prune... I don't. Hell, I'm old enough to remember when HIT PARADER was a SERIOUS music magazine! Still have 1 or 2 issues, one where Al Kooper talks about the birth of Blood Sweat & Tears and how he's copped some riffs from Maynard's band and stuff like that. Chris Dreja listing Jimmy Smith & MJQ albums among his favorites, stuff like that. A history of the Seattle music scene (in, like, 1968!), a thoughtful article about how Rock had peaked and had no place left to go but downhill due to it's new self-importance (again, in 1968!). Those were the days. Hand me another prune, please...

Carnegie Hall, right? Big Band, on Columbia. That's good stuff. I really, REALLY like McPherson on LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC, especially on the second half of "The Chill Of Death". That'sa some pretty deep stuff, what he plays there.

You're welcome! As for #30, since I'm at #24 now, let me freeze there, and open up #30 for somebody else. Cool?

No problem whatsoever!