Jazzdog

Anything with the JB's on it!! MACEO!!!

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the Verve Elite series? I have seen that Alan Shorter disk, but otherwise, I dont think I have any of them.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the Verve Elite series? I have seen that Alan Shorter disk, but otherwise, I dont think I have any of them.

Well, I almost immediately picked up BoB and BIABH as upgrades and Tracks because I have never owned it before. After that, I think I will wait on these until I can get them at a better price, or ask for a bunch of them for Christmas. I think I can wait that long as there are only about 4 or 5 others I really want to get. The SACD thing for me is a big bonus because, well I've had the same CD changer for almost 10 years now, and my next deck will be SACD/DVD-A/etc compatible. So why not start thinking about the future now!

How about Markcombshisjazzmoose? I hate my handle...it's stupid. On the BNBB I was Hankfan. I know you all wanted to know what became of him!

aparently not!!

I hope you got at least a fucking good trade in for these!!

27!! I plan on getting the Morgan, Young and Hill Conns when they come out next month to collection bring the total to 30. The ones I had passed on that are no longer available outnumber than the ones I have sold, and those I do not miss much. I never got into the All Seeing Eye but am looking forward to checking it out again as an RVG. I have been on the fence about getting rid of the Coles Conn, but this has some good playing by Hendu, but I'd gladly swap with someone for Third Season, Steppin Out or Stop and Listen!!!

A time best left to history.

I have seena few (none that I remember wanting to pick up) but those covers always reminded me of those cheapo looking A& M style Chuck Mangione records that my mom used to buy when I was a tyke. "Chase the Clouds Away" it was a picutre of a rooftop and Chuck is there rising out of thin air blowing his flugel. Then I saw some similar looking Wes Montgomery covers and I thought...Jeez!!! Those covers always put me off the music!

The design seems kind of basic (an essential problem with these Conn's in general) but I love the photo!!!

The pointy index finger is basically a code. It means, "Let's all bring this down on the ONE" which is musicians shorthand for "Let's make this real Fonky" The larry Young pic loks like it was taken from a live performance somewhere. But now I am curious, what is the fundamental difference between the B-3 and the C-3. Are they both made by Hammond or is the C-3 something else?

55 RVG's. Funny story. Several years ago (as a result from buying eds 2 and then 3 of the AMG) I drastically buffered up my Jazz collection and BN cd's were no exception. This was prior to the RVG series, or at least around 98 or early 99. Anyways, after this surge in activity, I went off jazz for a while into other interests. By the time I started picking up some of the RVG's I realized that all of the older editions I had were among the first to be remastered. That list contained Idle Moments, Out To Lunch, Speak No Evil, PoD, Somethin' Else, Maden Voyage, Soul Station, Real McCoy and Unity. The rest of the stuff I gradually sold off. I have only upgraded a few of those (Somethin Else, PoD, Soul Station and now STFNL). Baically i want to upgrade everything. I upgraded my Rush, Genesis and Floyd collections and am gradually upgrading my Tulls as well! I think its a necessary process, but how far does it have to go. Now I have to worry about my Dylan collection and the Costello Reissues are now all released!!

The cover of Blue Train may be my favorite photo of anyone, anywhere!!!

I have been holding back comment on this one for a while. I haven't heard this in years. I had a review of it up on a website for years and years until I stopped maintaining it. My writings at the time were still a bit naive, as I was trying to capture a mood comparable to the music itself, and that is difficult to do. The music is advanced, even for 2003. Any player nowadays interpreting the same material would play it straight (Hi, Kenny Garrett) and not as forward in thought or conception. I love the idea that he stuck to the Atlantic period here, and strayed from the scenarios Trane would have set the pieces during this time period. Trane was somewhere quite different. It's not his own music, but it's more interesting than many of the pieces that he would have written for his own recordings.

Yeah jazzbo, maybe I am one of the few and proud, but I care as much about who remastered the tapes as much as I care about who wrote the liner notes. I just like music.

I don't know if it's my favorite or not, but there is a photo in the Blue Note Years book on pg. 61 of Art Blakey and Philly Joe Jones. Art is holding a drink and a cig in one hand and and Philly Joe is there and Art looks like he about to just KILL SOMEONE (at least it does to me) and PJ is there trying to talk some sense into him like... "Fuck that motherfucker, that cat ain't shit" or some such. It kills me to look at it, and it kind of puts me there, in the shot, as it were.

Ahhh...you people make WAY to big a deal about this stuff anyways!

I don't really go in that much for Soundtrack cd's. Usually I find certain scores works best within the context of the film. There are some notable exceptions though though. Phillip Glass' works for the Reggio films and Peter Gabriel's music for Last Temptation of Christ Passion. Two of my personal favorite films that have great soundtracks to boot are such as Get Shorty and The Big Lebowski. Also another personal favorite is the music to Grosse Pointe Blank...if you are into that sort of thing that is!

ahhh...someone must have heard you...it's gone now!!!

Yeah, same goes for me and Search. The rest I will be hearing for the first time. Also, Soul Stream wonders how GG fits in on Search...just like on anything else, he fits in just fine. I love his fills in the title tune. Like I said before, the whole set just sparkles from start to finish!

Hmmmm...I wonder if he was in there with John and Yoko?

Okay, I was hoping someone would make a comparison to Banned...I was a bit disapointed when I first heard it, but it's a fucking great disc, so what the hey!!

The box is sturdy and clean looking, quite unlike the Selects and the Lee Morgan Lighthouse set.

Yes you do Jim...if you like the lumbering Strains of OTB you'll LOVE Tonight. Whomever said it was a funereal dirge of an album hit the nail right on the head. I was lucky enough to catch Neil playing the title track at the Warfild a few years back, and you could tell (or at least I could tell) that singing those words broughthim a great painfulness...30 years after the events depicted in the song. It killed me and he ended the show with that song!