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insert tasteless joke here. Well, my first response was, "What, did he walk into the wrong store?"

Laugh about Boston Market all you want, but you'll never guess who my wife ran into at a Boston Market just yesterday? Believe it or not, but Stevie Wonder. My wife and her parents were meeting her brother, a pilot, for lunch during a layover at LAX, and circumstances that need not be gotten into led them to a strip mall not far from either the airport or his hotel. And while there, Stevie Wonder and a companion walked in for lunch. Needless to say, a crowd gathered and hounded Stevie during his meal - often quite rudely according to Sheri - but he was most accomodating for picture and autograph requests. So there Burger King and McDonalds! B-)

Bullwinkle!

Welcome!

The packaging is indeed memorable for its stupidy. It's so bad that you can't really believe just how bad it is, especially from mere pictures (and you can't get tetanus from a mere picture).

I gave all mine away when I was a kid. And I've spent the last thirty years buying them again!

What Jeff said.

He's far from a favorite, but I really like his quartet w/Desmond. I'm not very familiar with his work before or after that. He's also never kicked my dog or spit in my eye...

Man, I should quit the board for a while - it would save me some money!

This is just the kind of thing to unite us as one and help put the recent board disagreements behind us...

GOM: thanks! I'll have to look for these...

I'm intrigued. What's the 411 on these?

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You heard correctly. It's "sorta" animated.

Y'know, I always get "Body and Soul" wrong. Every single time. I don't know what it is about it. It's only one of the most famous songs of all time. I've even seen the damn movie...!

Better late than never.... Disc 2 1. Very old school but not “old” if you know what I mean. This is too “dixieland-meets-marching band” for me to listen to often, but how can such stuff not make you kick up your feet and smile. Delightful! 2. “ah shit…” 3. “Sunny Side of the Street.” Sure sounds like Johnny Hodges to me – or someone trying very hard to sound like him. Absolutely lovely tone, and such a sexy, languid pace. Playing this for my wife should get me some nookie at least. The vocal is actually a bit surprising – wasn’t expecting that. A bit Armstrong-ish, a bit Teagarden-ish, but obviously neither. Whatever – I love this track! 4. Jumpin’ tune – I like it. No idea though. 5. Okay, but doesn’t really do it for me. Nice interlude, though… 6. “Basin St. Blues” Same vocalist as track 3? Fun, but goes on a bit too long for me, which takes it into parody territory. Bet it would be a blast to see this group live. 7. “Mood Indigo” played very slowly and drunkenly? I sorta kinda dig this one, but it’s not what I’d use to turn a newbie onto Ellington. Hmmm. Then it goes on far too long and I no longer know what it is… 8. This is better. Another Ellington tune, I think, but the title escapes me (“Blood Count?” – which would make it Strayhorn). Nice enough and a lovely sax tone, but almost a little too genteel for my tastes. The (electric?) piano adds to the mood. Again, this one goes on too long… 9. More Ellington! Earlier tune, but I forget the title. Okay. 10. Hokey organ opening, but that’s the worst part of this cookin’ rendition of a great Sinatra tune. Really like this around four to five minutes in. 11. “Whisper Not” again. Lovely version (is there a bad one?). 12. “Prelude to a Kiss?” Sparse but lovely version – sax, bass, and very quiet drums – but I won’t even hazard a guess as to who… 13. 14. Okay. Very conventional after what came before…

For those interested, it looks like there's a few spots available on easytree RIGHT NOW!

Maybe next time you should just call him up and ask him if he has Prince Albert in a can...

Great score, Dan - congrats! I didn't know you liked the Three Sounds...

That's obviously not true, but still... don't sell short the importance of "a laugh or two." Your posts will be missed, but I'm glad to hear that you're not really going anywhere. There's nothing wrong with taking a break, but if we see you start hanging around AAJ there's gonna be hell to pay! CHEERS!

I call dibs on "JSangry2"

Is your friend's name Aric?

like this...?

Kind of a broken record, yeah. And the sort of record like "Most Polluted Cities in America," yeah that too... Not a record to be proud of today...

Flurin's certainly no bully (though, being a king, I hear he rules with an authoritative fist). I misunderstood Dizzy's earlier post about Flurin and thought he was accusing Flurin of doing the bullying. Now I understand that Che was calling Flurin a bully, which is of course ludicrous. But y'know what? Coming from Che I couldn't see how anyone could take that comment seriously - or see the need to defend Flurin from it. My apologies for the confussion and for not defending him sooner, but I simply didn't see the need - not any more than if Che called him a blue polka-dotted giraffe. "Uh, hey Organissimo guys, I just gotta come to King Ubu's defense and call out Che for calling him a blue polka-dotted giraffe."