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Ah. Since this thread's been resurrected and since I have a very recent digi-pic available, I suppose I should finally post a pic of my mug. This was taken last weekend at the opening of Tim Biskup's new gallery in Pasadena... For those of you old enough to remember the reference, I'm wearing what my co-workers call my "Dating Game" shirt.

Yep, you're right Lon. One of the many benefits of a multi-region player.

Lovely, wonderful movie. I believe this was nominated as "Best foreign Film" at the Academy Awards two years ago. It's been out on DVD, but I'm sure glad that Miramax decided to release it theatrically as well.

That's crazy talk, Chris. Next you'll be telling us "real stories" about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and guys who drive around delivering milk and Charles Chips!

Was going through some files and found this one, from the Stuff Smith set... (A) Stuff Smith (v), Dudley Brooks (p), Jess Simpkins (b) Radio Recorders, LA October 25, 1956 4037-3 Hillcrest previously unissued 4038-1 The Blues I Know - 4039-1 Skip It - 4040-1 Uh-Ruh - (B) Stuff Smith (v), Jimmy Jones (p), Red Callendar (b) Radio Recorders, LA November 19, 1956 4041-3 My Thoughts previously unissued 4042-2 Live And You’ll Learn - 4043-1 Night Falls Again - 4044-1 Minuet In Swing - 4045-3 Midway - 4046-1 I Lost My Heart by The River - 4047-1 Won’t You Take A Lesson In Love? - 4048-1 What I Say - © Stuff Smith (v), Carl Perkins (p), Curtis Counce (b), Frank Butler (d) Capitol Studios, LA January 21, 1957 20589-1 It's Wonderful Verve MGV 8282, (CD) 314 521 676-2 20590-6 Coming Through The Rye - - 20591-7 Ja-Da - - note. The master tape to the first tune on this session "Desert Sands" (20588-3) was slashed with a razor blade and beyond repair. (D) Stuff Smith (v), Carl Perkins (p), Red Callendar (b), Oscar Bradley (d) Capitol Studios, LA February 5, 1957 20612-2 Indiana Verve MGV 8282, (CD) 314 521 676-2 20613-3 Blow Blow Blow - - 20614-1 Calypso - - 20615-2 I Wrote My Song - - 20616-4 Oh, But It Is - - 20617-1 Stop-Look - - 20618-4 Would You Object? - - 20619-7 Crazy Rhythm - (E) Stuff Smith (v), Oscar Peterson (p), Barney Kessel (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller (d) Glen Glenn Sound, LA March 7, 1957 20734-4 Desert Sands Verve MGV 8206, (CD) 314 521 676-2 20735-6 Soft Winds - - 20736-3 Time And Again (aka Don't You Think?) - - 20737-4 It Don't Mean A Thing - - 20738-2 In A Mellotone - (F) Stuff Smith (v), Oscar Peterson (p), Barney Kessel (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller (d) Glen Glenn Sound, LA March 12, 1957 20749-1 I Know That You Know Verve MGV 8206, (CD) 314 521 676-2 20750-3 Heat Wave - 20750-4 Things Ain't What They Used To Be - - 20751-1 Body And Soul - (G) Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Stuff Smith (v), Wynton Kelly (p), Paul West (b), J.C. Heard (d), The Gordon Family (vcl)-1. WOR Studios, NYC April 17, 1957 20866-5 Rio Pakistan Verve MGV 8214, (CD) 314 521 676-2 20867-6 It's Only A Paper Moon - - 20868-8 Purple Sounds - - 20869-10 Russian Lullaby - - 20870-12 Oh, Lady Be Good-1 - - (H) Stuff Smith (v,vcl-1),Shirley Horn (p, vcl-2) Lewis Packer (b) Harry Saunders (d ). Edgewood Recording Studios, Washington, D.C. August 7, 1959 26471-3 'S Wonderful Verve MGV 8339 26472-1 A Foggy Day -2 previously unissued 26473-5 I Loves You Porgy -2 - 26474-5 Somebody Loves Me -1 Verve MGV 8339 26475-1 Strike Up The Band-3 - 26476-3 Oh Lady Be Good -1 - 26477-5 Fascinating Rhythm -3 previously unissued 26478-1 The Man I Love Verve MGV 8339 26479-2 They Can't Take That Away From Me - 26480-4 Love Is Here To Stay-2 previously unissued 24481-5 Nice Work If You Can Get It Verve MGV 8339 -3 John Eaton is credited in the Verve log and on the LP as being the pianist on this session. Stuff Smith asserted and Shirley Horn recently confirmed that Horn is in fact the pianist. Eaton was present at the session and, most likely, plays on "Strike Up The Band" and "Fascinating Rhythm". (I) Stuff Smith (v), Paul Smith (p), Red Mitchell (b), Sid Bulkin (d). United Recorders, LA, October 22, 1959 22952-4 Whatcha Gonna Do When You Dance Past 42 (Whatcha Gonna Do, Baby, With My Lovin') previously unissued 22953-2 Blue Violin Verve MGV 8339 22954-2 Undecided - 22955-1 (You Are So) Nice And Warm - 22956-2 Take The A Train - (J) Stuff Smith (v,vo-1), Ray Nance (v), Kenny Burrell (g), Jimmy Jones (p), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d). Webster Hall, NYC, March 23, 1964 64VK308-10 Up Jumps Sally previously unissued 64VK308-11 Up Jumps Sally - 64VK309-4 Miracles-1,2 - take 4 Play (aka Timme's Blues) -2 - -2 add second bass, probably George Duvivier. ALBUM INDEX: Verve MGV 8206 Stuff Smith Verve MGV 8214 Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith Verve MGV 8339 Cat On A Hot Fiddle Verve MGV 8282 Have Violin, Will Swing Verve (CD) 314 521 676-2 Stuff Smith,Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson _______________________________________________________________________ Original sessions produced by Norman Granz (E,F & G), Russ Garcia (H & I) and probably Val Valentin (J), others unknown Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna and Scott Wenzel Executive producer: Charlie Lourie Tape transfers: Chris Herles Masteried by Malcolm Addey Sessions H,I and J are stereo. All others are mono. Special thanks to Anthony Barnett, Ben Young and the Institute Of Jazz Studies Producer's Note This set contains all of the sessions that Stuff Smith made for Verve as a leader. A 1957 Paris encounter with Stephane Grappelli, while often listed in Verve discographies, was a Norman Granz master that was finally issued on Pablo a few years ago. While there is a wealth of unissued material on this set, the version of "Desert Sands" that he recorded on the January 21, 1957 session is sadly not among them. At some point, someone took a razor blade and slice through the entire tune. It literally would take weeks to reassemble and, because the cuts weren't clean, would probably never be in listenable shape. All of the sessions are in chronological order with one exception. The Stuff Smith-Dizzy Gillespie session precedes the marathon March sessions with Oscar Peterson so that they can fit onto one CD uninterrupted.

IIRC, the problem with the Candid Mingus "Mingus Presents" is that the remaining stereo tapes are multi-generational and bad-sounding. The mono tapes, however, sound much better. Unfortunately, all CD releases except for the Mosaic have used the stereo versions. That's why the best-sounding version of "Mingus Presents" (in mono) can only be found in the Mosaic box.

This was posted earlier on the Steve Hoffman forum. For anyone interested, this is one of the finest sounding discs in my collection. The music's pretty good too. Don't wait - this one's oop and they only pressed 2000 copies of the SACD (hybrid, so it'll play on any CD player) before their license expired... http://www.audiofidelity.net/messag...topic.php?t=363 From Marshall: As you know, the Sonny Clark license has run out and contractually we can no longer manufacture this title. We have been out of this title for months and so has most of retail. One of our overseas distributors is closing and I have bought back their remaining inventory, which includes 79 Sonny Clarks. So...for the 1st 79 of you who want this fantastic title before it goes out of stock completely, now's your chance. Go to the AF homepage, then to the ORDER FORM link and fill out and FAX or phone in your order or you can wait and pay more for this title on Ebay icon_lol.gif . I wanted to offer these to the Audio Fidelity fans....Marshall __________________

It depends on whether you want to give him a fair price or if he's willing to give you a bargain. For oop sets, $10/disc would be a steal, $15/disc would be a bargain. It doesn't begin to get fair until around $20+/disc. On the open market (Ebay, for example), some of these sets command $40 or more/disc.

If you want live Miles in (usually) better quality, check out www.easytree.org and (when its running) www.sharingthegroove.org

Never mind this, Shrdlu. Thank you on behalf of my wife and my Jewish friends.

Why do you guys eat this stuff? I'm all for trying new things - like listening to Archie Shepp after a healthy dose of Getz - but this is ridiculous. You know it doesn't reall hurt foreign relations if we admit that some Chinese food really sucks. Me, I'm stickin' to orange chicken...

I think this thread has finally convinced me to vote Republican. I now want Bush to wage war and take over the world so that any foreign city I may travel to will be assured to have a Denny's and KFC...

Man, I know what you mean. I don't even like mustard...

Drummer jokes. Old but priceless. And stolen from the 'net... What do you call a drummer with half a brain? Gifted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why to bands need Roadies? To translate what the drummer says. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two drummers walk into a bar... which is funny because you would have figured the second one would have seen the first guy do it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new customer walks into the new store on the block that sells brains. There are three glass cases, each containing a nice wet quivering grey brain. The first one says "Astrophysicist", and it costs $10. The second says "Avon Salesman" and costs $1000. The third says "Drummer" and costs $10,000. The customer is confused, and questions the salesperson. "I don't get it...why would I want a drummer's brain for $10,000 when I can get an astrophysicists' for $10?". The salesman replies, "Because it's never been used." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What do you call a Drummer driving a Volkswagon? A: Farfromthinken -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get this joke, you probably have to know about the legendary unpopularity of Buddy Rich amongst his band... A horn player who had been playing with Buddy Rich for many years came back from vacation to hear a rumour that Buddy had died. He didn't quite believe it, so he phoned Buddy's wife and said "Can I speak to Buddy please?" Buddy's wife said, "I'm sorry, Buddy passed away last week." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," he said, and hung up. A couple of hours later, he called her again. "Is Buddy there please?" "No, I'm sorry. Buddy's no longer with us," said Buddy's wife. And hung up the phone. Ten minuted later, he called Buddy's wife again. "Can I speak to Buddy please?" he said. She recognised his voice, and said: "Look, I've told you before, BUDDY'S DEAD!" And slammed down the phone. Two minutes later, and the phone rang again... "Is Buddy at home please?" the horn player asked. Buddy's wife was furious. "I'm not going to tell you again, Buddy is dead.. D. E. A. D. DEAD. Why do you keep ringing me to ask for Buddy???!!!!" He thought for a moment, and said: "I just love hearing you say it." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What's the difference between a drum machine and a drummer? A: You only have to punch the information into the drum machine once! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What does a drummer use for contraception? A: His personality! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two girls are walking along when they hear... "Psst! Down here!" They both look down and see a frog sitting beside the road. The frog says to them, "Hey, if you kiss me I'll turn into a world famous drummer and make you both rich and famous!" The two girls looked at each other, and one of them reached down and grabbed the frog and stuffed it in her pocket. The other girl said, "What did you do that for?" The first replied, "I'm not stupid. I know a talking frog is worth heaps more than a famous drummer any day!!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do Ginger Baker and 7-11 coffee have in common? They both suck without Cream. If you're in a Ginger bashing mood, here's another -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many drummers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Just one, so long as a roadie gets the ladder, sets it up and puts the bulb in the socket for him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A drummer, tired from being ridiculed by his peers, decides to learn how to play some "real" musical instruments. He goes to a music store, walks in, approaches the store clerk, and says "I'll take that red trumpet over there and that accordian." The store clerk looks at him a bit funny, and replies "OK, you can have the fire extinguisher but the radiator's got to stay". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What's the best way to confuse a drummer? A: Put a sheet of music in front of him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A guy walks into a shop. "You got one of them Marshall Hiwatt AC30 amplificatior thingies and a Gobson StratoBlaster geetar with a Fried Rose tremulo?" "You're a drummer, aren't you?" "Duh, yeah. How'd you know?" "This is a travel agency." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man goes to an exotic tropical island for a vacation. As the boat nears the island, he notices the constant sound of drumming coming from the island. As he gets off the boat, he asks the first native he sees how long the drumming will go on. The native casts about nervously and says "very bad when the drumming stops." At the end of the day, the drumming is still going and is starting to get on his nerves. So, he asks another native when the drumming will stop. The native looks as if he's just been reminded of something very unpleasant. "Very bad when the drumming stops," he says, and hurries off. After a couple of days with little sleep, our traveller is finally fed up, grabs the nearest native, slams him up against a tree, and shouts "What happens when the drumming stops?!!" "Bass solo." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, but only after asking "Why?" ("Oh, wow! Is it like dark, man?") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Twenty. One to hold the bulb, and nineteen to drink until the room spins. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the difference between a drummer and a vacuum cleaner? You have to plug one of them in before it sucks. (Hmmm... that inspires a turnaround variation...) Why are bad drummers better than drum machines? You don't have to plug 'em in to get something stiff, mechanical and uninspired. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If a dollar bill was laying in the center of a room, and the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, a drummer with good time, and a drummer with bad time were standing in the corners, who would get the money? The drummer with bad time since the other three don't exist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I lady walks into a store and tell the man behind the counter she would like some musican brains. "Alright" he says, "What kind?". "How much do they cost?" she asks. "Well, those there are trumpeters at $5 a pound, those are french horns at $7 a pound, and those are conductors' at $10 a pound." He replies. "What are those way back there?" she asks. "Those are drummers brains. They cost $100 a pound." He replies. "GOODNESS!!", she exclaims, "Why are they so expensive?" "Lady, do you realize how many drummers it takes to get a pound of brains?!?!". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the difference between a chiropodist and Ginger Baker? A chiropodist bucks up your feet!! (with apologies to Ginger Baker fans, ... and those that needed to reach for the dictionary for that one) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you get if you cross a drummer with a gorilla? A really dumb gorrilla!!! (ba-dump bump <crash!>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey buddy, how late does the band play?" "Oh, about a half beat behind the drummer." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many drummers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. They have a machine to do that now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Why is a drum machine better than a drummer? A: Because it can keep a steady beat and won't sleep with your girlfriend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Five: one to screw in the light bulb and four to talk about how much better Neil Peart would have done it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why do drummers have one more brain cell than a horse? So that when marching in a parade, they can avoid the sh*t on the road. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, did you hear about the drummer who finished high school? Me either. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q:Why are orchestra intermissions limited to 20 minutes? A: So you don't have to retrain the drummers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An amateur drummer dies and goes to heaven. While he is waiting outside the pearly gates, he hears some incredibly fast drumming coming from within heaven. He immediately recognizes the playing, and asks St. Peter if that really is Buddy Rich playing drums in heaven. St. Peter responds: "No, that's G-d. He just thinks that he's Buddy Rich." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How can you make a drummer slow down? A: Put a sheet of music in front of him Q #2: How can you make that drummer stop? A: Put notes on it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Why do guitarists put drumsticks on the dash of their car? A: So they can park in the handicapped spot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A fellow walks into a shop and says to the shop assistant: "excuse me, I'd like to buy a guitar pick, and some strings." The shop assistant looks uncomprehendingly at his customer, and says "pardon?" "I'd like a guitar pick please, and some strings." The shop assistant thinks on this for a while, and then turns to his customer and says "you're a drummer aren't you?" "Yeah! How did you know man?" "This is a fish and chip shop." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnny says to his mom: I want to be a drummer when I grow up! Mom: But Johnny, you can't do both. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The classic one: Q: What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians? A: A drummer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How can you tell when a drummer's at the door? A: The knocking speeds up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How can you tell when a drummer's at the door? A: He doesn't know when to come in. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you hear about the guitarist who was going to a gig and locked his keys in the car? It took him two hours to get the drummer out.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One friend to another: "Why do you hang around with that drummer??" "Beats me!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How is a drum solo like a sneeze? A: You can tell it's coming, but you can't do anything about it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man dies and goes to Heaven. Unlike he had expected, Heaven is essentially a really long hallway with doors on either side, each with a short IQ range listed on it. Inside, he learns, the rooms are perfectly tailored so that the conversation will match the intelligence of the people in them. He opens the 170 door. "Well," comes the conversation inside, "I've always found Fourier transforms to be a rather limited way of interconverting what are fundamentally..." SLAM. Too rich for him. He heads down the hall a bit to the 115 zone and opens the door. "I just read 'Generation X'," comes a voice, "and though Coupland doesn't do too badly in identifying his generation's fundamental angst, I was a bit confused by..." SLAM. Not bad, but now the man was getting curious, and wanted to see what was further down the scale. He tries 95. "Hey, did you read the paper today? Says interest rates will go up again..." SLAM. How about 60? "Huh. Thought 'Married With Children' last night was pretty funny. Didn't get the bit about the hooters, though..." SLAM. It was getting pretty bad. He tried 35. The people inside were looking at one another and drooling. Finally, he came to the one marked with a 10. He hesitated, fearing what he would see when he opened the door. But he did, seeing only two guys inside. "So," one said to the other, "what size sticks do you use?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a variation on the last one Two salesmen are in a bar. One says to the other, "I bet you I can relate to anyone in this bar, I'm such a good salesman." The other replies, "You think so, huh? Well, sure. But I pick the guys." "Ok," says the first, "you're on." The other grabs the guy sitting at the table next to them and tells the first salesman, "Here, this one." This first subject is dressed in a three-piece suit and is carrying Wall Street Week. The salesman asks him, "What's your IQ?" "190." So they chat for a while about the stock market, particle physics, and Non-Euclidean geometry. "Ok," says the other salesman, "That was pretty good, but you still have two to go." He looks around and grabs a guy dressed in jeans, a tee-shirt, and a baseball cap worn backwards. The salesman asks him "What's you're IQ?" "About 100." So THEY chat for a while about baseball, cars, and the various women in the bar. "Fine," says the other salesman, "But there's still one to go." He goes to the back of the bar and grabs a really scummy looking guy in a muscle shirt and shorts. The salesman asks him "What's your IQ?" "About 60." "What kind of sticks do you use?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What does the average drummer get on an IQ test? A: Drool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How can you tell when the stage riser is level? A: The drools comes out of both sides of the drummer's mouth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What do you call a drummer that breaks up with his girlfriend? A: Homeless. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? A: "Hey, guys - why don't we try one of my songs? ..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What did the professional drummer say when he got to his job? A: "Would you like fries with that?"

The funniest thing, on the news last night, was footage of the woman's husband explaining how he and his wife were terrified by the towering ballplayers coming after them in the stands. This was, of course, intercut with video footage of the actual incident showing the very same husband egging the player on with "you want a piece of me" moves...

I'll check when I get home but I'm fairly certain this is a new remaster.

Hmmm. Comparing BN jazz and drugs. Hmmm...

Yep. Don't have a link but you can google it...

Also use Spyware Blaster, which blocks such spyware from being installed on your machine in the first place.

Particularly since a trip to AllMusicGuide reveals that this particular LP came from precisely the era when I couldn't stand the man! And (sad for me to say) probably my least favorite Waits album!

His style has changed so much over the years that it's hard to know which "one" you might like (having not been a fan before). I think he's got a new album coming out, so that might be what you heard on the radio. For a more recent "sampler," try "Beautiful Maladies." An excellent comp from his earlier recordings is "The Asylum Years."

FYI... this is now available for download at www.emusic.com

Highly recommended for rare/live jazz! It's been fucked up for a while now after someone hacked into them during an upgrade.

I'll check with my "sources" Lon...