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Hmmm. I'm not sure if I can answer this one since much of the impact I get from Sinatra comes from him singing both ballads and up-tempo numbers. It's like asking which hand is more important - the right or the left - when it comes to clapping. In the other thread you reference, Jim, I recall nominating a few "swinging" sessions as my favorite, but that has nothing to do with my preference of Sinatra as a balladeer or swinger. I just really dig those swingin' albums. But I think that Sinatra's most definitive performances ("One For My Baby..." etc.) are likely ballads.

Good choices... Almost everything Frank cut for Capitol is great, though my favorites are "Come Fly with Me" and "Come Dance With Me." His Reprise years are spottier, but his best cuts there are among the bests of his career. The "Very Good Years" comp that you bought should do it. Then I'd get the live album with Basie.

If genetic, it proves that I'm adopted... B-)

Oh sure. And how long before these robots "evolve" and start eating humans???

Forget Musso & Frank! I'll treat you to Dr. Hogly Wogly's Tyler Texas Bar-B-Que (or at the very least Pink's chili dogs)!

Great pair of discs, Dan! I'm kicking myself for missing a few of 'em...

Hey! I don't care what you say - I'm countin' it! Along with at least typing "Gene Harris" for track D2-1, I'll consider myself 2-for-21 and much better educated than I was before BFT 16.

Very funny, but I prefered Dodgeball.

What they said: Amoeba. A must-see. The store in Silverlake is Rockaway, near me, but it's not as good as it used to be. Another small but good store (especially for vinyl) is Atomic Records in Burbank.

Sunday in L.A. was the hottest day (102) I've felt in a long time. And a miserable heat at that...

Care to revisit this comment, Dan?

I've got very mixed feelings about this. Relief, of course, than J wasn't hurt, but there's a side of me that finds the specifics of the situation almost amusing - that J just avoided himself being killed in such a ridiculous way. Then I'm reminded that my cousin - 19 or 20 at the time - killed himself in much the same way just this past june. Yeah, it's easy to laugh when it's a mere news story; harder when it hits so close to home...

oops. well i'll fix that with a quick edit! Oh sure, now it looks like I'm talking to myself!

Count on Sangrey to ask an apparently dumb question that ends up turning into a fairly interesting thread...

You mean this baseball-jazz one? http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=12846&hl=maury

As an R.E.M. album once stated: File Under Water

Have been listening to Sixth Sense (RVG) for the first time lately. Not that impressed by it unfortunately. Love the Cal Massey tune, but the others leave me cold...

If I were so organized that I actually had my jazz CDs and LPs filed alphabetically... I'd put them under "I"

Along with power conditioners and expensive wires, I hear that a Van Der Graaf Generator will do wonders for your audio system... (Sorry - I'll go away now...)

I'm looking forward to the Bartz. I've been on a real ntu troop kick since I "discovered" him a year or so ago. Hoping to see Bartz this weekend here in L.A...

What would Jesus do?

Really impressive thread drift, guys!

I could almost believe that!

In a strange case of mistaken identity, it was really Warner Oland who played sax on the famous Massey Hall concert in 1953, making the original album credits correct after all. Furthermore, "Charlie Chan's" saxophone was not plastic but actually made out of papier mache.

Parker once owned a talking dog.