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was he in the bible ? didn't people rant about the same thing back then? the only thing I would like is for that old trumpet to resound pretty soon. I hope that means brownie's coming back. or lee. Or maybe even king louis. No, Adolf is not in the scriptures of course. He is not THE Antichrist (the real one will be far worse), but he is a type of the Antichrist. The characterstic of the Antichrist, and all types of him, is persecution of the Jews. In the Bible, there are 18 (6+6+6) types of the Antichrist, starting with Cain, who killed Abel. Others are Nimrod, Laban (Jacob's uncle), Solomon (after a good early spell) and, of course, Judas Iscariot.

Can you translate that into Portuguese?

I especially like Bobby on the BN Blakey sessions, as well as the late 50s BN sessions that he did with other leaders. He was a superb player. For me, he's at his best when he plays lean, single note lines in his solos. I've never been fond of his block chord passages, which are harsh to my ears. I wish that he had voiced those like Red Garland, whose block chords I do like. We have probably overdone the ZYX rabbit trail in this thread, but I'd like to weigh in against their 20 bit and 24 bit series too. Avoid! How silly it all is, when all they had to do was to issue the American remasterings, which are fine in my opinion. Herr ZYX has effectively killed off the terrific OCJ series outside the U.S. One should definitely get only the U.S. versions, including ZYX ones when they are known to be the same.

Isn't it sad that a guy of the caliber of Hank, with all the experience he had, and having been on so many important record sessions, was struggling to find work in the U.S.? Yesterday, my daughter told me that Justin Timberlake is worth about 40 million dollars.

No, not me. God is doing the lobbing. I'm just the mailman delivering the message.

I'm surprised that Horace was not consulted about the reissue. I heard that he normally is consulted, and it seems that he has always vetoed the inclusion of any alternate takes. (You have probably noticed that there never have been any on the CD reissues.) He has agreed to the release of some previously unissued titles, as on the "Song For My Father" CD.

I love espresso. I got a chemistry apparatus to make the real thing at Costco for next to nothing. They had a big stack of them, and they all went in one day! This type of coffee has an advantage over a regular-sized cup for us old fogeys. There is less liquid for a given amount of caffeine, and you don't have to find a bathroom as soon afterward. Most practical.

Well, no Baptist preacher could resist commenting on this one! Jesus said that, just before his second coming, there will be "earthquakes in divers places." (Matthew 24). And there have been a lot worldwide in the last couple of decades. Better be prepared by getting saved. "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." That old trumpet is going to sound pretty soon, and all believers will suddenly vanish. This will be at the start of a horrible seven year period known as the Tribulation period, with a dictator of the whole world worse than Adolf himself.

Clearly, a dislike for McMaster's work is subjective, but I have heard several people complaining about the Moncur set. If you like it, then that's fine. I'm glad that you do. Anyway, I have nearly all of the Moncur set in TOCJ form, and all but one of the Pearson tracks that I want, in one form or another. (I don't want the Merry Old Soul tracks - too many Nov-Dec shopping mall experiences for that.) Someone sent me a superb burn of the LP of "It Could Only Happen With You" a few years back, from an LP that was so mint that HM Queen Elizabeth II could put it on her new potatoes. The mix on that LP is great. Has anyone else found that a good home-made LP-to-digital transfer sounds better than an official CD reissue? Hey, CS500, you got the name wrong again, ha, ha! You'll have to stay after school and write it on the chalkboard 50 times.

I know. I was referring to Pharoah's solo.

I think Charlie is terrific. I first heard him on the "Dear John C" album, which is a real cooker, well captured by Rudy van Gelder. His pungent sound really impressed me. That album alone would be enough to cement his reputation. When I hear some of those dull (and frequently out-of-tune) altos that BN used in the late 50s (especially on the early Lee Morgan sessions), I find myself wishing that they had used some of these fine big band altoists like Charlie, Phil Woods, Dave Schildkraut, Ted Nash and so on.

It's "It Could Only Happen With You". The Portuguese title is "So' Tinha De Ser Com Você", by one A.C. Jobim. The original is on Jobim's album "The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim", which was reissued on CD not so long ago. Interestingly, both Flora (on the Pearson session) and Jobim sing it in the same key - and not an octave apart either, if memory serves. I admire Duke for getting into the Brasilian music on his sessions when it was still quite new. He also used Airto and Flora before Miles, Getz and Corea did. Rather than staying with the type of things he did with Byrd and Adams, great though that was, he took a chance and tried something new. It's sad that he saw little success, some of the music not even being released back then.

Imagine trying to play "Ascension"! You're up on the bandstand, and one of the guys says "Hey, let's play Ascension!" One, two, one two three four, ... I could play the opening phrase, I guess. I doubt that the audience would like all that Sanders screeching noise.

Oh, now I get it. Like the one George W. Bush has. Pete, I can't answer for George Bush. I don't know him and don't know whether he is saved or not. But don't judge the gospel message by one human - especially not me. Look at Jesus, who never sinned. The truth of the Bible does not rise and fall with George Bush. Just a few years ago, none of us had even heard of the man. Soon, he will disappear into the pages of history. At my age (56) I've seen a lot of flavors of the month come and go. Also, as I pointed out above, we saved people still have our old sinful nature, and we do still sin, sad to say. The dead, sinful body is there until we leave this world. Then, we will be sinless.

I can't resist saying that I play tenor in Church.

This reminds me of a bumper sticker that some people put on their cars: "Christians are not perfect, only forgiven." This is one part of Christianity that I have never understood, at least from the moral point of view. I do not subscribe to any specific faith, although I consider myself morally to be a very religious person. Central to my beliefs is the idea that we have to bear the burden of our own past sins. That is part of life. So who do such Christians think that they are? They can do whatever terrible things they want, as long as they get down on their knees afterwards and ask Jesus to forgive them? Then their souls will be saved, whereas the "ignorant," who may have always lived decent and moral lives, will all burn in hell. The fact is, Curtis Mayfield was right about hell. John, getting saved is not a process that is done over and over, after each individual sin. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. When one gets saved, all one's sins - past, present and future - are forgiven. "The blood of Jesus Christ ... cleanseth us from ALL sin" (I John 1:7, block caps mine) It would be no good unless it was all. Salvation takes place at the one point in time when a person repents and believes the gospel. I am saved, and I don't have to ask God to save me every time I commit a sin. (I ask him to forgive me for the sin because I have displeased him, but I'm not asking for salvation, as I already have that.) I often hear this point that "isn't this stuff then just a license to sin?" In theory, it is. I could now do anything, and not lose my salvation. But when you get saved, you get a "new nature" from God (also called "the new man" Ephesians 4:24). II Corinthians 5:17 says the believer is a "new creature". The old sinful nature is still present, alas, hence the bumper sticker, which is saying that we do still sin; don't expect us to be perfect while we are still on earth. Romans 6 talks about this very point, and says "Shall we continue in sin?" "God forbid." Someone who is saved will not want to sin anymore, even though they will mess it up from time to time. I could take an Uzi and hose down the shoppers in a mall, and still not lose my salvation, but I don't want to do such an awful thing. I hope that I've answered that point in this brief reply. This is a big topic and there is no room for a full discussion here. Oh, and the other point: a person does NOT have to bear the burden for their own sins. That's why Jesus died on the cross. He paid the price for our sins, so we wouldn't have to.

Sorry to hear of your disappointment, CS500. But don't turn away from all Mosaic sets just because you don't like the sound on that Pearson set. To say it again, once too often really, that is a McMaster problem. Ron has not done all the Mosaic remastering by any means. There are many Mosaic sets with excellent sound, the recent Mulligan for example. And some of the McMastered sets are good, too. I like the sound on the Byrd, Mitchell and Parlan sets. But I would certainly not give up any TOCJs or JRVGs that I already had. In some cases, I have obtained the Japanese CDs after getting the Mosaic counterpart. For example, the Mobley 50s recordings. I will not be getting any of the Select series after hearing what a mess Ron made of the first one, the Moncur set. You mention the order of the tracks in that Pearson set. It should be pointed out that there never was an "I Don't Care Who Knows It" album as such. That title was arbitrarily used by Michael Cuscuna for a CD compilation, with items taken from many sessions. I used that CD (and others) to make custom burns of the various sessions in order. It made more sense to listen to them that way. There does seem to have been a plan to make an LP of Brasilian material. I'm referring to the two sessions at A & R, with Airto and Flora etc. A little frustrating is the fact that there is one (not two, as they said) new track ("Dialogo") that is not available elsewhere. And there are still two items (from the A & R sessions) that have never been released.

My comments about God are not just a personal idea that I have adopted. They are based only on the Word of God. There is one God, and he is the Lord Jesus Christ. (See I Timothy 2:5 and John 1:1.) Then, there are religions, which offer the Devil's lies to try to turn people away from the truth. I have no personal monopoly on this truth. It is universally available. I do wish that people would quit reacting as if I am the only one who believes the Bible. There are millions of us believers, and posters in the United States especially ought to have come in contact with the gospel before. Now, in the U.K. and Europe, one would be less likely to hear it, as those countries are largely apostate. But even there, you come up against it from time to time. And recently, we have had several movies on TV, and at the theaters, about the crucifixion. Those ought to make people think, no matter what the motives were for the making of these films. I just saw Max von Sydow's portrayal of Jesus, and although I am already a believer, it got to me. OM is a spiritual experience, but it's not a Godly spiritual experience. These are evil spirits at work. Satan is very clever, and well able to make a listener think that such a spiritual experience is enjoyable and good. The Holy Spirit is nothing like that. I am sad that Trane, a musician for whom I have the highest respect, got involved with this devilish stuff toward the end of his life. (By the way, I have heard all of the released late Trane recordings, and, technically, he plays superbly on them.) John was born in North Carolina, with a Baptist Church on every corner, so he was surely exposed to the gospel as he grew up. But someone recently posted a long audio interview with Trane, and I felt sad as I heard him say things that made it clear that he had rejected the gospel. That was John's own personal testimony, not just someone's guess as to what he really believed. There is no way that Trane saw (the real) God just before he died, as Bob Thiele reported. God is presently not on earth (though his invisible Spirit indwells every saved person). He is in the Third Heaven. Whatever John saw was related to evil spirits. Very sad. _________________________________________________ These, and my earlier remarks, are not made with the intent of being nasty. My job is to publish the truth, and to warn against religious lies, of which there are very many. As Paul said, "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" (Galatians 4:16) A real friend will tell you the truth, at the risk of being disliked. Here is the big difference between the truth and the religions. In the Bible, God offers us a free, eternal salvation which cannot be lost, without the need for any works on our part. All we have to do is agree that we are sinners in need of salvation and then believe. This was all paid for by Jesus when he died for our sins. No religion offers such a thing. All they say is, basically, that you must do a collection of good works, and, if you are lucky, God might be merciful and not cast you into hell when you die. That is simply not good enough - and not even true anyway, thank God. Because of all this, no, I do not have any respect for any religion, Eastern or otherwise. They are lies and don't deserve any respect. But, I do respect everyone's right to believe anything that they want, without being persecuted for their religion/belief system. Also, although I hate religions, I do not hate their followers. In particular, I don't hate my fellow posters on this bulletin board. I just want to help in any way I can. In connection with this, thanks for your remarks, Mike.

Very simple: I got tired of the avatars long ago, and took advantage of the facility to turn them off - you can set your profile to do this. I WAS offended by some vulgar ones, and others were distracting while I was trying to read the posts, so bye-bye to them all. I haven't seen the latest masterpiece, and don't want to see it.

AB, I'm a huge Trane fan, but what you hear on "Om" is real evil spirits at work, sad to say. And the silly poem that they chant is a piece of eastern religious garbage related to hinduism etc. Yechh! I regret that Trane got involved with that, but, as the Lord said, the blind lead the blind and both fall into the ditch.

I'd love to hear the Hutcherson-Land albums that were issued under Land's name. As you know, the BN sessions were issued under Bobby's name. A Japanese CD of the "Spiral" and "Medina" sessions would be a groove. This music is terrific, and the present CD has very muddy sound with little presence. I have never heard a bad session by Hutcherson. What a consistently fine player!

He was a wonderful writer, conductor and arranger. I think the first "Peter Gunn" album (which was one of my first two LPs!) is an absolute masterpiece of jazz. I've played it countless times, but it still sounds fresh. The follow-up album, made about 6 months later, has some excellent jazz on it, too, together with some more "commercial" tracks. The success of these albums is due partly to the use of many top West Coast jazz guys, certainly, but Hank Mancini must be given a lot of the credit. Let's not forget the "Remington Steele" music, too, from much later. There were several different versions of the theme at the end, and one was slow, with a very lush sounding big band; it was very beautiful.

I've often wondered why there is usually just pitch blackness behind most of Wolff's Englewood Cliffs pictures. Was that studio kept fairly dark? Anyway, I'm a big fan of his work (Who isn't?)

This version sounds great!

1955, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars: Trummy Young, Edmond Hall, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw and Barrett Deems. They were preceded by Gary Crosby (Bing's son).