Big Wheel

Same for me. Oddly, the iMac I use at work had no problems, but then I came home and every PC on campus that I tried wouldn't connect.

MTV articles, like all other texts, must be carefully deconstructed with a view to the specific discourses and narratives of their times. Until we look at the variety of multifaceted interpretations of such discourses of power, we will never be able to grasp their true depth.

Someone from something corporate is informing us of Something Corporate, a band who indeed toils for that same corporate something. It's all very postmodern.

Perkins is up and running now! BTW, special thanks to our own Daniel A for providing a hefty chunk of the material for this show!

www.cybermusicsurplus.com appears to still have the Monterose, and it's very cheap. Looks like they ship to Taiwan, too!

Up for the second half of trumpeters: On now: Booker Little (Time Records). Harold Land's The Fox is on deck.

No doubt, and I have a borrowed copy of Vol. 1 myself. But putting Real Books on Ebay and advertising them? That's practically ASKING to get busted.

In the fine print, does it say whether you have to shell out for the seller's bail?

Slight change of plans: it turns out I won't be able to get the VSOP Perkins material until Friday, so I'm pulling a switch--the trumpet show will begin tonight and finish up on the Thursday time slots; the Perkins show will run on Friday. So the new schedule is: Trumpeters tonight from midnight-1pm and Thursday 9am-10pm; Perkins Friday 1pm-midnight. (All times ET) Apologies to anyone who was planning on listening!

Horace Silver's BLOWIN' THE BLUES AWAY is one good starting place.

Any word on how many New Orleans sets are left?

Marcus, see here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7065

I'm running two radio programs this week, one celebrating the music of LA pianist Carl Perkins, and the other featuring 4 trumpeters who died or disappeared from the scene too early: Booker Little, Dupree Bolton, Wilbur Harden, and Joe Gordon. Barring any last-minute changes, the Perkins show will start at 12 midnight ET this Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and run for thirteen hours; the trumpet show will start on Thursday at 9 AM ET and run until 10 PM; then it will resume at 1 PM on Friday and finish up at midnight. You can listen to both of these streaming at whrb.org .. I'm sorry the Perkins show got mostly buried overnight, but unfortunately I wasn't the one calling the shots on the schedule this time. And a crappy timeslot for people here is a good one for people in Europe and Asia!

Repetitive sometimes? Yes. But few albums stuff more funk into that trunk. I could listen to that version of "After Hours" every night for the rest of my life.

Complete list: here

I've got 5: Baker, Brookmeyer, Shank/Perkins, Amy, and Touff. The Baker is easily an essential. I would say the Brookmeyer is too but you may wish to hold off and go for the Mosaic instead. Really, you can't go wrong with these--the only quibble I remember hearing is that some people aren't crazy about the harpsichord tracks on the Earl Anderza (which is almost impossible to find, BTW).

Marcus, if you want to hear these before you buy I'll be playing about 4 or 5 of them on my radio program featuring Carl Perkins this Wednesday. I'll post more info when things are finalized, but we will be playing the Pepper Adams, Richie Kamuca, Oscar Moore, and Victor Feldman, and possibly the Piano Playhouse album too.

We have a "playing with bad singers" and "playing with bad drummers" thread here, so I thought this would complete the trifecta. Tonight I played a trio gig (alto, piano, bass) at some swanky function. I'd played with this guy before, and I knew he wasn't great (usually the outright refusal to play upright bass in any context is a tipoff right away), but I didn't remember him being THIS shitty. The dude could not have held a consistent tempo if his life had depended on it. We had him count off one tune, decided it was too fast, so he slowed down the countoff. Great, except when "1" arrived he was playing 20 bpm faster than the tempo he had just counted off! To make matters worse, he would not simply walk quarter notes on a straight-ahead tune. Instead, he had to bust out the syncopated double-stops, slapping, you name it so that attaining any kind of groove would have been impossible even if he had executed all this stuff using good time--which, of course, he did not. At least when there's a crappy singer or horn player, if the rest of the group is solid everything is cool when they aren't singing or soloing. When the bass player sucks, everything sucks. This would have been the worst gig I've ever played if it hadn't been blessedly short and the bread so damned good.

How do you know? I thought you said you had successfully avoided hearing it.

You guys better PRAY my Filipino girlfriend never sees this thread. 'Cause if she does, this board's going up in smoke faster than you can say "Brazilian anarchist hackers."

BTW, my Mitchell set was #3546.

Up for air!

You mean you didn't know that Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond moonlighted at EMI in the early '90s? Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed and now jewel cases of ALL colors are held in equal esteem, including the then-invisible "clear" jewel cases. But seriously, folks... Between 1992 and 1994 (I think) many BN issues came in the white jewel boxes, including all the "limited edition" titles. The limited editions of that time, dubbed "Collector's Choice" titles on the boards, were reissues of titles put out in the late '80s and the sound was taken directly from the late-80s masterings. Usually, the only thing that had changed was the jewel case color and the color of the CD label. Additionally, the first series of Connoisseur titles had white jewel cases instead of clear ones--but I believe that none of that first series had come out domestically on CD before (so the mastering was all new). There were also several titles that weren't limited editions but did have white spines--the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band album with Joe Williams is one I remember. There was also a Lovano album (Rush Hour?) No idea exactly WHY Blue Note decided to go with white jewel cases at this time, though.

Best. Movie. Ever. The first time I watched The Big Lebowski I enjoyed it, but got too caught up trying to follow the convoluted mystery story to fully appreciate it. The second or third time, I was bowled over. I've probably seen it about twelve times now and I catch some new subtle nuance in it each time.

Ok, got another question then: The session I'm researching is Donald Byrd's Byrd's Eye View, on Transition. The Blakey discography says that Joe Gordon plays on tracks 3-6. But the AMG review says that Gordon's only on two tracks on this session. Who's right?