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Thanks Jim and Tony. I'm not the biggest fan of Defrancesco so I think I'll go for Mode first. Coincidentally, I was just listening to the Don Wilkerson version of "Scrappy" today! Edit: Actually, I just realized that THREE of those tunes are on the Wilkerson BN set.

Who else is on the Carrol title? Also, who are the other musicians on Ivery's "3"?

There's nothing "wrong" with Jurek's opinion that the album is a five-star album. Of course it is. But the review is RIDDLED with errors of fact that call into question how closely Jurek listened to this album. I'll ignore the error that requires one to know a little history, namely that Red Garland is comping on "Sid's Ahead"--It's Miles playing piano; Red had left in a huff during the session after Miles criticized him (at least, that's how Miles tells it in the Troupe autobio). Even so, anyone who's heard more than a tiny bit of Garland would suspect that that is not him playing piano on this cut. I'll also ignore the ignorance of musical terms that Jurek displays in a lame attempt to wax poetic over the course of several paragraphs, as well as the numerous typos. I'll also ignore the fact that Jurek never even mentions Billy Boy, one of the greatest piano trio tracks of all time, which makes me wonder if he just skipped it entirely while listening to write the review. Assuming he actually did listen to the album. Let's cut to the egregious stuff: 1) Miles does not solo on "Two Bass Hit." Somehow, Jurek believes that "Davis blows his ass off in his solo." 2) Jurek uses "Straight No Chaser" as an example of how the band was fluent with Monk's "unusual harmonic structures." Great, except Straight No Chaser, though it has a rhythmically tricky head, is a plain old 12 bar blues harmonically. Jurek is just showing off his "knowledge" of Monk's music rather than adding anything meaningful; in an attempt at sounding like a critic who's hip to music theory, he comes off as a moron who has no knowledge whatsoever of harmony. 3) Jurek claims that everyone solos on Dr. Jackle except Philly. Wrong. Garland does not solo. I'd like to try whatever mind-altering chemicals Jurek's on that make him hear Garland soloing here. The side effects would be worth it just to hear Red burning at this tempo. If it wasn't such a lengthy, flowery review, I'd let some of this crap slide. But if Jurek's going to be a pedant, he should at least make sure he knows exactly what he's talking about.

Then obviously you've never read Thom Jurek's Milestones review, which demonstrates either a near-complete ignorance of the album or a severe crack habit.

Happy birthday to the guy who turned me on to T-Bone Walker!

Which of the Marchel Ivery discs would be the one to pick up first?

Hey, I think I might actually know the lucky buyer of that album--met him at a party last summer. He's a young bassist and a Cecil Taylor/William Parker freak. Tried to track him down for a gig in June and his number was disconnected.

God, I love Ropeadope Records!!! If only more labels were like them...they forwarded my email to Bernstein and he got back to me personally. A hell of a guy. Turns out the official site has now moved to www.sexmobmusic.com (there are MTO clips under "the goods.")

Mike--does that address of Jack's replace his attbi address?

Here's their publicity agency, with a nice bio/review: http://www.bighassle.com/a_sexmob.html I'm guessing Ropeadope will take up the slack for the moment... I actually like the earlier records more than the Bond album, though I am warming up to it with more listenings. There is also a self-produced CD called "Theater and Dance" that is AFAIK only available through Bernstein. A good deal more subdued than the other Sex Mob albums, and possibly a better indicator of what the MTO sounds like.

It's a medium-to-large sized band (~10 players, no piano, sometimes banjo) playing arrangements that sound like they could have been written before 1930. Basically a mix of the typical Bernstein let-it-all-hang-out style and New Orleans jazz/early swing. Typical personnel includes the usual downtown crowd: Peter Apfelbaum, Ben Perowsky, Ben Allison on bass. More info here, though this page will probably be changing soon: http://www.jazzstandard.net/jazz_listings/...listmaster.html

Only 10 other people saw this in the 3 days it was up? That alone should qualify me for the title of chief thread-killer. Anyway, I heard back from the good folks at Ropeadope and they informed me that the MTO record is coming out in the spring! BTW, for a real thrill, go to what was as of a couple of weeks ago Bernstein's site at www.sexmob.com. (ADULTS ONLY.) He forgot to renew his registration...isn't the Internet wonderful?

Not distracting at all to me, although I don't listen on headphones where his noises would be more obvious. IMO you are missing out if you don't pick up at least Evolution I. Absolutely wonderful.

I wonder where the idea for the real title came from. There's a zoo-type attraction less than 10 miles from my house in Miami that was around in Duke's day--think that could be it? http://www.monkeyjungle.com (Or was "monkey jungle" a common phrase back then?)

Those images are from Geocities, which prohibits linking to images hosted on its webspace. The reason Mule can see them is because they are already in his browser cache from viewing the pages where the images are located.

I checked ebay and most seem to have fairly high Buy it Now prices. I'm looking for the ones that hold 200-300 discs--anyone know where I could get one for less than they're asking on ebay?

Search for the New Land Morgan the Pirate

Ok, I just tried searching myself for that post. The most successful method for me was searching for "blues AND Turrentine" (no quotation marks in the original). I'm not sure quotation marks work on this search feature like they do in others. Some other observations: 1) You can't search for just "Z.T." because the search terms must have at least 5 characters. 2) Part of the problem might be the apostrophe--I know certain applications have trouble with them.

Are you using quotation marks around your phrase?

Downloaded some clips of this group from sexmob.com (which, BTW, seems to be down now--maybe for updating since Sex Mob has a new record coming out). I dig what I hear. Does anyone know if Bernstein has any plans to record this band? They gig fairly frequently around NYC but never seem to make it out to the provinces.

Keep in mind that this board still has far fewer posts than the BN board did. I'm guessing that's one reason why it's faster here--not as many threads to search. But yeah, overall this board software beats the crap out of that version of UBB. I haven't noticed one bug yet.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that Jordan's disposition by itself was enough to justify a "boycott". I was speculating that Jordan's attitude might have resulted in Bertrand having a bad experience at one of his gigs.

Judging by the comments in the Miles autobio, the feeling was mutual. I have read quite a bit about Jordan having an obnoxious disposition--on the old board Victor Christensen mentioned something to that effect (Jordan lives in Copenhagen now).

From the disco album?

A good friend of my takes up the entire frame for about a second in "Wild Things." An extra who got lucky. Quite a few films have been shot in Miami, where I grew up. I recognized quite a lot in "There's Something About Mary"--one scene is filmed in a plaza right across the street from my dad's office building. The Birdcage also has a lot of familiar stuff. Also, I've been to Seaside, Florida, the Panhandle town where The Truman Show was filmed. Weird place.