Guy Berger

Did you get to take your gall bladder home with you in a jar? Seriously, good to hear that the surgery went fine! Guy

I haven't heard it yet but I assume we should add Coltrane Time (under Coltrane's name in the reissues)

Yes!!! This one is occasionally listed as Jazz Portraits. Guy

Kobe makes $19.5M next year. Other guys in that salary range: Tim Duncan ($19M), Stephon Marbury ($20M), Jason Kidd ($19.7M), Kevin Garnett ($22M), Shaq ($20M), Jermaine O'Neal ($19.7M), Tracy McGrady ($19M), Allen Iverson ($20M). Two other players, Chris Webber and Michael Finley, are being paid about this much by their former teams (Philly and Dallas) due to buyouts. I think it's definitely POSSIBLE to field a great team around him. However, the Lakers' front office has not made good decisions. Guy

Not an album I love, but pretty good nonetheless: Cannonball Adderley, Jazz Workshop Revisited

Question for other fans: would you want Kobe on your team, assuming that your team got him in a fair, realistic trade (ie no Larry Hughes-Kobe trade)? I would have a hard time cheering for the Warriors if he was on the team. Maybe if I was an Atlanta Hawks fan I would feel differently. Guy

Love Call might never come back into print (except as a digital download). Disturbing to think that selling BN to Concord would be a GOOD outcome, but it may come to that. Guy

That one crops up in weird places. Found my copy on Guernsey ! I have a funny image in my head of sidewinder on Guernsey, engaging in off-shore banking/cow-milking/prowling for OOP BN releases. Guy

Yes, good call! Guy

Interesting that Shorter ranks so low, and that Shepp ranks so high. When was the poll conducted? Was this at the end or beginning of 1966? Guy The issue came out in May, 1966, and the opening editorial relates how so many ballots came in around the deadline that they extended the deadline. So it must have been a year-end 1965 or early 1966 voting period. I am guessing that had the poll been conducted a year or two later, Charles Lloyd would have been much higher. Guy

Are these all in-print in Europe? They are OOP in the US. Guy

With the upcoming private equity buyout of EMI, some great jazz may soon be going out of print. What are some of your favorite currently IN-PRINT Blue Note/EMI jazz/Pacific Jazz/Capitol Jazz/etc releases? Let's restrict these to CDs that are not RVGs, Connoisseur Series, or Mosaic releases. Some personal favorites: Grant Green, Street of Dreams Cannonball Adderley, Mercy Mercy Mercy Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, 2 CD quartets release Joe Lovano, Rush Hour Jason Moran, Black Stars Big John Patton, Let 'Em Roll Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane, Live at the Five Spot Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane, Live at Carnegie Hall Kenny Dorham, Afro Cuban Duke Ellington, Money Jungle Chick Corea, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Grant Green & Sonny Clark, Complete Quartet Recordings (well, not a personal favorite but everyone else likes it) Tony Williams, Spring Joe Henderson, State of the Tenor Stanley Turrentine, Up at Minton's Jackie McLean, New Soil Herbie Nichols, Complete Blue Note Recordings Jimmy Smith, Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special McCoy Tyner, Extensions Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk

The only good thing that comes out of this for us is that the private equity guys that will own EMI will be much more interested in "leveraging" the label's assets. That may mean less reluctance to license out recordings. Guy

Yikes, time to buy some of those RVGs and Connoisseurs! Guy

Dissing Leonard Feather? Sounds like a magazine to read! Guy

Another recording has "appeared":

Interesting that Shorter ranks so low, and that Shepp ranks so high. When was the poll conducted? Was this at the end or beginning of 1966? Guy

probs w/ cavs 1 aside from lebron, all their players suck

Oui!! The concert was at the Olympia theater. It was the second time I heard Rollins live. First one was with his trio (with Grimes and Pete LaRoca) at the Club Saint-Germain in 1958. You lucky bastard! Guy

Hearing Threadgill on tenor (I was only familiar with his flute & alto before) really reinforces the link Jim points out between Henry and 60s Sonny Rollins. Hopkins's work on "No. 2" is incredible! Guy

Was Coryell the first jazz guitarist to bring 60s rock influences into the mix? (Not sure how he fits in chronologically with Gabor Szabo and Jerry Hahn.) I don't think I've ever heard the guy! re: the Mahavishnu debate, there's a well-known quote from Coryell who upon seeing John McLaughlin with the Tony Williams Lifetime, turned to his wife Julie and said "This is the best guitarist I've heard in my life!" Didn't Coryell also get into a cutting contest with Jimi Hendrix once? (With unfortunate results for Larry.) I think I read that in Stuart Nicholson's Jazz Rock book. Anyway, not my intent to diss Coryell who I am sure is a fine player. Those are just the stories I remember about him. Guy

I just managed to download a copy of Don and Sonny w/Henry Grimes and Billy Higgins playing in Paris. 1963. Can't wait to hear it! Setlist: Solitude On Green Dolphin Street Announcement By S. Rollins Without A Song Sonnymoon For Two Everything Happens To Me 52nd Street Theme Brownie, were you at this gig? Guy

Did it fall on top of Nancy Grace? Guy

I was listening to "19th Nervous Breakdown" by the Stones today, and I'll be damned if it didn't swing quite a bit. So how about pop tunes that swing. Let's restrict it to the post-1960 -- I'm sure it's fairly easy to find examples before then. Also, let's rule out semi-jazzy artists like Frank Sinatra. Another obvious example is Van Morrison's "Moondance". Guy

Celebrities at the Cavs game?!?!?