Jerry

Anybody else like Dick Hyman? I first heard him on the VOA while living in Taiwan years ago and have liked everything I ever heard by him. Recently I came across Music of 1937 in the concord Maybeck recital hall series, at my local public library (can't afford to buy cd's these days). Great stuff. Hyman is capable of many styles and is a real musician, able to evoke feelings, moods, nuances... Technically very good too.

The film sounds like a revival of the whole passion play trope from the middle ages. One wonders what the effect on Jews will be this time. The other night I heard this headline blare out from CNN as I was cooking: "See the passion of Jesus on Paula Zahn later tonight".

Yes, I hope the addition turns out to be Contours. It's my favorite Rivers album. I actually bought two extra copies of the Mosaic set to give to friends because I thought they should hear Contours. It would be great to have a sonic upgrade though I must be nuts to spend so much on this one album.

Hey Geoff, great thread. By sticking your neck out a bit with extended analysis of some great discs you are stimulating a lot of good discussion. Keep it up. And your idea of having a 'Geoff Korner' is totally cool by me. Don't be deterred by people insisting you follow some pre-existing board format or whatever. This is free jazz and you're allowed to play with the format and the style. Here's a thought: how about trying some different prose approaches? Write newspaper style where you start in the middle with some intriguing detail and then catch up with the background. Try doing loose, stream-of-consciousness writing without worrying about correct punctuation or even grammar. Play music with your words, mimic how a musician's style might be if he were speaking instead of blowing...

What day do they come out? Jazzmatazz just says february. Donald Byrd - At The Half Note Cafe Vols. 1& 2 - 2 CDs (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb Grant Green - Goin' West (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb Jackie McLean - Right Now (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb Jimmy Smith - Rockin' the Boat (Blue Note RVG Edition) Feb

The panasonics all have that nice disc removal feature - push down on the central post and the disc pops out. The Sony models seem to have way better audio than panasonic. I did like an Aiwa I had several years ago. The sound was somehow different from Sony, more towards the bright, trebly? Yeah they don't last too long. Don't you just hate it when they start skipping?

Well I plunked for a Sony walkman. D-NF610, which plays MP3 and ATRAC3 plus format, as well as CD. It also has a digital FM/AM/TV/Weather band digitally tuned radio, three bass settings and various fancy features such as track titles if available on the disc, jog dial, etc. It comes with a cd containing burning software to transfer cd and mp3 audio to ATRAC3 plus format discs. (oddly no ac adapter but I have a few of them). As you can tell I'm kind of a sucker for gadgets. So far I like it. The included headphones were junk, and I am continuing to use my Koss Sportapros (which cost about $25 and are very good for lighweight, open-ear, cheap phones). The sound is good, better than the panasonic I had been using. Radio performance is spotty: you have to arrange the headphone wire as an antenna and frequently it just doesn't work out. Overall the software is better than panasonic, for ex resume starts where you left off, not the beginning of the track again. The ATRAC3 burning software and format are not without problems. Even at the highest quality recording it still sounds rather like MP3's to me, not quite detailed enough. Good though if you're tight on space and you need to put lots of music on one or two discs, for ex while traveling or something. I'll let you know how the unit pans out after playing it for a while. I got it at Amazon $84.84, free shipping.

I like the album you have pictured. Barney Kessel does nice accompaniment and I like the format of voice/guitar.

Well the Panasonic portable cd player which I have been using in the office for a few years has got to the point where it can't track and skips. This seems to happen eventually on all these players. Several years ago I had a Sony which also did the same thing but I noticed it had much better audio than this panasonic. Any recommendations for a discman type player? I find that unless you have an amazingly good computer, playing discs at the same time you are working results in really annoying hesitations on the disc play, so I use a portable and Koss Sportapro headphones as my main listening equipment.

Some good pics available now at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

I have to confess that I sometimes get enthusiastic about a player or group and go around buying up everthing I can find by them, only to get so distracted by the next enthusiasm or going-oop item that I don't listen to my previous purchases as much as I ought to. I bet none of you would ever do that. Anyway I have managed to build up a pretty large collection of cd's, which is great because recently the budget has not been stretching to a whole lot of new stuff. Yesterday I went up to the shelf and pulled out this 2-cd set from Gitanes Jazz which I got a couple of years ago when I was buying anything I could find by Kenny Barron. I listened to it a few times then and well, you know... This is a very fine set when you are in the mood for something gentle. It's just the two players, stretching out quite a bit on fourteen 6-9 minute versions of various jazz standards in a live setting in Copenhagen. Getz is playing well, though his health was not good and this is not his best recording. Kenny Barron, to my mind kind of steals the show at points. What a thoughtful player. Check it out sometime. It may be out of print. I got my copy used at a Half-price books.

I sometimes have the same problem. One thing that has helped a lot is exercise during the day. Lately I've been bicycling 20 miles round trip to work every day. It's amazing what a good effect this has had on my sleep habits. Not to mention waistline!

How about tech writing, rooster? You already have all the skills and you could probably pick up a contract or temp work. Might not be exactly what you want right now but sounds like a some steady paychecks would aid the confidence level. This is also the sort of thing you could do some quickie course at a junior college to get a nice sounding certificate or credential. By the way I had to do this many times. Just before the dot com bubble broke I quit my steady job and joined a dot com! Then after months of hangin out I got a contract at PG&E. A week after I started the company declared bankrupcy! Keep your pecker up, as they say. Lucked into a very nice thing in the bay area about a year ago.

Stop, stop! The beverage keeps shooting out of my nose!

This is turning out to be my favorite of the last couple of batches of reissues. The last few connoisseurs were very good, but somehow Indestructible seems to be hitting the rotation more than all of them. What a great record. I think it is now my favorite Blakey record. The writing points the way to both later Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, but also to where Shorter would soon go with Miles.

Jazzmatazz mentions a 5-cd JSP set released on 9/23. Does anyone know what this is?

Hey, nice board! I just checked out the member list. It's kind of amazing, like the entire crowd from BNBB is moving here.