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Red Garland--Red Alone (Moodsville)

I have found that real world skill by attorneys often has little or nothing to do with their academic background in law, or with their LSAT scores. It often has more to do with the mentoring they receive after law school, and their innate talent, which law school often seems to do its best to squelch or suppress. You're right, of course. No one cares what a lawyer's LSAT score was, or what their bar score was (other than that you passed). And law school ill prepares one for actually being a lawyer. And one has to take a Bar Review course to take the state bar exam because law school also doesn't even do a very good job of teaching you the law of your respective state.

If you want to be a lawyer, you have to take the LSAT to get into law school. It's a lot less painful an experience than law school itself, or the bar exam.

I sure wouldn't hire someone who had to study for three months to get a good score on the LSAT. Keep it to yourself.

Maybe you need to do some research first. The LSAT in no way tests general knowledge of any kind. Thinking ability? Eh.. it is more learning the strategy and tricks of the way questions are asked, something that is not in standardized tests of any kind you can study for. I have had several friends who have taken the prep course and the structure has given them great results...so to each their own. You get what you put into it. Of course, there are some prep courses that are downright mediocre, so one needs to solicit opinions rather than absorbing marketing pitches. I've taken the LSAT, thanks, albeit a number of years ago.

The idea that you have to take a course to study for a standardized test of your general knowledge and thinking ability seems absurd to me, or more likely the result of a successful marketing campaign by the test preparation course industry. I would say forget it, it's too late, you should have learned how to take a standardized test long ago.

From a few years later, also on Atlantic, Newmanism has long been a favorite. It has Roy Ayers (in exceedingly excellent form), Ron Carter, and Pat Rebillot. It has a tinge of the commercial (in the form of Rebillot's keyboards), but very passionate playing (for example, Foxey Brown). Being from Dallas, I've gotten to see him play perhaps more than any other jazz musician. He's an undersung great.

It's great news that this team will restore more early jazz recordings.

Thomas Chapin Trio--Nightbird Song, Ride, Menagerie Dreams and Skypiece.

Tell ya' what let's do - let's pick Wynton up at the airport, highjack his ass outta that bunch, and take him to someplace where... I wonder if he writes his own press releases.

Oops, I forgot one... Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra September 19 Meyerson Symphony Center Wynton Marsalis has been described as the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation, and for one-night-only, he will perform at the Meyerson with The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Don't miss one of the world's top composers, big band leaders, and classical musicians.

Riverside History of Classic Jazz (only $8.99 for 3 disc set from Newbury Comics on amazon).

Earl's Backroom and Cozy's Caravan--Earl Hines Quartet and Cozy Cole Septet (Felsted)--My very lucky find of the week, in excellent shape--two fabulous sessions from 1958, one side each.

Tell ya' what let's do - let's pick Moody up at the airport, highjack his ass outta that bunch, and take him to someplace where him & Marchel can play all night with Roger Boykin, Lyles West, & The Sheriff. That I would go see. Who's the Sheriff?

Also at UTD: PAUL BOLLENBACK Series: Jazz Date: Friday, September 7, 2007 Time: 8:00 p.m. Venue: Conference Center Ticket Prices: $20 admission

At the University of Texas at Dallas: MONTY ALEXANDER TRIO Series: Jazz Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 Time: 6:30 p.m. – Dinner 8:00 p.m. – Concert Venue: Conference Center Ticket Prices: Dinner and Concert, $35 or Concert only, $20

At Bass Hall in Fort Worth: The Pat Metheny Trio with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez Presented by: Bass Hall Dates / Times: Thursday, 03/06/2008 8:00 PM

At McFarlin Auditorium: *MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL 50th ANNIVERSARY TOUR Fri., February 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM The longest continually-running jazz festival in the world, the Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary with a national tour. Maintaining Monterey's tradition of bringing together veteran and younger artists, the show stars Terence Blanchard (trumpet), James Moody (saxophone), Benny Green (piano), Nnenna Freelon (special guest vocalist), Derrick Hodge (bass) and Kendrick Scott (drums).

King Curtis a New York sax blaster? I thought he was from Fort Worth.

Me, too. Are these two the first time released? I just saw a used LP for sale of the Peterson/Stitt/Eldridge.

On LP: Eddie Condon All Stars (with Rex Stewart and Bud Freeman)--Tiger Rag--World Pacific (1960) Earl Hines/Cozy Cole--Earl's Backroom and Cozy's Caravan--Felsted (1958). On CD: Coleman Hawkins in the '50s--Body and Soul Revisited Atlas Blues Explosion

I had the opportunity to see him at the Village Vanguard once. McCoy Tyner was playing just down the street at Sweet Basil. It was hard to pass by McCoy, but I had seen him a number of times recently, so I thought I'll give Michel Pettruciani a try, plus it's the VV. I was out of there after one set, heading down to Sweet Basil where McCoy played a thrilling second set, lamenting that I had missed the first one.

No kidding, especially if the sound were magically better! I found the Birdland CDRs to be mostly of such poor sound quality that I had trouble listening to them. It seems puzzling that Charlie Parker broadcasts from the late 1940s have better sound. Perhaps these were several generations of copies from the source material?

It is worth buying, in my opinion, particularly for the live tracks.

I ordered it, the set looks good to me.