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I actually found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be very disappointing. Of course, I bought it when I was heavily into the live Antibes album. And I don't think anything could have stacked up favorably to that one. The only Mingus album that disappointed me was Three or Four Shades of Blues, which was because Changes One and Two were so good, and there was such a long wait for this lesser record to come out. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus ... are both great recordings, in my opinion. I also found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be disappointing. It is certainly good, but I had read that Mingus thought that his music was finally recorded properly on that album for the first time, and I expected so much. Three or Four Shades of Blues....I bought it the day it came out. The man at the counter at Discount Records in Madison, Wisconsin, most likely a Chuck Nessa-trained guy, tried so hard to talk me out of buying it. He told me that it was so terrible, that when I finally heard it, I thought it was great by comparison to the expectations he had created. Now, I like the title track and think that the rest is O.K. I also like Three or Four Shades of Blues, but merely liking a Mingus recording is below my expectations.

Uh... did you have the volume up? "Turn It Up or Turn It Off." I don't know, it must be me. I'll try it again in a few years or something.

I actually found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be very disappointing. Of course, I bought it when I was heavily into the live Antibes album. And I don't think anything could have stacked up favorably to that one. The only Mingus album that disappointed me was Three or Four Shades of Blues, which was because Changes One and Two were so good, and there was such a long wait for this lesser record to come out. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus ... are both great recordings, in my opinion.

I was disappointed with this one when released. I don't like the recording quality for one thing. But I did re-listen fairly recently and found that I liked it better, at least some of the tracks.

After reading all the accolades for Trio Beyond/Saudade, I couldn't have been more disappointed at this limp, uninspired and utterly boring recording. Not a single track did I want to hear twice.

I'd like to amend my list of favorites to include his posthumous release, Ballads and Bossas: The Lost Sessions. This has become my favorite of his last years. There's also a nice Getz DVD out, The Last Recording.

I think you would be better off with The Village Vanguard set and Live at Birdland, if you don't have them already, as opposed to the Live Trane box set. The VV and Birdland sets are more accessible, and much better recorded.

I don't want to come down too heavily on a new member. So welcome Acoustic. Let me just say that Tyner's "Enlightement" absolutely floored me when I first heard it in 1974 and it was one of the 6 albums that turned me on to "real jazz". I still remember the extraordianry experience of hearing that album for the first time on the radio one night. I bought the album the next day and it started to take my jazz listening down a much different road than the big band and fusion that I had been mostly listening to up to then. Tyner ordinary? Not in my book. Never. I'm with you (JT that is).

I watched the Basie Jazz Icons DVD last night--it's another essential one. Well filmed, with good sound, and a star-studded band (the likes of Thad Jones and Quinton Jackson included), filmed for Swedish television in 1962.

Last night and this morning, I listened to Sonny Stitt's Soul Electricity! This is one inspired recording--with Don Patterson, Billy Butler and Billy James (working group plus Billy Butler on guitar)--and the sound of this recording is very wonderful. All standards on this LP, but Stitt is on fire on every one. Since I can't stop myself, I bought four more Prestiges--Willis Jackson, Star Bag (with Trudy Pitts and Wild Bill Jennings), Wild Bill Jennings with Brother Jack McDuff, Enough Said, Willis Jackson and Brother Jack McDuff, Together Again, Again, and Johnny Hammond Smith with Willis Jackson, Good 'Nuff.

There are two Richard M. Jones CDs on the Classics label, 1923-1927, and 1927-1944. He recorded two piano solos for Gennett in 1923, and led a group which recorded sporadically as Richard M. Jones and His Jazz Wizards. In 1926, he organized a concert for Okeh, featuring King Oliver and the only known public appearance of the Louis Armstrong Hot Five. He died in 1945. The famous blues song he authored, if I recall correctly, is Troube in Mind.

I bought a few more from the same source: Brother Jack McDuff--Hallelujah Time!, the Midnight Sun, Prelude, and Soul Circle. Gene Ammons--the Boss is Back Richard Groove Holmes--That Healin' Feelin' James Moody--Don't Look Away Now! The Ammons, Groove Holmes, and McDuff's Soul Circle, all have Chris Albertson liner notes.

I was going to recommend the 2cd collection, Turn on the Heat, The Fats Waller Piano Solos, but it seems to be out of print. http://www.amazon.com/Turn-Heat-Waller-Pia...TF8&s=music

Even with nothing after 1956, he would still have been the tenor player in one of the best jazz small groups--Miles Davis, Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones.

I was expecting a string of jokes in reference to my comment about the "ethical attorney"!

You asked for it! Options are generally not taxed on the date of grant. However, if the option is granted with too deep a discount (for example, the stock is worth $1 but the option exercise price is 1 cent), then the option is regarded as the underlying stock and is taxable to the extent of its value on the date of grant. An incentive stock option is a special type of option that is required under the Internal Revenue Code to be granted with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of the stock subject to the option on the date of grant. The benefit of an ISO is that upon exercise of the option, the holder has no taxable income, even though the stock acquired is worth more than the exercise price on the date of exercise. A non-statutory option is not required to have an exercise price equal to value on the date of grant. However, they usually are granted with a fair market value exercise price. The point is to reward executives for increasing the stock value, not grant an immediate bonus (which is what a discounted option is). When a non-statutory option is exercised, the executive has taxable income equal to the excess of the value of the stock over the exercise price. So, if an ISO were backdated to achieve a lower exercise price, it would not be an ISO and hence would be taxable on exercise, rather than non-taxable. Stock appreciation rights are forms of deferred compensation--it is an unsecured promise to pay the executive cash equal to the appreciation in the value of the stock after the date of grant. SARs are generally not taxed until the cash is paid to the executive. Client requests to backdate documents arise from time to time. Bebe Rebozo, Richard Nixon's lawyer, was disbarred for helping President Nixon backdate a charitable donation into a prior year. Keeping that in mind, the response of an ethical attorney is that a document cannot be backdated prior to the date it is executed. It is possible to have a prior oral agreement, so a document might be prepared in appropriate cases that sets forth that it was executed on the date signed, but was effective on the prior date of the partie's oral agreement.

The Don Patterson LP has "Blue Grant" on guitar. He takes the first solo on the record, and it is obviously Grant Green.

They sound warm to me, not thin--the organs sound especially good. Mind you, I'm listening on a Revolver turntable with a Linn Basik tonearm--nice but not super high end. This is my best LP score in many years.

I picked up a number of "blue label" (I believe late 1960s) Prestige LPs last weekend--the vinyl was very dusty but once cleaned, seemed to have been played once, if at all. Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt--Donny Brook Willis Jackson--Soul Grabber Sonny Stitt--Soul Electricity Johnny Hammond Smith--the Stinger Sonny Stitt with Don Patterson--Night Crawler Shirley Scott--Hip Twist Willis Jackson with Brother Jack McDuff--Cool Grits Brother Jack McDuff--Go With It Richard Groove Holmes--The Groover. I was just wondering--what do these late Prestiges typically go for? Just about all are Van Gelder recordings with Van Gelder in the wax. They sound rather good to me. Do these simply lack the allure of Blue Notes and sell for a low price typically?l

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Your collection is larger than mine, in that case... I'm just only getting into it! This one is really good. http://www.amazon.com/Kar-Boubacar-Traor/d...5315837-0791254

That's one of my favorite live jazz recordings, since I first heard it 30 or so years ago. Even Mingus didn't want to follow this performance.

I picked this one up at the Tower liquidation sale--it's very nice. What a beautiful fusion of jazz and the music of Mali. Good to hear that! If you want to continue on the journey in Malian music, check out Ali Farka Toure's last album, it's magnificient - no jazz content (although Pee Wee Ellis plays a bit of sax backings on some songs), but if you like blues, you shall enjoy it! I have a small collection of music from Mali without jazz content--recordings by Salif Keita, Habib Koite, Zani Diabate, Ali Farka Toure, and Boubacar Traore. (Please correct me if I have misattributed an artist to Mali in any case.) Boubacar is my favorite, what an incredible accoustic guitarist.

I picked this one up at the Tower liquidation sale--it's very nice. What a beautiful fusion of jazz and the music of Mali.

From Jason Moran's website: February 10, 2007 Houston, TX Cullen Theatre Jason Moran and The Bandwagon present MILESTONE