Dan Gould

I was thinking add Miles and you get Someday My Postman Will Come (To The Door & I Will Bite Him).

Shane, Thanks for your concern but Gracie is fine, I just decided to change avatars after snapping a few shots of Coltrane last night. I am still trying to get a shot of Coltrane loving up Gracie when she is fed up and her lip curls back so this current one might be short-lived. (Would love to see Mobley; if we didn't live on opposite coasts we might be able to bring Coltrane and Mobley together )

Why base your own preference on the opinion of someone else (which is likely to be based in large part on their own stereo setup anyway)? Personally I wouldn't take such advice even if it was somehow held universally that a particular RVG or a particular McMaster should be avoided, or is the ultimate remastering or whatever.

I'd like to assume but as I cannot account for the whereabouts of the Fairies, I'd like to apologize in advance for any aggravation they might have caused.

I'd pay $90 to get a front row seat to drive that POS bat-shit insane with my carefully placed coughing.

I haven't gone back too far on Irene Reid but quite a few years ago I took a chance on one of her recordings because Charles Earland and Eric Alexander were on it, and I soon found that just about all of the Savants she recorded are worthwhile. I even used her recording of "What a Difference a Day Made" on my Wedding soundtrack.

Even with only four organ tracks, there's gotta be a good greaze quotient on this one, so one download, please.

I can't say anything about the CD or the bonus tracks but the vinyl was great and I highly recommend the recording.

I used to be in the loop for some of those but I kinda suspected that the well was dry. Not that I'm jealous - I'm sure my reaction would be far more harsh than "trainwreck of avant garde nothingness". But now I'd wonder if there's any chance at all to hear the Gene Harris - Grant Green session some day. Not crazy at all.

The link doesn't work, but congrats all the same. :party:

YEAH! :party:

I'll be happy if FSU wins once. I wouldn't have any idea what their bracket is or know anything about the rest of the field but while I should be happy that they made the tourney for the second year in a row I can't help feeling its yet another season of "good at times but never good enough". Their coach has them going in the right direction but I don't see them getting over the hump.

The former Gene Harris Fanatic wonders where the hell he was before this happened.

No, nothing that I experienced, but remember to my wife this didn't start out of the blue in November, she was perceiving things and having things happen (like the disappearing wands) well before the time that it manifested (so to speak) in ways that I've seen with my own eyes.

Given how much time was spent collecting before I went online, I can't imagine that outside of some recordings there are any artists I didn't "know" previously. The closest might be Allen Lowe's Percy France recording but its really not true to say that I wasn't aware of him before Allen starting talking that recording up.

Well I don't know if anyone is still interested but since this functions as a journal of sorts, here's the latest: Two nights ago I was upstairs in the office, reading something online when I was poked in the right shoulder blade, pretty hard. I was certain it was my wife behind me but of course there was nothing there. Now, I am sure Paps and others will say that this was a muscle spasm and I can see the argument. At the same time, this very much felt like something external acting against my back, not some involuntary spasm like Peter Graves right before he succumbs to uncontrolled flatulence.

So the law says "eight years and 14 days to find the next of kin or else we enrich our fat accounts and greedy stomachs."

I can't vouch for it from personal experience, but I am quite sure that you do. I just wish that they were offering the Phil Woods referenced above at that price, instead of it listing for over $60.

Still HTML to me ...

For maximum effectiveness of a leaf blower, you need to be surrounded by woodland, as my folks are. Its not so much work if you are just pushing all the leaves off the grass. I do remember when I worked at a Taylor Rental and brought home a push-style leaf blower that it was still a helluva lot work pushing it back and forth, heavier than the lawn mower for sure. But I still tolerated it better than the rake.

Is anyone else seeing this link as pure html code? I've had some funny looking page loads lately but this is ridiculous.

The safest choice is Grass Roots since its his closest-to-hard-bop recording, with a front line of Lee Morgan and Booker Ervin (and you get an earlier attempt at the same material with Frank Mitchell and Woody Shaw in the front line). I'm surprised this stayed off your radar since you say you "always tended toward straightforward hard bop and away from anything close to avant garde". I never found my way into Hill's music and now, thanks to DrJ, I feel especially good about the fact that I kept Grass Roots and Black Fire, ditched the rest and never looked back. I don't need Daddy to tell me to eat my broccoli.

Or, alternatively, one taste of horseshit will make you stop eating it, now and forever.