Uncle Skid

Last time I heard the word Moxie, I was in Maine!

One of the aforementioned Hep CDs (Listen…You Shall Hear - Hep 1025) is available for $8.95 here: Jazzmatazz.

Thanks -- looks like I need to make another YM order! Anybody familiar with this compilation - "Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick Recordings (1926-1931)"?

Where can I find a recording of Black and Tan Fantasy with Bubber Miley on trumpet? I'm looking for the "Victor, 1927" version described in the chapter on "The Ellington Style" in Shuller's Early Jazz. I have a Columbia/Legacy version (Okeh?), but this one has Jabbo Smith instead of Miley. And (more generally), where's the best place to start with early Ellington? The numerous recordings on Brunswick, Vocalion, Columbia, Victor and Okeh, as well as all of reissues and compliations has me quite confused.

Actually, it's more like hanging a Thomas Kinkade next to a DaVinci painting.

I find it really hard to believe that ANYONE could be fly in the Aquinas College field house, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Well, I must be a neanderthal or something... the Decca/GRP set sounds OK to me. Would love to hear the Hep CDs, but the opportunity costs are just too high -- too much other music on the want list!

Below is an example of Cecil's notation, from this documentary. Also from the documentary:

Like Frank, I also don't have a ton of Basie stuff, so I'm looking forward to more recommendations. In addition to Atomic Basie, you definitely need this one: I believe this is still available from Yourmusic.com for $17.97 (3-CD set).

Candissimo!!

Very nice record -- "Swotterings" and "Tea and Watercolors" are my current favorites.

So much for that New Year's resolution!

Either that, or he had to go on a BEER RUN!!

Tristano - Konitz - Marsh "Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh", June 14, 1955 session

Somebody once told me that was a good CD. He was right!! If Big Al is picking the music, better make sure you dust off your Styx CDs!

Star Bright is on the Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select. Excellent session! Another vote for Compulsion!!!!! -- anything with that many exclamation points just HAS to be great, right? Also would like to see Unit Structures as an RVG or Conn.

I just downloaded that track from her ArtistShare site, I'm diggin' it as well. Very nice!

Just downloaded Warne Marsh - Music for Prancing (VSOP, 1957). Thanks for the tip, Dave!

Just got an email that said Ike Quebec: Heavy Soul is gone.

I agree with you completely -- there are grey areas, and I'm certainly not trying to imply that you (or anyone) on this board doesn't support the music. But I'm surprised that you apparently don't see any difference between borrowing a bought and paid for CD, vs. downloading or ripping the files on to your computer. Back to the original comparision -- can you do that (easily) with a book? Your response (and Rooster's to a certain extent) implies that spending X amount of dollars entitles you to Y amount of free music. Again, there are certainly grey areas, but this troubles me. For instance, unless you can say directly to Jim, Joe, and Randy: "Hey guys, I copied your CD, but that's OK because I've already spent $100 this month", then what makes it acceptable to make a copy of something else? Just curious.

Debian "Testing" (etch) -- email client is Evolution w/spam assassin.

Yes, and this is a good example of the real problem: a person in authority (you) has implicitly told your students that it is OK to do this. The students shouldn’t have to buy copies, but the school district sure as hell should. Or maybe if the school district is poor, it can just copy it now and pay for it later when they have the money? It seems to me that the problem in general has progressively become worse over the last 20 years. And it will continue to get worse unless we all stop kidding ourselves by rationalizing this type of behavior.

Of course not! Are people with money the only ones allowed to read great literature? Libraries, friends, family, used bookstores, .... Treat music like a book: lending it out is fine, copying it is not. Downloading it is not, unless the artist has been compensated. Should musicians be treated any differently than writers? Just because technology has made it possible doesn't make it right.

I fail to see how financial status has anything to do with this. Seems like a very slippery slope -- at what point is one obligated to purchase? Very weak rationalization, in my opinion. If it's wrong when you have money, it's still wrong when you don't.

Has anybody read that book? I'll fess up -- my wife enjoyed it, and I was encouraged (coerced?) into reading it when she finished. It was a good read, but very far-fetched in many places. I really don't understand how anybody could have read it as the absolute, unmodified truth, even BEFORE the Smoking Gun expose. My bullshit detector went off many times, especially the trip to the dentist for a root canal with no Novocain. Watching Frey squirm has been enjoyable, as his big claim of being "brutually honest" goes up in flames. As much as I don’t care for Oprah (or her book club), she did the right thing here, for the right reasons. I don’t think she did that show *only* to save her own ass and salvage her reputation – but I do believe she has some sense of the enormous power she wields, and how it affects people who unquestionably believe she “walks on water”. Or maybe not…