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Lala: Mose Allison - Mose Allison [2-fer], tracks 16-25

Initially (the mid-60s), I bought the current releases such as Ramsey Lewis, Ray Bryant, Groove Holmes and Cannonball Adderley. But then in the late 60s the record companies stopped issuing mono records. Stores started selling the monos they had on hand for $1.99. Being a poor college student, I bought those $1.99 records of people who were currently popular - Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Mann, Mose Allison and Chet Baker. Most of those monos were Prestige albums from the late 50s.

The Argos have offered the head coaching position to Montreal offensive coordinator Scott Milanovich. No word yet on whether he has accepted. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/argonauts-sign-new-coach/article1449907/ ***** George Cortez has agreed to be the Buffalo Bills' quarterbacks coach for this season. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cortez-sets-sails-for-buffalo/article1450231/ ***** The league will announce this year's schedule Feb. 1 (this Monday). Today they revealed the Opening Week games: Canada Day - Montreal at Saskatchewan (You think that one will be sold out?) Canada Day - Toronto at Calgary July 2 - Hamilton at Winnipeg July 4 - BC at Edmonton

The Frank Wess Quartet is a very nice 1960 Prestige Moodsville date with Wess on tenor and flute, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Eddie Jones on bass and Bobby Donaldson on drums. I've always thought of Wess as a flautist, but to my ears his tenor playing is far superior here. And was Tommy Flanagan ever on a bad album? Six of the seven songs are standards. I read once that the Moodsville label was started to capitalize on the popularity of Henry Mancini's first Peter Gunn album. As I recall, this was one of the last OJCs released before Concord purchased the Fantasy catalogue. I think I've had this disc for three years, but I put it aside and forgot about it until I found it the other day by accident. Great record!

That's terrific! I guess the spam sure helped awareness. I always figured that albums featured in Amazon's spams were paid for by the record label. That is to say, Amazon wasn't really recommending them, it was just product placement. I guess I was wrong!

I heard Day In, Day Out from the new album on Sirius Tuesday.

Somewhere along the line, I got the idea that it was against company policy for Nessa Records to have a best seller! Imagine my surprise when this morning I received spam from Amazon entitled "Amazon.com: Vonski Speaks". I guess that because I have purchased a few jazz albums from them in the past, they have entered my name into their computer's jazz fan list. The email features new releases by Kenny Dorham, Philly Joe Jones and Wadada Leo Smith among others, but at the top of the list is Vonski Speaks! Congratulations Chuck! Or is this merely something that you have paid for?

...it's cooking and thrashing... Not on this album. Interesting to learn of the difference between the two albums. I hope that this one shows up on lala next week so that everyone can hear what I mean.

As I recall, Tord Gustavsen's album The Ground was very popular here, so I thought that some of you in New York and San Francisco would like to know that he will be coming to America the end of March to promote his new album Restored, Returned. March 28 - San Francisco Jazz Festival March 31 - Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

Tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama has been a featured soloist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra for 25 years, and a member of Joe Lovano's Nonet since its beginning in 1999. He now has a new album out called The Audience. It's a quartet record, with sax, elec. guitar, bass and drums. Lalama's playing is 67% Atlantic Coltrane and 33% Riverside Sonny Rollins. I don't hear much original from him on this album. But what makes the album interesting is the juxtaposition of the sax with the rhythm section. Thanks to the guitar work of John Hart, the rhythm section produces the mellow vibe of 50s West Coast jazz. It's akin to Coltrane recording with Johnny Smith, or Sonny recording with Howard Roberts. If it comes up on lala I'll post again to let you know. Definitely worth hearing for its unusual sound.

Kent Austin will be Cornell's head coach this year. I bet Cornell is going Wilde!!!:excited: (Forgive me.) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/source-kent-austin-to-coach-cornell/article1445448/

Lala: Mose Allison - Mose Allison [2-fer], tracks 1-15

Lala: Charlie Byrd - Jazz Recital

I remember well seeing him in Sept. of '68 in DC. I remember that Steve Novosel was on bass. Great jazz with something of a rock beat.

Thanks again! Sandy, I'll give you a call when I'm ready to put the first item up on eBay.

Lala: Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

Jan Shapiro - Back to Basics http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/SmFuIFNoYXBpcm8%3d/0 John Vance - Dreamsville http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/Sm9obiBWYW5jZQ%3d%3d/0 Janice Friedman - Swingin' for the Ride http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/SmFuaWNlIEZyaWVkbWFu/0 Mort Weiss - The B3 and Me http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/TW9ydCBXZWlzcw%3d%3d/0

I don't' know much about the Vikings. It seems to me, in a general way, that a team good enough to play in the conference championship game should be good enough to keep its quarterback safe. Usually it's the bad teams whose quarterbacks get beat up, isn't it?

Lala: Cannonball Adderley (with Sergio Mendes) - Cannonball's Bossa Nova

Thanks guys! I'll check out your suggestions.

Pernell Roberts has died of cancer. I always think of him as Adam Cartwright, but I imagine a greater number think of him from Trapper John, MD. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/01/pernell-roberts-adam-cartwright-on-bonanza-dead-at-81.html

Isn't there another player that is generally considered to be the best, and to be relatively inexpensive? Maybe something by SanDisk? Obviously this is a topic I know little about, but I've read a few times that people who investigate with an open mind don't choose the iPod or the Zune.

I was vacillating between the TV and the radio. The fumbles that I saw were good strips rather than the result of careless handling of the ball. Obviously you can't plan to win if you fumble that many times, but I didn't see the fumbles to be the result of obvious incompetence on the Vikings' part. I support the idea that a call must be obviously bad for it to be overturned with the replay. Still, the Saints were given all the close calls at the end, and that leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I grew up in New Orleans, but the Saints didn't start until my senior year in high school, so I didn't grow up rooting for them. Still, I have pulled for them over the years, and I'll be rooting for them in the Super Bowl. But I think that Peyton and the Colts are going to clobber them. The Colts should have tried to go for the undefeated season. I think that they could have done it. By the way, how good is the Colts defense? Are the Colts so good because of the offense, or is their defense better than just about everyone else's too? I have read that the Saints are only as good as the kind of a day Brees is having, so maybe the Super Bowl will be one in which they shoot out the lights.

Kenny they weren't booing. The presentation was made by a former Saints hero named Deuce McAlister, and they were shouting "Deuce!" It is common for American fans to shout the names of ballplayers whose names rhyme with "boo". Anyone named "Moose", for example.

Lala: Various Artists - Jazz at Ronnie Scott's http://www.lala.com/#album/937030197521745713/Various_Artists/Jazz_At_Ronnie_Scott%27s