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Brownie, I played that just a couple of weeks ago! Like you I have the Limelight mono. I got it my freshman year of college, when the record stores were getting rid of all their mono stock. I played the heck out of that at the time. It was my first Gerry Mulligan album. I've like Warren Bernhardt ever since. Speaking of whom, I haven't seen anything from him in about ten years. Great record!

Happy Birthday Conrad!

Late last night: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Live Oblivion, vol. 1 (RCA Victor) 1974 Davis/Gillespie/Navarro - Trumpet Giants (New Jazz) 1949, 1950, 1951 Konitz & Davis/Charles & Raney - Ezz-Thetic (New Jazz) 1951 Tonight: Soft Machine - Six, disc 2 (Columbia) 1973 Steve Marcus - Count's Rock Band (Vortex) 1968 Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (New Jazz OJC) Herbie Mann, etc. - Just Wailin' (New Jazz) 1959?

National Health - Of Queues and Cures (Br. Charly) 1978 Elton Dean Quintet - Boundaries (JAPO/ECM) 1980 Osibisa (Decca) 1971

Found this notice above my queue today: Availability of Tex Book Tenor (Remastered) is limited, and it may no longer be available on its shipping date of 05/07. If you would like to purchase this item while it is in stock, please add it to your Shopping Cart and buy it now.

The Riders obtained Jamie Boreham from the Ticats today. Thankfully, they won't let him try to kick field goals. They plan to use him for kickoffs and punting. Luca Congi is set as placekicker. Where that leaves the Ticats for kicking I don't know, but they have to improve in that area to make the playoffs. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

My copy arrived in the mail today. I've listened to it twice, and have a generally positive reaction. From what I have gleaned from the press release and the liner notes, Anat Fort dreamed for years of recording with Paul Motian. She is an Israeli pianist who since 1996 has been based in New York. She even asked him out of the blue to record with her, and of course he (never having heard her music) said "No." However, her bassist Ed Schuller had recorded with Motian back in '81, and he persuaded him to sit in for a record date. The date, with Schuller and clarinetist Perry Robinson, occurred over two days in March of 2004. Apparently the tapes sat in the can for two years. It's not clear to me how Manfred Eicher got involved, but he did, and mixed and edited the tapes for ECM more than two years later. So now A Long Story is seeing the light of day three years after it was recorded. Now on to the music. Is there such a thing as good new age music? Guy mentioned to start this thread that this might be "another slow-tempo introspective piano-centered disc on ECM". It is that. But Fort's touch on the keyboard doesn't remind me of an ECM pianist as much as it does Liz Story. Fort wrote all of the compositions (eleven, totalling 56 minutes), and I can't tell where the compositions end and the improvisations begin. Interestingly, she wanted to recorded a few standards, but Motian talked her out of it. Meaning no disrepsect, but Fort seems to be the least talented musician on the record. Motian is great, and Schuller, whom I am not familiar with, is a real find here. He has played a great deal with Robinson's group over the years. Today I give this three stars. If it grows on me over the coming months I might raise it to four. It's a good record, but I don't think it's up to ECM's standards.

Skid, I heard one song from African Tarantella on the radio last week, and I liked what I heard. I've been thinking about adding it to my queue.

I first heard of Bobby Broom last year with the release of Sonny Rollins' latest CD Sonny, Please. I don't know where I have been, but it turns out that he has been around for years. He is 45 years old. His first album, Clean Sweep, came out in 1981, I think on the GRP label. He has a new CD coming out next week on the 20th called Song and Dance which will be his sixth as a leader. There are ten songs totalling 65 minutes. Standards include Can't Buy Me Love (!), Where is the Love?, Superstar, Wichita Lineman, and (from before 1960) Smile and You and the Night and the Music. There are three originals. I mentioned in my review of Sonny, Please that Broom reminded me of Jim Hall. That's really true on Song and Dance. I haven't liked quite so much what I've heard from Hall in the past ten years because it has been a little too dry for me. Broom doesn't play that way here. In fact, on the standards he reminds me a little bit of Chuck Wayne, whose Prestige OJC album Morning Mist I know some of you have. All songs are performed by a guitar-bass-drums trio. The bass is under-mic'd IMO. You have to listen closely to hear it. What bassist Dennis Carroll is doing is interesting, and I think it should be a little closer to the front. Kobie Watkins is fine on drums. I really like this album. I suppose whether you like it will depend on your opinion of Jim Hall. I give the standards five stars and the originals four stars; so I'll give the CD four and a half stars. CD Universe says: List Price $15.98; Their Price $11.89. edit for typo

It's not clear to me how the new rule outlawing kicking the ball out of bounds (in touch) applies to open field kicks. For example, on a field goal attempt the defense will put a kicker in the end zone to recover the missed FG and kick it out. If the ball goes out of bounds on the fly, how will the penalty apply? ***** The Eskimos cut Singor Mobley and Donald Brady today. They have already cut Troy Davis. I guess after they finished last in the West and out of the playoffs they figure they have to make changes and move some veterans. I don't disagree, but with Hugh Campbell gone for good I don't have faith in the Eskimos like I used to. Maybe they will just be another team now. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Without studying the lineup, I'm picking Georgetown over Pitt in the final.

I had Trumpeta Toccata set for May in my Your Music queue, but since you are all so high on it I will bump it up to the top for next month.

Hug (Br. Polydor) 1976? Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (Columbia) George Shearing - The Shearing Spell (Pausa) 1955? National Health (Visa) 1977

It's interesting you should say that, Guy. Just the other day I was listening to some Paul Desmond RCA tracks, and thought his tone was very much like a clarinet.

The CFL today outlawed kicking the ball out of bounds on the fly between the 20 yard lines. It will be a ten yard penalty. The league also returned (after one year) to the old system of blocking on kick returns - blocking on the side and front are legal again. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday FFA!

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (Columbia) The Best of The Strawberry Alarm Clock (MCA Back-Trac) Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! (Janus) 1971 John Stevens - Chemistry (Vinyl) 1975 Didier Lockwood - Surya (Inner City) 1980 Area - Caution Radiation Area (Cramps)

Fred Frith - Speechless (Ralph) 1980 Material - Memory Serves (Elektra Musician) 1982 The Best of George Shearing (Capitol)

The Falcons signed Joe Horn today. He's already 35! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Various - Mardi Gras in New Orleans (Mardi Gras) The Best of The Four Freshmen (Capitol) National Health - D.S. al Coda (Europa) 1981

Hatfield and the North (Br. Virgin) 1973 French TV (Lost) 1984 Thelonious Monk - Two Hours with Thelonious, disc 1 (ABC Riverside) 1961? The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside Bill Grauer) 1962

TTK, it's not that great. It's not bossa nova. It has plenty of percussion as you would expect, but not much in the way of cross-rhythms. The melodies are not exciting, and the keyboard is electric, which I don't fancy. I prefer Romao's Pablo album Hotmosphere from the following year which I picked up at the Concord Blowout sale.

My pick this month is The Best of Django Reinhart on Blue Note. I don't know much about this. I assume that Django recorded these for a French EMI label, perhaps Odeon. I also assume that all of this material was included in the Mosaic box. Dan Morgenstern wrote the liner notes, and I believe selected the tunes as well. This will be my first Django album.

When Your Music raised its price from $4.99 to $5.99, I ordered Think Tank and a couple of others because it was highly recommended by the posters at AAJ. I don't dislike it, but it is much different from what I expected. It is more abstract and less soulful than the other Pat Martino recordings I had heard. I play it a few times a year, but only when I come upon it - I never seek it out as something I'm in the mood to hear. This thread has given me the urge to listen to it again, but I can't find it!

Great news! Break a leg!