GA Russell

I voted for Speak No Evil. I'm a little surprise that Adam's Apple is getting so many votes, because I think it is missing something without a trumpet. I love Nightdreamer as well.

I voted for Dameron, thinking that he was the best composer. Tomorrow I might prefer one of the others.

Muskrat, I think I've touched upon this above (it's a long thread!), but anyway...It's my belief that in regard to jazz that BMG doesn't pick up anything that was released more than a year ago. Similarly, if BMG picks up an item by an artist, it won't be picking up a previously released item by that artist. This is just my observation - no inside knowledge here.

Nowadays, it seems like Ella is the only Verve they get! Or maybe Ella is the only artist they're issueing. I remember it wasn't that long ago when Verve was the Label of the Year in the Downbeat readers' poll.

I am struck by how few albums have been listed by this group of hard core Blue Note afficionadoes! Five years is a long time. I think my favorite is Pat Martino's Live at Yoshi's, but I'm sure I haven't heard as many as most of you have.

I voted for Cal Tjader. I'm a bit ambivalent about him. He's never impressed me that he was a great player, and I wouldn't give five stars to any of his albums I've heard. But I love everything of his I have. I don't think he ever made a bad record, or even a mediocre one. He consistently walked the line between good art and music that wouldn't chase non-jazz fans out of the room.

Jim and Mike, my first thought when I received the memo from Fantasy was that I didn't know that he had recorded that much for them. I was thinking that maybe he recorded for them over two periods, with perhaps an early 50s period I am not aware of. I also am surprised that Fantasy would issue a box of anything of Prestige from circa 1970. The reputation of the company from those years is not particularly good, though I am the first to admit that there may be great music I am unaware of. For example, the Sonny Criss on Prestige from that era is today given more credit than it was at the time.

Speaking of Dexter Gordon, I learned today that Fantasy will release a 9 CD box of his Prestige recordings in the fall.

"Blood On The Keys"...That sounds like a title for the next album!

Congrats Ed! I would spend some of that money you saved on the missus, to ensure that your logic is accepted by the home office.

I can't lose. I've got my local team the Panthers against my boyhood favorite team the Patriots. I see it Patriots 20-7.

Lombardi coached only one set of players in Green Bay. The team had stunk prior to his arrival, so the team had a number of good young high-draft-pick players when he joined Green Bay in '59. He coached them till they got old together, and then retired to the front office. The team collapsed immediately thereafter. In fairness to him, when he joined the Redskins as coach in '69, he immediately turned a perenially crummy team into a somewhat competitive team. Gen. Eisenhower said that nothing improves morale more than victory. Lombardi put his players through hell, but it paid off so they were willing to go along.

Thanks for that review! I didn't know that Byron played with the likes of those other three.

I went to see M. Hulot's Holiday when I was in college, and this old woman in front of me made a comment out loud to her friend with every sight gag, about once a minute. I think she quit from exhaustion!

Chuck, I once spoke with Dagmar on the phone, by accident! I was working my way through school as a salesman, and called up a company, and there she was. I forget the nature of the company, but as I recall it was in Washington, DC. This would have been in '76 I think. I remember thinking, Why isn't Dagmar doing whatever she does in Hollywood or New York?

There's a bug with this thread, so I'm going to bump it to the top to see if that doesn't make it better.

Congrats Jim!

Conn, if Lombardi didn't have such a great winning percentage, he wouldn't be quoted. That's a reality of sports. Another reality is the likelihood that a success in sports will be painted as a great man. He said a number of quotable comments about winning and what it takes, and these have been picked up by motivational speakers and sales departments. By the way, before Tom Landry got ahold of Roger Staubach, I remember the San Francisco 49ers using the shotgun as their regular formation. Their quarterback was Billy Kilmer. I think Red Hickey was their coach then. Of course, the 49ers didn't have the success the Cowboys did back then.

Marine, although the music is available on single CDs, I strongly recommend Paul Desmond's RCA box. I listened to much of it this morning. It's very calm, with Jim Hall on guitar instead of a piano.

Thanks for asking! Fantasy Records has recently released for the first time music recorded decades ago by the likes of Bill Evans, Groove Holmes, Cal Tjader and Shelly Manne. I recommend them, and similar "lost in the vaults for years" recordings if you can find any.

I once went to a corporate party at a convention in Las Vegas, and as a surprise they brought out Buddy Greco, whom I really enjoyed. The Lady is a Tramp and all that!

It's just one of their "profit centers", I'm sure. BFrank, my hunch is just the oppposite. I think that the shipping charge includes all of their nut; and their profit is whatever they can persuade you to pay for the CD!

Thanks guys. Maybe for my purposes I would be smarter to just go ten bucks a month continuously. The price break is less than fifty cents per album.

How easy it to quit? Figuring ten songs per album, 90 songs for twenty bucks is a great deal. But I wouldn't want to listen to 9 new albums a month, month after month after month. That's too much for me! So I would sign up for a month, then wait three months, then sign up for a month, etc. So, is it easy to quit, to do what I mention, or are they imprecise about this, so you get stuck being a member for two months at a time. By the way, can you monitor your account, so that you know how many downloads you have left on your current payment?

Clunky, I have his first Revelation LP, Alone Together. It's OK, not a must-have.