GA Russell

Thanks guys! It looks like another one to put in my queue, but I don't think I'll wait until its turn comes up to buy it.

BMG is offering this one. Their website quotes Scott Yanow's AMG review. I think you'll agree that this is a pretty obscure album for BMG to offer, as they usually pick albums that are best sellers. Has anyone heard it from start to finish? What's your opinion?

One of the advantages of liking an unpopular form of music like jazz is that I only hear the music when I want to. Thus, nothing gets beaten to death!

I'm sure that for some of us, YourMusic.com's promise to raise its price May 13 didn't help us break the habit of buying more than we can consume!

Happy the Man This was the first album of a prog rock group of the same name, recorded in '77. I bought the LP in about '81 from Wayside Music, a prog rock cutout mail order house operated by Steve Feigenbaum, who now operates Cuneiform Records.

Years ago when I worked at Borders, Monday was a slow day, and the record department would spend the day getting ready to put out all the new product first thing Tuesday morning. At the close Monday, everything would be on carts ready to roll out onto the sales floor.

I voted for the only one I've heard, 1966. Have a feeling you won't get too many votes for this one!

'...as had been fraudulently reported for decades" - What are you referring to? Just curious. Regarding the album behavior on the charts, the slide down is certainly true for the hot shot debuts but there are many who still climb the charts for whatever reason. ← Chandra, I remember reading about the industry's response to Soundscan when it started up. The industry massaged its numbers and its promotions with the Billboard charts to give the impression that a record was growing in popularity. It would climb the charts. The idea was to give the record the aura of a winner. After weeks of climbing the charts, it would peak and then quickly fall down and off the chart. Soundscan measures the actual sales, so the promotions departments could no longer play their little game. In actuality, most record sales occur when the record is brand new. Most records do not increase in popularity. I am referring to popular rock and country and R&B albums. The sort of music that makes up the industry as measured by Soundscan. It probably is also true for Wynton Marsalis and Joe Lovano, but jazz sales are so miniscule that if the sales pattern for jazz differed from the norm it wouldn't surprise me.

Is that directed to me Mr. Russell? ← Hi Free For All! Nope, not at all. I was testing the quote function. Sorry if I gave you the impression that you might be on my ignore list. (I'm still wondering where you got that still from Where the Boys Are!)

I read somewhere about that, but I can't remember what the answer to the question was. I do remember that it became important that everyone wait until the same day to start selling an album. Why, I don't remember, but perhaps mail order had something to do with it. I remember that retailers who were near the point of shipping received their stock a few days before those who were far away, and for some reason that made a difference to those who were far away. Nowadays with Soundscan tracking album sales, the public now knows that albums do not climb the charts as had been fraudulently reported for decades. Instead, they start at the top the first week of their release, and then slide down the chart.

Test - It looks like the quotes only come in the order they originally appeared, unless you go to the effort of changing the order in your reply. Now that I have the opportunity to ignore someone who was getting under my skin, he has greatly reduced his posting to the point that he doesn't bother me anymore!

I didn't have the money for the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis at the time. My regrets are more for the ones I've purchased that aren't really my cup of tea. I tell myself that I should give them more time, and I will, but for the money I spent I would prefer more immediate gratification. I'm thinking of the Herbie Nichols and Charles Mingus Candid Mosaics and the Coltrane Village Vanguard set.

Aggie, I just bought Black Stars last month, so it will be quite a while before I get Same Mother. But I'll let you know!

← Free For All, I'm amazed that you found that photo! Bravo!

I have received an email stating that the removal of Jason Moran's Same Mother from my queue was a computer error, and that it has been returned to my queue.

As I recall, he played a bass-playing jazz musician in Where the Boys Are.

It so happens that my only bumper sticker says Eat Bertha's Mussels. My cigar-smoking buddy Farmerator treated me to dinner there. Yum!

My Miles Seven Steps box arrived from YourMusic.com yesterday. I'm enjoying Disc 1 now.

I'm still waiting for Chuck to mention Sonny Rollins' Worktime! What's the holdup, Chuck?!!!

This is a good thread! I hadn't realized how much of my Sunday music was even more relaxing than usual. I started the afternoon with Stan Kenton's New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (with Russo and Holman charts), and am now listening to the soundtracks of Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, which are on one CD.

Thanks for posting that, brownie.

Pete (LaRoca) Sims - Turkish Women at the Bath Something from 1967 that 32 Jazz got from Muse, but not a Muse recording; with John Gilmore, Chick Corea and Walter Booker. I like it!

Richard "Groove" Holmes - Soul Message Henry Mancini - Music From Peter Gunn Paul Desmond - Bossa Antigua Thelonious Monk - Thelonious In Action Herbie Mann (with Bill Evans) - Nirvana Stan Getz - Sweet Rain Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby Mark Murphy - Rah Mose Allison - I've Been Doin' Some Thinking Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again Wayne Shorter - JuJu Gerry Mulligan - first PJ album with Chet Baker Chet Baker - Chet In Paris, Vol. 1 Mike Nock - In Out & Around Steve Marcus - Count's Rock Band Larry Coryell - Offering (I think, the one with Foreplay on it) Don Ellis - Live At Monterey! Dave Brubeck - Time Out Cal Tjader - Plugs In Shorty Rogers - Short Stops

Thanks for your efforts Jim!

I received an email yesterday from them saying that Same Mother is no longer available. I wonder if your receiving a promo copy of it had anything to do with this. Maybe all of their stock was promos, so they shipped them back to Blue Note. Same Mother was available for only a couple of weeks, so I can't believe that they sold out that quickly.