GA Russell

I am thinking of picking up a Weather Report album. Live and Unreleased got good reviews when it came out. I am also thinking about Mysterious Traveller. Does anyone have an opinion of this one? My favorite Weather Report album is Black Market. I also have I Sing the Body Electric, which is more free than I'm looking for; and Heavy Weather, which is OK I guess, but I'm looking for something better. Mysterious Traveller is their first album with Alphonso Johnson. Any thoughts?

Paul Desmond, Discs 2 and 1.

I remember when I bought Meet the Beatles in February of '64 that it was hermetically sealed in a thick plastic wrap which was not shrink wrap. Subsequent albums were shrink wrapped, so if I had to say when specifcally, I would say 1964.

Chalupa, I hope you'll let us know what you think of the Carl Stalling album.

Joe Zawinul said No to Miles. And I believe that Ahmad Jamal did too.

I think it's terrific. It also includes a side of tentet recordings with their arrangements. And it includes the album the quartet did with Lee Konitz to make up a quintet. Buy it!

Thanks DizzySpells! Your way works great. I can save the folder in the My Documents folder and save a step in retrieving the files. It also eliminates having the folder on the desktop.

I went to a Georgetown - Catholic University game many years ago. The CU crowd chanted "What's a Hoya?" and the GU crowd chanted back "What's a Catholic?"

Mark Murphy's Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook on Muse/32 Jazz features a number of tracks with him accompanied only by a bass.

My Captain Marvel has been shipped, so I have a new number one on my queue: Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag I'm not the biggest fan of Jackie McLean. I bought A Long Drink of the Blues because it got good reviews, and it left me underwhelmed. I've picked Jackie's Bag because Tina Brooks is on it. I had never heard of Brooks before Mosaic issued its set of him, and I've only heard a cut or two from one of his albums (I think Back of the Tracks, maybe). I have read that Brooks has a featured place on this album, so I thought it would be good to give it a shot.

Want to hear something funny? I was working on my database tonight regarding the CDs I have heard in the past month. When I got to Sonny Rollins, I saw that the LP I have (which I got in '92, by the way, and maybe haven't seen since) isn't Worktime!!! It's another album called Moving Out. Well, the prinicple is the same, so for our discussion it won't matter. It looks like it would be less expensive to buy the box set than to buy something for Chuck's blood pressure!

I'm sorry to hear this. My favorite work of his was with the Mulligan/Baker quartet. He also played the vibes on one of my favorite albums, Henry Mancini's Music from Peter Gunn. And of course he played with Bill Evans in the 60s.

Thanks guys. EJP, your way works for me! I am able to access the folder from within StarOffice, which is what I wanted. DizzySpells, I haven't figured out yet what you have in mind. I'll give it another try tomorrow when it isn't so late.

Since you knew the answer to my first question, here's another! I am working with StarOffice, which is just like OpenOffice, and I believe uses the same commands as MS Word. I have created a number of related documents. I would like to bundle them together in one folder. How do I create the folder and then insert the documents into it?

Thanks guys! DizzySpells, your way works best for me. It's just what I had in mind. Next up, templates!

I have a basic question for you computer mavens! I use Windows 98. Let's say I want to copy a paragraph to another document. So I first must select the text by highlighting it. I know that the first method is to drag the mouse across the text. And the second method is to hold the shift key while I use the arrow button to achieve the same result. My 1987-vintage Atari ST lets me do what I want to do. I can place the cursor at the beginning of the passage and press a function key. Then I place the cursor at the end of the passage and press the function key again. The text is then highlighted. Can I do that with Windows 98? If so, what is the function key?

I chose to have the Politics Forum invisible to me when I had the chance. I'm glad I did, because now I can view the New Posts without seeing politics. It would be fine with me if all discussion of sex, religion and politics were banned. I don't come here to be part of an argument, and any people who might can be shown the door as far as I'm concerned. It has been my observation at AAJ that the typical poster of political threads has close to nothing to contribute regarding jazz. As I recall, there were a number of posters here too that fit that description before I opted out of seeing the Forum. I don't see any need for b-3er to be the den mother of people who apparently aren't much interested in jazz.

I saw Herbie Hancock's group about 1970 at the Cellar Door in Washington. It was a sextet. The warm up act was Richard Pryor. Compared to most of the jazz groups I was seeing at that time, it wasn't very exciting. I don't remember too much about it, except that I was kind of bored.

I read that the long list of movie credits is due to the fact that without them the individual who did the work can't prove that he did, and may be lying on his resume. So the unions negotiated the credit-listing of (virtually?) every employee so that he can verify the accuracy of his resume.

With 15,000 albums available, I don't often look through what BMG has to offer. I just check out the new releases list every week. I would enjoy seeing what everyone else plans to receive in the next few weeks, along with a brief explanation of what you have heard about the album that makes you want it. I'm sure that I will get an idea or two from your selections. And not just jazz. For example, somebody (maybe JSngry) pointed out that Jerry Orbach's one album is now available. That would make a great birthday gift for my sister. Anyway, up next for me is Stan Getz's Captain Marvel. There was a thread about this album three weeks ago, and it made me want to move it up my queue. But when I went to the website, I found that it was already at the #1 spot! I have plenty of Stan Getz already, but I like Chick Corea's playing from this period, and since I have heard only good things about the album over the years I thought now would be a good time to pick it up. What's #1 on your queue?

I don't recall anyone telling of a backorder problem with the BMG Record Club. It makes me wonder if the problem is not with the inventory but rather their getting behind schedule in their work.

Thanks guys. Sounds like a good way to spend my BMG Music Points.

I am thinking about picking up Never No Lament, which is a 3-CD box of the Blanton-Webster Band. The reviews at Amazon are quite striking. Some people say that the sound is horrible and that this set is a gyp, while others say that the sound is excellent and the set is essential. Does anybody here have Never No Lament, and if so what is your opinion of the sound? Should I get it?

OK, Chuck, you've convinced me! I'll plan to open Worktime on Easter. It will be a good way to celebrate the day. By the way, my LP is an OJC I bought about '93. Is there any reason to think it's a collector's item? If so, I really will offer it on eBay, but if not I'll just play it.

Thanks, Nate. I think I needed someone to tell me that. Peter, for that price it may be worth it to just go ahead and get it, but now that I know that I already have most of it, I suppose that there are other things to spend my money on first.