GA Russell

If you like Flute Souffle, you'll also like Flute Flight, half of which was taken from the same recording session with Bobby Jaspar. I recommend two other Herbie Mann albums - Standing Ovation at Newport and Monday Night at the Village Gate. Speaking of Jaspar, you might like Phenil Isopropil Amine, which is OOP but available used from Amazon.

It's time for me to buy a program which will allow me to burn CDs - both albums and compilations. Roxio EMC7 and Nero 6 cost about the same and seem to offer the same features. I've done a little homework, and I've read that Roxio is a little better regarding some video functions, but I don't have any desire to get involved with that. In fact, maybe there is another program that just handles audio that I don't know about. So I guess my question is...What does this group recommend for a program to burn jazz CDs with? All informed opinions welcome, and thanks!

Thanks for your input, guys!

I don't crosspost normally, but this time I will. I have already asked for opinions on AAJ and Jazz Corner, and I am interested in the views of the Organissimo gang. I'm thinking about buying a MiniDisc player/recorder. Do any of you have one, and if so what are your opinions? Do you have a model to recommend? Net MD or HiMD? Or is an mp3 HD like iPod the way to go now, and if so why? All informed opinions welcome!

Chet Baker recorded an album with Richard Twardzik which I really enjoy. I consider it underrated because it has been in print so rarely over the past nearly fifty years. Most recently, about fifteen years ago, Universal released it as Volume One of the four volume Chet in Paris series.

I missed Surman and Betty Carter.

I imagine that my collection is similar, though there's no way I could calculate a percentage like you guys have. In my case, I became interested in jazz in 1966, and over the years I have been purchasing the music I would have liked to have purchased when I was young! So with the passing of time, I'm still here, but they're not.

I have fifteen Mosaic black boxes, plus four non-Mosaic CD sets (Miles and Clifford Brown) of Mosaic LP sets. The only OOPs I'm sorry I didn't get are the Art Pepper and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis. When my budget allows, my next purchase will probably be the Gerald Wilson. Of my nineteen sets, I have listened to only four in their entirety.

On the basis of one note, I would vote for Stan Getz first, and Paul Desmond second (although the new Contemporary Records Story box has a Lenny Niehaus track which sounds like Desmond circa 1954). For a group sound, one note, I would vote for the George Shearing Quintet.

That's why some popular acts sure to sell enough to pay the expenses start their own record companies, like the Rolling Stones.

The obit mentioned Dr. X, one of the first talking horror pictures (1932 I believe). I enjoyed it a great deal. There were many corny jokes, so you were alternating between laughing at the jokes and the nervous laughter from the scary parts.

Owen Cordle reviewed Mark Murphy's Bop for Miles in this morning's Raleigh News & Observer. He gave it 3.5 stars out of 4. The album is a live recording from 1990. Nearly every song mentioned was available on other albums.

I would combine the four volumes of Chet In Paris on Barclay.

LOL! I confuse Steve Swallow and Gary Peacock too!

Brings back memories! Thanks guys!

I recommend the Otley series of 60s spy novels by Martin Waddell, especially Otley Victorious. Hope you can find them!

Thanks for posting this. I'm surprised Bill Frisell beat out Jim Hall.

Have Gun Will Travel

I used to have that problem, but it's been many months since I've made a purchase, so maybe that problem is over - if not in remission. I have many I haven't opened yet, mostly from the BMG record club.

Maybe the BMG record club will start to carry Concord products.

I start a new job in the country on Monday. It's a 45 minute drive away from the city (Raleigh) from where I live, which is another 45 minutes from the city. I prefer the relaxed living of the country. I definitely prefer to avoid the driving habits of urban dwellers, although the country drivers around here are pretty bad too.

Jim, I have an MPS CD entitled Two Originals, which is made up of two albums: Back Again from 1979 and The Hi-Lo's Now from 1981. Your guess that it was a post-Singer Unlimited reunion was correct. Perhaps you can order that CD from your favorite importer. I saw The Hi-Lo's in Atlanta in the mid-90s, and they still sounded great.

I'm with Moose. And what's a blendur?

I had the pleasure of seeing them at The Cellar Door, in early '72 as I recall. I also saw a quartet which included Maryann Price and Symphony Sid Page on The Gong Show once. They were great!

In regard to Twardzik, The Last Set also included The Girl From Greenland, a quartet number with Chet Baker which was released on the first Chet In Paris CD (which included an album's worth of Baker-Twardzik quartet material).