GA Russell

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.

Just a followup to a couple of early posts. The album I had in mind was by Eric Kloss, called Life Force. I listen to it maybe once a year. It's not a must-have, but I got it in my youth and I enjoy it. Consciousness is now available on the Prestige CD Eric Kloss Meets the Rhythm Section. The Rhythm Section at that time was the lost quartet's: Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.

Jim, I have Laurel Massee singing those lyrics on one of her two Pausa albums. I don't believe that either has ever been released on CD. I'm pretty sure Hendricks wrote the lyrics. It's been a while since I played that album.

My skepticism of corporations prohibits my expecting them to realease OOPs for download. I do foresee the day when once something is available for download, it will remain so even after the CD goes OOP.

That vibrating razor sounds dangerous to me. I won't be the first to try it! This week I started using Caswell-Massey Almond Lather Shave Cream. It's a brushless cream. I got it for Christmas a few years ago and forgot about it, so I'm opening it up now. It's extravagant, but it does a good job of lubricating, and smells great!

Jim, we had seen on another thread that Art Blakey wasn't recording during this same time frame. I guess that many of the older guys had pretty much run out of steam and needed a respite by the late sixties. I also think they weren't getting the positive feedback from the public in the 60s. These guys had spend decades doing their thing and being well-received for it, and with the sixties came not only a new generation that never had any interest in jazz, but also a middle-aged generation which quit buying what it had bought in the 50s. That's my take.

Thanks Mike! Where are you finding your discography?

In '67 I went to Al Hirt's club on Bourbon Street to see Mongo Santamaria. One guy in the band impressed me, and he went on to become famous - Hubert Laws. Shortly thereafter, I went to a jam session at a parish/grammar school gymnasium featuring Roland Kirk, backed up by local musicians including Ellis Marsalis and Alvin Batiste.

I'm jealous! Count Basie played a dance at my college during I think the '69-'70 school year. I didn't go, and of course now I regret it. Did he record for Solid State then? I believe that I once saw a '69 recording of his on the Groove Merchant label. Anyway, I have looked but am unaware of any albums currently available which were recorded by Basie at that time. Any suggestions?

Jim, I like your phrase "today's non-smooth-jazz-listener-friendly". I wish all the labels would do more of it. Blue Note recently finished first (Record Label of the Year) in the Jazz Times 2003 Readers Poll. When it comes to reissues, I would rank Blue Note behind only Fantasy. When it comes to new recordings, I would rank them first. Any disagreements welcome! For many years so many items of the EMI catalogue were unavailable. During the past ten years so much has been made available, if only for a little while. I think Blue Note is a cause for celebration! Wouldn't you love to see Atlantic's catalogue given similar treatment?

Well, that was feminine!