GA Russell

Well, that was feminine!

I like him too. About 1969 I had an album he made with Eric Kloss on Prestige whose title I forget. I hope Fantasy re-releases their Kloss/Martino sessions. A girl I went to college with knew him from his days playing in a club in Louisville. She told me that he developed quite a following there.

Since you have already been listening to jazz for five years, I highly recommend Sweet Rain, if you can get your hands on a copy. You may have to settle for a used copy.

I remember sometime in the 70s Henny Youngman released an album, I think on RCA, which had two or three grooves per side. You never knew what jokes you were going to hear.

Has anyone obtained and reissued Pausa's material? I'm thinking of two Laurel Masse albums. Much of the Pausa I'm familiar with were reissues leased from EMI, so that's all lhistory now.

Since 1993, I have opened up a new (for me) Julie London album every January 1 to start the new year off right! This year's album is The End of the World. It came on a CD with Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfaast, and I may listen to that one soon too. My favorite too is Julie Is Her Name. Vol 2 with Howard Roberts and Red Mitchell isn't bad either.

I think that all of us who ever made the mistake of buying corfam shoes will vote for Cannonball's Something Cool!

I was pacing during the overtime of that Panthers game, and I don't even care about the NFL!

Remember Bosco and Cookie cartoons? I watched them as a toddler. As I recall, their music was Duke Ellington or someone strongly influenced by him.

Tom, this may be of no help to you, but (since no one else has responded) here goes. What you need is the 1987 CD of Houseparty, all of which was recorded 8/25/57, and includes the songs: JOS What Is This Thing Called Love Just Friends Cherokee Blues After All

It was 1966, my sophomore year in high school. I had already owned Al Hirt and Tijuana Brass records. In January I bought a 45 of a local jazz trio, the Ronnie Kole Trio - Batman's Theme b/w Narum's Blues. In March I bought a 45 of Dave Brubeck's Take Five b/w Blue Rondo a la Turk. In June I bought my first jazz album, the Ramsey Lewis Trio's Hang On Ramsey, which included both Hang On Sloopy and A Hard Day's Night. The next month I got Ray Bryant's Gotta Travel On, like Lewis on Cadet. Apparently my local jazz station had a good supply of Cadet records. It was in October that I got my first hard core jazz album, Richard "Groove" Holmes' Soul Message. I had to go downtown (New Orleans) to buy that, because the distributor of my local shop didn't handle Prestige. I got it because I wanted Misty, which had been a hit that summer.

I read A False Spring many years ago when it was maybe two years old, and I still remember the story about his telephone conversation with his old girlfriend. I recommend Bill Veeck's Veeck As In Wreck.

Chris, as I recall, the article I read was in this past Wednesday's Raleigh News & Observer. The article was about the iPod's dirty secret guy, as referred to in the link posted above. This morning's USA Today has an article about this new iPod on page 2B, and says that the new replacement battery costs $99, not fifty like I recalled.

I read this past week that the iPod's rechargeable battery dies after eighteen months (maybe that's heavy usage), and could not be replaced. Apple has introduced a replaceable battery for fifty bucks, I think.

Pro baseball was almost killed by betting scandals. It wasn't just the 1919 World Series. Bill Veeck in his second book discussed finding documentation indicating that the 1918 World Series was fixes too. A great player named Hal Chase was widely believed to throw games. He's not in the Hall of Fame. Berrigan, when the scandal broke I read that as manager Rose only bet on the Reds to win, but there was one starting pitcher (I've forgotten the name - presumably his worst starter.) he never bet on. The issue about gambling is not one of morality or good citizenship. It's that if the public loses confidence in the integrity of the matches, the whole operation is out of business. In my view, no compromise may be tolerated. To keep Rose out of the Hall is not to deny his accomplishments, but rather to recognize that his actions called into question the integrity of the games he managed.

Didn't Stan Getz's Cafe Montmartre get good reviews?

First time since Paul Dietzel! Hooray! Although I have believed since the Nebraska debacle that the BCS should be limited to conference champs, I think the Stoops made on good point on last night's show. He said that a requirement like that is something that should be decided before the season begins, not now.

I think scottb got it exactly right. I would change the system by simply adding a rule that requires a team to win its conference championship in order to play in a BCS bowl game. That would open the games up to other conferences, and would eliminate the national champ controversies we've had recently.

Jim, I think the missus would look better than Christina in that pic if she were dolled up the same way!

Happy New Year everyone!

Thanks Lon! I'm in the short story mode now, so I'll start with one of those collections.

Lon, I've never read any PKD. Is there a collection you can recommend? Is the story the film is based on also called Paycheck?

Wow! Thanks Street Singer!

Could someone please print out the entire list of jazz clearance CDs? With my membership, I don't have access to it anymore. More important than the price, I think, is the heads up that they will soon stop carrying those titles. So if you want them from BMG, it's speak now or forever hold your peace.

In regard to background music, you might be interested to learn that I saw him in San Francisco at El Matador in August of '73. We got there early, and got a front row table. A beautiful blond sat down at the table next to mine by herself. Between sets, Vince sat between her and me! She was his date. Nice guy. He was happy to chat with me, although I didn't have much to say. Anyway, the audience was perfectly quiet throughout both sets. Everyone listened to the music.