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NBC from its inception was a division of RCA, which was bought out by GE.

Jazzbo, Universal is the largest record company, so I don't believe the govt will allow them to merge with anyone else in the business. Maybe now that Universal is owned by a French company the US govt's anti-trust laws are irrelevant, but my understanding is that the new EU anti-trust laws are similarly enforced. I imagine that a movie studio might be the best fit for a record company, in that the distribution of CDs and DVDs would go well together, both physical delivery and via the internet. However, since the future of that distribution is up in the air, what with Kazaa, etc., maybe nobody in the movie business wants to take on more of the same troubles!

1) Universal's music is not included in the deal. 2) It gives General Electric a movie studio to make TV shows for its NBC network, thus keeping the money in house.

Thanks brownie!

Happy Birthday! John Patton is a great birthday present!

Chubby Jackson's passing reminds me that I've heard little of Woody Herman compared to other big bands. Can anyone recommend a specific CD of the First Herd?

So Berrigan and Ghost are former Borders employees! I didn't know you had anything in common!

I used to live on Jimmy Carter Blvd. and shopped a few times at Eat More Records. I remember that I bought Don Ellis's Shock Treatment, Happiness is a Warm Sue Raney and three Manfred Mann singles there! This was at least ten years ago. Small world!

Congratulations Jim! I suppose beginner's piano books will be given as baby shower presents!

I like Pat Martino a great deal, but for his work with an organ I like George Freeman's output with Groove Holmes.

Schick is introducing a four-blade razor called the Quatro! My favorite blade is called in Canada the Wilkinson Protector. In the US, Schick offers the same product, but markets it only to women! It has two blades with wires to tie them down. From the ads it looks like the Quatro has the same wires.

Thanks for the link Late! My favorite is his first Orchestra album on Pacific Jazz (1966), called Live at Monterey! I first got it in '69, and bought the CD when it came out a few years ago. I also like the Atlantic Live at Montreux and the Columbia Shock Treatment. I picked up his second PJ album (1967) Live in 3 2/3 /4 Time two years ago, and I was disappointed compared to the others. I believe his best selling album was his first Columbia (1968) album Electric Bath, which one day I'll get around to buying. It got good reviews at the time, but I had the suspicion that the reviewers didn't want to be caught missing the boat.

For those who haven't tried it, I highly recommend the shaving brush with soap routine. Just about every brand of shaving soap has lanolin and other goodies to make the experience pleasant. I once read a letter to the editor in the Toronto Globe & Mail which advised never to use a shaving cream made by a maker of razor blades. The idea was that they include in their cream chemicals which will rot the blade, requiring you to buy more blades! My grandfather used a straight edge razor, with a leather strop hanging down from the side of his sink! I've never done that, but I will if I ever lose the beard.

I noticed that Love Animal is available on emusic.

Congrats Templejazz! Maybe you'll have the next Coltrane among your students!

FWIW, the BMG Jazz Club carries four of these six - all but the Carter and the Santamaria. Get 'em cheap!

I assumed that all the Bud Shank/BobCooper dates were included in the Shank Mosaic box. Was I wrong?

I know that Rolling Stone Mag called him The Fraud of Rock, because they thought he was dull and nerdy in real life and to look at in concert and his videos. He sounded hip but he wasn't. It struck me that his was the Lester Young perspective - put everything you have into the music itself, not into the "look" of the performance.

Every new plebe (freshman) at the Naval Academy is assigned an upperclassman (a senior) to help him get acclimated to the life there. In September of '36, my dad's upperclassman was Butch O'Hare.

ABrass, I think your idea of putting those CDs you haven't heard much away in a box is an excellent one. It occurs to me that the goal (I don't mean to tell others how to live their lives. Go ahead an be a collector if that's what you want!) is to ensure that you are a consumer rather than a collector. The LIFO Method is a method of accounting - "Last In, First Out". In regard to your albums, this means that you don't keep them in any order. You merely put what you have just played on the top shelf (or in front, as it were). So when the mood strikes you to listen to something you haven't heard in a while, you go straight to the back (bottom shelf), where all of your forgotten treasure are located! I like your idea of putting away the little-heard ones, because this will enable you to go many months without spending another nickel. As you say, pretend that you don't own them. Then once a week, pull one out. It's the same as if you had just bought yourself a new CD! You can then play the heck out of that one CD for the next week, and you will assuredly get your money's worth. After a year you will have 52 new CDs which you are very familiar with. And you won't have spent a dime! By the way, those CDs I have opened within the past twelve months, I don't keep them with the other CDs. They have their own shelf. That ensures that I get plenty of play out of my new albums. I think I forgot to mention that one benefit of the computer spreadsheet program is that it encourages me to listen to every album at least once during the calendar year. By this time of year, I have already listened to almost all the CDs I want to (except the Christmas CDs, of course). And of course on January 1 I start over! And I know just where to look for those CDs I haven't heard since last January! There is another thread here about favorite unknown albums. After just a few months of my system, you'll have your own to contribute, for sure!

Steve Marcus - Tomorrow Never Knows The first rock-jazz album. With Larry Coryell, Mike Nock, Bob Moses. It was released on CD for the first time three weeks ago.

Great post, ABrass! May I recommend the following? 1) Don't give anything away! Instead, stop buying anything for a specific period, say six months. 2) Devote yourself to listening to albums you haven't played in a while. 2a) Noj had it right when he said: I love coming across a disc I haven't played in a long time, popping it in and experiencing it again. 2b) Start storing your CDs and LPs by the LIFO method. With all your albums, you will have trouble finding a particular album. But you will be able to easily reach for an album you haven't heard in a while. That will enable you to hear things you haven't noticed before! 3) Ask yourself: Are my desert island disks the usual suspects? If so, try to appreciate your collection in a new light. Everybody is different, and with genuine appreciation your favorites will be your own, not the experts'! 4) Spend some time on albums whose songs have obvious melodies. 5) Start a computer spreadsheet of your collection, noting by year when you listen to an album. Only enter an album as you listen to it. I have found that the exercise has helped me appreciate the various styles of music in my collection, as well as albums I enjoy like an old shoe. Peace and good luck!

I prefer Art Pepper's mid-50s work with Shorty Rogers. His tone was smooth and delicious. His solo on Over the Rainbow was apparently his biggest hit, if that's the right word. It was available in Mosaic's Shorty Rogers box, and on a CD called Birth of the Cool Vol. 2, but I'm not aware of it being available now. I also recommend Pepper's work on a Rogers album called Short Stops, which is now called Jazz Planet. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=music

Even though the forum is back up, my firewall is blocking many attempted intrustions per minute still because of this.

Infinite Search is one of my desert island discs. I hope this one comes close!