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Thanks for the links wolff! I've always been skeptical of remastering. It's not that a good job can't be done. We know it can. But it reminds me of colorizing old movies and the old "re-channeled for stereo". A corporate employee thinks he can improve on the original. On the whole, I would prefer to hear the original as is.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I recommend taking a moment to recall the purpose of the holiday!

Great idea b-3er! Please add my name to the no politics llist.

Here's a link. John Connally's widow was sitting next to him in the limo at the time, and she rejects the magic bullt theory (and therefore the lone gunman theory). http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/11.../25/12446.shtml

1) Cal Tjader - Did he ever make a bad record? I have a number of his, and they are all four stars - none of them are essential, but all of them are outstanding. 2) Dave Pike - I got a couple of things of his in college - The Doors of Perception and Herbie Mann's Standing Ovation at Newport. I liked what he did there. He had a youthful vitality I like regardless of intrument. 3) Eddie Costa - Can anybody recommend a good album from him? I don't think I've ever heard him, but maybe he was on a John Graas album I have. 4) Victor Feldman - How about a recommendation for him? I get the impression that I would like his work, but I don't recall ever hearing him on the vibes.

JazzMoose, have you and I NOTHING in common??? I haven't picked up the Four Freshmen box because I already have all but two of the discs! I won't be getting any Mosaic for Christmas. But if I were, I'd ask for the Gerald Wilson. I'm still smarting from my failure to pick up the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis box!

It is undisputed that 1) govt marksmen were unable to fire that model gun three times in the short time the shots occurred. 2) an extraordinary number of witnesses were dead within five years. 3) the event occurred in the state Kennedy's successor was unusually influential. 4) David Ferry died on the eve of his testifying against Clay Shaw. Jim Garrison admitted that day that Ferry was crucial to his case. 5) Barry Goldwater's poll numbers were on a steady rise till the day Kennedy died. From then on they were on a steady decline. It appears to me that 1) the Warren Commission was not a serious attempt to determine what happened. Even Gerald Ford, who was on the Commission, has stated that its product ruled out certain possibilities rather than determined which possibility happened. 1a) Therefore, the govt didn't want the public to know the truth. Why not? 2) Oswald recognized Ruby as he approached, and knew instantly what was coming.

Thanks Rooster! This was interesting. 1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (89%) 4. Orthodox Quaker (84%) 5. Seventh Day Adventist (82%) They got it right. I'm a believing Catholic. and the bottom ten... 18. Unitarian Universalism (37%) 19. Reform Judaism (30%) 20. Neo-Pagan (28%) 21. Taoism (22%) 22. New Age (21%) 23. Scientology (20%) 24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (20%) 25. Nontheist (19%) 26. Secular Humanism (17%) 27. New Thought (15%)

Daniel A, great idea! Here's the formula I would use: The important recordings are the originals of those songs to which lyrics have been written by Jon Hendricks, Eddie Jefferson and others for vocalese recordings. So I would say, off the top of my head... Charlie Parker - Scrapple from the Apple James Moody - Moody's Mood for Love Woody Herman - Four Brothers Wardell Grey - Twisted Horace Silver - Senor Blues Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat Miles Davis - Four, Boplicity

Congratulations Dan! 1) Prestige issued a single by Manfred Mann before Do Wah Diddy was a hit. How did this come about? Had The Beatles already appeared on Ed Sullivan? 2) How did Prestige land Groove Holmes? 3) Fantasy is releasing this month previously unreleased Prestige live tapes by Jaki Byard and Groove Holmes. Can he recall anything he didn't issue that in retrospect he wishes he had? 4) What were the circumstances of Prestige acquiring the rights to MPS Saba recordings about 1969, giving Prestige Jean Luc Ponty and Oscar Peterson? 5) How successful was the "The Giants are still on Prestige!" advertising campaign? Did the monthly ads in Downbeat pay for themselves? 6) Who does he consider to be Prestige's greatest finds? Who was the label's last find?

Congrats!

I think it's noteworthy that the earliest Negro league players signed to the majors pretty much dominated, and won MVP awards and so forth. Dave, I saw Satchell Paige pitch for the Portland Beavers against the Seattle Rainiers in 1961!. He started the game and pitched four innings of shutout ball, I was only 10, but I remember his motion being fluid or maybe rubbery is the word.

Happy Birthday Conn! You and Weizen share birthdays with Mose Allison!

Happy Birthday S o' W!

Looks like they're treating non-members better than they do members!

Welcome back Out2Lunch! Good luck! I'd go with the cheapest Remington you can find, under the circumstances, as long as it plugs into the wall.

Thanks for sharing those, Chris!

Highly recommended!

I'll check it out, SS!

Living Soul is a favorite of mine. Great guitar solos on Gemini and the title track! I expect to review this for AAJ. This, from Fantasy: "On Basie's Bandstand" was recorded by organist Groove Holmes and his working band--guitarist Gene Edwards, drummer George Randall--at Count Basie's Lounge in Harlem. (The April 22, 1966 session had produced an earlier Prestige LP, "Living Soul," now available on "Legends of Acid Jazz: Spicy.") "Although Holmes loved slow, sentimental ballads--and milked them for all they were worth," writes George Kanzler in his notes, "the program here is all mid- to up-tempo, like a late-night set at Count Basie's, when the crowd was already in a party mood. It's all about high energy and indefatigable, soulful, funky grooves."

That's THE Donna Rice, isn't it? Anybody here ever voted for Gary Hart?

My recollection is that New Dance! was one of the first batch of Revelation releases in 1968. I think Dennis Budimir's Alone Together was another. But I don't think it was a new recording. I think it had sat on the shelf for six years or so.

Thanks Chris. There was something about his writing style that appealled to me when I was a teenager. Can't tell you why, but I felt his columns in Downbeat had the ring of truth.

I was interested/surprised when Michael Cuscuna mentioned in one of his catalogues that the Shorty Rogers and the Buddy DeFranco were the two slowest moving Mosaic sets he had made. Perhaps the Rogers is expensive today because so few people bought it when it was new. Indestructible, as I recall Art Pepper's famous solo for Over the Rainbow is on Disc One of the Rogers set. Let us know what you think of that!

Chris, what's your opinion, if any, of Martin Williams?