Tom Storer

Wasn't able to get to this right away, and have avoided the discussion thread. I couldn't make any confident guesses on any of these (well, on one, but not based on the music!). There seems to be a lot of Blue Note or similar music here, and I confess I would never have been allowed on the old Blue Note message board because I've never really been a Blue Note expert by any means. I always preferred late Blue Note--the Andrew Hill, Tony Williams, Joe Henderson, edging into avant-garde sort of stuff. Anyway, here goes... 1. Sounds like Coleman Hawkins on tenor. Don't know who the others are but they sound great! The music reminds me of mid-50's bop with swing memories. I could imagine Lucky Thompson recording this tune. Love the crisp drumming. 2. The arrangement is a little dated, but I like the soloing. What soprano player would be in a situation like that? No idea. 3. Nice and suave, I like it a lot. No idea who it is but it sticks with me. 4. Formulaic but enjoyable. Not much originality, IMHO, but quite an alto player nonetheless. 5. Very nice. I love the tenor's tone and phrasing. 6. Good but kind of generic. 7. No surprises, but it swings and I like the arrangement--well, except that it kind of wears out its welcome after a while. Interesting pianist--sort of jittery and jumpy. 8. Good enough playing but I find the tune annoyingly dull. 9. Beautiful! 10. Initially I was lukewarm--that piccolo in the opening bars isn't my cup of tea. But in the end I decided it's pretty solid. 11. A nice, aggressive tenor sax. Red meat! The speaking voice gives it away--has to be James Moody, with that characteristic slight lisp. "We'll be white black!" What a sense of humor! He no doubt sang "Bennie's From Heaven" somewhere in that set. 12. A mellow, Eddie Condon style affair. Perhaps a bit too mellow--I would have preferred a little more gumption! 13. I'm convinced by the singer, whoever it is. Good tenor sax counterpoint. I'm sure I know them both but no names spring to mind. 14. The alto's phrasing is a little stilted or something--he's very hot but a little mannered somehow. IMHO. 15. Two pianos--there were so many of those piano duet things, during the 70's in particular. No idea who these are. I rarely like two-piano duets--they're just too rich. Thanks, Jack, for a vintage BFT!

Hey, I thought it was only in France that they called cassettes "kay sevens." Maybe Québec too?

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I have the CD of the turkey song! The music gets very old in about two seconds flat, but the lyrics are hilarious. "We're sick of Riverdance, Flatley is a Yank..."

Oh, Christ, not the JFK assassination. Everybody's an expert, everybody knows the fact or supposed fact that PROVES a vast conspiracy, unless they have the slam-dunk refutation of the other guy's incontrovertible fact. Quick, somebody start talking about Wynton!

Buckley's politics were everything that I despised, but a good friend of mine is a close relative of his. Through the anecdotes and memories she has shared about him over the years I came to feel quite affectionately about him by proxy. I know from this small window into his family life that he was a very generous, warm and (obviously) very witty man who inspired love and loyalty in those close to him. He was a reactionary and an authoritarian whose views on society and politics were, in my opinion, pretty much entirely wrong. But to hell with that, he's dead. May he rest in peace.

A friend of mine found this somewhere and sent it to me... couldn't find it on the web but here it is!

Yeah, I went back and had a look. It was the same kid. And later when Omar tells Chris and Snoop about it, he says something like "the hopper went in and popped him just to see the damage." Omar wasn't even done in by his enemies.

Actually, he noticed that the old white guy had Omar's tag, and he put it back. Absolutely no clue what that was about. Why was it switched to begin with? Weird. Presumably there will be some explanation.

Huh. I guess I missed the comedy in Omar's demise! And the kid who didn't run was also in the process of calmly setting a cat on fire when Omar walked past him. The new generation of empathy-free psychotic murderers... I'm also kind of worried about McNulty, especially after that heart-to-heart with Beadie where he seems remorseful, despairing, introspective... it's so out of character that he must be depressed. And guilty, drunken, armed, depressed, self-pitying, impulsive police are a high-risk kind of group.

So has episode 8 been shown already to everyone? Can we talk about it yet?

I remember Moore mostly from live dates, particularly with Roy Haynes' quartet (they made a nice album recorded in Paris, if you can find it). I have his first LP somewhere in the basement, and some others he's on too. He disappeared into the wilds of California, if I understand correctly, where he can be found occasionally in clubs. Is that still true? A very fine player. I regret his disappearance from the international scene.

Actually, it should be CD quality sound. Assuming that the original source from which the FLAC is compressed is CD quality to begin with.

You know, I lived through the late 70's/early 80's too, and the "Swing Kids" thing for me was barely a blip on the horizon. And I was a hard-core young jazz fan. Wynton and that first batch of neocons was hot, David Murray and Chico Freeman were hot; Miles was still hot although he had been out of circulation for years. Ornette and Prime Time were hot. Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin--hot! Comebacks! Tommy Flanagan etc. rediscovered (remember that double-album, "I Remember Bebop"?) Meanwhile, Concord was putting out Mel Torme and George Shearing and Scott Hamilton and Gene Harris and who knows who else. I was vaguely aware of it, but I didn't pay much attention, nor did any of the twenty-something or even thirty-something jazz fans I knew. Certainly it seemed a lot more marginal to "the jazz scene" than the Pablo catalog, let alone the trendy stuff. Obviously there was a whole slice of life I was unaware of, as concerns both the "Swing Kids" and their audience.

It will expand your mind!

I'm pushing 50, and no longer have to listen to jazz all the time, as I did when I was younger. I progressively opened up to other music over the years. Now I just let my mood take me where it will, whether it's jazz, country, Indian classical, Sinatra, gospel... whatever I get into. As a result of being less exclusively a jazz listener, I find I'm less involved in new developments. Once upon a time I had to listen to everything that was happening if only to decide whether I liked it or not, but now I have less time to do that. I'm no longer conversant with all the brand new stuff that believes it is blazing new trails, and in general have accepted that there's no way I can cover all there is to cover in the time remaining, so fuck it, I'm just looking for pleasure, not necessarily discovery. I also don't feel any need, as Jim does, for the music I listen to intimately reflect today's changing life, etc. I personally am pretty much stable, and as life goes on I feel I can continue to evolve without at the same time having to change my musical tastes as well, any more than my dining habits, wardrobe, address, etc. Therefore I don't feel like I'm running away from life or anything by still listening to a lot of stuff I've listened to a lot before. The fact that I had to give up my iPod to protect my hearing means I've been listening to a lot less music, period, over the past year. I was philosophical about it for a while but it's starting to get to me.

Boy, I'm really mad at Rollins. All the reviews raved about this concert.

Yet the law says that if the deer is in season and if he is appropriately licensed, this man CAN kill the deer. The law doesn't specifiy good or bad reasons for killing the deer. It doesn't say, "you can hunt deer for food or for sport, but not for sex." So that's what we have to determine: Did the man in fact kill the deer? Was it hunting season? Did the man have a license? But if he did kill the deer, then he lied to the police when he said he found the deer corpse in a ditch. Looks to me like this is a shady character no matter what the facts turn out to be. I would be interested to hear the candidates' reaction to this.

Pile them up on the sidewalk, drench them with gasoline, and torch 'em. Not only will you get cool, black, sooty smoke and an interesting odor, it will leave a fascinating and long-lasting residue!

Noted.

Yeah, but he pleaded no contest. "A plea of guilty or no contest waives all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses." Personally, given that he had already been convicted of killing a horse in order to have sex with it, I wonder if he really happened across a dead deer in a ditch or in fact went sprinting and leaping through the forest after it before finally bringing it down and killing it with his bare hands, and then had sex with it.

You guys are pretty picky about your cheap YouTube humor! I just thought it was pretty funny.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! It's jesus marion joseph! I had a friend who received a hunk of money mysteriously in her account. She bought a motor scooter with it, and then went to the bank and said "Where did this money come from? I wasn't expecting it." They looked into it and said, "Oh, sorry, a mistake. It should have gone to this other account." But by then she had spent it! She had to come up with it then, of course. She felt she had somehow been ripped off by the bank. When I pointed out that it was the intended recipient who would have been out of pocket if she had kept it and said nothing, she got mad at me.

Thanks! I'll get this in my March download.

Mine came this morning, just in time for the discussion thread to open. Now listening, and it's *great*!