AmirBagachelles

In honor of Al's generosity, let's all spin some Joe P with tonight's beer after work. I'll be getting it on w/ For Django. Thanks Al for the good spirit.

I can't imagine anyone comes close to Blakey, very high consistency, LOTS of GREAT albums, rises well above the blandness of most hardbop (which has kept me at arm's length from Horace Silver's music). Second place to Joe Henderson, awesome quality, but low quantity.

Folks, I have an extra copy of this great Lyons disc, one of my favorite discs, period. I would like to work a trade for a hard-to-find Braxton on Hat. (I only have the live Willisau and Santa Cruz). Prefer the classic quartet w/ Crispell and Hemingway, but I'd be interested in your pitch, regardless. Thanks, if I can't do this deal, then certainly I will discuss something else for Jump Up. Thanks, Dan

I'll make a color copy for you, but I won't have it done for a week or more, it's up in northern CT. I love that disc, and they had a few copies left at Norman's on 3rd Ave last I looked.

Ok so everybody is going to order the classic Miles and Coltrane on Prestige, Art Pepper and Sonny Rollins on Contemporary, Rollins on Prestige, Monk and Evans on Riverside, um, hey wait a minute, the sum total of OJCs kind of makes BN and any other label look... not as good. I was into this stuff long before I started buying BN titles beyond those first Monks, Navarro and the Blakeys. THIS WOULD BE TRAGIC, and I will write to my senator and congressman if this happens and this vault goes into lockdown.

Does anybody know how to clip/capture that Gottlieb image for a desktop? I'd pay for that awesome pic.

paypal only (amirbagachelles@yahoo.com), overseas mailing actual cost TBD for signature svc only, U.S optional: I'll split cost of inexpensive U.S. signature svc (e.g. Fedex Ground) please use PM to contact me, no yahoo mail at work no more says the man xxx on hold $20 Pettiford - Deep Passion (Impulse/GRP) BN Conns $20 Grant Green - Solid $18 Hutcherson - Components Hutcherson - Patterns $17, BN not Conns Ken McIntyre - Complete UA 2cd $14 McIntyre / Dolphy - Looking Ahead (VICJ Prestige '91) $20 Japan k2/20bit Coltrane - Settin' the Pace (Prestige, XRCD in book/folio) $16 Verve Elites Boland-Clark Big Band w/ Getz - Change of Scenes Other $12 Coleman Hawkins and Confreres (Verve) Hines / Eldridge - At the Village Vanguard (Xanadu) 7% discount for two or more items

There is no hot dog at Nathan's as good as those at Katz on East Houston. New York doesn't really do good chili dogs, as far as I know. I can't buy one as good as I make em: skillet-grilled Oscar Meyer All Meat Wiener (pork and turkey), Hormel no-beans, diced onion, and Honey Cup. Grilled and buttered Friehoffer New England rolls help a lot, but if you can't, go with a Pepperidge Farm, heated til the crust is just slightly crispy. I married into a Jewish family, and so I have eaten mostly Hebrew National for 15 years, it's a terrific dog, but not suited to chili dogs, too dense and too spiced. The OMs are just perfect, porky and fluffy god knows what on the inside. New Yorkers are lucky to have Hallo Berlin on 10th Ave / 43rd and on West 51st / 9th Ave, 10 varieties of German sausages grilled to perfection and served with hot mustard and red and white cabbage on a hard roll. Home fries too. I walk over on my lunch hour once a month a get a takeout tin. Heaven. You won't really be pining for any American hot dog, chili or otherwise, after a few of these. I started eating Hallo Berlin in '85 when it was still just a cart in front of the University Club. The place has achieved a cult following, as much for the rare German beers as for the food. You must try this place when you are in Manhattan.

Sonny Simmons' Rumasuma and Burning Spirits are definitely out too.

Everyone get out and hear Sonny Simmons, please, while this amazing man is still playing live music for us. His appearances at Tonic in recent yrs have been great nights out for me, always spirited/intense. I had hopes for Rumasuma coming out on CD after the surprising issuance of Burning Spirits, but it does not look likely now.

I think Davis Cup is a great fan event in any year, but as a U.S. fan it is especially fun when the U.S. has any of its top players involved. A match on clay is an exciting sporting event for spectators, the game has sublety which has died with 100mph service returns. Clay challenges. McEnroe got to within one set of a "career slam" (at the French) but could not punch through. It's tough, but as long as millions of casual and club players use clay courts as matter of course, it makes sense to see the pros on that surface as well. I've been a fan for more than 30 years, and the combination of the rackets and rubber-over-concrete is making the men's game pretty uninteresting to watch.

What about pitchers using steroids? I haven't heard anything about that and in Bond's defense experts say he has hand-eye coordination on par w/ Teddy Baseball, Musial, Gwynn, Carew, the greats. That counts for a lot in baseball. So you take away the fierce power w/ steroids, then Bonds would have seen more pitches over the plate and then what? More extra base hits and HRs. Bonds is Bonds, the best. Bonds has probably not been juiced up for awhile, the heat has been on for more than a year.

Mingus Yesssss!! I like all the Impulse (incl Plays Piano), Columbia, Candid and Atlantic titles. And try The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes' poem) on verve I think. CM music is wonderful unto itself and is a door to the deep and wonderful world of jazz. I couldn't have gotten along without it.

I scored my long sought West Coast Hot on my way home last night (Kim's used, $8!!) and although clem has already justly raved about John Carter, he really deserves super props. And definitely scrounge up the Gramavisions and the hats and all w/ Bradford.

John - we like it when the new guys start out selling some of their stash to fellow board members real cheap, as a sort of initiation rite. Any good, say, Izenson solo tapes or other clutter to hawk at us?

I couldn't remember Gurley's first name so I did a google to get it before I posted. I didn't know the whole sad story of Big Brother trying to get back together in the 70s after Janis left them. Those really white hot SF guitar gods, Cipollina, Wilhelm, Gurley et al, they just sadly faded away so quickly after the SF scene settled down. Looking at the jam band circuit now, they seem like the old ballplayers who never saw good money let alone rock and roll money. I do remember the failed tries in the 70s by the SF All-Stars and The Dinosaurs though, it wasn't like nobody had the idea to jam for dough.

Speaking of jam bands, how about a Butterfield Blues Band thread at some point. Would LOVE to hear from old timers who saw the original lineup. Also, I was listening to some great old Amboy Dukes this weekend. They could rock! Love that jangly and very James Gurley lead from Ted Nugent.

How about Germans and Americans being limited to a choice of Jesse Owens or Jackie Robinson as Sportsman of the Century?

I've gone searching for Crispell-Schweizer "Overlapping Hands" on FMP. Is it as good as its scarcity might imply?

the Coventry discs were my first Leo purchase, and I must say it would have better to know that for my 26 bucks I was getting 80 minutes of (great) music and something like 65 minutes of interviews. The back of the disc case merely carries the total 70+ minute timing of both discs. I am not sure this set is worth $26, with the Braxton bin gushing with titles. Labels such as Leo make their living, albeit meager, off of a narrow customer base, they should convey a bit more value on their multidisc pricing than is typically the case. My god, FMP is far worse, $35 and up for their two-fers.

The Internet is for finding shit, as well as for building communities and many other purposes and one non-evil purpose is probably not better or worse than another. That's a nice link to find here at the top of this thread, right where I would expect to find other good resources. Live and let live.

I found the live 2-CD set used today (Amoeba SF $18!), has anybody seen the studio CDs for sale anywhere? Does anybody know if Hat plans to reissue the whole set or a pair of live/studio sets? THanks

wow, now that sounds like a hot trio! Thanks for all the views, sorry about the spelling. Blame it on a brain malfunction and middle-aged blindness.

I wanted to fork over from the Tchicai thread, I love the Willi the Pig set, lo-fi tragedy that it is. I have Irene Schweizer's duo set with Pierre Favre from 2002, and I would love to hear more. She dazzles me with many sustained and varied moods on both discs, obviously great technical skill and very concise. What else is out there to hear? The liner notes to the recent duo disc mention a long history as a free player. Did she record as a side player? thanks, Dan

pssst - dunno if you're heard Plusdesk, but cassettes really suck, nobody with 1/2 a brain should spend another dollar on the format. You don't need a high end cassette deck, certainly not today. I would be surprised if any dual capstan deck built twenty years ago can still play well and not add noise. I'm using a D-3 to get the rest of my stash onto CDR before they completely disintegrate, that's all I can hope for. I like the soundcard idea though. When I see folks touting Naks I have to wonder, I believe those were the most over-engineered, over-priced and tempermental rigs ever conceived. In the late 70s I thought Yamaha had much better sounding decks. In the mid-80s when Denon came along with solid, neutral sound $250-400 decks, as opposed to $400-1000 Naks that were forever needing service, Nakamichi's business was never the same.