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Rostasi, have you looked at Shoutcast?

The only version that (I think) I have of this is Chet Baker's from the soundtrack to Let's Get Lost, and I like it a lot. What other versions do you recommend Brownie? A standard I never tire of is "The Song is You" — one to add to Connie's "you" medley! I've long loved Billie's version of that song, and recently heard another great one recorded around the same time, by big-band singer Mary Ann McCall. It's on this fine new Hep compilation: Hey, is that McKusick Decca still in print?

I'm planning on a random round-the-clock broadcast of all 16 Selects after the Hill arrives. At least a two day affair. Info will follow if anybody cares. Rod --- Now playing: Curtis Amy - In Your Own Sweet Way That's cool--I'll probably be devoting a Night Lights program to the new Hill set in May. Between our broadcasts and the Mosaic samples, people should be able to get a pretty good idea of what the material sounds like!

For budgetary reasons, I'm holding off on ordering this and the new Pepper till early March... so I'll be interested (and envious!) to read the reactions to the set here. The Hill is definitely a "wish come true" collection for me; I've been intrigued by these sessions ever since reading MC's passing reference to them in '95 when the Hill Mosaic came out.

No kidding! It's now being prominently featured on "classic rock" radio, ESPECIALLY Def Leppard (who I've hated with a vengeance since day one). Who made this decision? the right? More like "the wrong." According to the law of popular culture, anything that was once commercially successful for more than an Andy Warhole minute will come round once more, generally in 15-20 years' time.

Forgot to mention Lazaro Vega's Blue Lake Public Radio program, which will start streaming very soon: Blue Lake Lazaro's evening program, which I've caught a couple of times while on vacation in Michigan, is very good. And hell, next month he's going to have Henry Grimes on as a guest! Can't beat that....

Be warned: this stuff (hair band music) has been coming back with a vengeance.

Thanks for the plug, AB! I've been remiss in getting the "Strictly Romantic" show up on the web, but it and this week's broadcast (on the Mosaic Jazztet box) will both be up by Monday afternoon. Some other suggestions for stations that play jazz: WKCR, one of the more highly-touted jazz stations that's also on the Internet, out of Columbia in New York. WBGO out of Newark, which broadcasts jazz 24 hours a day. WGBH out of Boston also offers some good jazz programming. One of their DJs, Steve Schwartz, posts here under the name of Stevebop. If you desire a mix of free/out and modern, check out this thread.

Well, he weren't no bastard... unless you mean a Dusty Groove-type bastard!

Hell, I'D love to take credit for that quote! You are a gracious man, Senor Sangrey.

Can we trade l p to Jazz Corner for a poster-to-be-named-later? I don't understand the bitterness and the attacks that you seem compelled to add to your posts. I mean, why throw in that gratuitous remark about Jsngry? (And I'm sure that I'm not the only one around here who finds Jim's posts consistently illuminating... if you're looking for a discography, get one on CD-Rom!) Why dog Chris A. like you do? Even if you posit controversial viewpoints, posters around here will generally respond with tact... why supplement them with these nasty asides?

Religious. Seriously--a few years ago I went to see Sonny Rollins at the Madame Walker Theater in Indianapolis, the only building still standing from the glorious age of Indiana Avenue jazz. The theater was built in the 1920s and has a real Harlem Renaissance feel to it; when I walked in, with the lights dimmed and the stage cast in an amber hue, with KIND OF BLUE playing on the overhead, I felt as if I were walking into church. And I mean that in the best kind of way--a church of humanity and a church of God at the same time. Maybe it was the church I'd been waiting to walk into, because I felt what you're supposed to feel when you walk into church (but it's a feeling I've experienced only when I've walked into a deserted church at mid-day to pray; never on a Sunday morning when the congregation's all there). I'm not proposing that jazz be elevated over religion--simply that for me, it has become a significant part of how I feel connected with those who came before me and those who are here today. I guess it makes me feel what it's like to be a human being.

I've read Kofsky and have time for some of his points... As someone who was born right around the time he interviewed Coltrane, I can offer only a perspective based in historical reading, whereas Chris, Larry, Allen, and others here who lived through the era can speak to it much better than I can. His writing tended to overheat and get in the way of the very causes he was trying to promote, but it was a time of excesses--some of them, perhaps, necessary as historical correctives. Nobody's going to dispute that white businessmen exploited black musicians, or that white critics had too much power and influence--but when you boil this down to horrendously reductive statements like, "There are no good or great Jewish jazz musicians," and then follow it up with "They were better at handling the business end," which plays into a terrible stereotype of Jews (remember Spike Lee's MO' BETTER BLUES and the two club-owners?), then I think you've bought into a very simplistic, and, yes, racist, representation of jazz history.

Yes, those Jewish people sure are great with money, aren't they? Pardon my rolling eyes, but that's one of the most offensive comments I've ever seen posted here--whether you're Jewish or not. If you don't think there are any worthwhile Jewish musicians, fine, that's your opinion, etc. But to then go and promulgate one of the worst stereotypes that have been visited upon Jews...

SuperDuperMall still has some new ones in stock for $154 (I got an e-mail confirmation from them, since other sites continue to list it but actually don't have it and can't get it): SinatraColumbiabox Hoping mine will arrive later this week... eager to delve into it.

Horn of Africa, my friend. This record is an obvious pro-UN intervention, pro-world govt. screed and must be stopped dead in its tracks.

BLUE BLOWS PRETTY FOR THE PEOPLE? Nah... sounds kinda... kinda.. kinda Communist!

Isn't the first-ever version of "I Remember Clifford" on the Morgan Mosaic as well?

Picked up the Art Farmer/Jim Hall twofer on Collectables, yet another Jazz in Paris cutout (Lionel Hampton MAI 1956), and the JRVG NIGHT OF THE COOKERS V. 1 (the last for a swap with a fellow board member who generously offered to trade an import that I needed).

Has anybody seen the new Concord Arlen compilation? From the looks of it, they're beginning to raid the Fantasy vaults... Of course Fantasy put out comps like this (THE JAZZ GIANTS PLAY HOAGY CARMICHAEL, etc.), but I'm still concerned that CDs like this will form the bulk of Concord's output from their Fantasy-owned material.

Will be tuning in for sure on Tuesday, March 8, Lazaro.

Lazaro, congratulations! I will definitely be tuning in for that program... great news, man!

We have LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC over at the station (sadly a title that I have yet to pick up for myself), so I'm adding "Chill of Death" to the mix. Thanks much, as always, for the recs.

No, I'm not kidding about some hipsters being into him. Frankly I think it's a bit of the usual ersatz hip--"let's take some total kitsch and dig it"--but I know several people who've sung his praises in the past year or so. And then there's Upstairs at Larry's.

It's actually been hip to like Welk for the past year or two... I never bought the ticket for that particular ride, though.