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I'm curious as well. Just ordered You 'n Me to fulfill my BMG obligation... it was "Buy 1, get 3 free," so I thought I'd take a chance on Al & Zoot.
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Leeway, here are a couple of earlier threads: Boogaloo1 Boogaloo2 (although the second thread contains only one review, per se... mostly anticipation and/or discussion of Smith)
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Some very enticing news from Mosaic
ghost of miles replied to Bol's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Thanks for posting this, Bol. I've long hoped for a Mosaic treatment of the Giuffre material (I have only the twofer w/Konitz and THE EASY WAY). Not familiar with either the Brookmeyer or Mulligan, but I'd love to be! -
My sentiments exactly! Butler was amazing--in fact, I remember feeling a bit jealous at how much my girlfriend ooed and ahhed about him afterwards. And the MIRROR MOVES songs came across quite well live, better than on the record, as you said. They opened with "India," which was just a killer anthem (the intro even more drawn out, I think, than it was on the original PSYCH FURS album) and ended with an extended "Forever Now"... "The Ghost in You" also received a longer treatment as well. That show remains one of my favorites from that era.
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Eric, This sounds to me like a scene described in Richard Boyer's 1944 New Yorker profile of Ellington, "The Hot Bach," which is reprinted in THE ELLINGTON READER.
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Found used on my dinner break: David Fathead Newman, IT'S MISTER FATHEAD, for $13 (one copy listed on Amazon for $55 right now) and the TOJC of the Three Sounds' OUT OF THIS WORLD for $7.99 (going new for $37).
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Claude Thornhill, Joe Mooney, and Duke Ellington have been getting the most play of late. Thornhill because I recently picked up most of the Heps and have long wanted to explore his music comprehensively. Mooney because I stumbled across a reference to him in Gunther Schuller's THE SWING ERA and grew very intrigued (I have the two late-40's Heps); never thought I'd be digging an accordion-led jazz quartet! Very hip stuff and "idiosyncratic," as Joe Milazzo put it. Ellington because I just finished a special on him, and because those three Sony Legacy re-issues just came out, and because... well, I can never hear too much Duke.
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Just found a used copy of the old 32 Jazz 4fer (?) on my dinner break and am listening to PRESENTS. Livin' up to the hype!
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Hey Dan, I just found a used TOJC copy of Out of This World in excellent condition for $7.99 on my dinner-break... good buy or no? Probably won't get to listen to it until tomorrow.
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no thread on The Passion yet???
ghost of miles replied to BERIGAN's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
My mother said there were three incidents of people being struck by lightning while working on the set of The Passion... is this true? How long till CHRIST II: THE RESURRECTION? -
Anybody around here a fan of the English Beat? I liked them quite a lot, as well as the first album that Dan Wakeling and Ranking Roger put out as General Public... actually saw General Public on that tour when I was a freshman in college. Quite a dancin' concert! Also caught the Psychedelic Furs around the same time on the MIRROR MOVES tour. Some really good bands used to come through here, but these days it's all programmed for the older crowd. Last semester we had Art Garfunkel. I mean, I like S & G and all, but I'm thinkin', man, if I were an undergrad, who cares? Of course, I'm getting close to becoming part of the "older crowd" myself!
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Bruce, sure, I'll be happy to, but the series won't be airing until October 2005... I'm submitting the budget next Monday and don't anticipate finishing production until early next summer. I'm also putting together a 2-CD compilation for the Indiana Historical Society, and there will definitely be a couple of Porter songs on that one, done by Indiana musicians. Jim, "Miss Otis" is one of my favorites too. Another, non-Porter song I like, is this one, by Rodgers & Hart:
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Porter's fantastic, of course. One of the episodes in my Indiana jazz series will focus on singers & songwriters, and he'll figure heavily in that, you can bet! My favorite right now is "Night and Day," for romantic, sentimental reasons. For more barbed Cole words, I always enjoy "I'm Always True to You in My Fashion" (Ella's version was considerably abridged):
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A lot of people also thought that they were a Clash ripoff--or a Clash/U2 hybrid ripoff. And there's some truth to that, I think. I liked first EP and DECLARATION but dropped 'em after that, partly for the reasons of which you speak.
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That's so ironic, Dan--I've been thinking the same thing lately, and just a few minutes ago I was rooting around in old "Is the BNBB dead?" threads... then I saw this thread title and realized you'd already had the same idea. I'm quite grateful for this board, and some celebration is indeed in order--I'll try to swing by at the appointed moment.
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Your First Mosaic Set Purchased
ghost of miles replied to Soulstation1's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
You lucky son-of-a-gun, you son-of-a-weizen! How's the booklet for that Brooks box? -
Who doesn't own any Mosaic sets?
ghost of miles replied to connoisseur series500's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
C'mon, you guys, smoke some crack... all the other kids are doin' it! -
Some new stuff in clearance, including CANNONBALL AND THE POLL WINNERS, Dave Douglas' A THOUSAND EVENINGS ($1.99) and Paul Desmond's PAUL DESMOND QUARTET LIVE ($3.99).
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The Grey Album (Beatles + Jay-Z)
ghost of miles replied to Peter Johnson's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I heard a story about it on NPR recently, but still haven't heard the actual boot. Sounds interesting, though. -
Your Last Mosaic Set Purchased
ghost of miles replied to Soulstation1's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
If you're counting selects, the Curtis Amy & Duke Pearson. Last big set purchased was the Eldridge. -
Your First Mosaic Set Purchased
ghost of miles replied to Soulstation1's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Andrew Hill in the summer of 1995... and what a glorious summer it was! -
Cook's Blue Note
ghost of miles replied to Dr. Rat's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Following on Larry's suggestion, I'd also recommend Robbie Lieberman's MY SONG IS MY WEAPON (more info here) and the Bear Family box SONGS FOR POLITICAL ACTION, although it costs a pretty penny. The hardbound book that comes with it deals extensively with the folk/left alliance from 1930-1950 (the box-set also has some of the music Josh White recorded around the time of his Cafe Society stay, as well as the complete recordings of the Almanac Singers, the Guthrie/Seeger folkie "supergroup", as it were). This biography of Folkways founder Moe Asch, Making People's Music, also contains interesting stories & background on the subject. Asch did have some involvement with recording jazz artists in the 1940s. -
Cook's Blue Note
ghost of miles replied to Dr. Rat's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Pretty good. I don't do as much over there, now that I'm at WFIU so much, but WFHB has added the BBC in the morning and local news in the evening. Ryan Bruce, the GM, is a real dynamo and has brought the station a long ways. Let me know what you think of that Stowe piece. -
Don Redman, SHAKIN' THE AFRICAN Brad Mehldau, ANYTHING GOES Benny Carter, SAX A LA CARTER Claude Thornhill, BUSTER'S LAST STAND Stan Getz, CAPTAIN MARVEL Modern Jazz Quartet, COMP. PRESTIGE & PABLO
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Damn, I'm gettin' old... I remember when "The Stand" came out. C'mon down, and meet your maker... etc. Omagod, it's so 1983! B) Pretty interesting story, Berigan. I'm always intrigued by established artists and authors who put out product under another name... This item really shows the prejudice of the music-biz powers-that-be.