ghost of miles

Don't worry, I'll make room. The War Room! Stocked with plenty of great jazz to listen to while assaulting the powers that be... Looking forward to the next Non Grata & Reptet projects.

Congratulations, John! It took my wife & me 9 months to find our house in Bloomington, which is a considerably cheaper market than yours. We're still intending to get out to Port Townsend one of these days (do they still have the annual jazz festival there? Is Shank still a resident? I thought Catesta or somebody else mentioned that he'd moved to Arizona) and would love to hook up with you. Believe me, just the knowledge that your money is no longer going into the black hole of rental payments (well, at first a lot of it will be going into the black hole of interest payments) is a big relief--as is knowing that you're no longer at the mercy of a landlord who may, on a whim, "re-model" (usually not for the better) or up your rent outrageously.

For God's sake, whatever you do, don't flatten their fifths!

The Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Select (JAZZ AT CAL TECH, specifically). And this morning I was enjoying disc 1 of the Hackett.

I'm hep to that! I mentioned Ajaye in a thread recently... whatever happened to him? He had a segment on HBO in the late 1980s that was just brilliant. The movie "Cool Runnings" was basically a ripoff of his "Jamaican bobsled team" joke. I know that he supposed quit IN LIVING COLOR for reasons related to the direction of the show, but I haven't heard much about him since then.

Musical Marine, that's really ironic. Yesterday I got a Mosaic order that included the Shank & Brookmeyer Selects, and I thought, "Ya know, I should've suggested those to The Musical Marine." You were too quick for me!

Can we please have a moratorium on death? I'm getting g.d. sick of it. My alternating partner on my WFHB show passed away Monday night. Will go home and listen to THE WAY tonight. Steve Lacy was an avant-garde giant. Heard him speaking on WGBH a few months ago, and he seemed like a genuinely nice person as well. You can't replace these guys.

Came in the mail, but I haven't listened to it yet. Looking forward to it, though, as I've greatly enjoyed Allison's recent work.

Here come da whistleman!

Ah hah! That might explain why my buddy thought it was a Classics "box," which was a new concept to me.

A buddy of mine just sent me a link to this set, with which I'm unfamiliar: FatscompleteCityHall Can't find a listing for it in AMG... I have all of the Bluebird/Victor CD sets, but this listing provokes my curiosity.

Jim Sangrey just blew past the 7000 mark. Re: "Dr. Funkenstein." Is that all there is? Surely we must aspire to ever more superlative monikers! B)

Cherry version for me.

Let us not forget the great "Beatles reunion" hoax of the late 1970s involving the rock group Klaatu... oh my God, weren't they Canadian?! I guess they were the poor man's ELO...

32. Better safe than sorry! 33. OOP Mosaics can be harder to find than WMDS in Iraq. 34. I'd hate to have to buy all of these as individual CDs--think of all the money that I'm saving... 35. I used to spend $700 a year on smoking, and Mosaic sets smell much nicer than Camel butts.

BTW, Fred Pustay says he is familiar with the Organissimo forum...

Me too... better safe than sorry!

Oh, man. OK--I'm not particularly a fan of NO jazz, but I just pulled the trigger, and Fred Pustay says they still had 13, which means they now have a dozen left. I also picked up the Hackett and the most recent Selects. My wallet says , but my jazz-lovin' heart says Will wait until mid-July to order the Farlow and Herman together--hope I get some more radio gigs in the meantime to pay for 'em!

Does Mosaic have any early-jazz sets on the drawing board right now? Something along the lines of the Berigan, Venuti/Lang, Bix or Bailey sets? Those all seem to have been Scott Wenzel's babies, in one way or another...

Nine CDs?! Oh my Lord & pocketbook...

I did end up buying the DVD, Bruce. My mom picked it up for me at the Indianapolis downtown Borders--when the clerk handed it to her, he said, "Klaatu barada nikto." Later that day she was on the phone with Scott Newman, her former boss at the prosecutor's office, and she happened to mention the errand to him. "Ah," he said. "Klaatu barada nikto." Damn, it's truly a universal saying now! I also like the newsreel on the DVD--it's a heated Red-scare account of the Soviets behaving badly at a peace conference. Gives you a real sense of what the climate was like when the movie came out. Yeah, the theremin score is great! Re: THEM, it's another fave of mine from this era (need to get it on DVD as well); in fact, the sound of the cicadas this summer reminds me of THEM all the time!

Is Giddins saying that Sedric was the poor man's Coleman Hawkins?!

I think Triumph was the poor man's Rush.

Hey, c'mon, man, what about Triumph?