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Herbie Nichols, COMPLETE BLUE NOTE (been a long time--practically inhaled all 3 discs) Curtis Amy, MOSAIC SELECT discs 1, 2 Dave Pell Octet, PLAYS IRVING BERLIN Joe Henderson, SO NEAR, SO FAR John Coltrane, Showboat Philadelphia 6/63 (just noticed--damn, am I on a tenor kick or what?)

Whew... I'm just glad that they didn't sign Kenny Loggins.

Man, I would love to be in Dublin come June 16 this year. When my wife and I bought our house several years ago, on June 16, I said, "Hey, we're closing on Bloomsday!" The realtor and the bank people looked at me with polite, restrained smiles... My wife was probably thinking, "Great, schmoe, we're gonna blow it at the last moment!" bloomsday100

verahomepage And this from AMG: For some reason I thought that he'd died recently, but I think I'm confusing him with somebody else who wrote a lot of the liner notes for Capitol's Black and White/Imperial re-issue program--Pete Welding.

I got that one for my dad for Christmas and he was very pleased. Might have to snag a copy for myself...

I like the Cootie Williams and Buddy Rich big-band sides... there's some early Gator Jackson, if I recall correctly... and a lot of Helen Humes as well as Albert Ammons, including the only father/son session (that I know of) with Gene!

No, I didn't, but I don't think I'd be surprised if El Rushbo actually did that!

Heh... and this was before the last Eagles' game: McNabbvsLimbaugh Of course, the most unlikely of backups is coming off the bench for Rush: the ACLU!

As a disgruntled ex-football fan, I am not happy at the prospect of having to see a bunch of overweight kids & middle-aged Hoosiers ambling about in those g.d. blue Colts jerseys again next weekend... The horseshoe really highlights the belly, I gotta say.

Leeway & Jim, I know it's small consolation, but a good chunk of this material is available on this Verve 2-CD set, which I think is still in-print: StuffVerve

Man, that's a rather scary notion--that an in-print Mosaic could just suddenly vanish due to licensing/legal issues. I'm glad that I already have it. Hope this isn't a bad omen for current and in-the-works Verve/Universal Mosaic projects.

Don't have that many, yet, but THE THIRD MAN is my favorite so far.

Outing me in regards to liking the Boswell Sisters, or to carrying on a private correspondence with one of the board's most notorious conservatives? Of course, I must confess to an ulterior motive--I know that you are a liberal at heart, and I am merely attempting to call home the prodigal son, as it were. Didja get my PM back? Regarding the Sam Donahue Heps, a big thumbs-up for HOLLYWOOD HOP and NAVAL BAND V. 1.

Holy smokin' Rockets, Batman!

Hard to believe that BIRTH OF THE COOL, great as it is, is the bestselling jazz album of alltime. Wouldn't it be KIND OF BLUE or TIME OUT? Or--blahhh--one of the Kenny G releases, if count such things we must?

He will be... President-elect Wesley Clark won't be inaugurated until Thursday, January 20, 2005. Don't worry, Conn, you'll still get your Clark tax cut! 7/4, hope you're havin' a great one!

Ripe for a Select, I'd say! That is, if Universal would license them... and I still think it would be neat (if unusual) to traverse label/conglomerate boundaries and put the United Artists date on there as well, because I think that would pretty much be every album Cleveland recorded as a leader. Given that the United Artists date would fall under EMI control, I don't think Mosaic would have any trouble licensing it... just a matter of Universal allowing them to group it with the EmArcys. Time for me to drop a line to the old Mosaic feedback box, methinks.

E-mail from a movie buff friend who knows of my affection for old Universal monster flicks: No extras, supposedly, but for that kinda list price (meaning a place like Deep Discount DVD will have it for even less) I'll probably spring.

F#@%in' A, man, this gent just does not get it! How do you spell D-E-N-I-A-L?

Ditto! Man, as membership here climbs, there's a birthday every day... well, I'm all for an ongoing celebration. We could use more of 'em!

Happy b-day, 7/4... or should I say 4/4 today?

Happy birthday to a wonderful poster and warmly regarded colleague in the "Politics" forum!

Most notoriously right before the Battle of Evermore.

Recently I chanced across a marked-down copy of INTRODUCING JIMMY CLEVELAND AND HIS ALL-STARS. Nice date! Quincy Jones did the arrangements, and the supporting cast makes the album live up to its title: Ernie Royal, Lucky Thompson, Jerome Richardson, Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford, Hank Jones, Max Roach... I like the originals as much or better than the standards here, too. This one makes me want to seek out some of his other EmArcys, although only one (CLEVELAND STYLE) appears to be in print. Maybe a candidate for a Mosaic Select? Maybe they could even tack the one United Artists date onto the EmArcys...

I figger there's plenty 'a water in the two fifths of whiskey and the pot of coffee that I put away a day.