Spontooneous

Is the guy with the bass trumpet possibly Marshall Brown?

Note also that on the Amazon link, the Ranelin album seems to have encountered a proofreader.

On the Hubbard disc, given the timings, anybody else suspect that the performances have been severely edited?

But the guy at the keyboard here plays better than Clarence, don't you think?

Not Bix or any of his buddies as far as I know, but the time frame is close. Want a really useless clue? I noticed the other day that somebody on this board is using an image of the leader on this tune as an avatar.

Thank you, Bill! Good to know the disc found a warm reception.

Read it quick before the copyright police take it down: My link

The Rapidshare server is testy and likes to cut people off for no good reason. Please give it another try.

The discussion of BFT 84 starts here. No lines, no waiting. All tracks are from commercial releases. The digital sources have not been edited or altered in any way. Now talk. Whaddya like, what bugs ya, and why?

Still accepting appplicants! The MP3 version can be downloaded here.

Up for the evening crowd.

Got a serious Brotherhood of Breath family-related thing going on here! Really, I should have picked up on Harry Beckett. The best part is finding out that I've been tricked into posting a surly remark about one of my favorites, in this case Mary Lou. That was a great time. Thanks, Flurin!

Up for the weekend crowd.

Welcome, Taru! Cal's music pops into my brain every week, I swear, and makes me happier every time.

A certain for-profit company asked me to blog about jazz, but didn't want to pay me for it. If I'm going to do it for free, I'd rather do it here.

I stopped by one of the store-closing sales and found a few CDs I actually wanted, plus one I was going to give as a gift. Endured the long checkout line. And then I watched in dismay as the kid at the checkout counter took the CD that was going to be a gift, tore off the cellophane and obliterated the bar code with a Sharpie. He explained that management had ordered the clerks to do so with all CDs sold. I countered that the same bit of defacement wasn't being done to the bar codes on books being sold. He didn't have an answer for that. I walked out without the CDs.

Up.

PM sent. (Thickening my herd?)

Hey, this one's got Ralph Macchio's personal fragrance.

Yep, dot's da one.

Don't know about that one, but Woody Herman had a chart where the head was pretty much the solo Lester played on "Pound Cake."

If it hasn't been remastered with the pitch at least 30 percent lower and the package doesn't include a DVD of Ralph Macchio's immortal "Crossroads," I'm not interested.