Spontooneous

I'll second the Bertini box. (A conductor with Israeli roots who's completely overlooked in that peculiar Forward article.) Seems to me that the EMI "complete" Mahler box does a lot better by the songs than it does by the symphonies. OTOH, the Deutsche Grammophone "complete" set doesn't do all that well by the symphonies either.

Sometimes Exceded Expectations.

Stockholm! You want it!

It's a bootleg, right?

I pasted in some quotes from Bird and it said I write like Sonny Stitt.

For a snippet from me, David Foster Wallace. So I tried this snippet of Donald Rumsfeld: As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. The result: Stepehenie Meyer.

Though Ed Sanders and I graduated from the same high school (years apart), Tuli was my favorite Fug. Thanks for the wonderful memories, Tuli.

The burner included in my HP computer was a piece of crap. I'd recommend buying a cheap external burner and not worrying about it anymore.

Damn. I was going to pick up some of those downloads when my cash flow improves. The St. Louis 1969 show in that series is good for whatever ails ya.

Some friends were early digital converts, in '84 and '85. I held out for a while. The discs came first. One day in Exile Records in Overland Park, Kansas, I couldn't resist a relatively inexpensive used CD of Elvis Costello's "King of America" to perhaps replace my lousy pressing of the LP. This was probably the summer of '87. A couple of weeks later, I bought a Mahler Fifth Symphony on CD, attracted by the notion of being able to play the whole thing without changing a disc. At first, I played the discs at friends' houses. I had about a dozen discs by the I actually got a Magnavox player, in the fall of '87. I still have the player.

And I think there's one on the CD by that Paul McKee guy.

Justice will be served when this guy is asked to play "Mustang Sally."

Ignore the pretentious dink (the one with the trumpet and the inflated prose, I mean) and he'll go away.

A few months ago, I was perusing the discs at Half Price Books and didn't even notice the blues collector friend standing next to me doing the same thing. "You DO got the disease, don't you?" he said in his inimitable twang.

Really, Jupiter, you should lose all the stripes. They make you look fat.

People just don't have the compass points for listening to jazz violin that you have. Any old showy violin stuff will impress them. I thought we decided that I was the last sane person in the jazz world.

In defense of John Ore: I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Monk asked his bassists to stick to that "walking" rhythm in their solos. Check all those Larry Gales solos, too. (Another pro-Dunlop partisan here.)

In a similar vein...

Jimmy Smith, Return to The Poultry Facility

Everyone knows the Ellington piece is meant to evoke New Orleans' Congo Square, where the slaves played music and danced and enjoyed pizza on paper plates.

So he was sort of a Robert Johanson figure?

Can anyone recommend some other great recordings in the delta-theta blues style that HB pioneered?

I thought the pig's owner won the lawsuit and got that taken down.

Just wondering...did they ever find Henry's grave again after that horrible tractor accident?