Brownian Motion

Not sure if (and when) this is going to be sold thru stores. The man runs a very isolated and small business. He is obviously not prepared to handle numerous requests. If the reissue is not sold through large stores any time soon, I may help you getting this! Unless you really NEED that one bad and in a real hurry... Thanks Brownie. That is a kind offer, and I may take you up on it. Let's see what happens.

How can you say this? The man is the hippest son of Arkansas, ever. Love "Baltimore Oriole", Dylan's "Don't Think Twice", and Harry Neemo's great song "Tis Autumn". No one does them better than Bobby!

I want this, but I forsee problems getting it.

I'm intrigued. I used to have one of these on vinyl (At the Embers I think) and it was very light and low energy. Glenn stuck to vibes throughout, and Shorty Baker never removed his mute. But with all that talent, the potential exists for some fine playing, so I'd be interested in hearing other's opinions.

My point too. Caceres was a beautifully lyrical player who could fit with a variety of jazz styles.

I voted for Teagarden. But let's not forget some great ones: Sandy Williams Claude Jones Fred Beckett J.C. Higginbotham Benny Morton Dickie Wells

I had a spud gun back in '59--all cast metal--damn thing was made to last. For distance and accuracy, however, it was no match for my pea-shooter. Talk about "puttin' out an eye".

Funny you should mention dreams. I dreamt last night that my wife and I were visiting an old friend of ours and her husband. Her father used to be a high-level officer of the CIA. At some point I needed to return to our parked automobile to fetch something and discovered the former CIA Director, George H.W. Bush, working to conceal a microphone in our glove compartment.

My wife and I stopped watching tv eight years ago, but our two girls, ages 12 and 17, are fans. We try to limit the younger one to 1 hour a day, but the older girl has a tv in her room, and she uses it more than she should. If I were to do the child-rearing thing all over again I would do away with tv in my house altogether.

To demonstrate how wrong even the NYT obit writers can be, examine this paragraph: "At 14 he nearly played on a Goodman recording date, substituting for Teddy Wilson. Wilson finally showed up before the tapes rolled, but Mr. Bushkin's career was in motion: he started working for dance bands and society bands, performing in New York, New Jersey and Florida." Twin anachronisms! Way to go! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/music/05bushkin.html

Mmmmm...love those Lester Young Commodores with Joe, Bill Coleman, and Dicky Wells. Thanks for the reminder--I'm putting them on.

Your ubiquitous prescence is comforting. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Have a great birthday!!

Happy Birthday Chris, and thanks for your splendid efforts to advance the cause of our music.

I feel that American design reached its zenith in the 1930s . Great images! Thanks for posting them. Here's a wood engraving print by Paul Landacre from the 1930s that I long for but can't afford.

Yes, musical instruments can be a trap. I almost began collecting trumpets (I had 3 of them and was considering a fourth purchase) until my wife put her foot down. She was right of course. I haven't played for years, and was never much good to begin with. And they take up so much space.

I have a small collection of books with original graphics, mostly woodcuts and lithographs. Most of these books were published in the 1930s, which is also my favorite decade for jazz performance. Here's a nice lithograph by Richard Day from 1932.

I like Chris Potter and Scott Hamilton. But the question is ageist.

I'll take Fletcher's 1936 band over any other band of the swing era. It's a good place to start an investigation of Henderson's recordings. Stealin' Apples, Christopher Columbus, and Blue Lou come immediately to mind as both Henderson classics and definitive versions of three jazz standards. You can work forward and backward from this point and find interesting recordings, although some of the 1920s stuff is fairly commercial and not everything is well-recorded. (Even 2 or 3 years after electrical recording had been introduced, Fletcher was still waxing an occasional acoustic disc.)

All four circles are the same size.

My preference is for a chile made with fresh chopped vegetables--onion, garlic, warm peppers, tomatoes--stir-fried for ten minutes; organic ground beef, pinto beans prepared from scratch, and lots of fresh chopped celantro added 30 seconds before you're ready to serve. And hot sauce to taste. Great as a leftover too, but by the second day the celantro taste will have evaporated.

I'm pretty sure it was Hawk on the soundtrack--he played clarinet when he was with Fletcher Henderson--he even waxed a solo.

Ethel Waters, Hawk, Roy, and Jo Jones were guest stars on an episode of the long-gone television series "Route 66". Does anyone know whether the soundtrack to that show ever made it onto LP or CD?

Here's an interesting Frank Rich column on Roth's book. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/arts/23Rich.html?8hpib