Hardbopjazz

Still haven't decided what to include in a compilation. Someone at work asked me to make a CD of jazz tunes. Most likely will span in the 50's through 60's. Some Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Sonny Stitt. Any others I should include? This person is a musician. He plays bass.

Now jazz corner is reporting he has passed. If so, sad news.

If you were going to make a jazz compilation CD, who and what tunes you include? Let’s say 15 tunes worth. Would it span a certain age of jazz, or would you try to cover all eras?

Feel sorry the the cleaning crew at the hotel.

Strange News - AP Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham Thu Jun 3, 6:19 PM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo! By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - An artist best known for decorative cheese has broadened his palette, or palate, to ham. Brooklyn-based Cosimo Cavallaro, who once repainted a New York hotel room in melted mozzarella, has begun covering a bed in Hormel. "I feel like I am back in my mother's deli," the artist said Thursday. Cavallaro's installation in a street-level gallery space of the Roger Smith Hotel in midtown Manhattan involves slicing 312 pounds of ham and laying it down in an elegant four-poster bed. The installation, which took 3 1/2 hours, will be kept in the air-conditioned room for two days. According to the artist, no concern about cockroaches has been raised. "They are welcome," he said. "Imagine what this looks like from the point of view of an insect." He added that his cheese exhibits had never attracted a mouse. "Too much cheese," he said. "It would have overwhelmed them." At noon, Cavallaro, a burly man with long unkempt hair and a beard who doubles as an award-winning filmmaker, was busy working a chrome meat slicer like one he had used working in his mother's delicatessen during childhood summers. "I was a good slicer back then," he said looking straight ahead as he flipped a handful of sliced ham behind him onto a growing mound rising from the white sheets. Outside, pedestrians stopping to peer in through the glass on 47th Street were skeptical. "That's a waste of food, with all of the hungry people in America," said Alithea Henriquez. But nearby, delis were said to be picking up business. "It does make me hungry," said Keuan Mcneal. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, grew up in a hardscrabble section of Montreal. He asked his mother, who still lives in Montreal, not to come to the installation. "She would want to get in on the act," he said. But his father, a metal worker who died two years ago, was less amused by his work, his girlfriend said. "His father never let him play," said longtime girlfriend Sarah Jacobs. "That's why he started with the cheese. He's an ironist." Sliced ham, Cavallaro said, is "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite his training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto. "It would have been pompous," he said. He also shelved an idea to do ham and eggs as "too pretentious, too thought out." But he said he thinks he will always come back to food as a medium. "The smells bring you back to unexpected places," he said. "It's very special." Gallery director Matthew Semler said he booked the exhibit for the fun of it. "This isn't work, it's play. That's was Cos does," he said, referring to the artist. Cavallaro says his cheese period ended two years, after he had coated a vacant house in Powell, Wyo., with 5 tons of pepper jack. "I was cloaking myself in cheese. I had started getting comfortable," he explained. "I always need new boundaries."

Tommy Turrentine. Too bad he dropped off the scene.

Nothing, but when you hear jazz played on the radio, it's rarely fusion being played.

To me Fusion will not be remembered as well as other styles of jazz. Not too many jazz artists still playing this style. Would it probably be just a footnote to the other periods of jazz? Would you agree with this?

Also learned not to talk politics. You can get ruffed up in those threads.

Ayler, is one hard sell to many.

Any earth shattering knowledge bestowed upon you since you been on this fourm?

I use to follow the coverage of jazz in the Village Voice. It was some of the best jazz information in NY. But it's been a good 10 years since I've followed it.

This thread has gotten a bit too strange for me.

Are you kind of like Troy McClure on the Simpson's? He was into fish.

Wes Montgomery- Road Song and Down Here on the Ground. Both suck. I have a theory to real reason Wes died, and that is, he had to record these two albums and it killed him. There is so much sap on these two albums they should be at IHOP. The greatest guitarist of all time, had to record albums like this to feed his family. It must have led to his demise.

Put some hot pepper on the shoes, the cat will stop.

Who else is on the record with him?

Since it appears no one was doing the AOTW this week, I jumped in and selected: Count Basie- Sing Along with Basie.

Well if no one is doing one, I will select Count Basie- Sing along with Basie.

So, even IN the obvious, it was better in Paris.

Does she say it tastes like chicken? Everything always tastes like chicken.

From the looks of it, the catalog number SP.418 makes me believe they must have put out a number of albums on the Sears Label. First time I ever seen anything from Sears.

If no one wants to do it, I can quickly do one.

Thanks, Lucky? Maybe

Anyone know where I can pick up a copy of this record? I don't think it ever made it to CD.