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Just picked this up and am letting it sink in. It is enjoyable so far. A couple of other recordings that are closer to being Elvin's actual last recordings. Great Jazz Trio (sometimes listed under this or under Elvin) Someday My Prince Will Come. Elvin, Hank Jones and Richard Davis recorded these standards in 2002. I just picked this up and liked it a lot. I will also seek out Autumn Leaves by the same group. A few more things seem to have been put out recently. No idea about their quality. Earth Jones Elvin Jones and David Liebman (2003) Brother John Elvin Jones (solo?) on the Quicksilver label (2003).

Bringing this thread back up. I saw this for the first time at Dusty Groove and picked it up (though it is now up to $29 from $24 apparently). It's pretty interesting. I especially like the booklet with the great details and photos. The irony is that this is one time (the only time?) that Fresh Sounds seems to have the more legitimate and almost complete release (perhaps one session missing). A couple of related questions. Was there ever a vol 2.? Either more of the Nocturne recordings or Jazz in Hollywood recordings? I think not, but am not sure. Second, most of this set involves Harry Babasin as artist or producer. I actually am familiar with his name because I have been seeking out a song called Evening In Azerbaijan, which is presumably inspired by Night in Tunisia. The only source I've heard for it is Harry Babasin COMMAND PERFORMANCE THE JAZZ PICKERS featuring RED NORVO Mercury Records - EmArcy MG 36123 (front), but this is not in print. Has anyone actually heard the track? Is it worth seeking out? If it's not that memorable, I don't want to waste any more time on it. This quote is from around 1998, so I am not sure about whether it is still current. Von Babasin, Harry's son, wrote on the availability of his dad's recordings: "Right now the "Up in Dodo's Room" recording is the only CD available with my dad playing cello. It's on Jazz Classics Records, number CD-JZCL-6008. V.S.O.P. has told me they are going to release the Jazzpickers/Terry Gibbs album that you mention, on CD, sometime in 1998. They have a website with the MODE label as part of their archive. Fantasy is planning a release of the original Nocturne "Jazz in Hollywood" series, ten 10" LPs that were produced by my father and drummer Roy Harte, also on CD, in 1998. That series contains an album by the "Harry Babasin Quintet" with Harry on cello. I have access to four other Jazzpickers tapes that were albums but at this time we have no immediate plan to release them. EMI in Japan is also releasing four of the Nocturne albums, but they are pressing the original vinyl albums! My dad plays on all four but the Harry Babasin Quintet is the only one on cello. The others are the Bud Shank Quintet, the Herbie Harper Quintet, and the Bob Enevoldson Quintet, where he, of course, plays bass." Would a European label consider putting some of this out, if the family does not?

If you are looking for major jazz artists reinterpreting Monk, then there is Milt Jackson's Memories of Monk and Randy Weston's Portraits of Monk (Weston also did Portraits of Duke Ellington, which I like).

The McFerrin piece is no great loss. The Koch 4 disc set is quite good. I think it is OOP, but copies float around. I got mine through DMG. My collection is very scrambled at the moment, but I will list some of my favorites later. One of the more unusual is Monk Suite by the Kronos Quartet. Believe it or not, they got Ron Carter to sit in on about half the album.

As I have recently hooked up a turn-table, this was towards the top of my list to listen to. I didn't realize that there was a truncated version of this on CD floating around. I wonder what was dropped. I guess some people think it is corny, but I really dig "Work". While some of the Monk tributes by more traditional jazz artists (including the one on Koch mentioned above) often have a higher level of musicianship, I really like the contrasting styles and approaches.

Well, everyone comes at this differently. I think mostly in the academic framework, where someone can take roughly 4-8 sentences or a full paragraph of your work and stick it into their own work, as long as it is properly cited. (It's a little different for entire poems.) No money changes hands, and this is all under fair use. Some works of criticism stitch together dozens, perhaps even a hundred quotes. I really do have a lot of trouble viewing three notes as a full blown composition deserving the full court press of copyright protection. This sounds an awful lot like parody of Metallica, where Lars asked to copyright every song with an F chord descending to an E chord (or something along those lines).

Here's my son doing his impression of Bono.

I'm going to try one thing first. ZoneAlarm can apparently block individual websites. It would be a lot better if I can use it myself to block the big O during work hours, then turn it off if I am working late or on weekends. Anyway, talk to you this evening. Eric

Feel free to PM if you want to haggle. I probably won't be returning PMs until evenings. Shipping to US and Canada - $2 for the first one and $0.50 for additional LPs. Overseas will be extra. Insurance or delivery confirmation extra. $4 records Stanley Turrentine In Memory Of BN (Liberty Pressing) VG Count Basie Afrique Red Baron big promotional DJ sticker on front VG Duke Ellington Drum is a Woman Columbia some scuffing G Duke Ellington Inferno Vernon Records rare live recording G Grant Green Visions Blue Note cover has ring wear and split on one edge previous owners name on cover G Harold Land (w/ Hutcherson) Choma (Burn) Mainstream one corner of cover clipped VG Dave Brubeck Time Changes Columbia - this is the mono version! I'd be happy to send a somewhat scuffed stereo version for free if you want to do comparisons Ray Brown Something for Lester Contemporary VG $5 records Grachan Moncur Aco Dei de Madrugada Actuel Still sealed! (bought CD version before I ever opened it) Grachan Moncur New Africa Actuel bought sealed played twice M- Johnny Griffin Big-Soul Band Wade in the Water Riverside VG Stanley Turrentine New Time Shuffle BN (Liberty Pressing) VG $7 records Jimmy Smith Confirmation BN (Liberty pressing) hole punched through cover VG Bobby Hutcherson Cirrus Blue Note very clean copy minimal surface noise Hank Mobley The Flip Blue Note corner of cover clipped minimal surface noise $10 McCoy Tyner Enlightenment Milestone 2 LP set VG+ $12 Don Cherry Symphony for Improvisers VG+ Dexter Gordon Landslide BN (Liberty) VG+ Dexter Gordon Clubhouse BN (LIberty) VG+ $15 Ornette Coleman The Empty Foxhole BN VG Thanks for looking. I'll be adding to this list periodically. Eric

Actually, I have a good relationship with the IT person. We were having a discussion one day about whether she should block ebay and so on. I think if I asked her to block this site, it really wouldn't be a big deal and it would just remove the temptation. Even if I logged out from my computer, I could still lurk, and I would. I do appreciate your concern about my situation. Not sure if I want to go too deep into the job thing here, rather than non-political. But I did talk to another company and got kind of a we want to hire you but need the economy to pick up, and I am pretty sure they were sincere. I work in transportation planning/forecasting and so much of what we do is wrapped up in waiting for a new transportation reauthorization bill to be passed by Congress. But really my goal now is to get a full time academic position. I finished my PhD early this year, which was a real strain since I was working full time. Now I want to publish the dissertation as a book and write articles, etc. Eventually my body is just going to give out from lack of sleep. So I am gearing up to go on the academic job market starting in the summer, and I am nervously looking forward to that. As mentioned in the political forums, I am definitely looking for non-US employment if possible.

Well, an upset for the Bears. My wife was so happy about this one. I was fairly surprised, but perhaps the Giants weren't as good as their record indicated and their luck ran out on them. The Bears defense is pretty good, and they are starting to get better on the offensive side. Still don't think the Bears' QB is that great but he is making big improvements. Most likely he will improve just enough to make the coach's life hell when he has to decide between this guy and Grossman (the young QB who went down early in the season). Neither are truly going to be great QBs. But of course, I could be wrong, and I am sure my wife hopes I am.

Right, it's one thing if it is a few minutes during my break, but when that adds up as it has over the last month, ultimately it is stealing from the company. And even though I am pretty tired of this company, I don't need that on my conscience. I wouldn't do it if there were other jazz fans at the company though.

Well, this is just my personal story. I really have not been enjoying my job much, and I tend to have more free time than is good. And I have been so depressed about the election that I took some comfort in the political forum (yet still better grounded in reality by far than dailyKos). It got to the point I was checking the board every 15 minutes just to see what had been said and if there was any active topic anywhere. Well, that's just going too far. While I probably would come back to some kind of equilibrium myself, I am going to sort of turn myself in and ask our company IT person to block the site. (I am the only member at my company which is pretty small.) It's clearly my own lack of will-power but I just can't afford the temptation anymore, and I need to focus on my job again. I'll still be on in the evenings for sure.

My wife watches way, way too much, and usually if I drift in to talk to her, I stay and watch some stupid cold case file. She's also a sports junkie and watches pretty much all the Cubs, Sox, Bulls and Bears games. I actually didn't own a tv until we hooked up. For me one of the main advantages of the dumbing down of TV is that I watch very little of my own accord. In terms of the shows I set out to watch, I think I am just down to Simpsons (which is usually just so-so) and Arrested Development. I've got a whole shelf of DVDs I only rarely watch. I guess I make up for it on internet surfing though.

Just picked up the Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol 2. Great, great stuff. Many of the favorites that didn't make vol. 1 are here, including One Froggy Evening, What's Opera Doc, The Great Piggy Bank Caper and The Three Little Bops (well, one of my favorites). Still missing the Daffy/Porky feature where they are Robin Hood and his Merry Men, but that will hopefully be on vol. 3 One thing worthy of note is that the one where Daffy blows himself up by drinking nitroglycerine and uranium (Show Biz Bugs) is uncut for the first time in a long time. That is great news for adult fans of the cartoons, but you might want to skip over that if you have young impressionable children -- and a lot of uranium about the house. Eric

I actually was on an escalator in a store, when it broke down. Somebody did yell (jokingly), oh no we're stuck. I was in the hot tub in a health club in Manhattan, and a guy got in that looked very much like Steven Wright. I doubt if it was him, but that would certainly be my closest celebrity sighting. Trying to think of a joke here, but that only proves why I am not a comic. I think my favorite Wright joke is the map one, cited above. Oddly enough a recent episode of Joey (my wife was watching and I just happened to be in the room!), ripped this off. Joey had made reservations all over Southern California, then when told this, he said, "Darn it, it looked so much closer on the map. Why don't they make maps full size" or something like that. And what is up with the long person on the streets segments in Leno's show and extended monologue and schtick? I think a few times now there have been two commercial breaks before the celebrity interview. Either this is Jay's passive aggressive way of commenting on the quality of that night's star or he is just getting bored with the interview format in general.

The recently issued Counterpoints is supposed to be from the same tour of Japan. If it does well, perhaps Passion Dance will be released on CD.

Well, I don't have that much interaction with my supervisor anymore (probably for the best), but he was into jazz. Not as deep as me, but he often had the new Keith Jarrett albums, he really liked Desmond's Glad to be Unhappy, and for Xmas one year, he got me the Miles Davis Columbia 4 CD sampler. The guy I work with the most, however, is a real jazz nut. If he had the money, he would have even more music than I do. A huge Andrew Hill fan. Talking to him, mostly over the phone now since I relocated, has been very rewarding.

Joe McPhee Trio Wed 11/10, 7 PM, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. 312-744-6630. So this looks kind of interesting, and I will try to make it. I see that Brotzman is doing some strange performance piece revolving around Kenneth Patchen. Don't know the price, but I think $10 or so. Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet is joined by Welsh performer Mike Pearson for a performance of Be Music, Night, combining poetry by Kenneth Patchen and musical improvisation; part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. See the Treatment. Sun 11/7, 8 PM, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law, 375 E. Chicago. 312-494-9509. And as a follow-up, I actually emailed Stefon Harris about the Jazz Showcase gig. He didn't go into any details but said that he was looking to come to Chicago in the near future (and possibly at the Showcase), so I will keep people posted.

Years ago I recall reading a long (2-3 page) poem, where the ending went like this: JESUS SAVES JESUS SAVES JESUS SAVES GREEN STAMPS Then there might have been a coda like, Yes he does. The rest of the poem was kind of rambling, I think it had urban overtones. Almost certainly written in the 1960s or early 1970s. The two most likely candidates are early Amiri Baraka (back when he was still LeRoi Jones) or Paul Blackburn. But I have gone through my collections of their works and can't find it (doesn't mean that I didn't just miss it). Baraka does have a pretty interesting poem featuring the Green Hornet, but that's not what I am thinking of. It's probably not Frank O'Hara, whose poems generally weren't so overtly political. I have done a variety of google searches, but haven't turned up a true hit so far. Let me know if this sounds familiar. Thanks for any leads. By the way, I think both O'Hara's and Blackburn's poetry is worth checking out. Paul Blackburn can be sampled a couple of ways, in a Selected Poems or in The Cities. He was an observer of cities and writes rambling poems about what he sees in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. He has a whole series of quite interesting subway poems. I actually selected a few for an anthology of subway poems I was working on. I finished this and sent it around, got some interest from a small publisher, then finally decided that getting (and paying for) the permissions would sink the project. Eric

Or did Rollins decide he didn't like sharing the spotlight? I certainly like some of his later work (This is What I Do has some very fine moments, though it probably never made it to vinyl), but I really, really wish he would have occasionally hooked up with A-level players who should have helped kick his playing up a notch.

Johnny Hartman & the Andrew Hill Trio 1961 Live" (VGM 11) I think there is some disagreement whether this should be considered a boot. Hartman sings four very short songs, and Hill stretches out on two much longer numbers. Going to have to listen to this again soon.

You are right. Classic stuff that needs to stay in print. What I was actually thinking of was Eddy Louiss Bohemia After Dark which is part of Jazz in Paris set, disk 35. Kenny Clarke is again the drummer. However, this is not the Savoy material. It was recorded in 1972. I didn't remember that part.

Yes, absolutely.

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