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Yes, this is a re-issue of Philips 70306. Johnny Griffin is on the album. Not sure if he really is the featured artist or that was just the marketing of the time. Other notable musicians are Roger Guerin on trumpet, Raymond Guy on flute, Jimmy Woode on double bass and Art Taylor on drums. (I skipped about 15 other names.)

That's really a damn shame. I think Sports as an industry has to decide if it can survive these ugly fan-player interactions. My personal feeling is that the beer sales have got to be cut back and probably ended about mid-way through the third quarter. Sure it will be a drain on team revenues, but the long-term success of these franchises depends on not alienating families. The bad behavior of these drunks is really getting out of hand, and here I am talking generally, not specifically about Detroit fans.

Here is our Holiday card, shamelessly using our son to spread goodwill ... Happy holidays, everyone. Eric

Specifically in the Lakeview/Lincoln Park neighborhoods, Reckless is still open. There is a pretty lame CD store on Belmont. The good one closed up, as did an ok one on the corner of Clark and Belmont. On Broadway near Wellington is Disc-Go-Round, which has a so-so selection of used jazz. It has a pretty good used DVD section though. On Clark near Wrightwood, there is a vinyl store (Dave's maybe?) but the store connected to Django's went under. There is still HiFi Records just south of Wrightwood on Clark, and that is pretty good. More generally, Dr. Wax is good. They have stores in Evanston, Chicago (near Argyle) and Hyde Park (Chicago). HiFi also has a store in Evanston, but it's hard to find (way west of the Main St. stop on the Purple line). Those are the ones I go to regularly. There was a Crow's Nest with a very good jazz selection near the Harold Washington Library in the south Loop, but they lost their lease and merged with Rock Records in the north Loop, and they have just a crummy, tiny jazz section now. I guess neither had much in the way of used CDs. Many of the places I liked to shop have closed in the last six months.

Not to rub it in, but to lose at home, while getting some very generous calls from the refs... Oof. I don't take it too seriously one way or the other, but my wife is very pleased that Chicago has started to turn it around in the last few weeks. Bulls' fans have had very little to celebrate for a long time after Kraus's terrible trades (though now in retrospect trading Artest wasn't such a bad idea) and then that motorcycle accident. They still aren't a great team by any stretch of the imagination, but they are staying competitive and they now believe they can win, which the previous five teams did not. And they have one of the best benches in basketball. So the future is starting to look better for Chicago. I think they may actually make the playoffs, given the weak nature of the East, though I doubt they'd get out of the first round. Not going to bet on it though.

I guess here is as good as anywhere, since we've been talking about the Hutcherson/Land team. A New Shade of Blue is up on ebay for an ok price Land - New Shade as well as an ok copy of Total Eclipse. Not my auctions. Hutcherson - Total Eclipse

My understanding is that they have done away with Analytic completely and replaced it with an essay section. It probably wouldn't hurt to buy one of the guides to the GRE, particularly if it talks a bit about the computer scoring and gives some sample vocabulary and math problems. But if you take multiple choice tests well, it shouldn't be a problem.

But it has just been reissued in Japan, and Dusty has it (that's the link at the end of that thread). Still, I agree it should be reissued here, with several of his out of print Verve albums.

Mark: I had actually originally planned on Thurs, but had to change it. Basically the first sets were the same, but he substituted Surrey for Along Came Betty in the first set. I do wish I had heard Terminal 1, since I like that album as a whole a lot. It appears that he isn't doing Killer Joe at all, or very infrequently, on this tour, and perhaps it is the lack of a trumpet holding him back. Anyway, I will try to catch him next year. Eric

Here is a review in the Tribune of Golson's latest stop at the Jazz Showcase. Reich was there on Tuesday. I made it Friday evening. I thought about stopping back on Sunday, but it didn't work out. My comments will follow the review. This seems like a pretty accurate review, though I think Golson's tenor playing picked up a bit. He may be having some embouchure trouble, since the slow and piano parts of the songs didn't sound so great, particularly noticable on I Remember Clifford, but once he picked up some steam, he sounded great. And the band was really hot, particularly this bass player Larry Gray. He is the second-best bass player I have seen live (after Christian McBride). He does some amazing walking bass runs. I think we'll hear more of him in the near future. For the Friday show, Golson did a fairly new song called Horizon Beyond (or something), Pierre's Moment, I Remember Clifford, Coltrane's Mr P.C. and one (or two) I can't recall right now. I was hoping to hear Killer Joe, but that often works best with a trumpet/sax line-up. Anyway, a good show, and I'll definitely try to see him next year. Eric

Any thoughts on the following: Art Taylor - Taylor's Wailers Art Taylor - Taylor's Tenors Charlie Rouse - Takin' Care of Business I have a kind of funny/annoying story about the Taylors. Quite a while back, I picked up Taylor's Hard Cookin' on LP, which has the contents of the two Taylor CDs mentioned above. It turns out that I have sides 1 & 2 twice, but one time it is mislabeled as sides 3 & 4. So I only have one set really. To make matters worse, this was the side that is on Wailers, which I own. Grrr. I better order Tenors now, and probably the Rouse. I guess if someone wants a mislabeled LP of this set, I could send it their way.

A compilation would really blow. If they want to do that, it should just come out on BN, like the Grant Green set. I believe all the Selects have been complete albums, so I will cross my fingers and hope for 5 or 6 complete albums. I don't think they would reissue Montara or San Francisco, since they are still readily available, but I guess you never know. Still hoping for the ultra-rare Inner Glow. (I think that would create some buzz in jazz circles -- never released in the US in any format.)

Well, my teaching experience was unusual and fairly horrible, being dropped into the Newark (NJ) public school system with almost no experience. They didn't have the mentoring program set up properly, so I actually taught everything myself for a couple of weeks, then when I started getting into a groove, they yanked me out and undermined my authority further. I got into it with the teacher who I shared the classroom. She would literally write her problems up on the board at the beginning of the school day, then sit at her desk while each class went through the problems. I wasn't "allowed" to use the board, since it would have meant she would have had to write the problems again. I finally threatened to quit, and was given a different set of classes (in three different rooms) that were even worse (here they grouped all their behaviorally challenged kids who had failed their reading and math pre-test together -- and this was the group they gave to the starting teacher!). The whole place was mobbed-up (the teachers more than the students), kids pulling the fire alarm an average of once a week, trying to get kids caught up after they were returned from stays in juvenile homes, etc. Real movie of the week stuff, but without a happy ending. It really was a hopeless situation, and tragic for the children, and I left after two years (right before attacks on teachers went up incidentally). Anyway, the small advice I would give is not to overdo it on the multi-media stuff up front. If the kids decide you are too friendly or enthusiastic or just different, you risk being marked as a pushover (as I was), and this will make your job so much tougher. You are not there to be their friend, as a few other people have remarked.

I was a huge fan of Invader Zim! (My kids liked it too.) So of course they cancelled it. Inspired by b-3er, I put Zim in my Netflix queue, and the first volume just showed up. It is indeed hysterical. I do see why it wasn't a perfect match for Nick' tho, since some of the episodes are actually a bit much for kids (like where all the organs are sucked out of the students). Anyway, brilliant insanity. I might even pre-order this set that has all 3 volumes of the cartoon, a bonus disc, a toy and a cool house to store it all in. I think I read that the Christmas episode is still edited, but not sure about that. Invader Zim pre-order

Archie Shepp - Tray of Silver (Denon)

Thank you, Chuck.

You're right. I'm so embarassed. What's worse is that I have that Select, but only played it once (so far) and just didn't remember. And to think that just the other day, I almost bid on a copy of Jazz Impressions. Well, I wouldn't be opposed to a large Mosaic box that had the core Hutcherson/Land albums, but then had some of the LPs they did on their own. That would indeed be choice. I'm listening to Choma right now. This material just begs to return to circulation. Still, I am most interested in getting the rarest reissued, which seems to be Inner Glow, followed by Head On.

Perhaps, but I am completely uninterested in vinyl as an artifact, so it wasn't worth it to me. If Mosaic happens to release this as part of a Select, then I would be very unhappy having just spent enough (with shipping) to buy two Selects. I'd much rather get this session, and the others, reissued. That said, if anyone wanted to trade for a CDR of Inner Glow, while we wait for a legit release, I'm open to suggestions...

I think they've settled on a $75 reserve price now. Call me crazy, but that's a bit much for an LP that might be near mint or something a lot less. Like Mike, I think I'll focus my attention on trying to get Mosaic to re-issue some of the later Hutcherson albums. I have 4 of the 6 OOP BNs listed above on vinyl, and based on that, I am pretty sure all 6 would fit on a Select. I'd also like to see a Land set, though that would be trickier, since the best OOP albums are spread over a few labels. The Hutcherson would be Cirrus Linger Lane View From Inside Knucklebean Inner Glow Head On Adding Total Eclipse would make this a 4 disc set, so that's probably out. Land might be Jazz Impressions of Folk Music (Imperial) The Peacemaker (Cadet) Take Aim (BN) New Shade of Blue (Mainstream) Damisi (Mainstream) Choma (Mainstream) I suspect this would fit on three CDs, but if not, I'd lose Jazz Impressions. Of these, I only have Choma, which is pretty good. So that will make up my suggestions to Mosaic. Anyone else is welcome to borrow this list to add their support. Eric

Hey, I almost went to this show but wasn't feeling that well that night. I might pick this up, depending on the reviews.

This is a very weak album. I think the AMG review is generous: "Dorham had an okay voice, musical if not memorable, but the arrangements for these selections (which utilize his trumpet and Curtis Fuller's trombone, both of which are muted all the time) are inventive and pleasing."

Not associated with any of these auctions, but they are things I was looking for a few months back. The Gil Melle in particular can be tricky to find. The second Woody Shaw set has a very low starting bid and no reserve, but the guy doesn't take checks or Paypal (only M.O. or Bidpay). Gil Melle BN - auction1 Gil Melle BN - auction2 Woody Shaw Mosaic - auction1 Woody Shaw Mosaic - auction2

Freddie Hubbard -- Keep your Soul Together on CTI

I've got a pretty decent collection of OJCs, but I'll definitely be adding a few more. Maybe I'll make two lists -- OJCs I absolutely must have, and OJCs I'd like if they drop the price when they dump the stock. I have been trying to get Land's The Fox at a decent price for a few weeks now, which reminds me that I do have a Borders coupon ... Anyway, of the Tyners, I am partial to Song of the New World and Song for My Lady. Sure hope these don't go out of print. No one has mentioned Mal Waldron's Mal 1-4. I think Blue Mitchell's Out of the Blue is still the most impressive first album I've run across. Just a great line up (Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, Benny Golson, Paul Chambers and Sam Jones). George Russell's Ezz-thetics. This one might be safe since it has Eric Dolphy on it. I guess none of these are on Fantasy proper, but to be on the safe side ...

Ubu: Sorry for the delay. This link talks about the series in a bit more detail. Outnational Meltdown page If you keep clicking through, you get to a place where you can order the entire set for 220 Rand. No idea if they ship to Europe, or if you'd ever see this. There are other places to order this. Half.com for instance has them for under $15 each, though getting them shipped might be a pain. I can't find Jazzin Universally right now, which I like a bit better. But I am listening to Free at Last. The first track has Moses Molelekwa on piano. He is very good. There is a heavy electric bass riff that is funky but a little repetitive over 7 minutes. There are also horns that come in, and lyrics in an African tongue. Airto Moreira on percussion. Definitely a great track. Track 2 starts with bird calls and chants. There are 4 marima players, and I'm pretty sure I heard a cowbell (probably Airto). It appears that Airto is on nearly all tracks. It's really too bad the piano player isn't more involved. I think he is more involved on Jazzin Universally. He actually passed away a few years ago, but his work is worth seeking out. Track 3 is more guitar and vocal heavy. The guitar part sounds almost like bluegrass. I'm not crazy about track 4 but it does have didgeridoo on it, which counts for something. Track 5 is a bit slower, with bass and another string instrument playing off each other. According to the liner, there are 4 maribas here too, but I don't here them. About halfway through the song, it picks up, trumpet is added and I guess the maribas come in. It sounds a bit like an outtake from Paul Simon's Graceland album. Track 6 starts with a female chorus (most of the vocals up to now have only been male). Oh, there is a male voice blending in. This is a stripped down song, with vocals, wood block and conga. Track 7 is back to funky with 8 string bass and two guitars. It gets kind of busy towards the end as everyone adds their voice or instrument. It's still good though. It's basically a 15 minute jam. You'd probably like it. I think it is a bit deeper than the Africa Straight Ahead album.