Pete C

With links to audio at archive.org!

Harry Morgan was Henry Morgan in his earliest film appearances (that's his real name), but he changed it so he wouldn't be confused with the more famous at the time Henry Morgan. Of course, few people under a certain age remember Henry Morgan, and everybody knows Harry from M.A.S.H. reruns (but not Pete & Gladys reruns). When I was a kid we had a Mad Magazine LP that had two features for Henry Morgan: Morgan on Wagner, and Morgan on the Mikado. http://www.collectmad.com/collectibles/musicmad.htm

Nine years is an amazing life for a computer. Five is considered long. I have a new Dell laptop, and I love it, but you don't need anything as powerful as mine if you don't do heavy multitasking, like downloading multiple large files, listening to streaming music and surfing the web at the same time while a word document is also up . Any new PC will come with a minimum 2GB of RAM, or maybe 4, and if you're just surfing and using Word and Excel, you can really get by with 2GB, but the differential would be cheap enough to go with 4 anyway. I would go with the latest processor, Intel i5 (you could really get by with i3), as it's very fast. No need for more than one CD/DVD drive unless you do mass copying of discs. I think 500GB is probably the smallest drive most new PCs come with. If your other drive is really 650MB and not 650GB, it's about big enough for 12 CDs compressed to lowish bitrate MP3(that's about the same size as one CD-R)! Desktops are very cheap. For $350 you can get a Dell Inspiron 560 with i5 processor, 4GB RAM & 500GB hard drive. Other manufacturers should have similar configurations at similar prices.

Sidney Fields Lou Costello Esther Costello

Marx & Engels Marty Ingles John Astin

Re: Brookmeyer cover - I think we all wish we could efface any memory of photos taken of us during the 1970s.

Sharing 3 attributes: Revolution, genius, and 'fro

Mike Huckabee Huckleberry Hound (my avatar can kick his ass) Johnny Mercer

Wow, lots of new names to me. At least the inclusion of Carol Sloane convinces me I haven't entered a parallel universe. I'll have to see if any of those singers can be found on Spotify. Is Ada Moore on the Mingus Debut Rarities series? I have those from emusic.

I took a jazz history course with Chuck Israels at Brooklyn College in 1974, and Chuck went on about how brilliant a soloist Thad was. He was talking in terms of melodic/thematic improvisers, who he felt were superior to artists who simply blew on changes, and I think the context was Monk recordings, where he said Thad and Newk were perfect for Monk's music, and he denigrated Charlie Rouse by comparison, IIRC.

David, you technically live closer to me now, so I never see you any more!

I can't say I've ever heard of any of those singers except Jackie Paris, who despite his rather high voice wouldn't qualify as a female vocalist. Shucks, even Jimmy Scott doesn't qualify. I've never been a big Jackie Paris fan, though the film about him was interesting. I saw him a couple of times, and I have a vague memory of him sitting in with Mingus at the Village Gate in 1974 or '75 and singing Duke Ellington's Sound of Love.

Lindsay Buckingham John Vliet Lindsay Captain Beefheart

Betty White Betty Furnesss Sam Furnace

The real surprise on the Hubbard disc is how good Junior Cook is. He's someone I never paid that much attention to, but he does a blazing modal solo on Intrepid Fox. Not sure if that tune is based on the So What/Impressions modes, but it's a relative at least.

Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell Evan Evans

Arthur Arthur Arthur

I've watched the Coltrane so far, and it's great to see the ALS and the other show which I had on a poor quality VHS boot. The sound is excellent, and the picture quite good. For me the box is a no-brainer. I'd have bought all individually except maybe the Griffin. I have all the full boxes starting with Series 2. From Series 1 I just have Quincy Jones, Monk and Chet Baker, but I've seen the Basie, Ella, Diz, and Blakey from Netflix, and the weak link was Dizzy. It was the bonus discs that started me with Series 2.

What's the best source for finding the current going prices for OOP Mosaics? Ebay? I'm in a shedding possessions mode, and I'm thinking of getting rid of my sets, which I'd offer here first. Not sure yet if I really want to do it, but I have: Jackie McLean 1964-66 Gerald Wilson Serge Chaloff Jimmy Giuffre Sam Rivers (the spine is peeling on the box).

When I did an Amazon search on Allen Lowe this came up: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BLY0DE/ref=sr_1_album_11_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B002BLY0IO&qid=1324160615&sr=1-11 because it has Frank Lowe and Geri Allen! Great lineup...

I'm looking forward when I get a chance. So, was he already a nasty MF by 1965?