Peter Johnson

Oh, HELL No.

Surely I'm not the only one who thinks the packaging on the Mosaic selects is "fun"? WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Damn!

And a review from Amazon.de: Einfach nur doof. ;o), 1. September 2004 Rezensentin/Rezensent: Rezensentin/Rezensent aus Auma Deutschland Aus Schweden rübergeschwappt ist Günther mit seinen Sunshine Girls. Man sollte auf keinen Fall die Musik von Günther zu ernst nehmen, denn dieser Song (sowie das bis jetzt nur in Schweden erschienene Album "Pleasurman") ist einfach nur eine witzige Verarsche von allen billig - Dance-Sommer-Hits. Das merkt man an der Nachfolge-Single "Tini Wini String Bikini". Außerdem werden alle Playboys und sich so super vorkommenden Kerle durch den Kakao gezogen. Wenn Günther alles Ernst meinen würde, würde er sicherlich nicht Günther heißen. ;o) Simply only stupidly. ;o), 1 September 2004 Rezensentin/Rezensent: Rezensentin/Rezensent from Auma Germany from Sweden ruebergeschwappt is Guenther with its Sunshine Girls. One should take the music from Guenther in no case to seriously, because this Song (as well as up to now only the album "Pleasurman" appeared in Sweden) is simply only funny Verar of all cheaply - Dance summer hits. One notices that at the follow-up single "Tini Wini stringer bikini". In addition all Playboys and pull itself super occurring chaps in such a way by the cocoa. If Guenther became all Ernst mine, it became surely not Guenther was called. ;o)

But wait...there's a part 2:

Yeah, but Germans _love_ Guenther!!!

Damn, should have asked about this long ago myself. Come on, Mike--you spilled the newspaper article...lets have something on wax!!! (well, a shiny metal platter will do!)

I'm all over this like a cheap suit! Thanks (in advance)! I've got a whole stack of stuff...I'll list it Friday (it's all back in Philly, and I'll be there then). PM on the way, Phillyq! PJJ

High Voltage was the first Hank lead outing I bought--on vinyl. You're absolutely right, John--hearing that for the first time just knocked me out. It was probably the fifth or sixth record I got (after Blue Train, Takin' Off, and a couple of others). The spirit (only way to describe it) was high the day they recorded High Voltage, no question!

Not to be morbid, but this was the first thought that crossed my mind...

The sticker box or the toilet seat?

Sucks, sucks, sucks...

Oblique. Never understood why it wasn't issued at the time...I think the interplay between Hancock and Hutcherson is otherwordly; highly recommended.

All the best, Mike! PJ

The tone of your post is aggressive and I shall not respond to it.

Me too...Amazing Grace, man...wouldn't have been a dry damn eye in the place...

From the Inquirer: Posted on Fri, Feb. 18, 2005 Jazz pioneer Smith gets musical tribute By Daniel Rubin On the day they buried Jimmy Smith, no one rushed to sit at the Hammond B3 organ that he'd made famous. The Philadelphia Clef Club was filling with old friends and fans about 4 p.m. yesterday for a jam session to honor the jazz great. Kids in hoods with horns, old men and their sticks - everyone stood waiting. Then Tony Monaco stepped up. He'd been crying on the sidewalk as he waited for the door to open. After canceling his regular gig at a club in Columbus, Ohio, Monaco flew here to honor the man whose records had changed his life at age 12. Monaco, 45, handed off his coat, fiddled with the floor pedals, then filled the hall with "I'll Close My Eyes," a song Smith owned. As the applause faded, he said softly, "I just wanted to make sure the organ worked before everyone started," and disappeared into the crowd. Three times yesterday the legendary player from Norristown was honored - at a funeral service at Deliverance Evangelistic Church at 20th and Lehigh, at the Clef Club, and at Yoshi's, in Oakland, Calif., where two massive Hammond B3s face each other on the stage. One was to have been played last night by his protege, Joey DeFrancesco, who grew up in Delaware County. The other was to remain silent, its lid closed, its light left on. That was to have been Smith's, who died Feb. 8 at age 76. The two had been scheduled to start a string of shows together this week in support of their album Legacy, released Tuesday. At the noon service, DeFrancesco's father, John, read a note from his son, saying how he felt obliged to continue with the show. "That's what Jimmy would have wanted him to do," the elder DeFrancesco said. "Keep the cats working." As evening approached, the cats kept coming to the Clef Club. Following Monaco was Keith Hanratty, a 51-year-old lawyer from Minneapolis, who had flown in for the event as well. He was 16 when his keyboard teacher invited Smith to hear the teenager play. "He came by one more time then invited me out to study with him in L.A.," Hanratty said. "He had this club where his mother cooked in the back. "I'd play and he'd growl, 'Here's how you do it,' and he'd show me. I was always asking questions. He'd say, 'Shut up. You'll learn something.' I learned to listen." Said Rich Budesa of Camden, the third to sit at the organ: "He was a giant man. He was the biggest genius that ever touched the Hammond. Jazz organ is Philadelphia's music - that whole style is our music - and he was the best at it, the originator." Smith did not discover the jazz organ. In 1951, he heard Wild Bill Davis playing it in Atlantic City, and Smith, who'd been winning audiences at the piano since age 8, asked how long it took learn the instrument. "Four years," Davis told the young man (in some versions of the story, it was 15 years). Smith hung a chart of the organ's foot pedals on the wall of the warehouse where he worked. Within three months, he played a fluid, walking bass line with his feet. By 1956, he was recording for Blue Note. Smith made a name for himself mastering an instrument so foreign to jazz that it was several years before Downbeat Magazine created an award category for organ. But it was the private Jimmy Smith who was remembered yesterday at the church service: the uncle so beloved that when he visited, his Norristown family shucked corn and picked string beans for him. The man they knew as Sonny, Smitty, Big Jimmy and Boo. At the funeral, four musical friends were each given two minutes to send a final message. Bill "Mr. C" Carney called Smith the "Charlie Parker of his instrument." Carney's wife, Trudy Pitts, apologized to the pastor, saying words could never express what was inside her. And so after a few remarks, she walked up to the church organ and silenced the room with a 10-minute performance of "Amazing Grace" and "I'll Be Seeing You" that raised shouts of "Amen" as arms extended toward the church's ceiling. "Hey," she said afterward, as family and friends clapped. "Two minutes for Jimmy Smith? Don't mean a thing to me. I had to let my spirit fly."

Well, of course this happened when I was in Seattle. Just pulled it off of the Philly Inquirer website tonight...even at that, a day late and a dollar short. Enjoy yourself on the other side, J.O.S... Jimmy Smith services set • Funeral services for jazz legend Jimmy Smith [were] today [Thursday, 2/17] from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Deliverance Evangelistic Baptist Church, 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. A viewing will take place from 8 a.m. to noon. A jam session to honor Smith, who died last week at 76, will follow from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Clef Club, Broad and Fitzwater Streets. Musicians are urged to bring their instruments to send Smith, hailed as the world's greatest jazz organist, off in style.

Called today, had a nice chat with M.C., and ordered the goddamn thing thanks to you bastids!!!

No.

Good thing you're "clearing out the house" to go to New York, if you know what I'm sayin'!

Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Mmm, dill sauce. What was the base?

Hey Jim--I'm coming out Thursday and will be hitting New York with Gail on Saturday during the day, and going to the Lou/Lonnie show that night. Please post your plans if you decide to go!

In the (in)famous words of Rockefeller Center, "You are invited to lunch in [seattle]" (replacing Vienna)! Sadly (for food delivery) my flights have all been nonstop...I wouldn't want to depressurize the cabin to do a provisions-drop!