paul secor

Just watched. I've never met Don Was and no doubt never will, but what I saw was a vinyl nerd (Michael Fremer) kissing the butt of a wanna be cool hipster. I've come across cool people in my life - in no way do I consider myself in that category - and Don Was just comes across as a poseur.

Life's too short to argue over what's included and what's left off, but I see 15 listings that are not essential in anyone's book, except maybe for a pop producer who wants to sell more records. And that's ok if it's what you're going for. Just don't label the list "essential".

I have a Stuff Smith Storyville LP with some of the Masters of Jazz CD material on it. Fine music - someone should grab the CD.

Freddie probably would have taken some of the subtlety away from the music. Some might think that would be for the better. I don't.

Teachout is just a hack who uses famous names - Armstrong, Ellington, Ross Macdonald - to try and sell books.

I believe that I joined the BN Board a little while after this. Reading some of the thread titles, I'm amazed that many of the same subjects are being discussed today. Many of the threads aren't archived, so I couldn't tell whether the same things are being said today.

Nicholas Nickleby Penny Marshall Phil Jackson

Lee Konitz & Karl Berger: Seasons Change (Circle)

There was a lot of great and surprising music on that Nonesuch Explorer series.

Jean Shrimpton Twiggy Peggy Moffitt

Knucklehead Smiff Jerry Mahoney Tigger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winchell#Voice_acting

Never too late to contribute, if you haven't already.

Lou recorded so prolifically in earlier years (and reissues have been readily available) that there may not be much of a market for a new recording.

Sonny Rollins Trio in Stockholm 1959: St. Thomas (Dragon)

While reading Penelope Lively's Dancing Fish and Ammonites, I came across "palimpsest" - "Something having usu. diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface" - in the context in which she places it. For that matter, I didn't know what Ammonites were - "A member of a Semitic people who in Old Testament times lived east of the Jordan between the Jabbok and the Arnon". edit - I'm just finishing reading the Penelope Lively book and Find that she uses ammonite with it's alternative meaning - a type of fossil. I had assumed she would be using the first meaning I posted, since she lived in the mid-east as a child.

Emmett Chapman Emmett Grogan Digger Phelps

More for Interaction and To Sweden with Love. On the Road (Contemporary) is a later album with some beautiful playing. by Farmer.

Benny Golson Nelson Rockefeller Sylvester Stallone

Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder (CBS France)

Little Willie Littlefield Little Benny Harris Tiny Grimes

Morganna Fanne Foxe Mata Hari

Archibald Leach Freddie Freeloader The Mooch

Uncle Toby Aunt Bee Cousin Brucie

J. D. Souther Bill North Dottie West

My wife was reading a book and came to a phrase which mentioned "a herd of elephant". Sounded odd to her and to me. I checked the dictionary and elephant can be both singular and plural. News to me, perhaps not to others.