paul secor

Watched the Travel Channel for the first time last night. Didn't catch Zimmern, but caught two episodes of Anthony Bourdain - Peru and Brazil. My impression is that he's a wiseass - then again, if I lived in Manhattan or Brooklyn he'd probably seem like an ordinary guy - but entertaining. Some good segments with food on those also.

One doesn't necessarily exclude the other.

Flipped the Elmo Hope - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers on the other side. (Pacific Jazz/King - Japan)

The Elmo Hope Quintet featuring Harold Land

Given the bad dietary habits in the U.S. - go to a mall or to a street in a U.S. city and check out the number of obese people walking around - that might well be true. it's cute they claim in the article this is because americans have the money to be as fat as they are - this may make the difference in comparison with many countries in the world but i guess for most countries which are "better" than the us on that list it's rather ridiculous to think that is part of the reason... Well, I think that MAY have something to do with it, but not in the way they think. One of the things that Americans are definitely OK with is being rich. "Making it" is the American dream. so conspicuous expenditure, on luxuries including lotsa grub, is not something that is looked down upon, as it is over here. Over here, being rich don't give you class. So, someone moving to the US wouldn't get fat UNLESS they digested the American dream whole. MG MG, here it is no different. Being rich does not give a person class, it just means they have money. And for the record my initial comment on this topic was a joke. Kind of like me saying, when I turn 75 I'll move somewhere else to pick up a few extra years. Guess you've got to start adding sarcastic smileys so overserious types like me get it.

Curtis Counce Group: Carl's Blues

Recently read John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels. An entertaining read (including a short section from Ezra Pound's daughter's autobiography with an illuminating letter from Pound advising her how to write). Every review I looked at after I read it compared it unfavorably to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The first book is better, but this one has its moments. Part of the problem is that the weirdos he encountered in Savannah are stranger than the ones he found in Venice. Also, it appears that Venetians play their eccentricities a bit closer to the vest, while Savannahnans tend to flaunt theirs.

Given the bad dietary habits in the U.S. - go to a mall or to a street in a U.S. city and check out the number of obese people walking around - that might well be true.

Karl Berger & Edward Blackwell: Just Play - 1976 (Quark)

I agree - except there are 7 Verve LPs and two RCA Victors, and at least an LP's worth of unissued material - looks like a big box to me. MG Mosaic could cherry pick the best of the Hodges/WBD material for a select.

The Farr Brothers: Texas Crapshooter Fiddle and guitar duets by two original members of The Sons of the Pioneers. Their music is sort of a country/western swing version of Django and Grappelli, but that description doesn't do full justice to their music (or Django's and Grappelli's). Great stuff!

Sad to read of Scooter's passing. I prefer to remember him as a player rather than as a broadcaster. Listening to him drove me crazy - talked about everything but the game.

It's going to be a flexicover book. Size: 16.8x22.6 cm, 6.6x8.9inch. 400 pages. The book will include interviews with Rudy VanGelder, Creed Taylor, Michael Cuscuna, Bob Ciano (the CTI label designer), and Ashley Kahn. WTF worth reading will Ashley Kahn have to say about album covers?

Happy 36th, young fella! Play one for us today!

Surprised that W hasn't found a way to fire David Walker.

I traded my LP after many years - brought back too many memories of seeing Hawk in terrible shape on a public TV show filmed not long before he passed. Have to say that Hawk's playing is much better on Sirius than it was on that show. On the other hand, I've kept and still listen to Pres' Laughin' To Keep From Cryin', and Pres' playing on that one shows a greater loss of control than Coleman Hawkins' on Sirius. (Outside of the music, the cover on Cryin' is one of my favorites.) If you have a lot of other Hawk, you might want to give it a try. You probably aren't carrying the baggage I have, and will obviously hear it with different ears.

If Chewy's in control of your life, get help immediately!

I have some doo-wop and a few girl group things in my collection, but I can't say I'm a collector of that music. Always liked a bit I saw in a documentary on the Brill Building songwriting scene. Someone - I think it may have been Gerry Goffin, but I'm not certain - comments on the girl group phenomenon of the very early 60's by saying that for a couple of years back then, god was a black girl.

I've never heard the music of three of the people listed in the poll. Judging from some of the comments here, I guess that's a good thing.

73 - now 74 - posts on James Spaulding. Does this say something about his music or about us? Or both?

Frank Wakefield (Rounder)

Vols. 1-3 of All Night Session are available on OJC from both CD Universe and newbury comics. Why would anyone buy a Definitive bootleg when legitimate CDs are readily available?

I'm not Clem, but good post. (By good post, I mean that I agree with much of what you wrote. ) I do find that as I get older, I have less time in my life and listening for music that I merely have no complaints about. At this point in my life, I don't have time for music that doesn't change me in some manner.

The Dial Masters - Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session featuring Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Probably have bought about 100 since the first "disappearing OJCs" thread. Too many to list, but here are a dozen or so favorites: Gene Ammons: Live! in Chicago Buck Clayton and Buddy Tate: Buck & Buddy Johnny Griffin: The Kerry Dancers Zoot Sims: Quartets Shorty Baker & Doc Cheatham: Shorty & Doc Louis Cottrell Trio: Bourbon Street Dynamic Sound Patterns of the Rod Levitt Orchestra Al Haig: Trio and Sextets Elmer Snowden: Harlem Banjo! Jimmy Knepper Quintet/Mingus Octet: Debut Rarities Vol. 1 Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues Prestige Blues Swingers: Outskirts of Town Thanks to a number of members for recommending some of these and other OJCs in various threads. My listening experiences have been fuller and livelier because of your recommendations.