paul secor

The pressing isn't important, at least imo. What's important is how the music affected you - again, at least imo.

Considering its status as the most important newspaper in the country - not my opinion - the Times has some of the most wrong-headed, boring, ignorant, jive-ass (I could keep going, but pick one or more) writing on popular music, including jazz, that you would never want to read. Their entire popular music staff should be canned.

My Mother's Eyes is a good one. O/P, I believe, tho the buys in Spain are about to reissue it. Take that for what it's worth.

Same here. I bought a copy the day it came out, still have it and haven't listened to it in years. Those were the days. New albums by certain people were major events. Things have changed for most of us. Guess it's only like that these days for certain folk when the new RVGs and Conns are released. That's not a bad thing - tho it's too bad that kind of enthusiasm doesn't carry over to newly recorded music.

There's a lot of music there to digest before I start to think about my next one.

My next Mosaic set arrived yesterday - Ellington Small Group Sessions

James P. Johnson: Father of the Stride Piano

Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris

There's a lot of good r&b, blues, & country in the EMI catalog also. I suppose the legal bootleggers in Europe will take over, but they won't have the master tapes and to me it won't be the same. I wonder what will become of those master tapes?

Serge Chaloff: Boston Blow Up

Kobe makes $19.5M next year. Other guys in that salary range: Tim Duncan ($19M), Stephon Marbury ($20M), Jason Kidd ($19.7M), Kevin Garnett ($22M), Shaq ($20M), Jermaine O'Neal ($19.7M), Tracy McGrady ($19M), Allen Iverson ($20M). Two other players, Chris Webber and Michael Finley, are being paid about this much by their former teams (Philly and Dallas) due to buyouts. I think it's definitely POSSIBLE to field a great team around him. However, the Lakers' front office has not made good decisions. Guy I agree with your conclusion. BUT - Marbury $20M!!!!

Remembered two more: Serge Chaloff: Boston Blow Up Lester Young & Sarah Vaughan: One Night Stand - The Town Hall Concert 1947 (Thanks to Larry Kart for bringing it to our, or at least, my attention.)

Some more: Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: Live at the Five spot Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh; Intuition Count Basie: Atomic Basie & one I like even better: Count Basie: Chairman of the Board 1969 All Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis: The First Day Konitz Meets Mulligan Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance Cecil Taylor: Love for Sale Ellington/Mingus/Roach: Money Jungle Charlie Parker: Bird at the Hi-Hat Bud Powell: Bud Plays Bird Diz 'n Bird at Carnegie Hall and a couple of ringers: Lenny Bruce: The Carnegie Hall Concert Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy Sings Carmichael

Yes!!! This one is occasionally listed as Jazz Portraits. Guy You're right - corrected

Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge Sidney Bechet: Best of Sidney Bechet Ellington: Piano Reflections Booker Little: Four & Max Roach Charlie Parker: Washington Concerts Charlie Parker: At Storyville Mingus: Jazz Portraits - Mingus in Wonderland Mingus; Complete Town Hall Concert Lee Konitz/Charlie Haden/Brad Mehldau: Alone Together Lee Konitz/Charlie Haden/Brad Mehldau: Another Shade of Blue

Thanks for posting your link. Don't have the time to read it all now, but what I see looks interesting.

Have to say that I like both of them better separately than together.

Some cool Louis with Johnny Cash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqc209-rwNI

Happy Birthday, Pete! Hope it's a great day for you!

Khan Jamal Quartet: Dark Warrior

I try not to eat much B-B-Q, but I went to an outing yesterday & pigged out on ribs, chicken, a burger, and a couple of dogs. That's probably it for me this summer, but I enjoyed it.

I depend on the profile box to help me out when I don't know where I'm at.

I'm guessing that their argument, while somewhat hyperbolic in nature, is pretty much right. This has a lot to do with "developments" in straight ahead post-bop music in the Wynton and post-Wynton era. Guy Maybe but more to do with developments in the MINDs than in the actual MUSIC itself. Throughout the 80s and 90s contemporary jazz musicians never stopped turning to material by Prince, Radiohead or Nirvana for inspiration, seemingly in spite of Marsalis. It's just that this was no longer perceived as proper jazz. No one had any problem with Coltrane turning My Favourite Things into a jazz standard even though it came from a a dodgy Rogers and Hammerstein musical sang by famed jazz heavy weight Julie Andrews. So why does the establishment have a problem with Nirvana? At least they played their own instruments! I think that the only real difference is that the people who confer "jazz standard' status on music, stopped listening to contemporary music in 1980, the year of the "last jazz standard'. Meanwhile, the label non-obessed world kept listening, borrowing and copying from whatever source around them, just like Coltrane did decades earlier. Perhaps more jazz musicians would've played stuff like Karma Police, Kiss or Come as you are, had the establishment been as ready to give them "standard" status as My favourite things in 1961 Wow, I can't wait to get a four-disc box of jazz versions of Kiss songs. that's "Kiss" the prince hit , not the glam rockers!!!!!!!!!!! . I'm all for openess in music but I draw the line at men in make up. So I take it you don't listen to the Art Ensemble? Yes but only when I'm alone in the house.... Hey - you can just listen to Roscoe and Lester. Tune the make up cats out.

I'm guessing that their argument, while somewhat hyperbolic in nature, is pretty much right. This has a lot to do with "developments" in straight ahead post-bop music in the Wynton and post-Wynton era. Guy Maybe but more to do with developments in the MINDs than in the actual MUSIC itself. Throughout the 80s and 90s contemporary jazz musicians never stopped turning to material by Prince, Radiohead or Nirvana for inspiration, seemingly in spite of Marsalis. It's just that this was no longer perceived as proper jazz. No one had any problem with Coltrane turning My Favourite Things into a jazz standard even though it came from a a dodgy Rogers and Hammerstein musical sang by famed jazz heavy weight Julie Andrews. So why does the establishment have a problem with Nirvana? At least they played their own instruments! I think that the only real difference is that the people who confer "jazz standard' status on music, stopped listening to contemporary music in 1980, the year of the "last jazz standard'. Meanwhile, the label non-obessed world kept listening, borrowing and copying from whatever source around them, just like Coltrane did decades earlier. Perhaps more jazz musicians would've played stuff like Karma Police, Kiss or Come as you are, had the establishment been as ready to give them "standard" status as My favourite things in 1961 Wow, I can't wait to get a four-disc box of jazz versions of Kiss songs. that's "Kiss" the prince hit , not the glam rockers!!!!!!!!!!! . I'm all for openess in music but I draw the line at men in make up. So I take it you don't listen to the Art Ensemble?

I liked him in Nobody's Fool, but missed Empire Falls. How is that film? I liked Nobody's Fool better, but Empire Falls is definitely worth seeing. Both films are based on novels by Richard Russo, and Paul Newman is fine in both.