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That's how I heard it. There is very little in any style of American music that James Brown then could not pull off.

Dave, Oh there have been lawsuits slapped! They've mostly been unsuccessful. This being a "right to work" state, and each state agency employing "at will," when state agencies "restructure" or "reorganize" they can do things that they cannot otherwise. . . and get away with it. And when the Legislature tells agencies "give us money back and/or operate with less funding" and employees are let go. . . they have one deaf ear and another that listens to their appointed agency leaders and hears what they want to hear. When a governing body of a state agency is appointed by a Governor for example, and the biggest threat to them is "we're going to tell the Governor on you" (which ultimately, besides a few federal cases that are rarely won by employees, is the biggest deterrent to their behavior) then the threat is diluted beyond deterring behavior. So I think that state employees are protected less in some states than others, and that this instance is one where they are less protected, and the agency head is put in place by the Governor and acting along loose guidelines by the Legislature. . . . Not good for the employees.

I liked it. I just listened to it casually a few times so far with one sit down and really listen session that I enjoyed. I felt James was totally within the elements of the whole session. I didn't read the liner notes. I'm so bored reading liner notes. I rarely read them with attention except on the most historical of releases. . . . I mean so few are as good as Chri A's for the Mosaic Verve set, the notes to almost any Jazz Oracle, or the notes to Bix Restored Vol. 5 or a handful of others.

A lot of America is set up differently. Cars are viewed as "feet." Buses and trains are sometimes viewed as if they were someone else's dirty, unmanicured, fungal-infested "feet." There is little support for expanding or even maintaining public transportation in many areas I've lived in, and there is little chance that there will be new systems implemented in many areas that have none now and historically. The thing that makes the most sense to little old consumer nonengineer nor economist nor capitalist billionaire given this aversion to public transportation is . . . an alternate energy source for personal vehicles. For a number of reasons there is finally a START to move in that direction by car manufacturers but man oh man is it so little so late, or what?

I'm with the Man with the Golden Arm here! My experience with Denon and Yamaha receivers makes me feel they are more similar than different essentially, and I'd wait til you really could make a move to a better amplification machine.

Thought this might be a good time to bring up this year plus old thread as there is an RVG looming on the release schedule (YAY!) You know I find it amazing that Collectables is STILL offering "Back to Back Baritones" (a great cd that contains Parker's Gothan sides et al) for 2.98! http://www.oldies.com/product/view.cfm/id_53292.html

I had a number of sixties US cars that had that wobbly steering. . . they had old and tired front ends. One of them, a '67 Camaro, a friend and I (with expert guidance from his father) spent an entire summer day prone on a driveway and replaced the entire front end, ENTIRE front end. It was a chore and a HALF, but after it was done, that steering was tight tight tight tight tight and oh so right!

Yes, the Weston "Blue Moses" CTI has been out in Japan on cd. But if you have the lp, the lp actually sounds a bit better in my opinion. As for "Destry Rides Again," I think that Randy himself expressed his willingness to supress cd issue, and the album was a "record company idea" that did not incorporate any Weston compositions. I like it though; great 'bone work and arrangements and Weston and crew TRANSFORM the material. I'd love to see a reissue; I think it will be a long time though. . . .

I feel your pain! I DEFINITELY see "age discrimination" at work in the state agency I've worked for the last 21 years. In two ways. In one way: young applicants do better than older applicants. There is a tendency here the last four years to hire the most attractive applicants, believe it or not. The former regime was one of dirty middle-age-crisis men, and they hired a bevy of beauties regardless of qualification or experience. (Human Resources staff that advised them against this trend were released). The current regime is a spin-off of that and the trend continues, with some attractive young men added to the rosters. The other way: age within the agency: there has been a deliberate attempt at this agency to remove all senior workers for various reasons that I won't go into here. As a result, with downsizing of over one third over the last four years, a large number of these employees "released" were employees with long tenure. I believe that there are less than a dozen employees now that have fifteen or more years of service, and they are not in important managerial positions. There are not more than two dozen of 425 that have been with the agency between ten and fifteen years. It has really meant a lot of organizational/professional knowledge gone literally out the door, and has been crippling to the mission and its execution. A pity indeed! And no, I don't want to be interviewed etc. It wouldn't be healthy.

I really like Leo Parker, and his Blue Notes sort of seem a bridge to the earlier Blue Note years and the modern Blue Note years; lover as I am of the early years, I really like these two lps/cds. I've had this as a domestic cd, and as a Time Life (Spanish) "blued over" cd (which sports TOCJ 16 bit mastering). I'll buy the RVG because I bet it will sound best of them all (subjective opinion only!) and because I want them to reissue the OTHER in the RVG series. . . . I may buy copies for my brother and a few friends for Xmas too. Here's an earlier Leo Parker thread (just over a year old) http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...topic=11809&hl=

Agreed. I preordered. DSD! Interesting, and glad!

I'm with you on the Westons Guy. Though I have both on lp and burned to cdr so I'm in no real hurry. . . . Weston continues to be a wellspring of listening joy for me.

Just preordered the Jelly Roll Morton box set coming out on Rounder.

I thought for sure it was Duke in one of his famous Aloha shirts, choosing which torpedo to surf on out on. . . .

Mal Waldron did some very cool and appropriate arrangements for a lot of these. I dig them.

David, now I'm sorry I posted that! Mike: I saw a bit on this on tv, a month ago, showing Anka doing some performance. The band and arrangements seemed fine. And it MIGHT have been better if you couldn't SEE Anka, but seeing him. . . I just don't want to hear him singing this even if the lyrics were made to be sung in this format! He looked so smarmy and his singing really doesn't work magic for me.

Those are great Chris, thanks for posting them! I could almost have imagined that Lucky's card had come from Paul Desmond!

The followup is likely to be even scarier! Maybe it will have a "Kentonesque" arrangement of "In A Gadda Da Vida!"

Or. . .

MPS released some very swinging Clarke Boland Big Band lps recently in killer sound! I'd recommend these! But there are others I'd wish they get to. . . .

These lps? Or just Uptown tapes in general? (He's done some over the last few years. . . . )