jazzbo

Grew up in big city, then went to foreign biggish city, then foreign small city (town really) then to small US town, then schooled in big city, then back to small town, then to big city, then to small town, then to small city where I stayed. . . . (Though it has gotten larger around me). I guess small city is where I would stay, though I've recently discovered I wouldn't mind a larger one like Honolulu in due time. . . . But my wife really prefers a larger city, being A D.C. area kiddo, and I forsee a big carefully considered location decision in our future in about five years. . . . I voted for small city. . . .

Jack Teagarden or Mildred Bailey, take your pick. . . .

Actually, I think over time a lot of the O'Day material WILL come out on Verve International; already some dates have been out, at a pace that makes me think more will be forthcoming, there are Japanese releases, and some of these cdan be downloaded from the Verve Vault at a bargain (10 dollars for a digital facimile of a Japanese POCJ cd is a good deal!)

Cool! Nice discovery, thanks for the heads up!

I too am very eager to hear that Cannon! Post 1960 Cannon IS my cup of tea! And I'm mighty thirsty!

If I've said or done anything. . . . Dreadful sorry Clementine. . . . -_-

Al. . . crud. . . so many greats gone. . . . RIP big man!

Yes, I spent last Sunday through last night at the Halukelani in Waikiki. . . it was heaven on earth! I actually used the cover image of the Bethlehem "The View from Jazzbo's Head" as an avatar last year for a while but. . . my inspiration for the handle was a tin toy my great uncle had when I was a kid called "Jazzbo Jim." He was a minstrel-banjoist. As my grandfather played banjo, this toy meant something to me. . . . And it makes a good handle. . . . (Would be even better if I were a "James"!)

Let me also add my deepest condolences.

I really like all those that I have heard. . . . I guess if I had to keep just a few they would be the "Salted Ginko Nuts," "Farewell to Mingus," and "Toshiko's Piano" for no other reason than sentimental. . . .

Wow, for some reason, this thread should have a soundtrack! He'll be glad to know he was missed!

Got back from a week in Waikiki and saw my email announcing this preorder, and that the Bix Volume 5 on Origin Jazz has been released. . . . Dang! Preordered and ordered!

KOB: I've had lps and tapes and then the earliest US Cd, then the Gold cd, then the cheap cd, then the box set, then a DSD remastered Japanese cd, then the US SACD. I still have the Gold cd, the box set, the Japanese DSD cd, and the SACD. I listen to the DSD cd most often; I think it sounds wonderful. Giant Steps: I've had LP, tape, early Atlantic cd, Heavyweight Champion box set. Just have the box set now. All this started in the mid-seventies. I listen to KOB more than Giant Steps, by a goodly margin.

But you left out mentioning Garrison, who actually is (I feel) the ANCHOR to it all. . . . It's an amazing work, a milestone, a landmark, a definitive document of Coltrane's intentions and musical hopes at that time. It seems created with little concern for commercialism and it turns out to be one of the most commercially successful jazz albums ever. If only that were something happening with frequency!

I still think this is one of the best reissues of the year it came out in. . . I still dig it out and groove to it.

That is not Peggy Lipton indeed. I still have THAT poster. It's in a closet somewhere. . . but I have it. I was crazy for Kinski in those days!

I did say "sometimes". . . -_- I agree she has some weird image ideas sometimes, part of being a big pop diva I guess. But fresh out of the shower. . . I think her beauty would be worth mentioning twice.

It isn't good writing, and lord knows I don't want to hear that cd. . . but sometimes her beauty is worth mentioning twice. . . . If I were single, I'd probably have a poster up on a wall (and put my old Shelia E poster up)!

Great label, own a few. Most of the ones I might get, I have the material on other labels. I have a few Lizzie Miles Documents though. There, some words.

Heck Kay BURNS on broadcasts with Miles from the early fifties. . . But I tell you I really don't dig the Heath-Kay rhythm section much at all as a steady diet. It keeps me from listening to a LOT of MJQ. Just a personal thing. . . .As a drummer. . . or ex-drummer. . . .

Thanks, I ordered a cheap Concord two cd collection of two of her earlier albums and I'll check those out. . . . The video footage on this dvd from 2004 is really something!

Okay, I admit, I know NOTHING about Tania Maria's music. . . what little I remember hearing years ago didn't make me explore her work. However, on the very last track of the concert portion of the "Ed Motta Em DVD" . . . he accompanies Tania Maria with vocals (and sound effects) as she sings and plays electric piano. I've never heard anything else quite like it except maybe a few things by Airto vocally, and it is EXCELLENT percussive piano. I really really really dig it. . . it's a composition introduced as "Funky Tamborin." It's all just "scat"--rhythmic vocalizing along with the piano playing, and it's Brazilian in that way that Brazil has of beat and timing, and it's phenomenal. Okay. . .anyone. . . is this an anamoly, something strange, not like her regular work? Anything else like this at all out there by her?

SS, no it has not been to my knowledge!

I think he gave it to a hot mamma.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4705117.stm BBC NEWS London attackers 'meant to kill' The people behind the latest attacks in London meant to kill, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said. But Sir Ian Blair said evidence left at the scenes could be very helpful to police and added "the intention of the terrorists has failed". Attempts were made to set off explosives at four locations, including three Tube stations and on one bus. Sir Ian said the ambulance service had not taken anyone to hospital after the blasts, which were almost simultaneous. Mayor Ken Livingstone praised the emergency services and said the people of London would "get through this". 'Unexploded' devices Sir Ian said there was a "resonance" with the bomb attacks which killed 56 people two weeks ago, but that it was too early to draw any conclusions about whether they were linked. HAVE YOUR SAY The streets are all taped off and there are police everywhere Lucinda, London Police forensic experts are examining the scenes, at Tube stations in Oval, Warren Street and Shepherd's Bush, and on a bus in Shoreditch, east London. He said important information could be recovered. "From what I understand, some of the devices remain unexploded," he said. The Met commissioner warned against "smearing" any particular community with the blame for Thursday's attacks. "These are criminal acts and we are in pursuit of a set of criminals," he said. 'Difficult day' He said it had been "another difficult day" for Londoners, but that the city was already "back to business". Ken Livingstone said: "It is not surprising that we have had another attempt to take life rapidly after the first attacks. "Those people whose memories stretch back to the 70s, 80s and 90s will remember there were horrifying bombing campaigns in London. We got through that and we'll get through this." Mr Livingstone backed a police appeal for information on who may have been behind the attacks. He said religious leaders should remind their congregations of the immorality of what had happened and that people should come forward even if the was only "a remote possibility" that they could help catch those to blame. Police cordons Witnesses heard bangs and saw abandoned rucksacks at the sites of the incidents at Warren Street and Oval tube stations as well as the Number 26 bus, which was travelling from Waterloo towards Hackney and had just entered Hackney Road. There was an attempt to cause an explosion at Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line, police said. Police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off. At Warren Street and Oval a man was seen running away from the scene. On the bus, there were no injuries and the bus suffered no structural damage. Large areas around all four sites were cordoned off. Tests for chemical, biological and radiological weapons proved negative. One person was injured at Warren Street. Chemical analysis BBC security correspondent Mark Urban said initial indications were that the devices were put together in a way very similar to those used two weeks ago. He said there were suggestions that the rucksacks themselves, as well as the choice of three tube trains and one bus as targets, all suggested a similar method of attacks. There was also speculation that the devices were so similar to those used two weeks ago that they may even have been part of the same batch. There will need to be detailed chemical analysis of the substance that did not detonate, in order to prove that conclusively that it was indeed explosive, he said. The investigation will centre on why the devices failed to detonate properly, what can be learned from them and what has become of the men seen fleeing from the scene of the different attempts, our correspondent added. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4705117.stm Published: 2005/07/21 18:20:00 GMT