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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. . . . )

This thread always reminds me of the response that Bob Dole makes in that old joke from the time of his campaign for the Presidency. . . "Depends."

Another historical release! Life is good for those who love to explore jazz history lately!

I imagine she's great to see live. She's a great pianist!