jazzbo

Man I love that guy! You know, ever since I saw the Jazz Casual that he appeared in I have been wishing there were about four hours or more recorded of him sitting on a piano chair, playing the keys and singing and reminiscin'!

I'm of divided minds about this. I really don't think anything more stringent than Jim's original policies are necessary. Or should be. And I don't think this place is making Jim's band smell. People won't expect the band to reflect ever attitude here. Yeah, I've really been soured to a lot of the discussions here. Guess for me it started when people sort of stood around the corpse of Leslie Gourse and started kicking. Something started then that gains momentum and makes this place a lot less fun for me. BUT this place isn't BEHOLDEN to be fun for me, if it's not fun I participate less, that's the way things go. I really regret the departure of some of the posters here and wish they would come back. Just coming back and stepping around the cowpies in the meadow would make this place better. They're being here and being them and avoiding the 20 car pileups. Most of all THAT is what I would like to see.

That is also on the afore-mentioned two cd set "Young Bird" on Masters of Jazz. That two cd set has so much great stuff on it it is well worth seeking out.

It'll be around in May. . . .

Me too!

Well, that may be YOUR idea of the purpose of the board. I guess I view it differently. I'm just tired of "jazz criticism" overall on the board and off, and don't feel I can contribute in that type of discussion. So I just wanted to say I disagreed and really enjoy Brubeck and bow out, so I'm bowing out.

I guess what I mean to say is somewhat along the lines of what Diz is saying. It just doesn't matter to me about how you view his talents and what credit you give him. I view his talents differently. And discussing it doesn't alter that. So I have already said enough! It wasn't personal, except in that it all seems so subjective to me and therefore, "it ain't necessarily so" and "so what?"

I like the man's work very much. Sorry you don't, doesn't make a difference to me.

Yeah, well things like copy labels don't bother me, sanskrit or chicken scratch on a lable is all the same once it's in the player! I like Southern Soul too, though some of it's down home finger lickin' good aspects I can do without, just as I can do without the later Motown glitzy gloss. . . . Nothing's perfect in the commercial world and the imperfections can sometimes be the cat's meowing. The Motown set is a great set because you can see and hear the development and hear some cats and kittens getting their one big shot and putting it all in there. . . that comes across to me and I feel it and it feels good.

NO, I don't think sex is that high on the count anylonger. I think about jazz a lot more than "Organissimo" itself, and I think about certain things that are related to whatever book I'm reading! (Right now it is the slavery situation that led up to the Civil War, its economic and cultural bases and forces, due to a fascinating book I'm reading). I'm trying to cut down on my audiophile thoughts, pretty successfully lately, as I'm really happy with my system.

I know exactly what you mean. Though personally B&Ws don't tempt me, not my style of speaker, there are TWO new models of the speakers that I have and love, and I'm trying my best not to be "aware of that"--i. e. think about it 1% of the time!

There wouldn't necessarily be that much overlap between the Mosaic and the BF. What bugs me is how much of this I have on other Capitol cds. . . a LOT . . . a BIG LOT! I'd be tempted by the BF set but better served hanging tight with what I have.

Okay Clem, we'll just agree to disagree on THIS one. I think the Motown set is quite a historical document, and I'm digging exploring it. And like I may have said, I think that one single from Marvin is the best thing in the box, and there's really not much like it to be found all over the discs. I wish there were!

Losing it, you lost it a long time ago! B-) It is a nice feature to be able to switch between layers on a hybrid disc I guess; I have this as a button both on my remote and my player on my Sony modifiec DEC 685. I recently tried the video of this out for the fist time on dvd and it's excellent! Odd thing on this machine: cd playback is SO good that SACD really doesn't outshine it! At least not yet. One owner says his does but he plays predominantly SACD and he says it took two or three months for the SACD section to break in and bloom. In contrast, I hardly ever play SACDs so I guess it could happen for my machine too. Not sure I MYSELF would make a change in players in your situation as dvd is not that great an issue for me and neither would the button for SACD and CD switching. But as much audio buying as I've done in the last fifteen years I totally understand the temptation and would understand the move if you make it.

Hey I can understand that I think Mike. Sort of. But he's always been someone I enjoyed and this year he's really gotten under my skin. I sort of wish he had been able to be the balladeer of standards and torch songs he wanted to be and tried to start out to be. . . . But then the journey he followed instead led to "What's Goin' On" which I think is a timeless work of art and more beyond where he was really able to be his own man. "Here my Dear" is something else too, I've never heard vocal harmonies and music and theme so carefully and yet organically interwoven. . . . It's sad how he spiraled down and out like a fast burning flame but that's life too. The single that was his very first release for Tamla, and fizzled like a lead pipe, "(I'm Afraid) This Masquerade is Over" and "Witchcraft" is so really cool in all ways that I wish there were hundreds more renditions like this. . . and there aren't. Anyway, I keep getting more and more respect for Marvin and Jim is right, he's someone you get deeper and deeper into.

Black Christ of the Andes looks like THIS in the new cd incarnation (recommended!)

No I won't be abandoning him. . . he'll just be bumped from heavier rotation for a while by my new musical exciter. Luckily, I'm very faithful and loyal to my WOMEN.

Yes, Kay was a heavy-footed and flailing-armed bebop monster too in the final years of the fifties on recordings I've heard . . . . I guess you make a good point about the Modern Jazz vs. Milt Jackson aspects.

Yeah, I do this, I get on an artist like a terrier on a trouserleg until I get shaken off.

I guess one man's color machine is another man's boring to tears vehicle!

Lately I've been listening to one of my favorites a lot, the "Jean Grey/Marvil Girl" of jazz, Mary Lou Williams. Her Zoning on Smithsonian/Folkways is recommended!

Just preordered the Armstrong disc. This is exciting!

Not the one in blue!

What he said! AND. . . the sound is good. Comparing a version here to an earlier Motown cd version yields this set a clear winner.

Take one Armstrong, Ellington, Monk and Basie and come back tomorrow.