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I honestly believe this was intended to make you sit up and take notice, the arrangement was engineered this way, and the engineering was arranged to heighten the effect. Not knowing the original intent, not being at the session, I'm just guessing but that's how it seems to me. It's a great tune and the contrast helps to make it a memorable one, lifts it up a notch.

Gosh, I can't tell you how much I dig that! I discovered that so many years ago that it isn't funny and just LOVE it! Jazz ain't pretty and predictable and neoconservative!

What was it Frank Zappa used to say. . .? "No commercial potential." I think Spielberg thinks he put in just the right amount of jazz in this, not too little not too less. Can't let his appreciation (if genuine) of Golson's work get in the way of business sense!

Yes, jazz was not important to this movie. . . it merely served as a vehicle for Hanks' character to fulfill a promise to his Dad. Can't have too much jazz in a movie if you want it to slam at the box office! Conicidentally I missed the thread on this movie so I didn't know the jazz thing was coming up. When they started alluding to it I thought of the photo in Harlem and sure 'nuff yep there it was. The interesting thing was my wife was very happy that because of ME she knew about that photograph and some of the people in it (okay, she knew MONK! when they showed his promo picture, a nice one), and she was so tickled that she KNEW. She felt HIP. Wild!

You just had the right material! You should get my response.

Benny is discussing tunes with the other quartet members as the scene opens and Hanks asks him "Are you Benny Golson". . . Benny agrees and Hanks tells him about his father. Benny says "So your dad was a jazz fan? That's great! Wonderful, yeah I'll sign that but not right now we're about to start playing, in a few minutes" (paraphrased) and he starts playing "Killer Joe" and they fade out from the scene. . . and we see Hanks hail a cab in the next scene and he has a Ramada inn handout with Golson on it and his signature.

That's what I was thinking too Larry. I sprung for this with no hesitation due to the price, and even was able to give away "Time Out" to a potential jazz fan without hesitation! The packaging doesn't bother me. . . .

Al, pm'd ya. Got the dreaded mail error message, but it may have gone through. . . .

Possibly Pops. . . and Sade.

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I just don't like the way they're recorded; the keyboard is unrealistically presented in stereo on my systems at least! Things like this and drummers whose kit is split between channels meaning they have a 20' left arm etc. really bug me! I have no complaint with the sound. I actually listen to them in mono on one of my systms (which has a mono switch).

Quite nice sound. It's not got real oddity. . . you know, none of that weirdly reproduced keyboard that defies the laws of physics such as can be found someplaces like the Marcus Roberts RCA solo sides. A tad DRY (I always love to hear the soundboard resonating like on the RCA Willie the Lion Smith sides, know what I mean?) but that only on a really analytical system. (Got one of dose).

It seems if you look closely at the three entries for the titles in cduniverse they have all three discs. . . separately now as two cds in Volume two and the single first volume. Here is the cover for the three cd set which amazon.com has at a better combined price: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...351218?v=glance

Can't remember the liner notes to the New World cds . . . I think they have the lp liner notes reprinted, I think they're Dance efforts, not positive. I guess they were ultimately . . . forgettable.

Not sure about the BOTM Club material. I do know that the Mosaic set only had ONE track of Earl Hines Ellington material; "Mood Indigo" is in the New World and the Mosaic set. I think that the material in the Mosaic is otherwise not duplicated on New World (that is: the material does not show up on either volumes of the Ellington cds --three total-- nor on the Plays Cole Porter cd). The last time I was looking all three Ellington cds were compiled (not remastered again or anything just stuffed into a three banger) as a three cd set that is still available. I think the separate volumes were sort of dropped but some may still be around. This (Earl plays and interprets Eddie K) is some of the very best solo piano I have ever heard!

I'm with you on the Staples Singers Jim, definitely. I've heard just dribs but love what I have heard. POPS! Weiz, the Blackhawk stuff. . . I don't think Mosaic is ever going to be able to dip into the Fantasy catalog but I'd like to be wrong.

You know, one I would definitely include would be "Come Rain or Come Shine." I'm telling you, this song speaks to the most important aspects of marriage or at least the most important aspects I've found in my personal experience. It's funny: the words aren't deep or anything. But it works very well as a song: the melody seems to convey more information in tandem with the words.

I like a lot of the suggestions here. I'd also like to say that I personally want to see a Una Mae Carlisle set. There's Columbia sides hiding in there, and no one has done her Soundie sides correctly on cd. . . and I want the damned booklet!

I'm not downgrading the validity of your idea, but I just don't believe that this movie would get any investors and end up being produced. . . . I'm glad to be wrong.

Wes. . . NO ONE would have made THAT movie. And even fewer people would have gone to see it!

Really, you need to try to go see movies as matinees Bruce! Hardly any are worth 9.50! Maybe none! Bertrand, the jazz element is just plain fantasy added to show Hanks' characters resolve to honor a promise made to his dying father. They really don't explore or explain anything other than his father had tried to secure all the autographs and failed to get Golson's before dying. . . . No one in the movie cared beyond that except perhaps Hanks' character though even that is not clear. Don't expect jazz history, real or fake, in this flick!

It's an okay movie. BG does a nice, brief job. The photograph and autograph theme is well played: hinted at, displayed, resolved at a nice pace. Acting is very good in this movie. I would fault it with nit picks about casting. . . or script editing. There are characters who have "quirks" in the script that . . . well I don't think they picked a person for that role that one would believe has those quirks. . . . But hey if one of them is Catherine Zeta Jones, well, she did a lot for the movie with her charisma. . . . And a few of the scenes are so over the top they are Olympian over the top moments. But they're fairly consistent with the tone of the movie. A date movie, bring someone that you can put your arm around if you can.

Lasts about sixty seconds. Benny looks more and more like Bean in the last decade. . . he did a great job, played about ten seconds of tenor; it's a brief bit. If you go see the movie, bring a date.

Alright! Now you're old enough to PARTAY!

Somewhere I have a cdr of the lp of this and must say it is pretty darned good. It's like an Adams session more than a Knepper session to me in that it's looser blowsier than the Knepper led sessions tend to be. . . which is not a bad thing in any way. Now you've managed to live a full life DESPITE not having this so far, and acquiring this won't in any way change that status. You could acquire it and go "Ahhhh. . . " several times and sometimes that is JUST what is NEEDED. (And this could be one of those times).