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Yes, great set. There's been a few threads of discussion about this. Here's one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=brubeck+box

Not something I like to do. Last time I really got shitfaced was probably new year's eve, 1978/1979. Was at a party, tried to keep up with the host drinking Jack, couldn't do, it and was told the next day that three babes (the secretary at the factory I was working at--one of the most beautiful redheads I've ever met--and two of her friends) gave me a ride home and put me to bed. . . . I swore I would never lose control like that again, because I wanted to remember this sort of thing, and over the following two decades I've reduced my drinking to practically nil.

"A Pops in every pot!"

Wow. I'm so glad we had him around so long, wished for longer, but godspeed and we'll miss ya!

Yes, my name is Lon Armstrong and I acquire music faster than I can listen to it. Now pardon me, I'm going to continue. . .

NO IMPORTANCE WHATSOEVER AS FAR AS JAZZ INNOVATION? Not in my universe!

I didn't vote. Pops was ONE PERSON, ONE MUSICAL GENIUS MIND. That whole entity will always have my vote!

I have fourteen volumes on King Jazz of all his "and Rhythm" recordings and love them. (And that's not all there is because they deleted the organ sides because they didn't like the way he played organ, and they didn't include the solo sides on Victor or the sides with Bushnell and Jabbo, and. . . !) I like quite a bit of the transcription and live recordings as well, and sideman appearances, and . . . well . . . eventually I have to have it ALL.

Yes, apparently Purdie has claimed he played on 21 Beatles tracks, and also tracks by the Monkees and the Animals. He's also claimed "Ringo didn't ever play on any of the shit, not in the early days". . . . The established wisdom seems to be that he overdubbed some drums on Tony Sheridan tracks. . . but I'm far from an expert (or very interested).

By the way, I voted for Paul. I like him the least, I find him more annoying than Yoko, and so of course he'll live the longest.

I agree 100% with me and I used to be a drummer!

He's one of the greatest drummers to draw breath. Hey, I personally always loved Ringo's drumming, one of the things I really like about the Beatles. Simple. Strong. Infectious. Damned clever shit.

Wow. I keep trying to love these recordings. I really like Horace Tapscott. . . . I've got a lot of Tapscott, and I have these, but I just don't dig them. . . . Hard pressed to say why, I think though it's Carter. . . .

I had really good luck about three years ago at the Virgin store in the Ceasar's Palace "mallway". . . quite a bit of out of print things in the jazz section at that time, just a-gathering dust.

No. . .make it count! Best of everything!

"Featuring more Grandassa Models than you can shake a stick at!"

I have all the material, so it's not essential FOR ME that there be a Select, but it would be a good choice, sort of the type of thing the Select series would do so well. I'm also one of those appreciants of "All That's Good." Man, I like that date!

And here is one of the many leader's dates where he shines:

Here's a two cd set where Marty Grosz really demonstrates his excellent comping skills (and all his other skills) undeniably:

Yes, Sundoq, I agree that the guitar as a rhythm instrument can be very great. . . but I still love the piano, I'm not sure I think the guitar is superior in any way, it's just apples and oranges I guess. What do you think of Marty Grosz? I think he's a master accompanist in this manner, and though a good soloist, it's not all about the solo with him, I love the balance. . . .

Black Fire is one of the very best of the Blue Notes of its time to my ears; this and Smoke Stack are my favorite Hill albums period. (Come on, where's the Smoke Stack RVG?)

Man, the piano that man could play! And the way he interpreted songs, his voice and its swing and expressiveness. He could really polish lemons! If only he had been around a few more decades!

There's been guitar in jazz bands from the days before jazz recording began, playing quite an important role in the New Orleans bands as far as I can tell, and in the California jazz of the time too. And then guys like Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang made jazz guitar KNOWN in the twenties. Then Django. . . well Django was certainly a prominent figure! In the thirties there were nice recordings in which guitarists such as Dick McDonough, Carl Kress, Carmen Mastren, Freddie Guy, Freedie Green and others played an important part. When I hear guys talking of "jazz guitar" they usually mean electric jazz guitar. . . . But that's not necessarily what I always think, I usually think of Eddie Lang first for some reason. . . .

I'd be game. . . there's a first time for anything. . . that would be the first Vanguard Mosaic product!