jazzbo

Okay, I'll just share my decision not to get the Dizzy Reece's because I have all the material elsewhere as you do, and the booklet itself is just going to reprint the original liners, so nothing new really. . . I'm sitting tight with the versions I have, which are Conns and JRVGs. Now the VeeJay sets. . . I got these; I had no original vinyl of these, but cds both domestic and imported, and the set really does sound much better, and has additional material not on the earlier cds, plus you get good booklets. . . . I think they were well worth getting.

Questionalble gambit. . . yes. In my opinion it paid off! Depends how one feels about Alice's orchestrations.

I'm behind this one too. And more props for Victor Lewis, who is a wonderful player in every way.

I lost a lot of records to a similar basement wet nightmare about twenty-five years ago. I feel your pain!

Man! Leave it to the Beaver!

Yes. Best part of the album. . . .

I think that we have to take the Mingus quote with a grain of salt! I've been living with this music for a long time! I can heartily recommend any of the recordings that Mingus made with the front line of Shaw, Hadi and Knepper--my favorite Mingus band! Especially. . . East Coasting on Bethlehem.

Spending too much money on recordings Spending too much money on stereo equipment Spending too much time listening to recordings on stereo equipment

The Bacchus however. . . not essential.

Agustin, if you're looking for the European recordings, there was a six cd set out on Affinity that was for a while being sold pretty darned cheaply that featured Bean from the beginning up through the European years, and had great sound and was full of excellent music. . . worth looking for.

I've got a get it. . . I have the BET show on tape. I have a number of shows on cdr contemporaneous to this one. . . . Weston just keeps getting better and better and better. . . and Talib (T. K. Blue) Kibwe and Benny Powell and ALEX BLAKE and Neil Clarke. . . man this band is something else!

Excellent! Just as Duke and I imagined it!

Yeah, I started watching that this season after being so bored with the old format that I couldn't bear to watch an episode. James Spader has done a fantastic job---but it may be over! He seems to be transitioning out of the show. Shatner, as "Dennis Crane," is a real hoot though.

I don't see how that is possible! With all that lathering it can't smell!

WORD

Listening to that Dill Jones now. . . WOW. EXCELLENT!

NOW THAT'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST! Think I first saw that an April 1 about six years ago. . .mabye seven. . . ? STILL WAITING FOR THE DAMN THING TO HIT STORES!

If EVER there was a cover just BEGGING for James T. Shatner's presence. . .

I LOVE Andy Bey. Plays a beautiful piano as well as sings so uniquely. Check out "Tuesdays in Chinatown."

I swear I STILL think about the guacamole, blackened prime rib and the cactus margarita I had there! Man, that dinner, then a nice walk around the Riverwalk, and then over to The Landing for a set. . . one of the best evenings I've had in a long time. Helen loved it all too which was a big help! Soon as I get a family obligation trip out of the way I'm going to lobby for another weekend in San Antonio!

If Cuscuna is not an audiophile. . . then the RVG thing could be a marketing ploy, eh? I think it is--either way--and am happy that it is cuz I really dig them!

Agreed! A beautiful gal!

I just bought a Yamah P120S digital piano that plays very convincingly like the real thing, even has adjustable weighted keys, and even has a quite realistic sustain feature ---sounds very much like a real piano (as well as a real electric piano or two, Hammond organ, etc.) QUITE a nice product, and I'm picky about keyboards; they have to play like a piano with wieghted keys, etc.

I haven't traveled that way in about four months, but they are ALWAYS working on some part of that road, and usually NOT the part that needs it. Boots? I wore boots. . . TIL I came to Texas. Too hot in Texas to wear boots! At least if you actually do a lot of walking, as I did and do. I soon ditched them and have been wearing Rockports and Birkenstoks (the "Chicago" model) since.

Yes, it is pretty interesting isn't it that all the hardbop leaps and the rest is there. . . . I'd be interested if I didn't have all of that earlier jazz stuff already. . . I'd definitely jump on the TOCJ of the Ellington if I hadn't recently bought for quite a lot of money the Storyville version. . . . Good stuff peops!