jazzbo

Alright! I'm glad you got it cheap, and I'm even more glad that you like it so much!

Hmmm. . . I guess I can understand that and I can respect it for sure. But it was Velma and Louis that got me STARTED on Louis, so I'm not sure that I could ever dissassociate myself from the forties and fifties material with Velma in the band, and there really are some SLAMMING sides from the All Stars, the big band with Dexter in it, etc. . . . I've learned to love all things Armstrong and these Columbia fifties dates led me to so many other great sides and musicians. . . I'll never sell mine!

As you can read in the other thread I have the set (and a pair of Birkenstok "Chicago" shoes which are broken in quite well now). I like this set more than I thought I would. I find the recordings fantastic sonicswise. And even though I really don't like the studio albums from the eighties that much, these live performances bring out aspects missing in the studio recordings and are actually quite exciting at times. Sure, it's overkill. BUT I can pull one disc out every month or so for the next decade or so before getting really tired of this set! And for the record: there was one seventies date at the festival, and it spans the first two cds of this set.

A Jamal/Crosby/Fournier box would be a godsend!

Clearly for me the choice was the funky "Goat"

I have to admit I love this place. . . but. . . I do miss the ole Blue Note board before the boom fell and Greg was swimming around telling everyone not to let the door hit them in the ass! There was an addictive quality to the sheer speed and volume of that board. This one comes close, but doesn't yet have the huge membership that one did, international, intergenerational, and just huge! The way it moved was dizzying sometimes!

I may go see Troy. . . again. I loved the visual spectacle of this, and being a longtime Homer fan I thought I would see this in the theater one more time. It's quite an interesting adaptation and some good acting. . . . My wife is really tired and stressed and says we're not going to do anything big at all. If I'm lucky an old tube stereo system that I have inherited from her late aunt will arrive tomorrow and I'll be able to set that system up and play around with it. . . . Me love tubes.

Well, congrats to Fantasia. She's not my choice, I honestly think that Jennifer is a less cliche ridden (yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah for example) singer and more innovative, but I've always been as step removed from US pop. But I STILL didn't like either version of Summertime. . . Fantasia's stuff seems fabricated rather than real to me. But that's cool. More power to her. May she have lots of success. I hope Jennifer gets a chance to record as well.

Well, was anyone else as unimpressed by both singers last night as I was? Neither floored me even once, and I didn't vote for either. My wife voted for Fantasia based on her final performance, that of the Tamyra Gray song. . . . Two hours tonight! Long wait to learn the winner.

Yes, under Howard McGhee's name, "The Connection" has been out on Boplicity, and it is a short and sweet cd!

Yes, Catest, this is one beautiful woman!

Worth watching that dumb Hunter show for. . . .

Ah well. . . two threads about this devoted jazz fan and excellent engineer-musician is NOT a bad thing!

Me too. Such a beautiful sound! Such a great sense of melody and structure! Such a shame he left us so young so long ago!

Welcome folk! Join the discussions and enrich the joint!

It's double sad news with two threads! J. R. really helped the early jazz speak to many of us and I will always have his work in my collection. Chris, you CAN delete this. Look at the bottom of the page you'll see "Moderation Options." As the creator of the thread you should be able to delete it following those options.