jazzbo

Ah, I don't need it. I'm packing up my stuff slowly now and realizing how crazy my collecting is. It's a good thing I've managed to not buy this set the last few years and I'm not going to undo that now.

A cool set. No use to me as I have all the material within. It would be cool to have the case and the mouthpiece (which I would probably give to my trumpet-playing pal Dave) but too much money just to have those in my case.

This weekend I'll take a break from packing and watch the final season of Weeds which arrived last night on Blu-ray.

I think the Byrd and Gordon are improvements. I love the sound of the discs in this series.

I'll pick this up on vinyl as well when I see a good deal. Grundman's mastering on the cd is awesome.

The new mono pressing of the first Hendrix US lp from Sony Legacy. A beautiful pressing, 200g, flat as a board. Not a great sounding disc, especially side 1, but it never was. Sure is fun to hear though, I'll be playing this a lot. Different mixes than the stereo.

I heard a LOT of music within the family growing up. My mother's father played banjo and later organ in the parlor. He was a crusty old salt of a guy but he could play and if I could be still and observant, I could hang. My father's mother played keys and in the dining room there was both a stand-up piano AND an organ. My dad played clarinet and bass-clarinet in school but I NEVER heard him play a single note. Music was on the stereo very often though, a lot of Gershwin (and he pointed out to me very early on the coolness of the clarinet glissando in Rhapsody in Blue) and Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and two records each of Ellington and Brubeck. I also seemed to have a part-time job at his church (my father was a minister from my age 2 to 11, then a Peace Corps Deputy Director, then Director til I was 17, then a minister again til he retired about 15 years ago) as we were always there for services, dinners, etc. and I set up chairs, ushered, read, etc. and there was always music.I got a good dose of the church music (most of my childhood my father's church was predominantly African-American and there was a lot of good music!). The neighborhood had a lot of radios going in cars and out of house-hold doors too, and I lived three houses from a corner bar that had great sounds coming from it as well. I had that Philly soul sound going in the street. Then after Philly it was Africa. . . I heard Ethiopian music on the radio and in the air, and was fascinated by the church music there when we attended services more than thrice. And after Ethiopia, it was on to boarding school in Swaziland, where we students had access to BBC over the airwaves and to Radio Lorenco Marques, and there I mainly heard British bands and the American bands that BBC played, a different sort of music. I remember my whole "dorm" (which was a big room split by a stairway rising to the back and with four bunkbed cubicles with two boys in a cubicle, not totally enclosed, on each side) stayed up illicitly and listened to all of "Abbey Road" being played on the radio, that was a trip. Also in Swaziland a Peace Corps volunteer under my father's direction gave me a handful of records, three of which were jazz titles he didn't want: Leo Wright's "Blues Shout," Slide Hampton's "Sister Salvation," and Charles Bell and the Contemporary Jazz Quartet's "Another Dimension. Those records were like Greek to me at first, but I still have them, and have listened to them (on lp, on tape, on cdr) ever since. I think those three records cemented my probably inevitable gravitation towards jazz.

Right on Cary Man.

Those Luther seasons are too short! Great show. Watching Nip/Tuck Season One.

The "Happy Birthday Duke" Laserlights sound very good, so that part should be in great sound at least.

Well, I love Ellington but this particular period with Bellson etc. . . . I just don't find myself listening as often as other periods. (I'm trying to talk myelf out of being excited about this one).

Glad you have a space of your own!

Mani happy happy returns!

It's a different take than on that European cd of Band Of Gypsies that had extra tracks. It's actually one that hasn't been released before, and the family now finally owns the master tapes of those Fillmore concerts; the tracks that have come out lately from that (like those on the West Coast Seattle Boy set) sound spectacular sonics wise.

I really like the vinyl single with "Power of Soul" on it as well. I haven't streamed the new cd, I'm going to wait to get the cd in hand. Looking forward to it! (I ordered the Target version with two extra songs even though I have those on a Dagger release).

Esperanza Spalding on Austin City Limits. Beautiful woman, masterful player. . . music just doesn't really get to me, not sure what it is but it's maybe the opposite of "all that meat and no potatos."

Well, I hate youtube but I watched a bit of it. Wound that sound up! (Music didn't do much for me). Jazzmasters are so cool. Mine has been great ever since Shawn did a setup on it for me a few years ago. I need to put it back on a guitar stand, I've been playing my mahogany Stratocaster Deluxe most often of late, it's such a dark bluesy beast that it sucks me in.