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Lundvall (son of the boss) has been mastering for EMI (Mosaic, Blue Note) a handful of years now. You just haven't bought any of his work yet.

Right now, Smallville, Season Six, disc one (Blu-Ray). I know, I know. Guilty pleasure of my girlfriend and I.

Why do I keep picturing the star of that show standing in front of a mirror thinking "do I look enough like Steve McQueen?" I keep picturing him fighting Germans in WWII. Right.

Why do I keep picturing the star of that show standing in front of a mirror thinking "do I look enough like Steve McQueen?" I don't know, watch the show. . .has nothing to do with Steve McQueen, and he doesn't seem to act like him at all. Damien Lewis was very good in Band of Brothers, and he's very good here. Interesting actor.

I like it. I don't know what to say about music any longer, other than I like it. It's not essential. I can get through my life without it. But it's a really nice group of recordings, in great sound. As an ex-drummer, returning to drumming lately, I perhaps appreciate Rich in ways others might not. He had many ways to swing.

Today marks fifty years without Pres. . . .

Allen, look on the Timeless label. . . Goodman compiled just as you would like.

Jazz Tribune, such a great series! (Though sometimes some of the reverb on some of these gets to me.)

Those certainly are great, I have those (and the Mosaic, what's wrong with me?) I just think those small group RCA sides are the Goodman cat's meow!

What he's trying to say Aric is. . . it's a jazz orchestra, brass and reeds, no violins.

I've bought this, and have played it about four times through in the last year. I would hesitate to make assumptions based on this thread. I only record about 10% of what I listen to on this and other threads.. . . .

As the complete set is out of print, I'd suggest this disc as a start for Goodman, some of his finest work: And if you want to try some excellent Armstrong, serious as your life working band music, available cheaply: If you're just investigating musicians, single discs are good vehicles.

You've got lots of time to get the Armstrong, it's going to be around for years. Armstrong is essential to my world. It has nothing to do with the fact that we share a birthdate, a last name, the same father's name. He's the source of so much music that I love. The more you listen to him the more you realize that fact. He was a man who rose from nothing to domination in the field of popular music. He was a complete artist, not just a musician. One of the most astonishing individuals in the last century. I hope in time you'll get around to approaching Armstrong's work with an open mind. He was so much more important than Benny Goodman. (Oh I am definitely a Goodman fan. And I like that Goodman set a lot. But it's not even the best Goodman. . . not something I'd grab if the house was coming down around my ears.)

He wrote nearly constantly, typing countless letters in dressing rooms, creating other writings; he carried a typewriter and tape recorder with him almost all the time. This is recommended:

Great set. Don't think they're K2 mastered discs though. They sound wonderful just as they are, but. .. not K2 I believe.

What got me into Pops was "Plays W. C. Handy" bought as an impulse lp purchase in Chicago in 1975. Just kept drawing me in. I'd been listening to electric Miles, some acoustic Miles, some Coltrane, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Flora and Airto, Yes and Grateful Dead and Traffic and HENDRIX. . . .

'Fraid not Chuck.

Wow! You're a saint! Thanks for sharing!

This is a great one. I owe Bill Fenohr thanks for pulling my coat-tails in this direction and starting me on an obsessive collecting of Weston. I love how Weston has evolved, he's as deep a musician now as ever, probably deeper in some ways.

Well we did miss you when you were in your 'everything is so stupid" phase.

Great deals! I think there's a chance these are new, deleted items, rather than used. I'm not the world's largest Pepper fan. I really see the word "genius" tossed around a lot, and I think there are a lot fewer geniuses in jazz than claimed. Charlie Parker: genius. Art Pepper? I don't think so. Plus in my personal life I've actually met a few people who claim they're geniuses. . . but I don't think they are! I too find myself reaching for early Pepper more frequently, but I like the later Pepper too. It's just as fasstrack seems to feel as well: the early Pepper is more fun, less . . . well I won't say mannered, there's something about the later work that doesn't ring as true to me. Ah well, that's okay. Fine fine work for the most part (and I've heard a few unofficial things that really are awesome). I still find things to really enjoy in the later Pepper and still grab and listen. Still, did he move the whole genre forward? Did he introduce radical new concepts? That would signal genius to me, but I don't see the signals. . . .

Agreed.

Just finished watching "Life" on NBC.