jazzbo

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"Bitches" was recorded for three days starting the day after Woodstock. This fact not contended, is there reason to conclude that Woodstock influenced the album? Was there, for example, a live television broadcast of the festival that Miles and/or crew might have been watching? I don't believe there was any broadcast. One of the percussionists on BB however did perform with Jimi at the Festival! Miles had big ears on the scene at that time I believe.

jazzbo can very tactfully relate that he does not have cable. So did you watch it on your DirecTV or Dish Network? Ha! No, don't have those either, just what comes over the airwaves. Evan, I'm glad I don't have that stuff actually, it saves me from watching TOO much television (which I would define as more than I am already watching as a newly lonely boy!)

I'd like to hear that! Those TEACs are workhorses, the tube "mod" is really peaking my interest. I really don't need a CD player, purchased a Rega Apollo about 1 1/2 years ago, but... I know what you mean by rolling your eyes. . . . I've been tempted because I've hears it's better with CDs than my modified model from him, but hold back because I love the DVD and SACD playback from the machine I have, and don't want to introduce another machine into the system necessarily.

Kay Starr. . . Ella Mae Morse. . . such beautiful ladies. (Pardon my interjection!)

jazzbo can very tactfully relate that he does not have cable.

Probably will need an OEM case for that one with that long scale neck!

It's been mentioned before, but hey it bears repeating. Good news for Helen Merrill fans! Both are good albums not available since the Gitanes versions!

Tellin' it like it is!

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, disc two

New guitar soon, right B?

Right, and they were out earlier on Europe1 before they were out on Laserlight/Delta.

Don Pullen Select, disc 3

I love the instrumental edit used during the end credits of the film. Have to admit I did too. Not a Sabbath fan but that was cool. I've seen it twice now, and am going to see it again tomorrow. (It's just me being loyal to my friends. Four of us had planned to see it together, but it turned out we couldn't. . . I am seeing it with each of them. It was great to see it twice, I'm sure it will be nice again tomorrow.

Well, yes and no. This is definitely going to be "Sin City" part two visually according to the trailer. And I confess I loved the visual style and cinematogrophy of "Sin City." I've only read "Sin City," about one third of the published material, of any Miller stuff of late, and I have a sort of love/hate thing with it. I'm just going to hope that he's going to respect the material and not mutate it heavily. I think it's so fitting because Eisner really was the first person I ever noticed bringing a sort of cinematic style to comics. And when Miller hit the scene he strongly portrayed just that sort of an influence from Eisner, or at least that was how his work struck me. And now here is Miller bringing Eisner to the screen. For those reasons alone this is fascinating to me and I'll see it now matter how turkey-esque it may turn out to be.

Yes, I know you are! With. . Scarlett Johanson and Eva Mendes!

THERE IS GOING TO BE A "SPIRIT" MOVIE BY FRANK MILLER! Anyone else excited>?

Oddly enough, "Out to Lunch" is one of my least played Blue Notes, and a Dolphy recording I never listen to. Just have never really enjoyed it.

Jim, I'm so sorry to hear this. This is exactly how a coworker passed away a few years back, and it's hard because you don't ever get to prepare, to say goodbye, to spend those last precious moments. And if it's that hard with a coworker, it's infinitely impossibly harder with a parent. I'm no stranger to loss and can say that each day will bring change, for the worse as shock wears off, but for the better. Cherish his memory, and thanks for putting the love out here for us to see. You know you'll get love back.

Right, good experience on my end.

Why am I somehow not surprised to find this happened in Texas?

Lots of good recordings out there! I like his later recordings a lot on Arbor Jazz, etc. --- many of these are available on eMusic. The Mosaic Single is also quite good, as are the two volumes of recordings with Ellis Larkin that were available on Vanguard. The recordings in the Mosaic Columbia Small Group Swing collection are excellent, too bad they're not available separatel from the set.

I think it's more that they looked vivid on the four color "dot" pulp paper pages.

I guess, not sure. Hard to believe that the Happy/Pepper/Tony love triangle was the "heartbeat" of the comic for years.