jazzbo

About 100 more happy returns!

Ordered the Don Cherry live at the Montmartre on ESP-DISK (from the organissimo cduniverse link, natch).

I like MANY jazz guitarists a lot. KB is right up there.

Verve or Mosaic really missed out on a great opportunity to reissue those GREAT albums before los Andorrans did!

My only cd comparisons are with the XYZ series of ESP cds (which I think in general sound great) and the new ESP DISK cds, which sound a bit better. (I've all the Aylers I can compare in both formats).

The ESP DISK cds in jewel cases sound pretty damned good to me.

Same here!! ...albeit a bit closer to the Cradle of Liberty @ America's oldest boarding school. WooHoo! http://www.thegovernorsacademy.org/home/home.asp Glad I went to Waterford instead.

My three years at boarding school at Waterford-Kamhlaba School, MBabane, Swaziland http://www.waterford.sz/

Helen, Dave and I went to Hoover's for an Independence Day dinner extravaganza. I had chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and a dinner salad with ranch dressing. Yum.

The way I see it Monk's main modus operandi was to make his material even more Monk. So at one point (somewhere in the fifties I'd say) the way I sense it: it was less essential for HIM to come up with new material ("inventiveness" perhaps) and more essential for him to polish and hone the material he had into its definitive Monkishness. I see him going deeper and deeper into his own musical world, and it's just great that he got to share it with us. But I think it was more important for HIM to dwell in it than to push it out there. I may be mistaken, it's just how I feel after a few decades of Monkian listening.

Definitely an improvement over earlier cds. . . . Not going to make you toss your lps out the window, but who would? Possibly a bit bright in some instances but in general thiese are really good discs to have. I only wish they had done a few other titles (New Morning, Self Portrait).

The Brown recordings from Cleveland have decent sound and are HOT playing wise.

Monk was MONK by the Blue Note recordings and he remained MONK. Even in the end, lying on a bed days on end in Nica's apartment. I think he was even more MONK by the final years of playing. I don't hear deterioration. Sometimes I hear. . .what MAY be "too fucked up" that night.

Hmmm. . . looks more like the "enjoying the shit out of something" dancing icon. . . .

I've had tapes of these performances for some time. The Buffalo date the only source I knew of was DEEP. He had this from his father, who taped the broadcast.

Tom, I've been battling with the fear of losing my job due to politics for the last seven years. . . .I can imagine the sickening feeling you feel. Your continuous employment for 19 years will serve you well in your search (doesn't matter that it was not all in one place). Good advice above. Don't panic. Form a plan of attack for the first few weeks and be disciplined about it and I feel you'll be successful in finding a better job.

Actually in my opinion the Brown material is for the most part better sonically than other collector items (the Bee Hive, etc.)

The Bey and the Farmer are interesting choices. . . .I might try 'em.

Cuscuna is NEVER going to release that Tyrone Washington rejected session. He considers it embarassing and entirely unfit for release. It's not going to happen.

I can't wait for the Cornell! The "Not Heard" I've always found fascinating; I've known the material for some time thanks to the kindness of jazz friends, and the new cd is a great boon to Mingus fanatics. The American two cd set. .. well I paid more than twice as much to get a copy of the import not believing it would be released in America. And I don't care, it's great stuff, again I was only new to the unreleased material (most of which we really didn't need to have) but that was a great band.

Many many more happy one$!

Hey Herb, that's interesting, also being a first surviving child. It's sometimes a little weird when I think of it, for me possibly because that child was going to have my name. . . .

Went with Helen and our friends Betsy and Linda to Katz's. I had the Reuben and a few bites of Helen's "Death by Chocolate". . . . Yum.

It's about 4 watts per channel, pentode . . . . I bet you could have him build it in full triode mode and be about 2 watts per channel; it's the same chassis etc. as his basic stereo amp which is triode, 2 watt.

I reckon I will, once I get back from Joe Milazzo's wedding this evening. Me & LTB's gettin' all slickered up as we speak. Jim, Tell Joe that Helen and I wish we could be there, okay, but we can't. . . .Thanks.