mjzee

I grabbed this one this month as well... figured I only spent about $1.50 on it in total. I knew what I was getting into, but damn... So NOT worth the $1.50. There are a couple of decent moments (and I do mean only a couple) that almost make this album worthwhile... not something I can see myself listening to more than once or twice. I love Grant, but this one is strikkly shite! Cheers, Shane You are correct. I heard "Nighttime In The Switching Yard" today. So wan, so pale...not much happening there. Sounds like he was going through a bout of George Benson envy at the time. Our loss.

Anyone heard "This Meets That" yet?

Wow. This one should be cool.

They've just added some titles recorded at Ronnie Scott's: Al Cohn Meets the Jazz Seven Don Byas George Coleman Chico Freeman Another George Coleman (same guy, different album) Benny Golson Sonny Stitt Also: McCoy Tyner (Live at the Musicians Exchange Cafe) Chico Freeman and Arthur Blythe

Jim, at the very least, maybe Verve could pay you for advertising space; could defray some of your costs for maintaining this BB. How about it, Dancer Chick - is it in your budget? After all, UMG is very big on insisting that music listeners pay their own way, rather than downloading. How about walking the talk?

Hmmm. I've got one too. Can you disable pop-ups in your browser? I remember Safari having that ability. I'm using Firefox which I've got all set to disable those, so they just never makes it to my desktop. If it's doing something weird, I usually don't notice. Funny, I just got this new computer...I disabled pop-ups long ago in my old computers, so didn't remember I have to go in and do it. Thanks! Still, I maintain that any site that pushes that crap onto you probably isn't to be trusted.

Wow, between that and your previous comment, your system must be wide open. Sorry, if anyone else has this prob. It doesn't happen here on this machine otherwise I wouldn't have recommended it. Nah, not wide open - I have a Mac. I said it tried; didn't succeed (I hope). But when a pop-up box asks if you want a "free scan" of your computer, I've read elsewhere it wants to install stuff you don't want. And it wouldn't let me close my browser - I had to force quit.

WARNING!!! I went to www.free-covers.com, and it tried to load a bunch of crap on my system!!!

I kinda like the Corky McCoy artwork.

I ordered 4: Count Basie Complete RCA, Lester Young Complete Aladdin and Complete Savoy, and Louis Armstrong Complete RCA.

I'm wary about no-name program add-ons...I don't know whether the program is doing something nefarious on my computer while it's doing its announced task.

There are two mentions of Alan Greenspan in Ira Gitler's book "Swing to Bop." On page 201, David Allyn: "I was on Henry's band, and some of the personnel was interesting. We had Stan Fishelson and Stan Levey. Johnny Mandel, Manny Fox. Let's see, Allen Jeffreys. A good back line. Good players. Incidentally we had a tenor player by the name of Lenny Garment, who today is Leonard Garment. Also, Al Greenspan, who is Alan Greenspan, the economist." And on page 205, Henry Jerome: "I took Tiny (Kahn) as a favor to Lenny Garment. Tiny, for all his lore about him that people of today write - who turned out to be a most progressive and wonderful drummer was the drummer no one would hire. Tiny used to hang around Nola Rehearsal Studios, and he was never considered a good band drummer. He found his niche when this music came in, and he developed really with this band. But he could never really get with a band - no one would use him. The sweetest guy in the world - good-natured kind of guy and he had great potential - but obviously it didn't come out until he started playing this kind of music. Anyway, he ended up being a great one. Ther was another guy, Larry Rivers - the great painter. "We had Trummy Young - he was a sensational guy - great showman from the old Lunceford band, as you know. But what I'm telling you is that we used black guys in those days; the color line was really broken down more in the band business before anything. Al Greenspan, we used as a straight sax player, he's running the country now." (Interview done during Gerald Ford administration.) "He was with us about a year. He used to make the payrolls."

The Miles on Columbia was one side of an LP called "Jazz Track." The other side had 3 tracks with Coltrane. Here's AMG's review: The 1958 Jazz Track LP compilation is made up of two unrelated studio sessions. The first side is devoted to ten songs composed by Miles Davis for the soundtrack to the French film L'Ascenseuer Pour l'Echafaud, with pianist René Urtreger, tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen, bassist Pierre Michelot, and drummer Kenny Clarke joining the trumpeter. Unfortunately, the music isn't particularly memorable, in spite of the best efforts of the musicians. The slower numbers seem rather sterile; while even the fast pace of "Sur l'Autoroute," featuring the leader's muted horn, leaves little in the way of a lasting impression.The second side represents only a portion of the May 26, 1958, studio session with Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley that has since been reissued in full on CD. The softly stated treatment of "On Green Dolphin Street," with Davis' muted trumpet, Evans' impeccable accompaniment, and Jimmy Cobb's tasteful brushwork is masterful, though Adderley and Coltrane quickly shatter that mood following their respective entrances. The waltz-time treatment of "Fran Dance" (Davis' recasting of "Put Your Little Foot Right Out") is fine, though the clear highlight of the record is the gorgeous arrangement of "Stella by Starlight," which Adderley sits out. This LP is now a mere historical footnote since more complete editions of both sessions have been reissued on CD. Does anyone have a scan of the cover?

I have a Maxtor and a Western Digital, and they're both fast and quiet. I've had a SimpleTech, which was really noisy, almost like the fan's defective. If your computer has a FireWire port, look for an EHD that can use either FireWire or USB 2.0...your FireWire port's probably unused, and this would leave you a USB port for something else.

This month's downloads: The Peter Brotzmann Octet - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions Grant Green - Easy King Pleasure - Golden Days Stacey Kent - Let Yourself Go Hank Mobley - Messages Ray Bryant - Alone With The Blues Sun Ra - The Solar-Myth Approach, vols. 1 & 2 The Great Jazz Trio - Collaboration Sam Jones - The Soul Society George Wallington - Jazz For The Carriage Trade

I wonder whether Iron City was a rehearsal tape.

who's miles' sidemen on that set? thnks It's listed in this thread: Monterey

The Fantasy Monterey titles just arrived: Louis Armstrong Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Thelonious Monk Sarah Vaughan Highlights

It's also on this Rhino compilation: Jazz Hit Singles

Was a video of this concert made by CBS/Sony? I ask because all the photos on the album jacket are stills from video.

In the day, I had an English two-fer of The Move and Shazam. Loved Shazam. Cherry Blossom Clinic...yeah! What a great, thick sound they had. Great cover, too. Always wanted to own Looking On and Message From The Country (didn't they duplicate some tracks?), but Capitol's distribution was spotty in those days, and I never managed to acquire them. I do think Roy Wood is a true talent, tho I don't quite understand why a true talent doesn't work regularly. The "reclusive genius" thing kinda creeps me out.

I have to put in my 2 cents on this topic. Why do we buy so much? Because when we listen to a lot of it, we feel wonderful. The great thing about jazz is it's also enriching - it's the kind of topic where the more you know and experience, the more you'll get out of the music. It's as much about deepening your knowledge as anything else. One HUGE difference between an addiction like alcoholism and buying music (which I maintain is not an addiction) is that you drink a bottle once, and it's gone. Listen to an album, and it's still there fully intact, waiting to be heard again. If you were to listen to each album only once, it wouldn't take you that long to go through all of jazz history. So the question is, as porcy62 mentioned, the amount of time we have to listen to the music to the extent we want to. An additional consideration with jazz is how often we buy titles because we may never see them again. This strains our budget, but we see it as an unpleasant choice we must make. Look at the recent Mosaic thread about The Jazz Piano - if it weren't being discontinued, we wouldn't have expressed such agita. Obviously, an alcoholic faces no such challenge: liquor will always be made, and if he can't get Chivas he'll settle for Thunderbird. So I see our unease about jazz collecting as a result of two unalterable facts: The amount of great music that's out there (and that will give us pleasure), and how much money we can devote to collecting. If one doesn't have a lot of money to devote, it doesn't change the fact that the music's great. And if we buy to listen to it (even if at a later date), then we're enriching ourselves. I've "solved" the challenge of listening to my collection by listening to virtually everything through the "Party Shuffle" feature of iTunes. Whatever it plays (right now it's Blue 7 by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus) is pretty wonderful, and I just don't think about all the music I have but am not listening to. I'll probably hear another wonderful track within 5 minutes.

I wonder how Gambit can use the same cover art for Matador/Inta Somethin' that BN used. I saw all the new Gambit additions (4 pages worth). For some, I was wondering where the material originally came from. Maybe we should start a Gambit thread with translation tables (this release = these original releases). Some are from other labels, some are from private tapes (the Warne Marsh?). Also, for all the talk about the Andorrans being crooks (which I'll sidestep), I think they should get some credit for being jazz fans. Even with their not paying royalties for the masters, I can't believe they'll make much money from a 4-CD boxed set of the Elmo Hope Trio (Elmo). There can't be that many jazz fans out there. It's also interesting that eMusic doesn't yet have the Fantasy Monterey releases. They're already on iTunes. But they do list the Joni Mitchell as a future release.

Basically, these are just normal files. Assuming you use iTunes to rip the music from your CD's (or download tracks from Apple), locate the folder to where iTunes copies the files. Then, using Windows Explorer (assuming you use Windows), navigate to that folder, and just copy and paste it to your new EHD. You don't need to install iTunes on the EHD. Make sure that iTunes doesn't "find" those backup files, because then two of everything will show in iTunes. If the EHD came with backup software, you can then instruct it to automatically backup your new iTunes tracks as you add them.

eMusic: Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia, Vol. 1 That's the only volume I could find there.