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The playing is very good on Monk in France and Thelonious Monk in Italy, which I have on Original Jazz Classics from around 1991-1995, when I was buying stuff like this. For my ears, Thelonious Monk in Italy is just not as bright sounding. On Epistrophy, for illustration, it's noticeable that the drum and bass are more up front than the piano and saxophone. Just crank up your volume. Lots of good tunes in these sets! I would definitely not call these weak albums.

On the subject of Monk in France and Monk in Italy, did anybody mention the sound quality of the cds? IIRC one had much worse sound than the other. I can dig it out and let you know which one.

Have a good one, and thanks for sharing your knowledge here.

He wrote some pretty good songs, including I Fall to Pieces, and He's Got You (Patsy Cline) A Little Bitty Tear Let Me Down (Burl Ives) Make the World Go Away (Eddy Arnold) You Comb Her Hair (George Jones) Set 'Em Up, Joe (Vern Gosdin) It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (Merle Haggard) The Chair, and Oceanfront Property in Arizona (George Strait) http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/a-c/hank-cochran.aspx RIP

Is there anything newer than 2002's The Modern Red Norvo?

Nice come back from behind win for Washington, with Ivan Rodriguez blooping a single into right field for the walk off rbi!

Thanks for this thread and its wonderful reviews and suggestions! It helps to get an orientation since I don't know hardly anything about this musical style. Does anybody remember the episode of the TV show Frank's Place that prominently featured a brass band funeral? If I remember right, through a series of misadventures they had the corpse sitting up at his own wake! That was a short-lived but funny series!

I wasn't hearing Jon Miller or the game, but I always thought the tradition was for the team and the coaches to refrain from mentioning no-hitter while the game was in progress, not the TV and radio announcers. I have no problem with that at all. That's just doing the play by play. Even for Don Larsen's perfect game in the World Series, the announcers were giving the run down: No runs, no hits, no errors. They would have been remiss to not include that information after each at bat.

Well, Stras just gave up his first home run!

Jelly Roll Morton, Chronological Classics, 1939-40. Not as early as you might be thinking, but some very good solo piano and the sound is good.

MLB Network is actually showing Padres v Mets. I am catching the local network (Mid Atlantic Sports Network) coverage of Nationals and Pirates. I like it that Strasburg works fast. This game is zooming by!

I hear you - I am quite familiar with his music. But there's a difference: It'd be hard to argue that Iry hold the same sort of mythical status in cajun, IMO, as RJ does in blues. Or that cajun is any way comparable to delta blues in the context of this sort of multinational myth-making. I LOVE tradition-based but ever-evolving music - these days I really don't listen to much else. But for many, RJ is perceived as The Beginning, The Big Bang. Check out the reviews for the box set at Amazon, for instance. Thanks for reporting how insignificant my culture and its music is. Was that even necessary? I was only remarking that there's no point in holding it against an artist for having heard records.

If in Cajun music we held it against someone because he studied earlier records, what would that mean for Iry LeJeune, perhaps our greatest artist of all? He studied records by Amédé Ardoin and Joe Falcon quite closely and transformed some of their tunes and themes.

After a 10 game road trip that had us Nationals 3-7, including 3 straight losses to Houston, it's a tough home stand against the Redlegs, then Strasburg's debut next week! Time to climb back over .500. Did anything else happen in baseball this week?

I never saw canteloupe (melon français) served as a fruit until I moved away from Louisiana. I never even thought of it as a breakfast item. It was always served with dinner as a side dish, but we wouldn't salt it. The combination of salty and sweet has some appeal for me, I guess. Now, I haven't seen salt on a beer can in a long time!

While we are talking about Goldwave, will this volume equalization thing work if I am compiling speech followed by music folowed by speech, for a podcast like a radio show? Will Goldwave equalize the volume for mixed formats like that? Thx.

Go figure! The Nationals lose to the Giants' Wellemeyer on Tuesday, but they beat Lincecum on Wednesday. Hope our bats are waking up. Tough road trip against the Giants, Padres, and Astros might sink us below .500 for good.

Here is the label for Easy Rider Blues Soileau and Robin, Easy Rider Blues Great performance on CD 9!

Happy Birthday!

http://www.redhotjazz.com/noone.html That might help.

A good pitching performance tonight against the Rockies for Livan Hernandez might put Washington atop the pitching triple crown standings: Livan Hernandez for era, Tyler Clippard for wins, and Matt Capps for saves. Much improved over last year! Clippard's on a pace to match Elroy Face (18-1 in '59)!

I don't think this article quite comes across the way it was intended. If Art Pepper HAD caused someone's death or injury in an episode of drug-induced negligence, we would not be congratulating his wife for keeping his intellectual property wealth off the table in a lawsuit by the victim's family. I bet, for the average reader, long copyright terms mean money for nothing for the heirs of the owners of companies that bought out earlier defunct companies that ripped off artists. Let artists provide for their families with real wealth handed down, and let the heirs create on their own.

Got my Volume 1 in the mail Saturday! Great job with the sound! Thanks for preserving this music. So much of it was news to me, so I don't know where to start. I've got quite a bit of Butterbeans and Susie from Joe Bussard, and some Hersal Thomas too, so I will have to go back and listen more closely to the kind of humor you wrote about. I really liked the Bennie Moten piece on CD3. My copy from Joe B. was so mossy. This is going to be a great set to hear!

This must be the first series the Nationals have won over the Marlins in a while. They've had our number the last few years. Well, most teams have.

Good points on catchphrases. 12 Things We Should Toss (Wash Post, 5/9/2010) Internet Memes - Joe Randazzo, editor of the Onion "At some recent point, bacon became a meme. Bacon. The cured pork product that has been a staple food for hundreds of years was suddenly a fashion accessory for Internet style-mongers. There were odes and T-shirts and cartoons. People taped bacon to their cats and took photos. It was so ubiquitous that I started to hate bacon. No one should ever have to hate bacon. What used to be an amusing by-product of Internet use has mutated into something horrible: an insatiable parasite that impairs its host's judgment, rendering it totally useless. Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme -- from LOL... to Lolcats -- now sucks the joy out of our interconnectedness. It destroys uniqueness. Once an "enjoyable thing" becomes a "meme," we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: "I am aware of this thing's popularity --- therefore I too exist!" ______ Also, why meme? We already had a word for that. Catchphrase. Another one. Fad. Here are 2 I hate. Much. And Hmmm? "Biting the hand that feeds you much? Hmmmm?"