Jim R

Happy Birthday, Mr. A. Thanks for all the insights over the years.

Dan, at this point I know of 33 participants: Sundog Tom in R.I. RDK Peter Johnson Dan Gould John B JSngry Noj Brad Dr J Joe Randy Hersom Harold Z natbat JazzAddict desertblues wordsandsounds Paul Secor Rooster Ties Jim Dye B3-er JazzMoose Jacknife danasgoodstuff Tom Storer couw White Lightning mikeweil Gary Gray Bev Stapleton Daniel A mmilovan marcoliv

Thanks for the heads up, Brad. Louis Smith's recordings for Steeplechase have been very good in the past, and I would expect this to be a nice session too. And Dexter... well, you know what I'm going to say... it's DEXTER!

Not sure of its current availability, but one that I think fits the description is THE EDDY LOUISS TRIO (released on CD a few years back on Dreyfus)- recorded in 1968, with Rene' Thomas on guitar and Kenny Clarke on drums. Another one I like (also with Thomas on guitar) is Lou Bennett's ENFIN! (RCA /BMG France) from 1963.

A Foggy Day (in London town) Wonderful Copenhagen Rio- or better yet, "Samba do Aviao" (aka "Song of the jet"), which is about Rio

Hard to argue with Chuck's choice. More for the list: St. Louis Blues Little Rock getaway Walkin' To New Orleans Do you know the way to San Jose (nah, scratch that one) Philadelphia Freedom (not a favorite of mine, just mentioning it) (stuck in) Lodi Lots of good ol' Texas choices: Streets of Laredo (Out in the west Texas town of) El Paso Galveston San Antonio Rose Just the tip of the iceberg, no doubt...

Good point, Dan, and I agree. I have been thinking about this, but haven't quite come to any decision. Watch for an e-mail soon... we need to talk. Marcus, I have replied to your e-mail. One way or another, you will receive a copy of the CD.

Happy Birthday, John!

Very interesting. First of all, although I'm a virtual Wes completist I have never owned this. I've been aware of it for a long time, and I've probably come across it a few times (not even certain about that, despite having looked at tens of thousands of LP's over the years), but it never occurred to me to look for it. Now that I think about it, I probably just assumed that this was a straight compilation, and didn't read the "fine print" regarding Gerald Wilson. At any rate, it's high time this came into focus for me. When I look at the cover photo in the Ingram book, the naive part of me (roughly 87% ) sees a record that could have been issued as a sincere tribute to a beloved artist who had recently died too young. On the other hand, I can see the "cynical" perspective as well, and I'm not here to say that the greed factor makes no sense to me. I just wonder if it could be overblown a tad. Maybe Gerald Wilson himself would be the person to analyze the hows and whys. I went looking for a cover scan, but came up empty. For the casual Wes fan who may be reading this thread, I wanted to go ahead and point out that we're talking about a relatively obscure LP here, and not the more widely-known release (with very similar title) on Riverside- "Portrait of Wes". Whilst hunting, I came across this at AMG. FWIW: AMG REVIEW: Let's say it up front; this reissue was motivated primarily by greed. Immediately in the wake of Wes Montgomery's sudden death in 1968, noting the loot that A&M and Verve were raking in, Liberty tried to emulate the successful Wes-plus-orchestra formula by "sweetening" some of the guitarist's early Pacific Jazz sessions with strings and horns. Oddly enough, the concept almost works, for the estimable Gerald Wilson is in charge of the charts, and he writes some swinging, well-played things for big band that are laid down precisely in sync with the small combo tapes to surprisingly good effect in spots. The string charts are less successful; the writing is OK, but they are not well-executed. In any case, these attempts don't sound much like the A&Ms and Verves anyway, and they often smudge what Wes, his brothers and colleagues were trying to do. Worse, many of the tracks are cut, no doubt to attract radio play. Still, the LP was enterprising enough to offer a swinging taste of the obscure Wes collaboration with Jon Hendricks, "A Good Git-Together," the only time as of this writing that anything from that album has resurfaced (albeit heavily trimmed and orchestrated). Pick this up secondhand only if it's cheap. $7... I'd say that's "fair" if not necessarily "cheap". My turntable situation is sort of in limbo too, so I'm still not going out to look for this.

LOL @ Jim! Hey.... LOL "at" Jim?? Don't you mean "LOL, Jim"?

Ed, obviously this thread has caused a lot of your so-called "friends" to come out of the woodwork... But when you begin to formulate your plans, please just remember that only ONE person here posted ahead of me, and all he asked for was 20 bucks! Yeeeeah!! I've already mentioned a Hawaiian sojourn to my wife, so I'm looking forward to hearin' from ya, pal! Thanks BUD!

Shit. All I got today was another offer for Viagra. Anyway... Ed, my GOOD friend, remember how I defended you on the BN board against that "Misterioso" character? That was some experience, eh? Of course, I did that of my own free will... I never expected anything in return...

Jim, thanks for asking- now I see that you replied to my PM yesterday! I have this bad habit of not checking my inbox "manually", because I normally get an automatic e-mail notification (and/or a pop-up window when I'm logged on to the board) when I receive a PM. I got neither when yours arrived yesterday... not sure why. I was beginning to wonder, after sending you a PM as well as an e-mail through the board. Anyway, I've got your address now. Thanks.

Welcome aboard, Bev, as well as all of those who will be receiving their discs via the "Tom Network". I should have welcomed you folks earlier, but had my focus on my distribution duties over here. So, welcome to all, and I hope this will be an enjoyable experience for everyone.

Thanks for all the recent posts here, guys. Rooster reached me, and is all set. Jim Dye- haven't received any e-mail from you yet. I'll send you a PM. B3-er- need your address- I'll PM you also. pryan / natbat- thanks for the correction. I'm getting all this sorted out! I've since included a few other folks ("wordsandsounds", Paul Secor) in addition to Rooster, and Messrs. Dye and Alfredson. So, things are taking shape...

Here's an update. I sent Tom Storer's disc out today, and he should receive it in about one week. In a few days, I'll begin sending out discs to U.S. participants, beginning with the east coast. If everybody waits perhaps a couple of days to begin posting their guesses/impressions, that might help to synchronize things. Then again, I know it's virtually impossible to get the discs to everybody at the same time, and if some folks get a head start it's not that big a deal... so use your own judgement. So far, I've heard from 16 people in North America: Sundog Tom in R.I. RDK Peter Johnson Dan Gould John B JSngry Noj Brad Dr J Joe Randy Hersom Harold Z natbat JazzAddict desertblues One person (Ray, aka "RDK") has offered to help burn and send discs in the event that they're needed (Brad offered to help too, but he already helped out with Dan's test). I still have about seven discs that are not yet spoken for, so it remains to be seen whether I'll need to call upon Ray (or anyone else). I might as well announce right now- there is no universal theme for this test. As you'll soon see, there's sort an obvious sub-theme, but like Dan's (and unlike Tony's), it won't help solve any mysteries. For me, a theme would have been too limiting in terms of what I wanted to include, so I decided I couldn't pull it off. Anyway, some tracks will be pretty easy for some of you to identify; some a little more tricky; and a few you may never get. (Just kidding, but not really ). All for now, JR

“I think it does effect you when you there. I was there for two years and it took me about that long to get aptitude to it.” Smith when asked if the altitude in Denver bothers the players...

Soulstation, it was Soul Station.

You know... there really ought to be a smiley that depicts Belushi simulating the popping of a zit.

Hey, hey, no problem! Let me think... how would John Belushi get rid of that frown...

Well, I'm getting closer to being ready to mail out some discs, so I'd like to start receiving names and addresses. Following Dan Gould's system, I'll be sending out 25 discs. For any demand beyond 25 (in the U.S.*), I'd like to hear from anyone who can volunteer to burn and send discs to the 26th and beyond. Brad and I helped with Dan's test, and I know Jim Dye has already volunteered as well. *Note: To our friends across the Atlantic: Member Tom Storer (in Paris) has volunteered to be the point man over there. A big THANK YOU to Tom! He will be organizing all distribution on that side of the pond, so contact Tom if you're on that side of the Atlantic. I'll be sending a burn to Tom, and he will be burning a few discs himself to distribute. No doubt Tom will need some help over there, so please let him know if you're capable of burning CD's. My preference for communication is e-mail, rather than PM's. If anybody would rather not use e-mail, that's okay- you can PM me, but I'd rather not be deluged with PM's (very slow and tedious to use them on my system). That's all I can think of right now. Hopefully I can pull this off as well as Tony and Dan did! B)

Happy birthday to one of the coolest guys on the board.

One type of error that is very unfortunate is when tracks are programmed (or listed) out of order. One example of this is the OJC CD version of Art Farmer's EARLY ART. They really messed it up. I notified Fantasy about the problem years ago, and they told me it would be corrected, but I don't think it ever was. Fantasy also screwed up big time on the first CD release of The Montgomery Brothers' twofer CD, GROOVE BROTHERS. They used the wrong master tape for one of the albums the CD was supposed to contain (half of the CD had the wrong music)! I bought it the day it was released, and alerted them to the problem immediately (along with a bunch of other people, evidently). To their credit, they had a new version of the CD out soon thereafter. I still can't believe the error CD made it all the way into production, though!

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