wesbed

I've got no good ideas to offer.

Yes. It does help. Thanks. All the positive remarks about the Tristano box help. What's odd is that I've read nothing negative (that I can remember) about the Tristano box. Everybody who has it seems to think it's one of the top sets offered by Mosaic.

My CDs are here: And here (plus more in the closet, not pictured): The story is located in this thread: >link<

Errr... save your money on the c-melody and buy Mosaic box sets instead?

I've never been able to figure the old saying that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's. I mean, yeah, the dog licks its own ass, or eats its own shit, then licks you? I don't know. I'm no dog expert. Maybe dogs have less bacteria in their mouths? But, maybe the dogs need less bacteria? Maybe the bacteria in a human mouth is necessary and humans would have problems if the bacteria weren't present? Where's Mnytime when you need him? Maybe he could comment on the amount of bacteria/filth in a human mouth versus a dog mouth? JSngry and BERIGAN: I didn't think of Dr. Pepper and donuts when I made my first post but, yes, I've experienced the same results. Thanks for the reminder.

I finally got around to visiting my local Border's store this evening. I searched through the display and found none of the new RVGs. None. It figures. I believe my local Border's store has shrunk its number of jazz titles. What used to take up a certain amount of display space now takes up less of the same display space.

I don't have the new Mosaic catalog yet, but interesting. Haven't the first Selects been available for about a year now? I wonder what the 'market conditions' are? Slow jazz sales? Slow CD sales in general? The retailers don't want to use their shelf space to display jazz titles?

Handy for the taxman. Not nice. Not nice. Not nice.

I've enjoyed the Delayed Gratification process when in the right mood. Sometimes the anticipation and expectation is more fun than the actual receipt of the physical item. Like, when I ordered the Duke Pearson Select.

Thanks for the update, man. Maybe the justice system does work some of the time? I don't mean to turn this into a political thread (my intention is not to go there). But, the justice system dealt, recently, with your poacher, Martha Stewart, and Diana Ross' problems with driving while intoxicated down in Tucson. Sometimes I am positively surprised.

Hmmm... I never said that I didn't like the American Microbrews. Some of them I enjoy more than I should! Errr... unless I forgot what I wrote in this thread (which could happen). However, I have thought that American micros seem to vary by batch. There is a microbrewery in Tucson (see link below) that I love on a good batch but only tolerate on a bad batch. I do believe the European beers are much more consistent. Of course, the European brewers have been working their craft for a longer period of time. >Nimbus Beer link<

Yusef Latif Pepper Adams Curtis Fuller. Donald Byrd. Milt Jackson. Frank Rosolino. Organissimo. Yeah, Michigan. What a great friggin' state!

This is slightly disgusting but... I had some avocados with my dinner this evening. Here it is, five hours later. I'm tasting the avocados all over again. Not that I'm eating the avocados all over again, but I'm tasting them again, from somewhere below my stomach, to the back of my throat. I don't feel bad in any way. It's just that, I'm still tasting the damned avocados! My sense of them is about the same as when I ate them fresh. The sense of the taste is nearly unchanged. Which caused me to wonder... What other foods taste the same even after you've already eaten them? Would garlic be an example?

Were you getting blank screens in your web browser? Maybe messages that the page could not be displayed or not found? What happened during the half-hour when you could not get to the Organissimo site? Just wondering...

I feel your pain! Wesbed, if all us broke-types are getting paid this Friday, you might want to make up your mind by Thursday... Thanks for the warning, man! I can afford to order today if I so choose. Yes, maybe I should take your advice and place my order before payday Friday. You've given me yet another reason to place my order for the Tristano box.

To the local jazz station?

I'm still trying to push myself over the edge, jump in, and purchase the Tristano/Konitz box. I find it difficult to purchase a Mosaic box that has too many alternate takes. The Tristano set, however, looks to have very few (if any) alternate takes. Yes, yes... more ammunition to motivate me to purchase the box before it falls from the Mosaic site. B)

Wasn't there a Mosaic set, The Complete Bob Seger with Thelonious Monk? No, wait, wait, I'm wrong... these two never played together.

I was surprised when I found my own birthday thread a few weeks back. I was on vacation/busy when the thread was current. I found the thread after my birthday had expired. So, Happy B-Day Berigan. It's been fun. If I remember correctly, you posted lots of funny shit during the last couple of days of the BNBB. I remember reading the posts and laughing my freaking ass off. Cheers from Tucson, Arizona.

In reviving this old thread... and being a person who still stays up WAY to late listening to jazz and playing on my computer, which of you STILL stay up way too late? I'm listening to the Duke Pearson Select tonight and hearing things I'd never have heard while the sun was shining. Jazz is so much a part of the night for me. Nights without the music, such as when I'm away from home, seem odd and somewhat empty.

I purchased the Duke Pearson Select mainly to get the 'Merry Ole Soul' set. I enjoyed 'The Phantom' but didn't think much else of the Select box. It's interesting how, sometimes, the music can sneak up on you, and you enjoy it whether you meant to or not. I listened to 'The Phantom' this evening and enjoyed every part of it. I didn't stop the disk (disk #1) and let it play through the 'B' and 'C' sets, the 'I Don't Care Who Knows It' set with Airto Moreira on vocals. I caught myself enjoying the hell out of the 'I Don't Care Who Knows It' tunes just as much as I enjoyed 'The Phantom' tunes. I'm still no fan of the 'How Insensitive' material. This music causes me to think of a bad mixture of jazz, religious, and pop/soul vocals. Some kind of a weird Lawrence Welk dream. However, the rest of the Pearson Select is working it's magic on me. I'm surprised when a piece of music jumps out and grabs me, when my intention was not to be grabbed.

I'm enjoying a Labatte Blue (not great, but not bad either) and a sandwich before I go to bed. Damn, tomorrow morning is MONDAY morning. I was flipping through the channels to catch The Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. But, I waited too late and the shows are done for the day. I'll have to catch them later in the week.

I had it in my mind that Mosaic had Paul Desmond facing to the right on the cover of the Desmond box. In checking the cover, however, it appears I was wrong. Desmond is facing to the left. I wonder if there is something more comforting to the mind's eye, having the figure face to the left, when reading the text from left to right? couw may have a valid point when he wrote that having the figure/artist face one way looks better than facing another way.

I enjoy beer. I do agree, however, that in nearly any price range and/or beer type, much of the beer in that category tastes much the same. Most all the American-made, mass-market domestics taste the same (although you can spend a little or a lot to get the same product). It depends on how cool you feel holding which bottle in your hand (I enjoy my beer from a glass, by the way). There are various beers in the Pilsner Urquell category. Another major beer type is that of the Guinness-type stout. Then there are the Asian beers, the Mexican beers, and the German beers. People have their favorites. I know I have mine. Some of the differences, between beers of the same type, are so subtle the difference can hardly be noticed.