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It's that time of year, apparently... 99 cent season? Andreas Gursky: 99 Cent, 1999 c-print mounted on Plexiglas in artist's frame 81 1/2 x 132 5/8 inches

But yes, she will be allowed in!

ahem... brownie, brownie! I am not sure if I am willing to further mingle with you guys!

The problem is that the site that hosts the photo does not allow linking! Thus all I see is the fortune city logo

Is she allowed in? I'm sure she'll make great conversation with the Betties (Page and Bacall)... Sorry, but we can't see her!

Hey, you're still allowed to keep the music on your Ipod after scratching the CD itself beyond recognition, as long as you keep the unplayable - but genuine - CD! But to answer your question; no, (*cough*) I kept on playing my cassettes... ] Well sure, we all would, except for a few saintly characters... let's just not pretend to be a saint if you ain't! Gets pretty cold here with all them saints around!

And the singer on the closing cut *is* the same again as the one I identified, yes?

That Ortega is very nice, brownie! On #15, is that Brew Moore then on tenor?

Only if you send someone else joining us in the party!

Just a purely hypothetical question: earlier, in the days of vinyl and cassettes... if you made yourself a cassette of an LP, to play it in the car - I am absolutely sure when you sold the vinyl, or even when the vinyl got in such bad condition you no longer could play it, you trashed the cassettes, right?

Hey, count me in! And if you don't mind, I'll bring her to the party, too

If you ever feel like stealing an ipod, first you thing you have to delete the files on it... otherwise you'll be hunted by the music industry for stealing intellectual property (never mind the poor chap who lost his ipod...)

Ok, I'll stick my head out early for a change... I greatly enjoyed your disc, Guy, without being able to pin down anything else fore sure, after the opening track... -_- #1 Terrific opener! Absolutely haunting melody, performed by K.D.-esque frog-eating trumpet Love this one! What you miscalculated here, Guy, was how this melody sticks once one has heard it! It’s such a nice melancholy line, with those punctuations giving more hooks, and then that bitter-sweet trumpet on top… He’s on trumpet, he wrote the tune and he arranged it. #2 Very nice bass intro! Nice tenor… hmmm, does not ring a bell but I’d be astonished if this weren’t a bunch of guys I didn’t know! It all sounds very familiar, but I know I don’t know it… #3 Nice! Sounds somewhat European? Again very nice bass, though the bottom end is a bit lowly recorded? I like this track a lot! Piano trio in the tradition of Bill Evans, I guess, but somewhat more swinging, in a very lyrical way. But except for the Evans influence (which is probably obvious with 95% of the piano trio music done after…) I am clueless. #4 Monkish intro (reminds me of that tune, Little Rootie Tootie), but goes into a more standard straight ahead theme. I am again pretty clueless… but I like this arrangement quite a bit. Some Mingus in there? Could this be Martial Solal? Not quite sure – repeating! Alto is very nice. Phil Woods? No, not fat enough sound, and some small things in there that are too… modern for him? I remain clueless but I like it! #5 Slightly generic, no? Oh, but there’s a bridge, too… nice hardbop… I assume I have this and should know it, but of late I have not played a lot of Blue Note albums, in fact it’s been years since I played any Sonny Clark or Horace Silver… tenor sounds familiar from the entrance on. Is this Kenny Dorham now? I am not quite sure… drummer sounds softer and much more relaxed than usual, which is good. #6 “My Romance” – very nice. Out of the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh gang… is that Lee on alto? Very nice tenor, full but soft sound, very clear. Same for alto. But definitely not Lee – it just could have been him during the ensemble… those embellishments and all. Very nice track! #7 Whoah! Or rather WHOAH!!! This is *it*! Great one! I have a feeling I should know at least all the horns, but I won’t stick my head out and make this even more embarrassing… Charlie Shavers? #8 More classy stuff! Tune sounds familiar again… not “Flamingo”, is it? Piano is great here! So far, this BFT has been a class act! I guess my comment on #5 wasn’t fair, since this only sounded slightly generic in the context of the great tracks surrounding it. In the middle of a Blue Note compilation, it could sound sophistiqué… Is that Guy Lafitte on #8? #9 Ooooh… what to say? The guy’s voice and his half-talking singing reminds me a bit of Joao Gilberto on those sixties sides with Getz. Very nice! Repeating and googling… Ok, as I thought… same chap who wrote #1… is it really him singing? I don’t have any of his discs yet… Pan! Pan! The song, maybe the album? #10 Tenor is good, but piano gets into some almost classical stuff that I don’t find that great, to be frank. Oh, nice brass entrance, but still in a near-classical way. I like the tenor most here. #211 Great trumpet solo! But sound has some warble… not exactly hi-fi… trombone entrance is fantastic! So smooth! Who could that be? Slide Hampton? Just a wild guess… Klook? No… this gets better and better! Lateef on tenor? Got to play this again! Fantastic track! That theme is so neat, and the playing then goes places! #12 Nice one. Google tells me it’s Irving Berlin’s “How About Me” – never heard this song before, I think. Like it! Pianist accompanies very good! #13 Ooooooh! Suave groove! All falls together her, guitar with very nice sound, drums shuffling without ever getting loud or banging… sort of a low-fi groove, and a great one! This is somewhere in between the urban funk of Horace Silver and the rural folk-funk of Jimmy Giuffre – great! #14 Oh, I have this… what is it again? Hmm, organ? Maybe I know some other version of this tune? First tenor is nice, second goes a bit too much into virtuoso runs for some time. Organ is rather perfunctory… #15 Old stuff… more west coasty music? Very nice! Probably one of those Prez followers on tenor? #16 Ok, one more to go that I won’t know sh*t about… oh, same singer again as before? Great choice to end a classy disc!

some animals are more multiple animals than other animals...

well well well, Evan is that one, don't you know?

I have most of these, too, but I also need to get the Solal. How's the Rushing? Worth some pennies?

Anyone? I have it, but not being home I go from memory: I think it's not stated anywhere who remastered it... not the best of signs... my guess would be McMaster, but I really don't know. And no, the liners etc. do not make the set essential to have. I got it before the RVGs came out, and maybe today I'd get the RVGs instead.

Happy Birthday!

yes... and I did play it once back then, but cannot remember if I liked it or not... was just background music for something else then...

Oh, I'd wonder about that, too! Only that I have the disc, but not played it yet... I think this and "Love Song" may be the only Winstone things I got.

Mike, I totally agree with you on Grolnick! I picked up his 2CD BN set long after it had been OOP (it was on my radar, but I became aware of it only after it went OOP, and of course it was the sidemen that made me put it on the search list...) I immensely enjoy the two albums whenever I play them (not nearly as often as I should, though), and it's indeed a loss that he died so early. The Mingus influence I heard, too, but then he does streamline it a bit (who wonders, with those sidemen...), but that makes for all the greater effect, since there's plenty of soul in this music, only it's not always noticeable on the outside. Great choice, that one, Randy!

Making my way slowly through the great Anita O'Day set I played this one on Sunday: Great! I am not sure I can hear the "competitive" spirit between Ms. Anita and OP, but I sure enjoyed this one! But then I can't help but preferring the guitar solos over the OP virtuoso stuff, most of the time... ***** Also played disc 1 of the Basie Clef/Verve later - very nice!

Isn't it a pity that Clayton never got the Norman Granz treatment in the fifties? Like Eldridge and Edison and Webster and Hodges and Carter got it... of course I have plenty to listen with the Columbia Jam Sessions, but still...

Played the two Karayorgis Leos I have, "Blood Ballad" and "Heart and Sack" - very good, in my opinion! I was a bit familiar with the drummer already, but Nate McBride on bass was quite a surprise! Nice wooden sound. And Karayorgis himself is pretty good as well. Also played the Enja, "Aki & the Good Boys" by Aki Takase. Fun disc, not a great one, but a good performance, no less. Mahall is there again, too, and I still like him. I think I needed to see him live to really get what he's doing on discs...

Happy Birthday!