Man with the Golden Arm

You know it just finished snowing seven to ten a couple days ago and now we got freezing rain tonite. My kids are yelling at me to come down and check the wood stove which I just stoked after having to make yet another run to Home Depot to get some lathe to slice up for kindling so with all the compassion I can muster Mr C.... all I can say is "go hug a saguaro"!

Mine are all in a closet but it went like this:

My wife made a nice gorganzola sauce, not like an alfredo whatsoever, with carmelized prosciutto and baby asparagus last weekend. OOOOH Baby!!!

A word of warning regarding the newest release of this disc from Japan. I recently received this title and was very excited to get a nice version to replace the old Fontana from 1988. The new 24-bit Universal Japan release has a code of 'UCCU 9512 / Jazz the Best'. It contains all twenty six tracks although the listing on the cover lists only sixteen as it is a facsimile from a Fontana LP. The Obi strip reads: "RUBIDIUM: Atomic Clock CD Cutting". Well here is the deal- You get a wondeful package that is heftier than most of these minis, the photographic representation is superb and a very nice Fontana styled gold disc. What you also get is a mechanical "whirling noise" that is at the beginnings and continues throughout all silent passages on each and every cut. The noise is completely "seperate", so to speak, from the actual music. Strange. This is not the echo or some other revelation in the music but a faulty mastering that should be steered clear of! It is obvious to me that it is not in the master tape or whatever they used for this re-issue but lies in the actual mastering of the disc itself. If anyone knows of this atomic clock cutting procedure and can enlighten please do. Until then stick with the original silver.

I say, I say Happy Birthday Rooster!

Dude get yourself up to Federal Hill and there is a little place on the second corner on the right side as you go up the street - kind of a blue tile old world diner place. Get yourself a juice glass of the house red and they serve up some nice olives and some of the stinkiest cheese you'll ever have. Heaven!!! Edit: as I was on the phone and did not click post until now but see PhillyQ has the same jones!

Hey Weizy... Considering the "PSA Score of 30" in your signature there you'll be in and out of that mouth in a hurry. Just watch who's behind you. Paging Doctor Nagurski! But back to the topic: If the Japanese had designed this it would be a whole lot more fun.

Did not notice this as I too have some discs on eBay at this moment. I did however click my tab called "eBay Jazz" that was a bookmark to all in just CD format and it came up with "women's clothing etc..." To search I went to 'music>CDs' and then scrolled down in the "genre" tab and clicked "jazz" while not putting anything in the search criteria and up came 'CDs>jazz' so I have marked that and it works. Boy I do agree with moose that a change has gotta come but it seems they got ya coming and going with half.com and paypal all rolled under one roof. But a couple inches down on that jazz page there is a nice Jack Wilson "Easterly Winds" JRVG that has been bid up to $33 w/ 15 mns left to play. Just wait til that little piece of poo re-mastering hits the deck for that price.

While I have no tips on jazz in Paris make sure mom goes to one of those higher end French Comic Book stores and picks you up a couple of nice posters done by illustrator Serge Clerk. He along with Belgian Joost Swarte (below) do some very funky jazz based illustrations. Don't have any myself as the only time I was there it would have been impossible to carry them around Europe. http://www.griffioen-grafiek.nl/swartecuri...arteStandUp.jpg

The thing is is that if you look at it closely Miss Million and Paris' eyes stay exactly the same size. If there is a video of these two she'll (sic) be using Paris as a toothpick if you know what I mean.

For me I can't stand the sight or smell of either Genny Cream Ale or Miller Longnecks. Had far too many of those "backwards" during college.

Gall datz like one a dem makeover shows gone all rong! Please click Number 1 for the sing along! and talk about service... you only had to mullet over for ten minutes!!!

Well you know Miss Ann is doing OK. She's just kinda sitting here squirming in her seat a ready at the vanity, applying a nice bit of foundation, Ehrlich-ing her face ala Sweet Baby Jane. Plucking a bit here and there. A nice bit of underwire help from Jerome, but that doesn't seem to do her justice. So she takes a couple of those Ray Andersons out of the drawer and gives them a go, a tucking and a boosting. Now everybody's trying to lace up the bones a bit tighter but her torso's going all over the place. I think Don is a bit awestruck himself by all of this as he plays her straight while looking on from the other room. Maybe it was the swat to his dreaded-up mensa-head that Marty gave him a while ago that set him out for once. We know who can swing, baby, and it ain't always the guy who looks it!!

Would it be at all possible for couw to do a Billy Ray Cyrus morph thing here?

Well I quickly splurged and grabbed the CD of track #1 from Half.com fo' cheep and once I scraped the spaghetti sauce off the cover and tossed it into the disc I must say this is some sawinging chit here. BUT!!! wait! WTF is with Don Byron...first I forgive him for taking "Out to Lunch" into some carny meets John Phillips Sousa (obviously left over from that Frisell piece o poo that he did with the send up to all sousaphones everywhere yadda yadda) and then he proceeds to just destroy "245/Les" with some off key ramblings that just make you wanna grab the thing and zing it as hard as you can into the brick fireplace, and now... oh yeah Bill Ware sez "Don what the hell ya doin' man" and proceeds to churn out some serious door-bell playing worthy of a Jehovah's Witness after too much Halloween candy and, whoa he tries to save the show and pretty much does but man I could go on as now Don is again going on with a far cry from any hommage to "Far Cry"... but I'm just on a rant and I had to tell someone cause no one here understands me...

A well dressed man wouldn't drink... btw it's rated "R".

From one tin ear...Let us know what you think. I've only a handful of RVGs but have felt that the last couple I have purchased in the domestics seems to have leveled off on the leveling. True? Can someone set me straight on the folklore of better recordings being mastered at lower levels to allow the subtle nuances within to be revealed with a better system. I found the first batch RVG of "Moanin'", for example, to be so hot as to distort itself madly on my wee wittle system where the TOCJ of this title always asks for more.

Here they are!

just for the record a web page i found had this: http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/miles/rhemile10.htm

Been a while and I should probably be listening to the new BFT but pulled this one out this afternoon. Had one of those headaches-the kind with a tear in one eye- popped some aspirin and cued up. My own little lab-rat to see if all would cancel out. Boy that first disc is a trip. Especially the way it opens up after "Puttin' on Dog" then through the military installations with a stream of conciousness as quick as a winter melt. Winds it's way into the Goodman set up and then that Jim Hall solo, ohh boy and finally that Hampton ringing that closes the set so perfectly. Doctor I'm cured!

I just can't resist a link. Silly me... I have always meant to get these two. I was more interested in finding out for couw's (and everybody else's) trumpeter. After looking back at what I wrote I guess I should be made to drop and give ya fifty. I fell for Mike's clue but thought not even though the flute was definitely his. Having never heard these two I figured that it might be too obvious for the rest of you all, and it was.

PhillyQ, wish you hadn't told us you all were playing handball. The pic is much more artfully mysterious that way.

Someone gimme some more hints on #7? I can't for the life of me make out the cryptic puns you guys are esperantoing.

Pulled this quote as a generalization (have yet to listen to the bonus). Thanks Nate, I thought it was just me.

he might be out taking the sacrament. or the other way around.