Bill Nelson

The packaging gives each album an image and identity. In my multi-thousand collection, the packaging makes each album EASIER TO FIND. I grab it and can immediately punch-up what I want to hear without searching thru an index of nine other stored albums of content (on DVD). Also, I'm more secure with the more-durable laminate coating of the aluminum in purchased CDs. I've had my share of MP-3 recorded projects which eventually crapped-out for a variety of reasons. It'd be a pisser to have to PAY AGAIN for each download which gets muffed at my non-techno-savvy end of the line. If so, then the music 'distributors' might well hope I keep messing things up fairly often. "You might well think that. I couldn't POSSIBLY comment."

Then you witnessed two: 1. On bunkering his approach to 17, Tiger loudly barked,"What the hell just happened?" 2. Tiger snapping his 4-iron in half after his follow-through 2nd shot at 11 hit a pine and bent the shaft. Also, you saw numerous instances of him slamming his clubs into his bag. These fit his aura of sulking and pouting about how he "threw the tournament away". Petulant, indeed.

A wager with Slatkin for, say, Joshua Bell's usual concert fee, would've taken him to the cleaners. (Now everyone knows Lenny's an easy mark.)

Masters 2007: It's Tiger's World -- We Just Live in It Yes, it was ALL about him -- four days of boorish and petulant behavior.

Everyone's favorite 'paisan', Roy Campanella. Then there's my fantasy tag team of Sexto Lezcano and Moose Skowron.

12-inch LPs go inside the 12 1/4-inch jacket. 10-inch LPs go outside their 10-inch jackets. * * Only Capitol had the smarts to make their jackets larger.

RE: "There's never anywhere for me to put my shoes." Sure, blame it on her shoes -- it's really your crates of excess LPs jammed into your closet, right?

'Reach Out' could hardly be considered 'essential' Mobley. It's gotta be his most lightweight BN -- "reach out", indeed. (I unloaded mine at a recent Atlanta record show.)

Or, while running the tape remaster for 'Aquarian Moon', Rudy replaced the spent batteries in his Beltones.

The detectives are barking up the wrong tree. The real serial murderers work for Mosaic and can barely write.

For the last 10-plus years, Mosaic has hired Stamford's chronic junior high school JDs to scribble the serial #s into their booklets while working off their hours of after-school detention. Always a charming touch of the local 'street'.

Overall, the clips portend a precious, delicate state of affairs. It sure isn't the organic mind meld of Metheny and Mays. I might wait for a cheap promo.

Returning to the original thread topic, which got 5 replies prior to Concord's Summer Blow-Out (which should've been a separate topic thread) -- here's two titles I got last summer which don't appear anywhere now: Lyle 'Spud' Murphy - 'Gone With the Woodwinds' (OJCCD-1905-2) The Trio - s/t, with Walter Norris, Hal Gaylor, and Billy Bean (OJCCD-1923-2) RE the above item, if you enter 'Hal Gaylor' on Amazon, it turns up 3 new copies for $14.99 ea.

I think she was the same broad. As A&M executives might've said about the disappointing sales for Glasscock,"Both albums stiffed and were DEAD IN THE WATER."

Didn't murder suspect, I mean wife, 'Jewel' record two albums for A&M in 1974 as Joanne Glasscock?

The mind still reels at how the NY Times would pay Mr. Chinen to supply us with so many laughs. He was probably listening to the latest from Fourplay while composing his tepid analysis of Coryell's 'Free Spirits'. Ben Ratliff watch out -- Nate Chinen will soon be eating your lunch!

Yeah, and for years the bass player for Burton was Floyd Soileau. When Ritenour joined, Floyd gave Burton his notice and returned to Louisiana. Soileau does occasional cajun gigs with Carl & the Bleyboys.

In today's NY Times, Nate Chinen's Playlist includes the first-ever CD reissue of the seminal 1967 fusion LP by The Free Spirits. Mr. Chinen provides a mini-review of this "psychedelic rock album made by post-Coltrane youngbloods under corporate supervision". (ABC Records' Bob Thiele with Rudy Van Gelder). "The band's chief creative force was the guitarist Larry Carlton, who wrote all the songs on the album, though not all of its celestial, acid-warped lyrics. Chinen continues,"Mr. Carlton and the drummer Bob Moses would later play in the Gary Burton Quartet, a more celebrated prototype of jazz-rock led by the vibraphonist Gary Burton, but here they're digging in with Chip Baker on lead vocals, Chris Hills on bass and Jim Pepper on tenor saxophone." I suppose Mr Chinen might add,"When Carlton left, the guitar chair was eventually taken by 21-year-old Pat Martino, of the Berklee School of Music. Pat Martino would soon meet keyboardist Lyle Mays and form his highly successful Pat Martino Group, which still records and tours to this day." (We know who got Martino's spot in Burton's group -- Lee Ritenour.)

It's probably too late to make a back-up copy of your ex-wife, titled "The Romantic Years". None of my damn business, but still... My Mosaics will always be at home, waiting patiently for me. (Hot supper, high heels, and baby doll gown sold separately.)

The JJ's seem to be moving at a clip of about one copy per day -- not quite 'hotcakes'. I hear the voices of my old buddys, my minty 6-eye stereo LPs fearful of being abandoned. They're saying,"Put the gun down, Bill. Don't pull that trigger!" Vacillate. Salivate. Vacillate. Maybe in another week, it'll be too late and the shouting will be over. The looming image of 'The Procrastinator' will be a relief.

Heck, two YEARS ago, you guys were writing how it'd be the next one to expire. If this keeps up, Mosiac's gonna have to move it from 'Last Chance' to 'Running Low'.

You need to describe the condition of the jackets. (There's two essential 'points' guys look for.)

For those sports fans keeping score: the Mildred easily beat J.J. -- selling out on April 13. It now looks like J.J. Johnson might be running neck-and-neck with the Four Freshmen. Will the J.J. get to #5,000 before its 10th Anniversary? Or, are the trigger-happy boys aiming for the Frosh set? Make a statement -- your vote counts. Pull that trigger early and often! Let's get it done.

You're unloading Mosaics of 50's jazz, right? Maybe it's just a 'mood thing'. However -- --you might avoid being alone at night while 'cleaning' the old man's gun collection.

Despite Mosaic's 'running low' clarion call, my index fingers won't be dialing these up. As Peter Cook dryly intoned in 'Bedazzled' -- "You fill me with inertia." My vinyl slabs of the Frosh and Millie have got it covered.