What, no "Commander of the Mother Ship" choice?
A bassplayer I used to work with, King Vivion Wilson, used to tell me "If you're upsetting someone, there's something you're doing right!" There's definitely something to that!
All the Evans boxes I've heard are great. . . I really like this one for the clarity of the recordings and the variety of the sessions. I put all the discs in slimline fourbangers---my set really hasn't corroded further, but I'm not crazy about the other packaging aspects of the set.
Wow, getting paid to go to Church. . . I'd be a millionaire by twenty if that had been in place fifty years ago!
I grew up in an integrated church, my dad the white preacher and a predominantly black church (and neighborhood.) Sure wasn't Baptist though. They'd have to pay me a lot. . . .
I saw this the day it came out and enjoyed it a lot. I haven't seen the original, maybe I will some day, but this was an intelligent film, so unlike the usual trash that gets good ratings. Maybe most don't want to think when they go to the movies, but I'm always delighted when I'm invited to.
A lot of the Ocium cds mix material that HAS been out on cd with material that hasn't, which is a frustrating thing!
What I have of the Auld is really nice music, I'm an Auld fan.
The only Ocium cd I have is the Cobb, and the sound quality is pretty good.
What makes me wonder "why do I gots to be dat way" is how much I dig those early photos of Doris Day, who I really recoil from as the big star she later became. . . .