This Is The Place

[7/4]

I just finished my first spin and 7/4 approves!

I love the artwork too. 

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The cartoon like images of us are so bizarre! Joe looks 20 years older

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Now I'm checking out the cover and I notice the server is Zora and the table is B3.

[DTMX]

I got my copy yesterday and I'm loving everything about this recording. The compositions are good, the performances solid, and the artwork is clever. I see this one spending a lot of time in my CD changer (went from the mailbox to the CD player in one swift motion yesterday, bumping Gary Numan in the process). Looking forward to many more listenings. Great work, guys!

[Dr. Rat]

WNMC Top 10 jazz for last week:

# ARTIST Recording

1 ORGANISSIMO This Is The Place

2 RONI BEN-HUR Signature

3 DICK JOHNSON artie's choice

4 RUBEN GONZALEZ Momentos

5 SAMMY FIGUEROA And Sammy Walked In

6 YVES FRANCOIS Blues For Hawk

7 LUTHER HUGHES Cannonball-Coltrane Project

8 BILL CHARLAP Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul

9 JOSHUA REDMAN ELASTIC BAND Momentum

10 JAVON JACKSON Have You Heard

--eric

[randissimo]

WNMC Top 10 jazz for last week:

#  ARTIST                        Recording

1  ORGANISSIMO                  This Is The Place

2  RONI BEN-HUR                  Signature

3  DICK JOHNSON                  artie's choice

4  RUBEN GONZALEZ                Momentos

5  SAMMY FIGUEROA                And Sammy Walked In

6  YVES FRANCOIS                Blues For Hawk

7  LUTHER HUGHES                Cannonball-Coltrane Project

8  BILL CHARLAP                  Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul

9  JOSHUA REDMAN ELASTIC BAND    Momentum

10  JAVON JACKSON                Have You Heard

--eric

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Thanks for posting that Eric..

[Jim Alfredson]

Thanks for the review on CDBaby, scottb!!! We really really appreciate it!

Anyone else? <hint hint>

[CJ Shearn]

Randy, you look like Paul Wertico in your portrait seriously, your face reminds me of Wertico.

[Noj]

Let's see, I've aged Joe well beyond his years, and turned Randy into Paul Wertico.

Dang it!

[connoisseur series500]

Thanks for the review on CDBaby, scottb!!!  We really really appreciate it!

Anyone else? <hint hint>

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Would love to. Could you post the link, pleeeze!

[Jim Alfredson]

http://cdbaby.com/review/organissimo2

[jlhoots]

Mine has arrived in today's mail & is going right into the player.

[PHILLYQ]

I put my five star review on CD Baby- this disc deserves it! Excellent effort, guys- you hit a good one here.

[connoisseur series500]

Just wrote a review. It was indicated that it will take a day (or a year) or something before we can read it. :bwallace2:

[GregN]

How Cool Is This??

Greg

[Soul Stream]

Funny how 3 of those 10 are organ records. The Ximo Tibar is also outstanding with Dr. Lonnie Smith on Organ. And the Terry Gibbs has Joey Defrancesco on organ. Really smokin' stuff. Looks like Organissimo is in a rough crowd.

[randissimo]

How Cool Is This??

Greg

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Organs rule!

[tonym]

I've just this minute ordered it; hell, I feel like I'm missing out big time and it's only been out a few days.

Looking forward to hearing it a great deal, especially since my impromptu meeting with 2/3 of the trio.

Wait a second, my in-laws were at Niagara last Sunday; maybe I should have told them to hang around there a while, nip across the border, buy a local A-Z, and run and get me my copy. Then again, my father in-law thinks I'm weird enough as it is.

[Dr. Rat]

And in the Overall Rankings . . .

WNMC Top 30 for week of 8/4/05

# ARTIST Recording ( label )

1 ORGANISSIMO This Is The Place ( big 0 )

2 RONI BEN-HUR Signature ( reservoir )

3 DICK JOHNSON & THE NATURALS artie's choice & the naturalizer ( self )

4 NATHANIEL MAYER I Just Want To Be Held ( fat possum )

5 ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI In Case We Die ( bar/none )

6 WOODY GUTHRIE & LEADBELLY Folkways: The Original Vision ( smithso-folkways)

7 RUBEN GONZALEZ Momentos ( escondida )

8 KINSKI Alpine Static ( sub pop )

9 KILL MEMORY CRASH American Automatic ( ghostly int'l )

10 SAMMY FIGUEROA And Sammy Walked In ( savant )

11 NO WAIT WAIT No Wait Wait ( chairkickers union )

12 EDDIE SHAW four decades of eddie shaw ( north atlantic blues )

13 SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois ( asthmatic kitty )

14 KAHIL EL'ZABAR TRIO Live At River East Art Center ( delmark )

15 MAMMALS Evolver ( humble abode )

16 the JIM YOSHII PILE-UP Picks Us Apart ( absolutely kosher )

17 CELIA CRUZ The Rough Guide To Celia Cruz ( world music )

18 TAB BENOIT Fever For The Bayou ( telarc )

19 WACO BROTHERS Freedom And Weep ( bloodshot )

20 NINE BLACK ALPS Nine Black Alps [EP] ( tiny evil )

21 NEGATIVLAND No Business ( seeland )

22 RY COODER Chavez Ravine (nonesuch )

23 RED BROWN AND THE TUNE STRANGLERS If You Ain't Right, Get Right ( yo-yo )

24 various SWING AROUND THE WORLD ( putumayo )

25 RAQUY AND THE CAVEMEN Jordan ( meef )

26 MARTI BROM Sings Heartache Numbers ( goofin' )

27 MAGGI, PIERCE AND E.J. Maggi, Pierce And E.J. ( self )

28 the BEL AIRS Got Love ( hightone )

29 LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY Panic In Babylon ( damp music )

30 LITTLE FREDDIE KING you don't know what i know ( fat possum )

--eric

[Dr. Rat]

Congrats, btw on reaching the Chicago charts!

--eric

[Jim Alfredson]

Thanks Eric! And thanks for making us #1 on WNMC!!

[Dr. Rat]

Thanks Eric!  And thanks for making us #1 on WNMC!!

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Twasn't just me (though I did make a contribution) several other people spun your disc last week, too. Thanks for making a fine disc for us to play,

--eric

[Peter Johnson]

Into the office, into the computer. Yeah, baby--I'm completely diggin' it. Can't wait to put it on at home tonight. We've got a friend visiting from Philadelphia and she will also appreciate the greazzzzze...

Can't wait to listen more closely. The time signatures have got me dancin' in my office chair!!!

[GregN]

Man, the positive reviews at CDBaby keep stacking up. Plus, organissimo is getting some major airplay nationally, and the press is making contact. Very exciting stuff.

Jim, Joe, and Randy, very publically, I want to add, Great Work!

Love you guys. Thanks for the inspiration.

Greg

[Bright Moments]

wel, i just ordered mine! and of course while i was there i had to browse a little and lookie what i found! here's my order:

Thanks for your order with CD Baby!

1 of: ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA WITH STEVE LACY:

monk's moods ($15.00 each)

1 of: MARK DUNN: mark dunn (FREE!)

1 of: NICKI AND LISA PARROTT: the awabakal suite ($13.97 each)

1 of: PHIL WOODS AND CARL SAUNDERS: phil woods and carl saunders play

henry mancini ($14.99 each)

1 of: ORGANISSIMO: this is the place ($14.98 each)

Edited August 10, 2005 by Bright Moments

[Jim Alfredson]

Thanks! And thank you to everyone else as well, especially those who wrote reviews on the CDBaby page! We really appreciate it.

[Dan Gould]

Thanks!  And thank you to everyone else as well, especially those who wrote reviews on the CDBaby page!  We really appreciate it.

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Is it a requirement that we actually listen before posting a review? I mean, I know I'm going to dig the album, why should I have to wait for the damn USPS to get the package from CD Baby to me????