ghost of miles Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 For me: Duke Ellington, TREASURY SHOWS V. 12 Dick & Kiz Harp, AT THE 90TH FLOOR and AGAIN AT THE 90TH FLOOR Ella Fitzgerald, SINGS THE JEROME KERN SONGBOOK Jo Stafford, SINGS AMERICAN FOLK SONGS Don Ellis, ESSENCE DVDs: FOYLE'S WAR (set 1) KING KONG (4-DVD set) WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953 version) MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM Books: J.G. Farrell, THE SINGAPORE GRIP Scott Turow, ORDINARY HEROES As a roommate of mine used to chant to himself, "I am happiness personified." Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 My daughter gave me this, this morning, when we went over for lunch Not unexpected, as I'd arranged with the record shop to keep the copy by for her a fortnight ago. She also got me two coffee mugs, from the oldest record shop in the world (where I buy a lot of my records), which match the t-shirt my wife got me last year. I also got lots of chox - zowie! A cardigan A calendar full of pugs Virgin Megastore vouchers - for spending in the Virgin January sales And my four year old grandson let me beat him at snooker! MG Quote
Stefan Wood Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 No music, cause goodness knows I don't need more music! But I got some books: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (all three volumes) Complete Calvin and Hobbes -- you know, if used improperly this could be a deadly weapon! Complete New Yorker dvd set. And a nice suede satchel/briefcase. Quote
patricia Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 A Classic Jazz Calendar with black and white photographs by Chuck Stewart. An Orbitrac 2 record-cleaner. A new cordless phone Tons of soap, perfume, etc. etc. etc. Most special gift is a framed photograph of my first grandson, Matthew, in a cowboy hat on a hobby horse, from his mother, my oldest daughter. No music, because nobody knows exactly what I like and I have tons. Quote
GregK Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 (edited) Finally got Larry Kart's Jazz in Search of Itself book! Thanks, Santa (you know who you are!!) Edited December 25, 2005 by GregK Quote
kinuta Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 DIVX compatible dvd player. 'The Murder Room ' PD James. Quote
Guest Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 For me: Dick & Kiz Harp, AT THE 90TH FLOOR and AGAIN AT THE 90TH FLOOR Hey how about updating the Dick and Kiz Harp thread with your impressions when you've had a good listen? Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 Big, beautiful art books! Love 'em... Quote
mikeweil Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Almost everybody shies aways from giving me CDs after seeing my collection and knowing my peculiar tastes ...... so i always make me some Christmas CD gifts myself. Unfortunately the one I looked forward to the most, the Cherubini string quartets played by Hausmusik, sits at the post office until Tuesday ..... My wife gave me several very interesting books, autobiographical stuff by German authors reflecting the Nazi past of their fathers etc. - I will have some great reading time. Oh yes, and one book with all existing photos of Franz Liszt! Quote
7/4 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 (edited) No one except my Dad dares to give me music and even then it's rare. He gave me Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Strictly for Music Lovers box. Some cash, some clothes...and my Mother gave me her Mother's Florentine mandolin, probably a 100 years old. Edit: not a Florentine, but a round back. Quite beautiful with inlays. And there'll be more when my Neice and Nephew stop by. Edited December 26, 2005 by 7/4 Quote
kh1958 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Three Mosaic Selects--Curtis Amy, Dizzy Reece and Art Pepper. Quote
Alexander Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Wife gave me the new Guralnick Sam Cooke bio and a copy of "Night Beat" on CD. She also gave me a beatuiful book called "The World on Sunday" which contains beautiful reproductions of full pages from the "New York World" sunday paper from 1898 to 1911. My birthday is on Wednesday, and I'm looking forward to the Miles "Cellar Door" box set. I got a few things I need to exchange (sister-in-law gave me an iPod Nano, even though I already own an iPod) so I'm hoping to be able to get either the Ray Charles Atlantic box or the "Goodbye Babylon" box with some of the proceeds of the exchage... Quote
Use3D Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 FEAR for PC. Looks scary. And undies. Whee Quote
Dan Gould Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Not going to post an exhaustive list but here are the highlights: The Columbia Swing Sessions (Mosaic) The Ray Charles Atlantic Box Charles Tolliver Mosaic Select Scott Hamilton, Back in New York the name escapes me, it was mentioned here though - a set of Thad Jones tunes by an all-star group I think its titled Three in One maybe? Rusty Bryant, Rusty Returns (I think maybe SS1 mentioned this?) Mulgrew Miller, the Yoshi's Set 2 release A twofer of B.B. King Bluesway releases Books: Now I Can Die in Peace, by Bill Simmons Win it For ... by the Sons of Sam Horn Red Sox website 102 Minutes (two NYT reporters cover, in great detail, what happened inside the WTC) Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I got some underwear and a sweater and spent a lovely day with the family. Can't ask for more. Quote
Chalupa Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I got some underwear and a sweater and spent a lovely day with the family. Can't ask for more. Word. Quote
7/4 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I got some underwear and a sweater and spent a lovely day with the family. Can't ask for more. Word. Yea, it ain't about the gifts. I got to hang with my parents. When will I get to do that on Christmas again if at all? Quote
wesbed Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I spent the Christmas Day with my parents, sister, nephews and an old friend. My parents gave me some Staun tire deflators. Quote
DTMX Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I got a 12 hour 6PM - 6AM solo shift at the office (that I'm 7 hours into), plus a network server crash to deal with . And a t-shirt with a pi symbol on it. I'm all about pi. Quote
ejp626 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 On the plus side, I flew my mother-in-law here to spend time with my wife and son, so that's good. It was a fairly relaxed Christmas and I got an Edmond Hall CD and Manny Albam's New York Jazz. So that's good. On the down side, we lost phone service a few days ago - maybe even on Thursday, but we didn't discover this until after working hours on Saturday (we really don't call much). The phone company here had literally no one working on Christmas and a skeleton crew on Boxing Day. They tell me a switch is out, taking out much of Cambridge, and they'll investigate and get back to me in two days! So I won't be able to call anyone on Christmas or Boxing Day. They seem so fucking nonchalant about it as well. Things like this making living in England a real fucking drag. Quote
Sundog Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Can't ask for more. Actually, there was one more thing, a Bear win over Green Bay! Perfect end to a weekend spent with friends and family. Quote
montg Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Every year I give Santa a list of Mosaics I'm interested in. This year I received the Crusaders set AND a 100.00 gift certificate for another Mosaic. Santa was bery, bery good to me this year. We got our daughter a kitten (a Persian--perfect temperament!). Although the kitten has been on the receiving end of too much love from our daughter now and then ('no, honey, hold the cat THIS way'), it is taking it all with a placid resignation. And with dignity Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Can't ask for more. Actually, there was one more thing, a Bear win over Green Bay! Perfect end to a weekend spent with friends and family. In my case, the Pistons whooped the Spurs, which was very nice! Quote
spinlps Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 After 72 whirlwind hours spent with family (ours, hers, mine) and finding out that you can serve an affordable Christmas dinner buying everything at Trader Joe's, that roasting a few chickens is way easier than one turkey, and that your 9 month old daughter has a voracious appetite for dim sum (roast pork & green onion crepes, fried taro, soy sauce noodles, and assorted dumplings, sho mai (sp?), and steamed veggies), I grabbed the toolbox this morning and started putting all the kids gifts together. Play tunnels, easels, feeding batteries into every gadget known to kid-kind... Also had a chance to listen to some of my gifts (not all at once of course)... Monk / Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (LP) Blakey - At The Jazz Corner of the World (2CD) Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell (2CD Conn) Dorham - 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (2CD) McPartland - Piano Jazz with Bill Evans (CD) Navarro - With Tadd Dameron (CD) Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard (2CD) Paul Chambers - Mosaic Select Bennie Green - Mosaic Select Norman Granz - The Complete Jam Sessions Also had a chance to leaf through... Milt Hinton - Bass Line iPod Therefore I Am and a hand full of Continuum's 33 1/3 series books Damn... out of AA's already!!! Grrrrr.... Quote
catesta Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 The George Foreman "Next Grilleration" ......... + clothes, and Gerald Wilson's "Portraits" cd. Quote
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