Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation, just out. As classic as can be and just about perfect.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/howard-mcgh ... Bq9SvmH58E

Has anybody heard this? Sounds very promising!

Sean Jones, trumpet; JD Allen, tenor sax; Orrin Evans, piano; Luques Curtis, bass; Bill Stewart, drums. Recorded at Smoke, NYC. This is a live date recorded around the very end of 2013 and just released in August. If you like mainstream, swinging jazz, this is for you. Stylistically, it's the 1960's...

Thanks, Ron! I'll have a look.

I don't know. There are too many worthy individuals to include them all...

Hello, everyone. It's been a long time since I checked in... :oops: But here I am to solicit your feedback for a presentation I'm preparing. The context: my company (something like 1400 employees) has a "Cultural Association", partially funded by management, organized by employees. Last ye...

I haven't heard the CD yet, but I saw them in concert when they were touring Europe prior to recording the music. It sounded lovely, and since they were at the start of their tour when I saw them, it could only have gotten better!

Stanton Moore, Conversations (Royal Potato Family records) Stanton Moore, drums; David Torkanowsky, piano; James Singleton, bass. 2014. We all know the trademark New Orleans drum style, featuring the famous "second-line beat": that sly, bouncing, instantly recognizable brand of syncopatio...

Just checking in for the first time since mid-December, haven't even read this entire thread yet. But yes, let's keep it going, if at all possible!

Got nothing against Rollins, but saying he's better than Coltrane is like saying Ford is better than Ferrari. "Better than" is of course silly at that level. But I would say that Rollins and Coltrane had very different strengths. To me Rollins had a kind of sardonic wit that is part and p...

Scott, you need to check out more Rollins! A guy I work with also worships at the feet of Coltrane. He feels that other jazz musicians are mere mortals, pleasant enough but NOT COLTRANE. I'm going to work on him, though. Do you know "East Broadway Run Down"? 1966, with Garrison, Elvin, and...

Late-50's Rollins is just unbeatable. Just the two years of 1956 and 1957: Played in the groups of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk ("Brilliant Corners"), and Max Roach ("Live at Basin Street"). Also recorded with Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt, and Abbey Lincoln. His own ...

I must admit that slamming one's testicles against another person's face during that intimate moment could indeed be classified as a "lewd act."

But is the teabagger the person slamming or the person being slammed? Or both?

So this guy wrote a letter to Obama criticizing this, that and so forth. Obama sent back a hand-written reply in which (echoing the language of the letter-writer) he referred to "tea-baggers." A newspaper article says this: "‘Tea-bagging’ commonly refers to a lewd sexual act. Since th...

And while most of us are indeed either paranoid, psychotic or both (I resemble that remark), one doesn't have to be either to be really really careful with Turkey. Sadly, one reason is the wretched conditions in American factory farms, another is the very nature of poultry manufacture. [...] Check ...

First of all, happy Thanksgiving, y'all. Here in Europe it's just another working day, but Yanks usually celebrate on the weekend. Every year my American friend Jonell invites a bunch of people to her house in Chartres for a big Thanksgiving meal on Saturday night, leftovers eaten for lunch the foll...

That's a coincidence, someone recently recommended "Michael Strogoff" specifically to my son (an adult). He chanced upon a cheap used paperback copy at a flea market and is now reading it.

I read somewhere that the reason iTunes stands out among Apple products in its sucky interface is that it was developed by another company that Apple acquired and was then just rebranded. And indeed Wikipedia confirms this: "SoundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Gr...

Now there's a man with his feet on the ground. I followed the New York Mets in 1968 and 1969. I was 10 and 11. It was the right time to root for the Mets. After that I lost interest and have followed no sports at all in the intervening years. The only exception is if France is in the World Cup. When...

Yeah, that Flanagan guy wasn't too bad. George Colligan has a new one one out with Larry Grenadier and Jack DeJohnette that sounds very nice. Oh, and one of my favorites is a Kenny Werner trio from 1995 called "Live at Visiones," with Ratzo Harris and Tom Rainey. Imaginative journeys throu...

Doug, you left out "McHale's Navy" and "Gilligan's Island."

I was like Monte. From an early age I picked up the nearest book and read it. If it was too far above my reading or experience level, I dropped it and went on to the next, but I never really thought about whether it was adult or not. I do remember page 23 of the paperback version of "The Godfat...

I began in 1994, I think, but at the time the only game in town was Compuserve, so not really the Internet. I had heard about a brilliant new application called Mosaic, but couldn't figure out how it all worked. I bought a Dummies-style book about the Internet and it drove me crazy because they didn...

My preferred junk food is salty, greasy and crunchy. Chips, pretzels, crackers, that sort of thing. And peanuts. I would eat lots of that stuff if it had no effect on my weight or health. I have no attraction to sugary junk food.

I thought you were referring to "adult" content. I guess you mean not cartoons? Because Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke I watched when I was a child