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Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band “More Never Recorded Arrangements For Benny Goodman, Volume Two” Arbors cd    

an old favorite, they wanted to create a perfect record. The transition from side A to Side b is otherworldy. 

Completely my opinion: CDs versus vinyl: I posted I played an Oscar Peterson, Time After Time CD I "inhereted" in "what are you listening to NOW" thread and this CD is an absolute mess, like someone drove over it, or tied it on the back of their back bumper along with any other empty soup cans and used shoes after getting married (like what other annoying noise can we add to attach to the back bumper to already add to the rattling on the back bumper, to tell everybody we're hitched? You have any so-so Oscar Peterson Pablo CDs honey? In fact, I do!!! Time After Time! I'll tie it to the back bumper right now, along with the empty soup cans and nasty shoes!) Whatever the case, I washed it and played it, and it played perfectly fine; I couldn't believe it! Now tell me this would be the same case listening to a scratched up/looking like a shitty piece of vinyl after driving over it with your car. First, that record ain't worth shit; secondly, even if the sleeve is salvageable, maybe worth a ham at most.  Moral of the story: it all depends on how you take of your stuff. CDs seem to have more give. You can drive over CDs with your car, yet they still play; one scratch on a slab of vinyl, it's ruined.  Botton line: In my opinion, I think this vinyl-revival is a quick, market to dum dums, make a quick buck, stupid-ass fad, which young dum dums are titillated by, until their scatter brains run their ADD course very quickly, and on to whatever else. I'm in no rush converting any format to anything else.   

COLD morning again.. I slept well but woke up at 5 and that was IT. Finally opened this new Lateef release and it sure sounds great! Yusef Lateef “Golden Flower, Live in Sweden” Elemental Music 2 cd set, disc 1   800×800 113 KB   For some reason it made me think of my first exposure to Lateef. Early on in my discovery of jazz I bought a Charlie Parker record on Charlie Parker Records that when I spun it was NOT Charlie Parker though that was what all the labeling said. It took me a while to discover it was a mis-labeled Yusef Lateef record!