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Thanks guys! Will definitely check out these places. Chris

Will be in NYC this weekend; don't really know the used (or new) cd stores there. Any recommendations? Will be in midtown manhattan and chinatown and in between, also in brooklyn. Thanks!

Another recommendation for Whistle Stop, one of my all-time favorites. I think KD sounds great on the Max Roach 4 plays Charlie Parker album too.

Dang, Talk about elusive...that Eddie Bert on Savoy is my nemesis...always just out of reach, taunting me...

There is a guy named Tim Kliphouse (Kliphuis...dutch I think), who captures the Hot Club Grappelli style very well. He performs with various gypsy jazz players (and sometimes in other contexts as well, I believe). I have him on Fapy Lafertin's recent cd "Fine and Dandy" which is magnificent. Fapy is an amazing Django style player, who also brings his own styleto it as well. I highly recommend this cd for a modern day sample of the classic Hot Club sound. I think Tim is coming to Birdland NYC this fall as part of their Django tribute. I wish Fapy would venture over here as well.

Thanks Sal for this thoughtful thread and thanks Larry for the fascinating reply. I have yet to hear Worktime and, to say the least, my appetite is whetted (or is that whet?).

Anyone heard back from Jon or Nirav about the availability of their choices? Maybe I was just too late, but I haven't heard anything either way.

Wow, really looking forward to some of these. Basra, Hi Voltage, True Blue, Feelin the Spirit and Like someone in love will be new to me and I have been looking forward to hearing 'em for awhile now!

I am looking for some inexpensive but effective cardio equipment...I bought a highly rated treadmill a couple years ago but it crapped out pretty quickly, so I think I will go for one of those bikes or an elliptical machine. I don't need the bells or whistles, just a machine that is reliable and where the exercise motion is comfortable. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I have been looking for that Joe Newman RCA set for a while!! Anyone seen one around??

Rob, Did you get the PM I sent yesterday? Chris

A bit off the subject of Roy Eldridge, but on the subject of time - I guess that this might explain why you don't hear any Jimmy Reed imitators/followers in the blues world these days. Jimmy Reed was a man who was never in a hurry, but he always got to where he was going.

For some reason, the first nice open-the-windows spring day makes me want to put on Magic Sam's West Side Soul. And it has for the last 25 years or so!

Extra copy! B)

Pimpin my Stitt auction for Endgame Brilliance. Ends monday am. Also japanese 24-bit version of Stitt's Personal Appearance w/ Timmons, Edgar Willis and Kenny Dennis. Auction

Thanks for the tips. I was able to hit Melody and Cd Warehouse (on M st.); finally found a copy of Stitt's Endgame Brilliance 2-fer! Will make a note to hit the other places hopefully on the next trip.

Any "don't miss" used cd stores in Dupont Circle or Georgetown for jazz (or other genres)???

Milt Jackson's Ballads and Blues/Bags and Flutes 2-fer on Collectables. Couple days ago: Frank Wess Jazz for Playboys, Ernie Wlikins Top Brass

Thanks guys!!

I lost out on an ebay auction for a Fresh Sound (Jo Jones Sextet) and want to try and find it somewhere.

All I can say is that I have never felt as sorry for a made guy in my life as I feel now for poor Bobby B. Janice is gonna destroy him. Hmmm, unless she finally gets _her_ comeuppance.

I have this one for sale...$8 bucks to US or Canada. PM if you like, it is a good one. Like Lon, I am chomping at the bit for the rest of the Lateef Savoys.

Exactly what are these things, you know, the ones with the blue tinted covers, some say "The Blue Note Collection." Are they just like US reissues from the same period? Who did the remastering, and with what sources? How do they compare with US or Japanese versions. Anybody have the scoop on these things? Thanks for sharing any info.

Couw, I think I understand exactly what you are saying re:Miles, although I have the opposite opinion. I like the spontaneity and ideas in Miles solos and his fragile, some say ugly tone. I seem to remember a similar, but opposite, sort of opinion concerning Dizzy, that he was not soulful enough and full of empty displays of virtuosity. There was also big thread (on BNBB I think) about Johnny Coles playing on Brooks' The Waiting Game and how lame (or great) it was. I am not a trumpeter, but I love to listen to it and I think one thing I enjoy the most is hearing all the different approaches to the instrument in terms of tone, technique and ideas. I do think Miles played with a lot of soul at times. I just listened to Something Else yesterday, and I think that that album could not have sounded just like it did without Miles. Like him or not, he contributed a lot more than just trumpet to the overall vibe of a session. I think Miles shared a trait with Lee Morgan sometimes, and that is the habit of haphazardly throwing out some ideas in the beginning of a solo and then challenging himself to find other ideas to make it all work. I can see how some of Miles' ideas might turn off some people in this way.

Up once more for exposure (for a couple days) and then off to ebay.