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  1. Do you regularly sell CDs on here? Are your prices commensurate with others? I hundreds and hundreds of jazz and classical CDs I'd like to part with. And, like you, I know the good and rare stuff when I see it. I hope to reach an enlightened community. Your thoughts?

  2. I haven't seen mentioned: Joe Maini Charlie Mariano Eric Kloss Lou Donaldson Tom Chapin Douglas Ewart
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    Elvin is dead

    Losing Elvin is more than losing yet another great jazz artist. Elvin Jones was an elemental force of nature. The world has lost a part of its strength, its rawness, and its complex truth.
  4. Three of my favorite pianists! I've never thought of Geri Allen influenced by Marilyn Crispell. Now that you mention it, I'm trying to see the connection, but I don't. I see a closer kinship with Myra, perhaps. While Geri has her dissonant and percussive side, she swings more than the other two. I'm not sure to whom to compare her, but Cecil Taylor is not one of them. Perhaps my view of Geri Allen is tainted by my knowledge of her marriage to Wallace Roney. I like Wallace Roney (kinda), but the thought of them as a couple strikes me as so suburban. (Of course artists have to live, and the romantic notion of the bohemian squalor of the true artiste is not fair.) But Roney's retro-Miles style makes me unfairly question Allen's integrity. I forget what record hipped me to Geri Allen, but it was one of those times when you hear a solo and say, "Who the hell was that?" Returning to my "suburban" cheap shot, I'll say that if Geri was listening to Marilyn, those LP's are gathering dust in the garage along with the Parliament records left over from her pre-Wallace days. Myra Melford -- maybe. I can imagine Myra listining to Marilyn, and of course, to Cecil. Myra seems to have found the perfect complement to her lyricism in Marty Ehrlich. But it's not the same kind of impressionistic lyricism we find in the Marilyn of "nothing ever was...anyway" or "Amaryllis." Ok, folks, go ahead and tell me I'm full of it.
  5. Find the Jaki Byard Experience album! There is no no-nonsense Kirk. It's just a question of the point at which the nonsense overwhelms the jazz. I prefer mine well-done (Rip, Rig & Panic, Mercury sides). If you're a fan of Rahsaan's tenor, dig into Parisian Thoroughfare or Teach Me Tonight on the Byard
  6. I'd agree with Pete C. on Rip, Rig and Panic (available with the underrated Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith). I'd put Domino and We Free Kings in there too. But here are 3 I rarely see mentioned: Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler: A Meeting of the Times (available as a Collectible album combined with -- of all things -- Ornette! i.e. the Atlantic Ornette! album, not Coleman meets Kirk.) Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon on Impulse (1961?) with Kirk, Tommy Flanagan and Henry Grimes Jaki Byard Experience: on Prestige with Kirk, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson Rahsaan was an irrepressible cat -- don't be fooled into labeling him a sideman on these disks.
  7. I have a friend who asked me to turn him on to jazz. He has an extensive classical music collection. He's one of those guys who has 5 sets of the late Beethoven piano sonatas and claims he can tell the difference between them. (Me, too...but sometimes I wonder if our discernment is limited only to the broad strokes.) So I lent him Brilliant Corners: minimalism, complexity, humor, invention. What could be better? He didn't get it. Could this be a vitamin deficiency?
  8. I had an 8-track of Sonny Rollins on RCA (Now's the Time?) -- the stuff reissued on Sonny Rollins & Co 1964 and Alternatives. I'd listen to it over and over in my cool 1969 Pontiac Tempest. No wonder I'm this way.
  9. My favorite score is John Carter's "Fields" album at a public library sale of unwanted items for $1. Yee-hah!
  10. Anybody heard of parody album called J.U.N.K.: Jazz University's New Kicks? I remember an LP in the 60's of a JATP-type jam featuring such luminaries as Can-E-Ball Naturally and The Lonliest Plunk. I seem to recall that it appeared on one of the Chess/Checker/Cadet/Argo labels. Any ideas on either its availability or who the mystery musicians were who made it?
  11. I have yet to find this on CD -- anywhere. I need to listen to the LP again. I've been so obsessed with finding it on CD, I need to remember whether it's worth seeking like the Holy Grail, or its unavailability has made it more dear to me.
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