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  1. I've been looking at the old threads here regarding the MM/RVG debate in terms of mastering quality and noticed there were a few select titles (like Somethin' Else) where it appears the MM version is the keeper. I just bought a bunch of used titles and got the following 4 as MMs instead of RVGs: Donald Byrd Fuego Donald Byrd At the Half Note Cafe Vols 1 & 2 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers A Night In Tunisia Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers The Big Beat Has anybody had both versions of any of these titles and which one did you keep? Also, any MMs I should seek out instead of the RVG version?
  2. Peter, Check your PM re: Blakey/Gordon VEE CD. Thanks. It's on the bottom of page 15 of the Blakey cds.
  3. 34 with tinnitus and I can hear it very clearly.
  4. http://www.freep.com/article/20100304/ENT04/100304043/1320/Dramatics-founder-Ron-Banks-dead Dramatics founder Ron Banks dead at 58 By BRIAN McCOLLUM Free Press Pop Music Writer Ron Banks, whose silky falsetto helped give the Dramatics one of the most enduring careers in R&B, has died at home in Detroit. He was 58. Banks died at about noon today, possibly of a massive heart attack, said Billy Wilson, president of the Motown Alumni Association. The Northern High School graduate was the founder of the Detroit vocal group, which made a name in the mid-'60s and went on to play for avid audiences around the country. Aside from a short break in the mid-1980s, the group has worked continuously since its early days playing Chene Street nightclubs, and has been a staple of the annual '70s Soul Jam revue tours. Banks' last hometown gig with the Dramatics was a November show at MotorCity Casino's Sound Board venue. Banks, thought to be in normal health, was at home with his family when he abruptly passed out, said fellow Dramatics singer L.J. Reynolds, who had spoken with Banks by phone just minutes earlier. "He seemed just like himself -- very upbeat," Reynolds said. Banks' sweet voice and smooth choreography helped distinguish the Dramatics, particularly on Detroit's post-Motown scene of the 1970s, when the group enjoyed crossover pop success with songs such as "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" and "In the Rain." "They stayed true to what they did," said Cliff Green, 59, a Detroit fan of the group. "They didn’t try to keep up with the times, even after the rappers and techno artists came out and took music a different way. Ron Banks and the Dramatics stayed true to what they did. You could still fall in love while listening to their music. They put you in that groove.” Tall and strapping, with a vocal delivery inspired by the Temptations' Eddie Kendricks, Banks was well-liked among fellow musicians and industry personnel. He was a partner in Hitsville Ventures with Wilson and Detroit entrepreneur Herb Strather. "He really was a wonderful person," said Wilson. "You know, people who have been in the business awhile can be cocky and arrogant. But he stayed beautiful, always. Even during the tense moments in the group's career, he just remained cool and calm. "The Dramatics are one of the few groups that can pull a crowd of 5,000 people doing traditional R&B music. A lot of the older groups have a difficult time doing that by themselves. They have a very, very loyal following, particularly here. We're just devastated by this news." Banks is survived by his wife, Sandy Banks, four daughters and two sons. He was preceded in death by Dramatics members Elbert Wilkins, William (Wee Gee) Howard and James Mack Brown.
  5. KCSM's Pete Fallico just announced on the air that jazz organist and ex-wife of George Coleman, Gloria Coleman, had passed away earlier this month. He knew her personally, even produced one of her later sessions, and had gotten word from the family. Time to give "Soul Sisters" a spin.
  6. Quincy, what were you thinking? If this does not convince you about the sad state that pop music is in, nothing will. It's a better idea just to support Haiti directly.
  7. Congrats to Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith, the newest and most deserving 1st ballot HOFers along with John Randle, Russ Grimm, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau.
  8. That Pearson Select is criminally underrrated! Grab it while you can as it was one of the ones that vanished w/out warning in that masters debacle and goes for big sums on the Bay. Edit: Gone! Wow that was f&(*%%$ fast!
  9. No. I'm being force-fed it through the situation somehow being front page news. I'm not watching it.
  10. In the midst of all that is happpening in the world today, it's sad to see all these multimillionaires quarreling, being petty, and complaining about getting "screwed". http://tv.gawker.com/5448615/jay-leno-turns-the-tables-bashes-conan-obrien-with-biting-monologue
  11. Such a tragic life... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34854358/ns/entertainment-music/ Teddy Pendergrass dies in Pa. at 59 Singer was paralyzed in 1982, underwent colon cancer surgery last year PHILADELPHIA - Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday at age 59. The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father died at Bryn Mawr Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. The singer underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had "a difficult recovery," his son said. "To all his fans who loved his music, thank you," his son said. "He will live on through his music." Pendergrass suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed from the waist down in the 1982 car accident. He spent six months in a hospital but returned to recording the next year with the album "Love Language." He returned to the stage at the Live Aid concert in 1985, performing from his wheelchair. Pendergrass later founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, an organization whose mission is to encourage and help people with spinal chord injuries achieve their maximum potential in education, employment, housing, productivity and independence, according to its Web site. Pendergrass gained popularity first as a member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on songs including "If You Don't Know Me by Now," but it was his solo hits that brought him his greatest fame. With songs such as "Love T.K.O.," "Close the Door" and "I Don't Love You Anymore," he came to define a new era of black male singers with his powerful, aggressive vocals that spoke to virility, not vulnerability. His lyrics were never coarse, as those of later male R&B stars would be, but they had a sensual nature that bordered on erotic without being explicit. "Turn Off the Lights" was a tune that perhaps best represented the many moods of Pendergrass — tender and coaxing yet strong as the song reached its climax. Pendergrass made women swoon with each note, and his concerts were a testament to that adulation, with infamous stories of women throwing their underwear on stage for his affection.
  12. http://www.offbeat.com/2010/01/05/willie-mitchell-legendary-producer-at-hi-records-royal-studio-memphis-passes-away/ Willie Mitchell Legendary Producer at Hi Records & Royal Studio, Memphis Passes Away 05 January 2010 — by Ben Berman Willie Mitchell, a towering figure in soul and R&B music passed away this morning at the age of 81. USA Today reports that passed at 7:25am Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Born in 1928 in Ashland, Mississippi, Mitchell spent almost his entire life in Memphis, and had a large hand in making the city one of the capitals of soul music. He is most famous for his career as artist and producer at Memphis’ Hi Records, for whom he produced all of Al Green’s classic albums from the late ’60s through late ’70s. He was co-owner of the Hi Records label from 1970-1979, and owner of Royal Recording Studios in Memphis, where had continued to produce music until suffering a cardiac arrest in December, 2009. In addition to his production for Al Green, he also worked on records by Rod Stewart, Keith Richards, Bob Seger, Paul Butterfield, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, John Mayer, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmy McCracklin, and many more.
  13. I'm so confused w/ all the options and hype out there. They all seem to be very close in terms of cost and I am in the market for a new smartphone as my regular plan just expired several days ago. What's the best smartphone? iPhone? Droid? BlackBerry? Palm Pre? What's the best plan? AT&T? Sprint Nextel? Verizon? T-Mobile? It looks like Sprint is the cheapest with their $60 flat rate "Unlimited Everything" plan whereas other companies hit you with the $30 data plan on top of your regular bill, but I dunno. Any O-Board members can chime in w/ their advice and experience on shopping around?
  14. I bought a "lot" of 40 comic books on eBay recently. These were described as mint and in perfect condition and all bagged & boarded by a top-rated seller who had 100% positive feedback with a total number of raters over 900. So I pulled the trigger as my past experience buying collectibles on there was stellar. To my surprise, I got the package yesterday and they were anything but. The condition of the books were poor and that's an understatement. Now, the purchase is covered by PayPal and they promise to refund your original ship fees along with the purchase price you paid as long as you pay return shipping on the item. The seller has a different return policy and won't pay the original ship fees. Going through PayPal would require me to open a formal dispute. I'd rather talk to the seller first. Has anyone encountered a dilemma like this? Thanks guys!
  15. Meanwhile, Steve Phillips is in hot water again. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/1...ex_scandal.html
  16. Jazz Loft is good, but not perfect either. They had a Pullen Select listed in stock shortly after this thread started. I placed an order for it, got a order in process notice and received the OOS e-mail two days later.
  17. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9081002981.html Versatile Musician Was a Force in Folk Revival By Joe Holley Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Mike Seeger, 75, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Aug. 7 of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. The younger half brother of folk musician Pete Seeger and part of a renowned musical family, Mr. Seeger dedicated his life to documenting, teaching and keeping alive traditional music of the American South. The interwoven strands of Anglo-American ballads from the Appalachian hills and hollers, the blues laments of black people in the rural South and the gospel sounds of both black and white churches made up what he called the "true vine" of American music. A singer and an instrumentalist, he was once described as a "one-man folk festival." He played banjo, fiddle, guitar, autoharp, jew's-harp, quills, dulcimer, mandolin and harmonica, and recorded extensively on Folkways Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. He made a number of recordings in the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the folk revival ensemble the New Lost City Ramblers. Mr. Seeger influenced a number of musicians, including the young Bob Dylan. "Sometimes you know things have to change. . . . Somebody holds the mirror up, unlocks the door and your head has to go into a different place," Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir, "Chronicles: Volume One." "Mike Seeger had that effect on me. He played on all the various planes, the full index of the old-time styles, [and] he played these songs as good as it was possible to play them. What I had to work at, Mike already had in his genes." Michael Seeger was born Aug. 15, 1933, in New York. His father, Charles Seeger, was an ethnomusicologist who once headed the folklore and ethnomusicology department at UCLA; his mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a noted composer and folk song collector. Mr. Seeger and his two sisters grew up immersed in music. In 1935, the family moved to Chevy Chase when Charles Seeger took a position with the Works Progress Administration in the Roosevelt administration. "Exciting people were always dropping in," Mike Seeger's sister Peggy, who also became a prominent folk singer, told Folkways Magazine. "Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, Bess Hawes, Henry and Sidney Cowell, John and Alan Lomax, Lee Hays, composers and writers . . . and, of course, beloved Pete, our tall exotic half-brother, with his long, long-necked banjo and his big, big feet stamping at the end of his long, long legs." In high school, Mr. Seeger left Chevy Chase for an alternative school in Vermont and at age 18 began teaching himself to play stringed instruments. He and Peggy were soon playing for square dances. At about 20, he began collecting songs on a tape recorder from traditional musicians he encountered in the Washington area. Among his discoveries was Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, who had learned to play the guitar -- left-handed and upside down -- as a youngster growing up in rural North Carolina and then had put the instrument aside for the next half-century. He had met Cotten in the late 1940s at Lansburgh's department store in Washington when Mr. Seeger's mother had taken her three children shopping at Christmas. Peggy wandered off, and Cotten, who was selling dolls at Landburgh's, brought her back. Cotten became the Seegers' housekeeper, and Mike Seeger eventually taped her singing and playing. She became a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter whose classic "Freight Train" had an enormous impact on folk music. Cotten and Mr. Seeger celebrated her 90th birthday in 1983 by touring from New York to Hawaii. She died in 1987 at age 95. Mr. Seeger, who was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, worked briefly in radio and in 1958 formed the New Lost City Ramblers with fellow traditional music enthusiasts John Cohen and Tom Paley. The Ramblers came together with "the explicit intention of performing American folk music as it had sounded before the inroads of radio, movies and television had begun to homogenize out diverse regional folkways," said Jeff Place, head archivist for the Smithsonian's folklife collections. Relying primarily on Library of Congress field recordings and 78 rpm "old time" and "race" records from the 1920s and 1930s, the Ramblers revived a vast repertoire of songs and playing styles by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers and Ernest Stoneman and his Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers. The Ramblers also modernized the repertoire with their own compositions, including a mock-patriotic ditty called "If George Washington Slept in All the Places He Said He Did, It's No Wonder He's the Father of Our Country." The Ramblers continued to play, with occasional periods of inactivity, into the 1990s. Mr. Seeger produced 36 documentary recordings and 51 recordings of his own, including "Tipple, Loom and Rail" (1966), a collection of songs about coal mines, cotton mills and railroads, and his Grammy-nominated "Solo: Old-Time Country Music" (1991). His "Retrograss" (1999), produced in collaboration with David Grisman and John Hartford, recast rock-and-roll songs by Chuck Berry and the Beatles into old-time musical styles. Mr. Seeger was nominated for six Grammy Awards and, shortly before his death, received the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. His marriages to Marge Marsh Seeger and Alice Gerrard Seeger ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 14 years, Alexia Smith of Lexington; three sons from his first marriage, Kim Seeger of Tivoli, N.Y., Chris Arley Seeger of Rockville Centre, N.Y., and Jeremy Seeger of Bellevue, Mass.; four stepchildren, Cory Foster of Ithaca, N.Y., Jenny Foster of Rockville, Joel Foster of Silver Spring and Jesse Foster of the District; two sisters; two half brothers; and 13 grandchildren.
  18. http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclu...opup?showid=827
  19. You didn't like the Jimmy Woods, John (or was that an extra copy)? I just got mine and think it's a superb date. With a lineup like that, you can't go wrong.
  20. You think you got it bad, an oldies.com agent broke into my room and confiscated all my K2s, OJC, OBC, Stax and CCR CDs and box sets. They also demanded all the Fantasy CDs that I have traded away or sold returned to them within 5 days or they're gonna bring the "pain" by hitting my CC for 2 times SRP. I need to find a lawyer.
  21. Dee Dee Bellson, Louie's daughter w/Pearl Bailey, has passed too. http://www.legacy.com/GoDanRiver/DeathNoti...sonId=129674909
  22. trane_fanatic

    Elmo Hope

    Heard on Jim Bennett's show on KPFA that it's his birthday today.
  23. A few more I don't see on the lists: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast With Bill Evans Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast With Dave Brubeck The Rance Allen Group Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul
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