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The best seats would have cost you $4.80! That's about $48 in 2026 dollars. A great bargain for that bill. But I have to say, the idea of listening to an extended version of the creepy "Om" by that entourage somewhat scares me, though I'd certainly be down for the 35 minute "My Favorite Things".

Titans Of The Tenor and they draw two alto players?

90 minutes northwest of Philly, just north of Lancaster. Yes, Pete B. is a great guy.

Miles Davis “Miles in the Sky” Columbia/Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD

This has been my frustration. I asked it about a friend's 80s indie band who had a bit of a cult following. Everything it told me was a complete fabrication. It wasn't even like it had scraped bad information off the web - it just made a load of stuff up. On the other hand I've been using AI to find me relevant academic papers and write snippets of Python code and it's saved me days of work..

But... but... global warming is a hoax?

If I'd been in the neighbourhood I think I would have stumped up $2.50 for that bill.

Well now! https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-agents-social-media-platform-moltbook-rcna256738

Technically mine was the Don Cherry Complete BN Mosaics — all of two CD’s total!! But that was just to dip my toe in the pool with Mosaic, just to see what one of their sets even was like (and I’d never seen a jazz CD box set up close before, of any kind). But almost immediately after, I bought the Andrew Hill and Jackie McLean Mosaics (same order), and others not a year more later (I forget the chronology). So I really consider those Hill and McLean Mosaics as my first ‘real’ box sets.

That's FANTASTIC, Pim! Congrats on the new gear! I'm in the Rega club too. I have a "vintage" Planar 3 -- with a Dynavector 10X5 cartridge.

Tormé & Paich are a match made in heaven.

https://recordmecca.com/item-archives/john-coltrane-albert-ayler-sonny-rollins-1966-new-york-concert-handbill/ Carlos Ward and Pharoah were part of Trane's group too, along with the Aylers. Shepp might've sat in also, but I don't have my session index handy (at a café).

Congrats! That looks like an excellent table. For about ten years I've had a P3 with the Exact2 cartridge and the Groovetracer Reference sub-platter, counterweight and Delrin platter, and for the last two years the Neo2 motor controller and I use the newest top of the line Rega belt. Love the sound!

My first box set was the Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne and then the Smithsonian jazz one, all LP sets. My first two box sets, LP sets, were the Keith Jarrett "Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne" and the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic jazz." Soon after that I think were other LP sets, the Colunbia/Smithsonian Ellington sets, "1938,"1939," "1940" and "1941."

You are correct.

This one definitely doesn't disappoint!

Joel Ross "Gospel Music" Blue Note cd Just out yesterday. His releases never disappoint me.

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I like box sets a lot. First got into them in the classical genre. Don't recall my first jazz box set. I only deal with CDs, not vinyl. Having amassed lots of recordings, I'm beginning to downsize and box format has become important. I find Mosaics bulky and have stopped buying them unless something truly compelling is released. I prefer cardboard sleeves for the individual discs, a nice color booklet and compact outer box. The Julius Hemphill box on New World is practically a model in that respect. Listening-wise, once I pull a box off the shelf I generally prefer to listen to the whole thing. Barring the classical mega-boxes, which can include dozens of CDs. 🤪

I find boxsets increasingly valuable, especially if they're well done with good liners. The first box set I ever got was the Led Zeppelin 4 CD set from way back in 1990. It had unreleased songs and a great sequence to the individual tracks. I listened to it nonstop for a while and was hooked on box sets immediately after that. The first jazz box I got was probably the Moncur Mosaic Select, which hooked me on their reissues. I definitely prefer CD boxsets over LP. Space issues and just overall accessibility of the box set lends itself to CDs better for my uses.

Books and CD’s were the first thing we packed — about 50 cubic feet of boxes, iirc. And that was AFTER we donated or sold off 20 cubic feet (combined) of books and CD’s. I only have about 200 LP’s (if that even) — and of those, only about 50 are ones I especially wanted to keep (but I’m probably gonna wait to get to Pittsburgh before I thin out the LP’s — mostly in the interest of time).