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I just logged into the forum to start a thread. Thanks for getting one going. RIP. Sad loss, sorely missed indeed. I've gotten out of touch with popular culture, but I loved the old SCTV shows, which is how I got familiar with her. Plus more recently the "mockumentary" films Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind.

If someone is considering a concert and/or recording, would you have some points of contact for publishing? Thanks.

A duo of Jobim recordings. Both from Universal Japan on SHM-CD. First “Jobim” (aka “Matita Perê” in the Brazilian edition) 301×282 51.7 KB 400×400 29.4 KB Followed by “Passarim” I will never tire of listening to these.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/catherine-ohara-comedy-star-home-alone-schitts-creek-dies-71-rcna256748 Serious chops. Serious. She will be sorely missed.

OK, nothing special.

Me too. I'd like a handful of more volumes from throughout the Columbia period.

I'd still like a Bootleg Series release from the so_called Electric Jungle period.

Max on fire!!!

I have the America pressing also. America/Musidisc reissued several Debut and Fantasy titles in France, in addition to a bunch of new recordings from Shepp, the AEC, Dave Burrell, Frank Wright, Alan Shorter... excellent series.

+1. I have so many of those great Kent anthology CD's on my shelves, and they now put out maybe 1-2 discs a year that is of interest to me. May be that the market is pretty dried up for that sort of release.

We never see these amounts of snow in the Netherlands. We also got the tempering influence of the warmer North Sea. Though I’m not looking for extremes like these, I really miss some more winter like weather here sometimes. The winter mostly feels like an extended autumn most of the times with boring grey rainy days.

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When I saw their monthly email this morning I totally thought of you. On a related note, outside of the topic at hand: I really have to unsubscribe from Ace Records. Its probably 3 years now since they released a new blues or R&B comp. Like, at all. Ace Records that doesn't issue new/old music in those genres is enormously disappointing to me.

As a record fan it would be nice to have affordable vinyl reissues of some of the posthumous Impulse albums - Stellar Regions, Living Space, Olatunji, Offering etc. Though I appreciate these may not be strong commercial propositions and not a good starting point if labels are hoping to attract new listeners.

I grew up in Massachusetts & lived most of my life up in New England. This is far from the worst storm I've cleaned up after. In fact, I doubt it would even crack the top 20. Funny thing is, we moved up to Maine near the water to get away from storms like this. This snow was an outlier. We've been here 9 years and never really had a snow storm that dumped anything over a foot. The ocean water temps have generally protected us from this. There have been storms where we've had a slushy mix while 5 miles inland got a foot. This storm was a fluke in that it dumped a bunch of snow because it was over the ocean - a very unusual occurrence.

John Plonsky Quintet with Betty Ann Blake - Cool Man Cool

Here's me hoping Ravi has a suprise for us....

Oh yes Kevin we all feel very sorry for you being on a cruise with tropical temperatures, mixed drinks and live jazz music. Poor you! 🤪 But seriously, I hope you have dug your way into your house 😬

Have you packed all your cds/vinyl carefully/secure/safely? That's all that matters Good luck moving there.

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/eternal-journey--the-arrangements-and-productions-of-charles-stepney-1 This should be interesting, though they missed badly on the Terry Callier selections (How do you not select "Dancing Girl", which is Stepney's masterpiece, and "Alley-Wind Song" for this set?), and on the Dells ("I Can Sing A Rainbow/Love is Blue" is inexplicably absent).

I love my boxed sets but must say I never listen to a complete boxed set: mostly individual discs. Boxed sets must be pieces of art to me that really distinct in artwork or liners. If it's just music only in chronological order I prefer the seperate sessions. I also like if if they compile music that's pretty hard to obtain. The Byard Lancaster set by Souffle Continu is an example of an essential boxed set I must say. I havent ripped a cd since streaming is avaible. The places where I stream I don't play much jazz: in the gym and in the car. Jazz doesn't work in the gym for me and my car has awful sound for jazz music. I play jazz at home and i'd prefer to pick out a cd or an lp instead of playing digital files from my computer.

There would be a lot to say ... In brief, I find them convenient for exploring an artist or a musical area in a comprehensive manner (provided the box sets are compiled thoughtfully), and those that come with just as comprehensive liner notes (often not just booklets but BOOKS) are not just an audible but also a visual treat. Though the investments sometimes are heavy ... if bought new. When found secondhand, anything is possible, either they soar in price or they can be found dirt cheap (such as about a year ago when I came across the 4-CD box set of "Sidney Bechet in Switzerland" in mint condition for a measly 10 Euros at our local record shop - but in the music BOOKS section because they clearly had taken it to be a BOOK ). And FWIW, I still like or even love my VINYL box sets too. There were some nice ones there too. But of course you cannot reshuffle their contents the way you do with yours. OTOH, sometimes these box sets even turn out to be the most economical way of purchasing a chunk of music (and I am not at all talking about Public Domain label multi-CD compilations, though some of these "XX classic albums by YY" are convenient too). Way more affordable than buying the individual CDs or LPs that made up the box set. Both new or secondhand. So sometimes it pays if you did not (or were unable to) snap up certain items right after they were released but quite a while later when they had progressed from several individual records to all in one box set.

Pre-internet, I bought a Japanese book on the Riverside discography from Tower Records. It was invaluable to see even the album covers and personnel for albums I never knew existed. But as Lou Reed sang "those were different times". I'm too old, tired, and sated for all of that!