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I listened to Essra Mohwk's (Sandra Hurwitz) first two albums and thought she and Sill were doing two very different things. I found Sill's first two albums to be vastly superior musically to Mohawk 's pounding out minor 11th chords and wailing out unmemorable melodies. As Robert Christgau said of her, ""Here is a vocalist who should throw away all her Leon Russell records. When she calls herself a 'full-fledged woman,' it sounds like 'pool player's' woman, which given her persona makes more sense."[ Also, lumping her in with Judee Sill as a 'forgotten singer/songwriter' makes no sense, as she released twelve albums in her long career as a singer/songwriter, and had gigs with, as background vocalist and lead vocalist, such well-known artists as Carole King, The Grateful Dead, Kool and the Gang and John Mellencamp. There is also the fact that she was a beautiful woman, and had a relationship with Frank Zappa, who encouraged her and signed her up with his record company Bizarre Records. She even sang with The Mothers for a while. Sill, on the other hand was not what you'd call an attractive woman, was ignored by Zappa (even though her husband played keyboards with the MOI), and she publicly outed the head of the record company she was signed with (David Geffen of Asylum Records) calling him a"little,fat fag who wore pink shoes", causing him to drop all advertising for her records, which resulted in poor sales. I don't know of anyone who ever heard of her who lived outside of her tiny contingent of fans in a small section of California. Sill also had the same addiction problems her husband had, and severe back problems from a car accident. It also hurt both singer/songwriters that they were not playing what was then considered 'commercial' music. A few of the same sidemen on both albums ; Eddie on Bass, the mysterious Donald McDonald on Drums , and Steig on winds. I'm referring to the Jeremy and the Satyrs album and Sandy Hurvitz' first album on Reprise. If anyone knows what became of McDonald, please chime in here. I can't find anything about him anywhere,

Sorry, another hockey thing. "Habs" used to be a common way of referring to the Canadiens. I always thought it was based on 'Les Habitants, the informal name given in the 17th century to the original settlers of "New France"', but apparently the history is murky. The 1970s Canadiens dynasty with Dryden as goaltender is "legendary", no exaggeration. Really great teams.

I Googled Habs, thinking that it might mean Habaneros. But it didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens According to About.com, the first man to refer to the team as "the Habs" was American Tex Rickard, owner of the Madison Square Garden, in 1924. Rickard apparently told a reporter that the "H" on the Canadiens' sweaters was for "Habitants".[59] In French, the "Habitants" nickname dates back to at least 1914, when it was printed in Le Devoir to report a 9–3 win over Toronto on the ninth of February.[60][61] hab·i·tant noun plural noun: habitants 1. archaic an inhabitant. 2. an early French settler in Canada (especially Quebec) or Louisiana. "the habitant farmhouses of old Quebec" Origin

I don't know what "Habs Legend" means!?!?

I too will fall prey to the Estate once again: Axis Bold As Love is one of my all-time favorites.

No, Lucille passed in 2004. Sonny Rollins supposedly lives in or near Woodstock, NY, less than an hour from me. But he is extremely private, and I don't know anyone who's seen him around the town.

Sorry. I thought "(Habs Legend)" in the thread title sufficed to rule out forum Ken. Going from the number of views, it obviously didn't. Apologies again. [I'd expect a hockey thread here to get around a dozen views, and this got 700+ so far?]

I found the last box set to have very good sound. I'm in for this one. I'm a huge Hendrix nut with lots of boots. . . I buy what the estate puts out.

I have the recent (2018) Analogue Productions SACD. This has the original stereo & mono mixes and I think sounds great. On top of that, the Hendrix family's digital releases, so far, have not sounded very good to me at all, with all of them having boosted audio, which I find very fatiguing. I'm definitely not buying this one.

Thank you! The Sarah Vaughan box set is now sold.

Verve - X 253 (Japan 1993) - Buddy DeFranco & Hank D'Amico " Modern Clarinets" - rec. 1953 & 1947

“Legends of Acid Jazz–Rusty Bryant, Vol. 2” Prestige OJC cd Originally released as Fire-Eater and Wildfire

In Stockholm 1960 complete grey market on Dragon 4 discs $50 M Paypal US only At Newport 1955-1975 VG $40 Paypal US only Complete In A Silent Way VG $35 Paypal US only Quintet 1965-68 M $40 Paypal US only Seven Steps M $110 Paypal US only

All five $100 shipped

PM sent on Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury, Vol, 1: Great Jazz Years, 1954-1956 (6 CD, Mercury, 1985) CDs and jewel cases: Excellent Slipcase: Very Good. Slipcase has some shelf wear to corners. $35

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Fillmore VG+ $25 shipped Paypal US only Complete on the Corner VG+ $230 shipped Paypal US only Cellar Door Sessions 1970 VG $120 shipped Paypal US only Or $350 gets everything

All of the sets are M condition, Paypal, US only, $25 each shipped, 5 for $100 August 10,2003 Special guest Branford Marsalis August 24, 2004 October 4,2004 October 10,2004 August 26, 2005 Special guest Juke Horns June 27, 2006 Special guest Roy Haynes March12,2009 Special guests Buddy Guy Trey Anastasio March 14, 2009 Special guests Robert Randolph Stanley Clarke Randy Brecker Adam Nussbaum March 19, 2009 Special guest Eric Clapton March 20, 2009 Special guest Eric Clapton April 17, 2020 Special guests Johnny Winter Jimmy Herring March 18, 2011 Special guest John Scofield March 16, 2012 Special guests Bill Evans Nels Cline July 28, 2012 Special guests Carlos Santana Bill Evans Michael Carabello March 8, 2013