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Have this, puts me in the mood, a good one! NP

I helped the author - providing recordings and photos - so I plan to pick this up probably out of Christmas Amazon gift card. I don't know if it will be at the top of my reading stack but I will post when I get to it. BTW I started a thread in the Jazz in Print subforum.

Unfortunately, I've never heard Blakey play live, but from recordings, I think Blakey's playing from the 80s onward occasionally featured off-rhythm or unstable moments. If it's a decline in hearing, that makes sense.

and in 60 years, historians may read this post and speculate whether it was one of the triggers for the miserable documentation of discographical data in the 2030s but, yes, the hobby historian in me also only comes out for the old stuff, it's what hobby historians do

For contemporary music, it does not bother me. When artists were playing and even revording on a daily or weekly basis, it made sense to refer to sessions by exact dates - today, alas, it is not really relevant.

As Bertrand said. I like Junior Cook's playing a lot. Would love to get some reviews of this book before laying out the money.

This is a REALLY good set!

The Last Mile is not in sight in this neighborhood!!! I don't see the efficiency either. I routinely see drivers park, get several deliveries in hand, and then sprint between houses before getting back on the truck and then moving on to do it again. Brave new world, this is

Mixed feelings about the orchestra side, I get that. But that quartet side is something else again!

Haven't heard it in just about a couple decades, I would gladly grab a copy next time I see it around. But I too remember having mixed feelings.

I just mentioned it because I was reading in the NYT about drones, they answered a series of reader questions about them and one was what about shooting them down. I think it also said that your drone operator has to be in sight of the drone at all times, so how exactly is Amazon doing this in a cost effective manner, I wonder. I mean is it that much easier to pull in a development and dispatch drones for the Last Mile?

I've got some neighbors who are pretty aggressive 2nd amendment types. Like REALLY aggressive. It would be the randomness of any shots that would worry me. Greetings from Texas.

Anyone who shoots at a drone is guilty of a Federal crime. You'd be pretty stupid to do that though I imagine that it might be hard to know who did it if you don't also have eyes on the property from whence the shots come.

I also have CDrs that are over 30 years old with no deterioration. In fact I have never experienced any deterioration in any CDs or CDrs.

Anybody else have one of these for sale??

Anybody else getting emails touting the current availability of a drone delivery option from Amazon on many items? I worry about gunshots from some of my more...paranoid?....neighbors. But I admit to finding it just a little odd to think about. Odd, but maybe cool too.

I like it a very lot, especially the quartet side. Top-shelf imo. That mouthpiece? Maybe a metal Selmer?

Thanks. I ordered the paperback.

https://sunypress.edu/Books/L/Listening-to-Prestige Also available thru Amazon and shipping the beginning of January. While I am not finding the thread, his prior effort Jazz With a Beat was discussed here earlier this year IIRC. Definitely a will-buy and sooner rather than later.

Maria João, Aki Takase: Looking For Love. Enja Records enja CD 5075-52 [Germany 1988]

Whaat's the source of the Deep South Suite?

Thanks. IIRC (and again, I often don't), Vertigo was also shot in VistaVision and I saw it screened at the Academy's Goldwyn Theater several years ago.