Ron S

Only if you're buyin'.

I find your avatar highly and personally offensive. It's the same colors as yours! You just see everything as black and white.

I find your avatar highly and personally offensive.

Jim, that's a good thing.

The MJQ did that piece at least three times, IIRC, on "Space", on the Atlantic LP with Laurindo Almeida, and on an orchestral LP. And also live on "The Complete Last Concert". I don't think they ever recorded it with an orchestra, but I could be mistaken.

That "Steamin'" cover always looked to me like Miles was lighting his cigarette with a little blowtorch.

A couple of CDs full of jazz covers of classical pieces on Venus: John DiMartino's trio covering various Mozart pieces and Steve Kuhn's trio covering various pieces by Chopin, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Faure, and Brahms

Wow! 9 bucks per LP. Considering what those sets go for on Ebay now, . . . .

J.A.W. did not accept several adverse discussions. He is unfortunately out of here. I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope he eventually returns.

Thanks!

Jim, really glad to hear she's doing well. She's a terrific kid! Hope we get to see her again soon (and she can even bring the rest of the family, if she wants to. ). You did a fantastic job handling this (much better than I would have done ). Tell Alison that I was only kidding about the lawsuit . But I am always available for free legal advice should she or Zora ever need it in the future .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Hammond Not exactly the way the Trustees described it.

Herbie Nichols, "The Complete Blue Note Recordings"--all 3 discs

Personally, I'd rate the Cole Porter and Duke Ellington song books as at least as good as the Gershwin set, which was very fine. One of the nicer aspects of Ella's treatments of these songs is that she always sang the verse. It's one of the features that so excited the composers who were still living when she recorded them. As I recall, the Harold Arlen is also a great one--sorta took me by surprise the first time I heard it.

What about that guy Richard Starkey?

You'll love it. It's a phenomenal set!

Buddy Rich, discs 5-7 No Jim Nabors in this set . . . . . . yet.

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Too late! Goober has already demanded that you return the personally inscribed photo:

Here.

One of my favs. Especially the Sergeant Carter sessions. Yes! And Goober was a nice surprise as a sideman on those. Dude, Goober isn't even on those sessions--he's on the Mayberry sessions. Furthermore, if you had bothered to read the booklet that came with the set, you'd have seen this rare Francis Wolff color photo from one of those sessions:

One of my favs. Especially the Sergeant Carter sessions. Yes! And Goober was a nice surprise as a sideman on those. Dude, Goober isn't even on those sessions--he's on the Mayberry sessions.