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Are there any sound samples of the Russell anywhere? (Not on Amazon, I know)

Got the AE disc earlier this week.

How can you tell that he has you blocked? By the way, he can only delete his own posts, not the ones others posted to his threads - only moderators can do that.

Thanks, Brownie. Can't figure out how to find PMs, however. Click on your name at the top right-hand corner and a drop-down menu will open, then click on "messenger" and you will find the "compose new" button just under your name at the top right-hand corner of that page. Good luck.

No, it's not the biggest deal, but in post #57 above I stated what I thought the disadvantages of duplicates threads were and what the advantages of not having duplicates threads were. So what might be the advantages of duplicate threads? I'm willing to listen. As for the the spinster school marm thing, while the situations may not be quite parallel, I recall an ill-fated college course I took in Homeric Greek, which was taught by one of the world's chief experts on the subject. Our first task was to memorize the 24-letter Greek alphabet, from Alpha to Omicron. Something of a child of the 1960s, or perhaps just a lazy schmuck, I failed to do this by the second day of class, as was the case for a good many others. When the teacher realized this, he pointed out that until we knew the alphabet we would be greatly handicapped in looking up anything in the Greek-to-English side of our Greek-English dictionaries, and that as novices we would be looking up things there a whole lot. Errr... The Greek alphabet runs from alpha to omega:

Talking about low traffic, I occasionally visit other boards, including Jazz Corner, with far less traffic.

I agree with Larry, Tom and Lon, and I think Tom has a point regarding Facebook - and other "social media". With Lon I wish I hadn't joined FB years ago, seeing how it handles privacy and things like that and remembering the unpleasant characters I met there before I left. I wish the continuous moderator bashing by a few members here would stop. As I said several times before Larry does an excellent job. I know from personal experience how unpleasant things can become when you're a moderator and I admire his willingness to stay on despite all the hassle and harassment. I'm sure he's got much better things to do. If you don't agree with some or any of the rules and/or the way they are interpreted, just take it up with Jim via PM, or leave the board altogether.

Seconded, it's an amazing set with relatively excellent sound. It thrashes all other Hawkins collections.

The 2012 box is a reissue of the box that came out in 2002, which was remastered and sounded a lot better than the bad-sounding earlier disc. Having said that, I don't like the sound on the 2002 box either, to my ears it is harsh/shrill. I have the long OOP French Masters of Jazz CDs, which I think have the best sound of all.

That would be The Return of Howard McGhee, recorded on October 22, 1955 with Sahib Shihab, Duke Jordan, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones, and issued on Bethlehem BCP-42. It was later reissued as That Bop Thing.

"Jesus"? Are you sure?

Your wish is my command - not really, but here it is: his nickname was "Knobby", his real name was Nabil Marshall Totah. He was born on April 5, 1930 in Ramallah, a Palestinian city on the West Bank, and he died on June 7, 2012 in York, PA.

Apparently you didn't read post #12.

"Knobby" is correct. His real name was Nabil Marshall Totah. He was born on April 5, 1930 in Ramallah, a Palestinian city on the West Bank and he died on June 7, 2012 in York, PA. obit

In the U.S. we pretty much use the terms "grammar school," "elementary school," and "primary school," interchangeably to refer to grades 1 through 5 or 6. We don't have the same distinctions as Europe or even Canada. In the Netherlands grammar school is a higher-level secondary school. In my time we had primary school for ages 6-12 (grades 1-6) and various secondary-level schools for ages 12 and up, with grammar school (6 grades) being the highest level before university. It's all changed now, but grammar school (called "gymnasium") is still the highest secondary-level school here.

Thanks. Enjoy your trip.

I think we say "I studied dead languages." I don't know if we have a term, actually. We normally just use classically trained for musicians. I had this very histrionic and entertaining theatre history professor, Benito Ortolani, an Italian who was a specialist in Japanese theatre as well as classical theatre. A student once asked him, "Professor Ortolani, how many languages do you know?" He replied, "Seven living-a ones and two dead-a ones." Ah, I see. Thanks. Actually, I went to "grammar school" (I don't know if there's an American equivalent) where they taught two dead (Ancient Greek and Latin) and four living (Dutch, German, English and French) languages plus lots of other stuff. In the Dutch system it's called a gymnasium and no, that's not a sports gym, on the contrary

Just read on the Hoffman board that singer/songwriter Joe South of "Games People Play" fame has died.

I hear you, but I was "classically trained" (or whatever it's called in English) and it bothers me when people use Latin or Ancient Greek expressions the wrong way ("carpe diem", for instance) or misspell them - which happens a lot. I guess I'm a purist with a pet peeve...

I don't know why, but we definately do. Same here. It took me a long time, though.

I have the Hollywood String Quartet interpretation of Dvořák's string quartet 12 on a Testament CD, and the four Vlach Quartet Naxos CDs with Dvořák's string quartets 8-14. I like them, but I don't have any other versions to compare them with. Same goes for the Talich Quartet's interpretations of the Janáček string quartets. They recorded them twice, in the 1980s and in 2004 for Calliope. I've heard the Emerson Quartet on quite a few recordings, but I've never warmed to them. They sound too "perfect", too clinically clean to me, sterile even. Not my cup of tea.

Not to nitpick, but why do Americans always misspell the Latin expression ad nauseam?

Last time I was too impatient - do you take orders now and if so, how much for Early Combinations including shipping to the Netherlands? Taking orders. $18 delivered in the Netherlands. Thanks. Could you give me your PP address again? [edit] Just found it earlier on this thread: nessarecords@charter.net

Couldn't agree more. There are very few rules here and it's simple as far as I'm concerned: abide by them or leave, but don't harass the moderators - in this case Larry, who's doing a great job.

I like the Payne/Drew score, although not as much as the one penned by Freddie Redd. Considering the fact that Payne has Clark Terry, Bennie Green, Duke Jordan, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip on hand, how can you go wrong? Was it ever reissued on CD?