Stereojack

Desmond Dekker Declan McManus Manny Ramirez

The Lone Ranger Clayton Moore Jay Silverheels

I think it's Vi Redd.

Carlos Castaneda Carlos Santana Carlos Gardel

B. Mitchell Reed Reed Diamond Neil Diamond

Let the feedback stand. The negative hurts him more than it does you. Whenever I look at soembody's feedback, I go right to the negatives. It's easy to spot revenge feedback. You are given the option to respond to negative feedback. Just say that he's a liar and that he didn't keep his word.

Duke Pearson Earl Grant Count Hastings

Miller Huggins Tim Hagans Billy Higgins

Queequeg Ishmael Ahab

Fast Eddie Felsen Minnesota Fats John Poole

A Professor was giving a lecture on "Involuntary Muscular Contractions" to his first year medical students. Realizing that this was not the most riveting subject, the Professor decided to lighten the mood slightly. He pointed to a young woman in the front row and said, "Do you know what your ass hole is doing while you're having an orgasm???" She replied, "Probably deer hunting with his buddies." The Professor laughed so hard he could not continue with the class.

Gerhard Thrasher Dick Gephardt Gary Hart

Listening to the crap Cecil plays over KD's composition and solos, I bet KD wished he hadn't shown up either. I think the producer (Tom Wilson?) wanted to present Cecil in a more mainstream context, and hired the players. Of course, Cecil was having none of it, and the session just doesn't jell. Cecil and the others seem to be having a tug of war, and nobody wins. To further complicate matters, the session has since been issued as a Coltrane-led date, which makes Cecil the odd man out, even though it was originally his date! A noble experiment that failed.

Red Ryder H. Rider Haggard Merle Haggard

Ethel Merman Ethel Mertz Vivian Vance

These sound like originals. The original stereo releases were on the black label, the monos were yellow. By the mid 1970's, all Contemporaries were yellow. The deep groove is also a giveaway. I can't say for sure, but I believe that deep groove pressings had largely disappeared by 1963.

I thought it started getting out of hand when just about every BFT was a double set. I listen to each BFT twice before commenting, and as much as I enjoyed participating, I have dropped out for the time being because I feel that two discs were too much of a strain on what little listening time I have.

It never struck me as an album that would come off well live, but now you've piqued my interest. I third the thumbs up. I had to be out of town when he brought the show to Boston, and was doubly annoyed when I heard the positive reviews from people who went. I knew this had to be a one-time event. The DVD captures it really well, and it's surprisingly strong, especially considering all the years that had passed.

So do you think they reissue either from CDs or from clean LPs? For example, I have several of their reissues of obscure Columbia material. This is stuff that has not been reissued on CD. I can *usually* tell if an LP was mastered from another LP. These sound like they're taken from a very clean source. If it's a digital source, it sounds like it's from the masters. This from someone at Scorpio: Most of the reissues are from digital copies (DAT's) of the master tape, legitimately licensed by Scorpio. Columbia, Capitol, et al are not about to turn over their master tapes, so they offer DAT copies from which the LP's are mastered.

Abercrombie & Fitch Peter Finch John Funches (Johnny Littlejohn)

Lynda Day George Keshia Knight Pulliam Today Malone

Oliver North Henry Southall Gary Mapp

Whistling Jack Smith Joe Wissert The Wiz

Here's one worth seeking out Don Sickler - The Music of Kenny Dorham (Reservoir) rec. 1983 Don Sickler (tp), JImmy Heath (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Ron Carter (b), Billy Higgins (d) Spring Cannon / Escapade / Windmill / Phily Twist / La Mesha / The Fox / Blue Lament