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If you ever do a Northwest tour, then Jimmy Maks or the Blue Monk would be the place to play in Portland. Louis Pain is the Hammond man in town. You'd want to get your cd into his hands and he'd spread the word! He plays often with the brilliant Mel Brown, the ex-Motown drummer, who makes his home here in town.

HI, GUYS: I just did a review of your new cd on Audiophile Audition, a local website here in Portland that reviews both audiophile equipment as well as CD and SACD/hi rez recordings. Here is the link for you guys to check out: http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=1211 I'll try to post the review here as well. Hope you like it and it helps sales-I loved the CD and it was a pleasure to review it. BTW, I have several other jazz CD reviews you can check out in the Jazz CD review section. Let me know if the review comes through here..... The link I provided above leads you to a photo of your album cover as well! Organissimo - This is the Place - Big O Records Healthy grease for the soul Organissimo - This is the Place - Big O Records - #2404 2005, 63:57 ****: (Jim Alfredson - Hammond B-3 organ; Joe Gloss - guitar; Randy Marsh - drums) Organissimo, a Hammond B-3 trio from Michigan, has the grease quotient down! For Hammond B-3 lovers, "grease" is a key ingredient in the organ-guitar-drums format. You've got the Hammond layin' down the groove, with the guitarist stirring the pot, and the drummer propelling the mix. Jimmy Smith largely set the standard in the 1950s for the Hammond B-3, followed by Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, Charles Earland, Big John Patton, and Lonnie Smith to just name a few, and continuing on to today's groovesters such as Jimmy DeFrancesco, Tony Monaco, and Larry Goldings. The key ingredient for Hammond aficionados is the "grease." It's the head nodding, booty-shaking soul, hard to define in musical terms, but you know it when you hear it. Organissimo's This is the Place has the feel and the soul of an inner city late night jazz/blues club, where the regulars are winding down from their work week, some green in their pocket and ready to party. Song titles such as Greaze Monkey, Brother Ray, and Stomp Yo' Feets tell it all. Playing virtually all original compositions by the band members, this band is time-tested and ready to spread their wings beyond the Midwest. They've already hit the Windy City playing at the Green Mill and had a gig at Detroit's famous Baker's Keyboard Lounge, so you know they are ready for the road! An extra treat on their CD is found on Brother Ray with Randy Marsh's harp playing, and on Stomp Yo Feets with guest tenor sax player, Johnny Gist. Other song favorites on the CD for me were Tenderly and Play Nice. Pick up this CD - now available on amazon.com - and you'll have enough grease to cook dinner, lube your rig, and slick back your 'do for when Organissimo hits your town. Song Titles: Wealthy Street, Greaze Monkey, Brother Ray, Smoking Section, Stomp Yo' Feets, Intro, Tenderly, Play Nice, Peaches En Regalia, Pumpkin Pie - Jeff Krow

Up for air...

That's more than a bit out of my price range...

The Seneri and Pagan cds have been traded to Felser. The others remain open for sale or trade! Jeff

MAN, I ALWAYS WANTED THAT BOOK! TOO BAD I NEVER SAW YOUR POSTING-I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THAT BOOK.... DAMN.... JEFF

I have the following Cds to sell or trade. Selling price $5 each shipped to a US address Ray Anthony: "Plays the Arrangements of George Williams" Lone Hill Jazz Sherman Irby: "Faith" Black Warrior Records Steffano Di Battista: "Parker's Mood " Blue Note Promo/ no booklet but back spine and jewel case Ralph Sutton/Dick Cary: "Rendezvous at Sunnie's, 1969" Arbors Historical Series, Vol. 7 Vince Seneri: "Street Talk" (Hammond B-3 w/ Fathead Newman and Houston Person on some tracks)--GONE Michael Pagan Big Band: "Pag's Groove" Capri Records Promo copy --GONE If interested in a trade, send me a tradelist of which cds you'd trade in return...

I kinda like my Toshiba Gigabeat 40 gb unit. Took me a while but I figured how to download album covers for each cd entered. I used 192 (bps?) the lowest amount of compression-and have 400 cds entered-and have just 7 gb left. Took me a week to do the whole job. Leaving the last 7 gb for extra special new acquisitions as I was super picky on what I put on the Gigabeat-and don't expect to take much out. Mucho hard bop, West Coast, some swing and big band-but heavy on Blue Note TOCJ... Costco had the 40 gb Toshiba for only $249, a deal I could not pass up....

MARK: PM SENT ON THE PEARSON...

Reinier: I have their much cheaper regular CD player-A3.2CD. it is a very high quality unit. I have heard nothing but great things about their SACD player-Stereophile raved about it and it is built like a tank. I imagine you need to spend a lot of $ to get one of their limited edition SACD units! If you can afford it, then you can't go wrong.....

I recently bought a Toshiba laptop and in their literature with the laptop was info on their Gigabeat mp3 player. It comes in a 10, 20, 40, and 60 gb size. On e-opinions and other websites, the gigabeat got positive reviews. Any one here have or heard this player? Reviews I have seen have been positive against I-pod units. I thought it might coordinate well with the Toshiba laptop... some feedback?

PM set to you, Ken!

I lucked out after lots of leg work (and phone time). I found a Toshiba M45-S2653 with a Pentium M chip, (1.6 GB processor) 80 GB Hard drive, 512 RAM DVD/CD dual layer burner 15.4" wide screen monitor Centrino Price was $749.99 for a new machine ($300 off list price) Just about the price of a Celeron machine. I hope I did good-I had to drive 100 miles to find the last one that they had-and they fought me tooth and nail (Best Buy) since the store price was $1049 and their web site was sold out. Now how much will I need to spend on Virus/spyware protection? Any free downloads out there? I think I DID manage to find a good deal??

HEY, GUYS: I checked with 4 stores last night-Circuit City, Comp USA, Best Buy, Office Max. also Costco and Office Depot today. Not one of them indicated that they take more than $50 off any returned laptop when they put it out for resale. So there goes the theory of a major price break after the Holidays. I did see several Toshibas with Celeron M and 1.5 gz processors with 40-60 gb HD and 512 RAM for around $700-800 and 14 or 15.4 in screens. The Pentium M units were at least $250-400 more with similar HD and RAM. How much am I losing with a Celeron-when I will be doing no gaming and probably not more than 1-2 projects going at any one time? Is the extra $250-400 worth the extra $ for the Pentium M. That extra $ is a stretch for me-unless it is really a necessity to stay ahead of the curve. Advice? Thanks in advance!

I was an Apple user for years (and was a reluctant convert to VHS from Beta) so you can see where I was coming from. I always was behind the curve buying refurbs or used Macs, which usually became troublesome with costly reapirs and lack of compatability with programs only available on PC. I use a Dell Latitude D600 as a work computer but it won't let me add many software programs due to security issues. So I need a family computer and my wife wants a laptop for convenience of taking it to work. I've gotten used to Windows and now prefer it since I use it everyday. My wife has been told to learn MS Word and Excel to make her marketable after being out of the work world for years. So, for all these reasons, I'll go with PC for the first time. Strictly, due to economics and for what I need-see my first posting-I'll start the process this week of looking for a Toshiba. Many people have advised to go with a Pentium M instead of a Celeron. Is that about right? Any advice about purchasing used-say a 2-6 mos old model? Or am I just buying someone else's problem? I do have a tech guy that I've found who will check out whatever used model I am looking at for a reasonable service fee. Can a half hour check-out be sufficient to weed out a lemon? What do you guys think about buying a used laptop after the Xmas rush?

Thanks, Jim! That's some good advice! Never thought about post Christmas returns. Wonder if the computer has to be open-out of the box, before they offer such a steep discount!

Just got $700 from the inlaws for a new laptop. I'd like to limit total budget to $850 for everything-including a power cord. Thought about a Pentium M with 512 RAM, 60 gb Hard Drive, CD/DVD burner. My wife needs MS Word and Excel legal install so she can get some marketable computer skills. I'd like to save a get a decent (5gb+) MP3 player and a future digital SLR down the road. 15" screen would be OK? We are NOT gamers-and will watch few DVDs on the laptop. Portability and weight not super important-we'd seldom take it out of town. I'm not real computer savvy and dealing with craigslist sellers can be dicey-who do you trust? Will need firewall, and virus protection. Also wireless-but they all appear to offer that now. I've heard good things about Toshiba, and Fujitsu-but they seem too expensive as does IBM think Pad. Been told to stay away from Celeron units. Know little about quality of HP units/ and Athlon chips. Local computer outfits that build to order systems won't give me the time of day-and I wonder about their after market service.. Warrantee and service also an issue. I've heard good and bad on Dell-especially mediocre customer service. It seems as though I'm at least $150 short on budget for what I want, right? Any/help advice out there-in layman terms much appreciated. I can throw in a burn of an OOP Mosaic set-with booklet copied-as extra help/enticement. Can you folks help out a fellow jazzophile with NO computer savvy skills?

Hey,Matt: I'd like to find a copy of that book, too! Hope you don't beat me to a local copy. Once you start collecting jazz photo books you can't stop-believe me... BTW, Merry Christmas, Double M.

Those are very good prices-appear to be $8 per cd. If the box/booklets are in good shape and the cds are clean, then I'd recommend both. You can't go wrong with either-especially the Brownie.... Go for it! If you decide to pass on either one, I'm sure other Board members would be interested at those prices, myself included Let us know!

AMAZON'S price is $126 (not $119). Looks like the shipping is factored into their total cost of $126.

...what are you doing buying Roy Ayres???? ← WANNA hear some more Charles Tolliver, that's why.....

GOOD LUCK- They usually don't let you use their one day sales (55% off) to order box sets as they indicate that they are already discounted. Let us know if you DO get the discount. FWIW, you usually can do better than this Offer.... It's no huge bargain since their list prices are often inflated ($17-18 for RVG)

Just sent you a PM on the Blakey, Rollins, and Ayers cds near the bottom of your list... Thanks, Jeff

Oblique, Time for Tyner, and Boss Horn are ALREADY on Back Order. I ordered these yesterday-their first day on the YourMusic site. I'm sure new copies will come in soon-but it shows you how many copies they initially order.

(Just got back from Seattle.....) What Peter said times 2..... And the acoustics in the Benaroya Recital Hall The best venue for acoustics-like each instrument had their own mike system. Wow! Hope Gerald gets a commission to do more work for the Monterey Jazz Festival. He did themes for the 20th and 40th Anniversary Years. Just 2 more years till the 50th...