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Welcome back Brass. My own tale of sadness. Will be laid off effective next Thursday- 8 mos before I can draw on my retirement IRA. Plus uninsurable except at great expense due to a 7 bypass surgery 7 years ago today... Thank goodness for jazz. Saw Charles McPherson last night at our jazz fest. Life goes on...

I've got a table reserved (for three) for 7:30 show at Jimmy Maks this upcoming Monday night for Charles McPherson. Been told that Darrell Grant will accompany Charles on piano. You will need to pick up a ticket online before the show and I can add you to table reservation. Any Portlanders interested? I've been waiting years to have the chance to hear Charles live!...

Vibes; Sent you a PM on the June Christy/Peggy Lee set... -Jeff

Although "Come Sunday" did not meet the standard that Steal Away set, I am still pleased with this new issue. It is mostly sacred music with not as many hymns, and no folk songs. Reverential treatment, with a bit less swing/gospel feel. Charlie's solos are warm and strong and Hank does fit in some jazz feel. Highly recommend its purchase-I just preferred "Steal Away" a bit more. Very well recorded- as to acoustics-no question about that.

Hears him play last year in LA at the LA Jazz Institute-with a big band of local "A" quality players. A Brilliant set-orchestral music that swung. I will miss him... RIP...

Lon: I will take the Brandenburg Gate Revisited CD at $4. Thanks! -Jeff

http://www.amazon.com/Come-Sunday-Charlie-Haden/dp/B005NEJM02 I have been waiting two years for this CD. Recorded just a few months before Hank Jones' passing. Gospel and spirituals. Man, I miss Hank so much! I plan on getting this one the week it comes out. Great news.... (I know some of you did not dig the prior Steal Away. For late night listening in a quiet setting, it deeply moved me)

Wayne Shorter, The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy, 2011) The journey started in Newark, New Jersey where Shorter began drawing attention to his musical prowess as a teenager. His five year stint, starting in 1959, with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers alerted the jazz world to Shorter’s compelling voice on the tenor saxophone and his beguiling compositions. On joining Miles Davis in 1964, Shorter solidified what came to be called “The Second Great Quintet,” alongside the trumpeter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. Shorter’s tunes – “Footprints,” “E.S.P.”, and “Nefertiti” among them – and his alluringly elliptical playing were decisive elements in the critical success of the Davis band. Shorter’s own concurrently released albums as a leader have proved to be just as inspiring to subsequent generations of players as his work with Davis. With Davis’s initial fusion foray, In a Silent Way, Shorter turned to the soprano saxophone, instantly cementing a new and highly influential voice on the instrument. After participating on the epochal Bitches Brew, Shorter joined forces with Joe Zawinul, forming Weather Report. Increasing commercial success, particularly after the innovative bassist Jaco Pastorius joined, marked the fusion super group’s notable fifteen-year run. Shorter’s own Native Dancer (1974), effectively introduced North American audiences to singer and composer Milton Nascimento. With the dissolution of Weather Report in 1985, Shorter, the musician, was on his own for the first time. His albums Atlantis, Phantom Navigator and Joy Ryder found him delving deeper into extended composition while continuing to investigate electric fusion. Approaching his eighth decade, Shorter reverted to an acoustic setting once more, forming a highly lauded quartet noted for its risky improvisational ethos. Shorter remains what Hancock dubbed him: “the master.” Albums Included: New bonus disc - Weather Report Recordings of Wayne Shorter Compositions 1 New bonus disc - Weather Report Recordings of Wayne Shorter Compositions 2 Native Dancer with Milton Nascimento (1974) Atlantis (1985) Phantom Navigator (1986) Joy Ryder (1988) Any opinions on the four sessions issued as leader? Remastered by Mark Wilder of Sony/Columbia APPEARS TO BE COMING OUT NOW OR VERY SOON...

I will be there from Friday thru Sunday. Tonight was a special trip to old LA studios (Radio Recorders?) and then a night at the Lighthouse to honor Howard Rumsey.That trip sold out immediately. Monday is being added as an all Kenton day. Garth, are you coming? We've never met... Jeff

I just contacted them-re: purchase! I will be in LA next weekend.

I'll be looking for it as well. Let us know buying sources. enjoyed my visits there...

Add me to the guilty list. Sometimes the hunt is the highlight... You know you will get to them eventually-but as the list grows you know you must wait till retirement till you find time. But the hunt never ends Many of us continue though to hit the used bins at least a few times a month looking for "finds" as we are addicted... I plead "the fifth"...

Tom: Sent you a PM

What do you guys think of this offer? Cheap enough to keep in your car-though most of us have this material. Amazon has other sellers offering at under $10. Supposedly passable sound-but at this price who can quibble. Amazon has a grey market import box of Miles Davis called Twenty Classic Albums for $18.98 (under $10 now...). It also has: Sonny Rollins - Eight Classic Albums - $13.40 Jimmy Smith - Eight Classic Albums - $13.52 Hank Mobley - Eight Classic Albums - $8.01 Lou Donaldson - Eight Classic Albums - $8.07 Kenny Dorham - Eight Classic Albums - $7.28 Cannonball Adderley - Eight Classic Albums - $8.13 Red Garland - Eight Classic Albums - $7.34 Thelonious Monk - Eight Classic Albums - $7.64 John Coltrane - Eight Classic Albums - $7.26 Charles Mingus - Eight Classic Albums - $8.17

Everything has been mailed. Last call for the remaining two items. Open to a small box set(3 CDs?) for the Six Brownie mostly Japanese issue Emarcy CDs Mosaic partial set still available...

Final price drop on the Six Brownie CDs- $50 shipped to a US Address Or trade for an equal value small box set...

The CDs from the Brownie set plus the Mosaic HRS CDs are still available. Will leave up posting for a few more days.

Up for the weekend. Still no interest in the Brownie discs. Open to a group trade.. Will keep post open till Sunday. Mailing out some discs today.

Open to a reasonable Offer on the set of 6 Brownie discs... Or a smaller box set trade...

PM sent to Stephen on the 4 CD Capitol Mosaic discs...

Watkins now on hold for Jeffcrom

Carmell Jones CD is sold. Others still available as of 1:30 PT

PM to Colin and Romauldo sent...

Here are some good ones for sale: SIX from the Clifford Brown Emarcy set ( I recently got a good deal on the boxed set)- These were those I built up to make the set for years... Brown and Roach Inc. (Japanese issue) Clifford Brown and Max Roach (US edition) Clifford Brown with Strings (Japanese issue) Best Coast Jazz (Japanese issue) Clifford Brown All Stars (Japanese issue) Study in Brown (BMG issue) ($11 each or $54 for all six)- AVAILABLE Partial Mosaic sets: Complete HRS Sessions (Discs III-IV)- $16-STILL AVAILABLE Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions (Discs IX-XII- 4 CDs)- $24- SOLD Carmell Jones-Disc 3- Mosaic Select - $9-SOLD! Julius Watkins Sextet- 10" Connoisseur Series- $15---On hold Shipping to be worked out depending on order US Shipping only please PM for any more info on the Mosaic partials Thanks! -Jeff

Thanks, David! Blue Mitchell's music has meant so much to me. My first Mosaic as well. Is there any unreleased Mitchell material out there that you are aware of-especially pre- 1971? Is Blue's widow still alive? Would love to send her a note telling her how much I loved his playing. Wonder if he had any children and if they are musicians as well... Thanks!