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With a voice like that, it don't matter. Am listening to "Drummer Man" again. Been in my top ten of faves forever. I never get tired of it. But then again, I'm a drummer. "[...] he's not only a wizard with his drumming sticks, he's not only a wizard with his drumming sticks, he also knows a lot of other clever tricks." Cheers!

OK. Sacrilege. I want these. They cost an arm and a leg. I'm looking for an, err, friend, who, err, can, err, replicate, err, and then, err, trade, err, ... Do I get thrown off the board now? *hugs & kisses"

I just did some research. I'll start going for these once I have the cash. Numbers 01 and 05 are available at the moment. maybe ... or not ... or ... damn, I don't have the cash.

Guy, can you tell me more about these? I don't have them. I actually have very few CDs, maybe 5 or 6, but she's top-of-the-shopping list material. Cheers!

from the Verve site, a short bio:

Next to BFT # 11, I've been, once again, blasting Dinah Washington through my apartment. Man, what a voice. On my favorite album, Dinah Washington. The Best in Blues. Verve Elite Edition, 1997, there is just one damn fine track after another. Trouble in Mind (with Jimmy Cobb's orchestra, including Ben Webster, Wardell Gray and Wynton Kelly), New Blowtop Blues (including Paul Quinichette and, again, Wynton Kelly, plus Freddie Green on guitar), and the tracks with Teddy Stewart's orchestra ... whenever I listen to these, despite the obvious blues tinge, the sun comes out. Spectacular, just spectacular. Anyone else seeing the sun whenever that voice lifts off from the speakers?

Is that a guy on the left?

That bonus disc is a blast. Love it! 3rd time running.

they are starting to suspect something! bIjatlh 'e' yImev I guess there are no trekkies on here?

they are starting to suspect something! bIjatlh 'e' yImev

I'm not forgetting about those. I have decided to grow older a bit more slowly anyway. Otherwise I'll croak before my time. Cheers!

Man, the bonus disc is nothing to sort papers to. That collection is just groovy! Lots'a classics! I think I'll take a break and run that one at full volume. [edited: I got the discs confused]

Just brought my disc(s) up from the mailbox. They got here in perfect condition. Thanks! I'm listening to disc 1 now. As I was skipping through disc 1 before to make sure there were no defects, there were some things I think I recognized. Was there a tune from this CD (if not, it's very close ... I'll check tonight, I'm sure I have it)? What I like already now is the colorful mix ... a lot of variety. I have no idea if there will be more "freaky" stuff on disc 2, but disc 1 is very nice! That African thing sounded familiar. Vocalists I recognized. This one is going to be fun. I'll try to spend more time on it tonight. Right now I'm gonna have both discs running while sorting out a meter and a half of papers. Thanks a million, Ray!

Dmitry, another mail just bounced. I sent you a mail with the details. Hope it works. The problem seems to be that your email account refuses my mail. Did you put me on a spam list (by accident)? Looks almost like it. Cheers!

Hi everyone, although I'm not going to disappear completely, for quite some time I'm going to retreat to the lobby, just watching what's going on, posting a one-liner or two here and there (not really any different from what I've been doing so far, really). The reason is very simple. Besides having a lot of work myself, the Basie project talked about in another thread elsewhere is beginning to take off. I'd like to turn my full attention to this project to help make it a success. Besides, I think the Basie website is going to shine an additional positive light on the organissimo forums, because most of the contributors are members here and because the idea came from here. We have already started work, and everyone is enthusiastic. Now it's time to get other things out of the way quickly for me so we can actually produce results on the Basie site soon. So, I'll see you guys and gals around! Cheers!

Important PM sent to Dmitry. Please check your inbox. Cheers!

Yep. I have had several Sony products that just didn't cut it. One of their DVD players which had gotten rave reviews across the board, wouldn't play right out of the box, the replacement one had the same error, and the third one, the one I have now, gets regular fits, refusing to play a disc until its system is rebooted. Sony has turned into a cheapo consumer products manufacturer, and only their top-of-the line products are still worth it. For myself I made the decision never to buy Sony again, especially because their service (or service partners) here in Germany were just shite. Depressing, because in the past, Sony was affordable quality. Today it's mostly overpriced crap, considering the money spent on units that don't perform (at all). Cheers!

Once all the contributors have registered, the board is going to be locked up. So, no link here, sorry. Besides, everyone is only interested in the final result anyway, right? Cheers!

Would we be wicked witches of the East, West, North or South? Come to think of it, we could actually put on a spectacular performance of "Night on the Bald Mountain" and make Mussorgsky a proud man ( a bit late, I know)!

I don't have this one. I have the 521 (I also have a Marantz 67 OSE which I bought around the same time). The Marantz had excellent reviews that time, but I needed a second one elsewhere. I went for that NAD one and haven't regretted it since. The 521 and 541 look identical. Here's what I can say about mine, and I wouldn't be surprised if it applies to the one you are considering as well: a) In my eyes, the NAD sounds better than the Marantz. The Marantz adds a bit too much warmth when compared to the NAD. I would call the NAD's sound decidedly audiophile ... and that at a budget price. Depending on the rest of your stereo setup, you will get excellent sound! B) The NAD is also the one which seems altogether more sturdy; it runs under extreme conditions here sometimes. I transport it a lot and it's hooked up to my digital drumset as a source for both normal CDs and CD-Rs, both of which it plays without complaints. The NAD hasn't failed me once. Although you won't be exposing it to that, it can take quite a bit of abuse. c) Complaints. The NAD takes some more time when reading CDs, meaning it's a bit too slow until it's ready to play the disc. On top of that, the rather small remote control isn't that great (but works) and forwarding etc. seems slow. In fact, everything is a bit slower than on other machines. It doesn't bother me, but it might be a problem for more hectic or impatient folks. I'm glad I bought the 521, and I'm thinking of once I'm forced to buy a new CD player (I have three at the moment), to go with NAD. Customer satisfaction to the max! Cheers!

Do like me: look at the piles of work on your table, very intensively, and go to sleep for the evening. I even missed the latest round of punches flying in the politics forum today. Now I'm awake in the middle of the night, wondering what to do until I have to be off to work in less than 4 hours. Duh. Cheers!

The Basie Website Project Board is up and running. Contributors who have registered with me before (everyone who received Basie Mail 04) should run over and register. We've got work to do!

I'm going to set up the "Count Basie Development Board" ( ) on my site today. I will send you a brief mail when it is completed. We can use that to post discussions etc re the different areas of the site in development in a more organized way then here. Thanks for all the mails I got from you guys (the gal is still missing). I will replay and contribute to the discussion when I'm done with the board. Cheers!

Great news, John! That gives us the chance to stay clean legally, and that's what we wanted to do here. No ripping off of other people's stuff. If Dmitry get some images in as well, we have plenty for illustration purposes. Cheers!

Oh no, not Hagar again. I want my David Lee back, before he blowdries himself into oblivion. Cheers.