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I think I'm gonna hang onto both for now. It doesn't "cost" anything to keep your membership in BMG, if nothing else. And they seem to update their list of newly added titles a little quicker than yourmusic.com. So it might be handy at least from that standpoint. And if yourmusic ever does start messing with their prices, it might be handy to have BMG in your back pocket still...

Okay, so I've been working my way through the Miles Davis/Gil Evans box. I had the Quiet Nights CD previously, so hadn't played the corresponding disc in the box set before tonight. As I do, some of the tracks I've not heard before jump out at me - "Blue XMas", "Nothing Like You", and "Devil May Care". These are from August 21/23 1962, and are performed by a core group of Davis, Wayne Shorter, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, Frank Rehak (trombone) and Willie Bobo. The first two tracks include Bob Dorough on vocals. "Devil May Care" is just the sextet as listed, and is the most interesting to me. Not completely sure I care for Dorough's vocals, but the music isn't bad. I realize that "Nothing Like You" showed up on Sorcerer in 1967. I don't have the single disc issue of that album, just the material that's on the 65-68 Quintet box, which doesn't include that track (as it's not performed by the quintet, I assume). So this tune is fresh to my ears, along with the other two tracks. However, what's odd to me is that the 65-68 box notes seem to imply that Shorter wasn't that familiar with Miles' music when he was approached about joining the group. Or at least Miles wasn't sure of Shorter's familiarity, at any rate. Yet they had played these three tracks together in 1962, so it would seem that they knew of each other's music and abilities, and had more than just a passing awareness of one another. Or at least a bit more than the notes indicate, as I read them. Am I missing something? Did they play together anywhere else prior to Wayne joining the quintet? After checking Miles' autobiography, he states this was the first time he played with Shorter.

Top notch Honda/Acura maintenance facility over in the distance there.... :rsmile:

Bjork at Yourmusic.com edit: I'm guessing you missed the umlaut B-)

Did the invoice that came with the box show Newk's Time as being included as well? If so, then they messed up when packaging it. If it doesn't show on the invoice, then it should be on its way separately. On my most recent shipment a disc was missing, and it showed on the invoice as being included in that shipment. So I went to their website, let them know, and they quickly responded and said the disc was being sent to me. This was only about 2 days ago, so hopefully it will show up on Mon/Tues. But they responded quickly and seemed very eager to resolve their mistake...

Okay, so I've finally broken down and purchased Scofield's "Bar Talk" album on vinyl, after coming to the realization that I'm just not likely going to ever find this on CD. Got it for a buy-it-now price of $5.99 on ebay (VG+ condition, hopefully), so it's not a bad deal all the way around. That was the last Sco leader date that I needed to pick up, though I still have quite a ways to go with the sideman stuff. And I know with my luck now that I've purchased it, that will pretty much guarantee it gets reissued within the next month...

Fish with human faces aren't that uncommon...

Don't forget the expanded version of the Allman Brother's "Live at Fillmore East"!! The expanded version of Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" soundtrack is very good as well, even though the second disc isn't really soundtrack songs, but classic tracks from that era...

Up, as it's been a while for this thread to see the light of day... In case anyone is interested both King Crimson's "Power to Believe" and Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" are available at Yourmusic.com for the unbelievable low price of $4.99. Run, don't walk.....

Based on this, is it safe to assume that the mastering on the "Bags & Trane" tracks in the Atlantic box is better than that on the Atlantic CD release?

Ok, I have all seven of the Coltrane Atlantic CDs, in their Rhino incarnations - some in the cardboard sleeves and some in the regular jewel boxes. I also have the regular Atlantic "Bags & Trane" disc, which for some reason or another was not included in the Rhino series, and vexes me. I vaguely remember asking this question a long time ago on the BNBB, but does the Heavyweight Champion box have the same remastering as the Rhino discs? I keep pulling up yourmusic.com and staring at this box, which is available there for $34.93, on the $4.99 plan. If the remastering is the same as the Rhinos, I may spring for this, primarily to get the "Bags & Trane" in equivalent sound (plus, I'm a sucker for a nice box). I think I could recoup my purchase cost in selling individual cds that I already own, so the cost isn't really my concern. If the sound on the box isn't the same as the Rhinos, I'll stick with what I have and still be VERY satisfied with this music...

I mentioned this in this thread. The Wolff photos are great, and it's nice to see so many pages dedicated to classic BN jazz in a mainstream mag.

"Does this look infected to you?"

for an extra 10% off, code L5PM4...

Well my shipment of 7 January arrived today, so they are consistently coming in, fairly quickly too. I'm more impressed by the speed of service with YourMusic that with BMG. Perhaps they have a smaller customer base (for the time being), so it's easier to ship orders more quickly. However, one of my discs wasn't in the shipment, even though it was listed on the invoice as being enclosed. Time to shoot off an email and see how quickly they respond. It looks like their order accuracy may be on par with BMG....

I also ordered 7 double-disc sets (two of which included DVDs also), for $9.99 apiece, last week. Each title was listed as being on backorder up until Monday, at which point there status had changed to state "shipped on 7 Jan 05". My initial queue item (Larry Young's Of Love & Peace) showed as being shipped on 6 Jan, and arrived today. So 4 business days to arrive, which seems quite a bit quicker than what BMG itself does for me. So hopefully my big shipment arrives tomorrow... Now I'm thinking that the backorder status is just the status they use instead of "PROCESSING" or something, until the order actually ships.

VAN GOGH COLANDER

IT WAS COOL WHEN ARIC WAS MASQUERADING AS WARNE'S WORLD, A Ph.D OR M.D. FROM ENGLAND (OR WAS IT WALES?) FOR A TIME. BIG WARNE MARSH AND NATURALLY HANK FAN, WHO EVEN MADE A FEW ATTEMPTS AT SOUNDING "BRITISH" CULTURALLY, TO COMIC EFFECT. PERHAPS HIS ATTRACTION TO MS. SPENCER STEMS FROM THIS RELATIVELY BRIEF EPISODE IN HIS ONGOING TRAVAILS.

Tracks related, so I thought I'd bump this one back up. If anyone's interested, there is an article, amounting to 3/4 page or so, about Rudy Van Gelder in the current issue of Tracks (with Lennon on the cover). It also includes 8 pages of Francis Wolff photographs! For a mainstream music mag, I like Tracks, and it's not expensive, $3.99, and includes a compilation CD of recently released artists. The current CD includes songs from North Mississippi Allstars, Aimee Mann, Jason Moran, & Camper Van Beethoven... edit - the Moran track is "Jump Up" from his next album, "Same Mother"...

Genuine Corpus Christi Snow Okay - I'm in Corpus Christi, but I didn't think of this. Could have made alot of jazz purchases with this windfall

Looks like I'm gonna be in Reno during the first week in February for a conference. Never been before, so I was wondering if anyone here can recommend any jazz shopping opportunities there for me. Or if there are any events going on that might be of interest, I'd like to hear about that too... Of course, might have to try my luck at the Blackjack tables and the one-armed bandits as well B-) Thanks, Erik

Can anybody help explain this one to me? Is it considered a Dizzy album proper? Is it a soundtrack of sorts? Is it worth seeking out?

Rest In Peace, Ken. Jim - Perhaps you can send a copy of this whole thread to Elizabeth from all of us, rather than us bombarding their family with numerous emails... (?)