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You are correct on Disc One, Track 7--I had wondered if anyone would get this one, as Muhal Richard Abrams is thought of as an avant garde pianist. Disc Two, Track 2 is also correct--it is the Skatalites with David Murray.

We will get you a replacement for Disc 1, so that you have the complete first 7 cuts. Not one of your guesses was correct, but I enjoyed your thoughts on the songs.

To add a word of encouragement: I have found the IPod easy to use. I am about the most clueless person with technology around. Once you have the music loaded into your ITunes library, it is very easy to select songs for your playlists of your own creation. Instant mix tapes! It's fun.

And truth be told, a lot of the stuff pre-728 never lived up to it's billing. Very disappointing label overall. I did like the Desmond and Hall live dates. But the Liebman, Fortune, etc. were really disappointments at the time. I think that is a tad harsh. My feelings for most of the releases on the label when they were released, ranged from curious interest to much liking.

I was expecting you to know all of the music from that era!

Rabbit Maranville Phil Rizzuto Pee Wee Reese

Happy Birthday!

BFT 69 should have been received by those who requested it. The downloads have gone out this afternoon by PM, and the discs were mailed late last week. Let the guessing begin! This BFT is two discs long, with a bonus holiday track at the end of Disc 2.

I think that "Sweet Hands" has not come out on CD, though.

I have always enjoyed his playing on Benny Carter's "Further Definitions", among other albums.

The TV commercial was burned into my young brain by many repetitions. I can still sing it by memory.

Happy Birthday!

Bev is a man. His photo has been on this board--there was a thread where you were invited to post a photo of yourself.

Well, it's no wonder that I could not guess the artists. I enjoyed this test very much. Armed with these answers, I have a new shopping list.

Those are great, but that should only be done to LPs that are already damaged (skips, warps, etc.)! Well, I'm doing my Buddy Bolden tomorrow. Wasn't he the third guitarist, briefly, with the original Fairport Convention? Leave it to you Bev, to bring out an obscure British music reference.

I have learned that unless the records are in mint, unplayed condition, they are worth surprisingly little to most collectors or stores. It's actually quite discouraging. So I have adopted the philosophy of spreading the good sounds to a new generation. I trade in a stack of my LP duplicates of CDs, to a used music store in my city for store credit. I can shop "for free" for a while. I don't think about how little I am getting per album compared to how much I spent for it. Instead, I think of some fanatical new jazz fan who is just getting started, and buying as many albums as fast as he or she can afford them, who will delight in my albums at an inexpensive price. The store owner tells me that there are such people, and that they tend to look at his "new stock" section almost daily for more jazz discoveries.

Kirk's Atlantic album with Al Hibbler was paired with an Ornette album for a single disc Collectables reissue. However, to fit both albums onto a disc, they deleted one of the songs from the Kirk album. It's a fine song and one of my favorites from the album. I am not happy with that!

Nixon was renowned for his solo piano rendition of Ra's "Fate in a Pleasant Mood." Here is a photo of him running through the "Nubians of Plutonia" album, reported to be his overall favorite:

My $ is in the mail to you for this one, Chuck.

That is veering dangerously close to "too much information."

Allen, No joke--get to a doctor. Even if it not swine flu, I learned last year that there is a lot they can do within the first few days with flu that involves the lungs, but there is not so much they can do the longer you wait to seek medical attention.