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Watched a nice movie with my flu-bound wife last night. "Last Chance Harvey", starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. It struck a lot of chords with me on alienation, the impact of divorce on kids, aging, career "settling" , elder care, etc. Look foreward to seeing it again. Filmed ca. 2009.

Great to know that is actually coming out!

It's not. TOCJ-9198.

Just saw this, blessings and condolences. Very complicated emotions for you right now on many levels, I'm sure.

Mint condition classic Lou Donaldson Blue Note RVG Mini-LP's "The Time is Right", "LD + 3", "Here Tis". $50 shipped in USA for all three or best offer or interesting trade or sell/trade separately. "The Time is Right" is the most valuable of the three. PM if interested.

Great news! Blessings to you and your wife!

In my prayers. Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks, looks like a fascinating article which could end up costing me a lot of money!

Also Mingus "Let My Children Hear Music" and Jarrett "Expectations" and George Russell/Bill Evans "Living Time" and Bill Evans "The Bill Evans Album", career highlights all (my very favorite Jarrett album). Then they purged all of them from the label, all at once.

My parents still refer to me as Cookie Monster!

Love the Rain Parade albums he led. Like Mazzy Star quite a bit. ("Fade into You" is one of those out-of-time songs I discovered and fell for years later, as I had stopped listening to pop music in disgust by then. Others are "Under The Milky Way" and "There She Goes"). Have heard very little of the Opal material, which is not readily available to my knowledge, have not had opportunity to warm up to it. I belatedly discovered the whole Paisley Underground scene a few years ago and have become a big fan and semi-completist. Still a lot that needs reissued from then, including we need a good anthology of early Green on Red, when Chris Cacavas was doing his magic with them. Anyways, 61 is too young, and RIP to Roeback, who seemed like a troubled soul from my limited line of sight.

I also don't do jazz in the car, need something more immediate and shorter duration.

I guess I should do ancestry.com - maybe I'm part Japanese! Me too. I would go to a church meeting or visit my girlfriend (wife since 1993) in Philly, then go down to the store on South Street afterwards. South Street was empty that time of night, and I could literally park right in front of the store.

I remember hearing that album for the first time my first year of college. The first cut, "Meeting of the Spirits", immediately blew my mind! I had not heard the Tony Williams Lifetime "Emergency" album yet, so absolutely nothing prepared me for the experience! 'Birds of Fire' would also have been a great choice, but nothing holds the shock appeal of that first album.

My first CD purchases were some Blue Note cutouts of classic titles from Tower Records in Philly in early 1988. I didn't even have a CD player yet. The thought of missing out on those BN titles drove me to finally jump into the format. My first non-BN CD was also purchased there, Teena Marie's "Naked to the World". Amazing music, and I still have that CD 32 years on.

Go ahead and give us a summary of which still need identified, and whatever clues you want to start with. Participation level in BFT's is often very disappointing. Those of us who present them understand your feelings.

I think there will be more of that to come as he works his way through the decade. Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Weather Report etc. debut recordings were later than early 1971, I believe, and that is where he is in the rundown right now.

They opened up the store on South Street (forget if 5th or 6th Street was the cross street) in Philly in the 80's. Three stories tall, plus two separate related Tower stores (classical annex and book/video store) across the street. Then, in the early-mid 90's, the miracle occurred. They built a fairly large store less than a mile from my house in King of Prussia! I used to look forward to the big all-label sale every January, and for the months when Blue Note and OJC were on sale, and enjoyed stopping in every week to look at the new releases on the shelves and appreciated the Pulse! magazine every month. They died a year or so before they closed the doors, became just another CD store with high prices and limited inventory, rather than the marvel they had been. My first visit to a Tower was in San Francisco in the 70's. They had a third store in the Philly area, out in the Northeast, and I visited there a few times when I was in the neighborhood, back before the King of Prussia store opened. I remember visiting one on Decatur Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans (while on a business trip to Platforum, held in the Earl K. Long convention center) a very few years before Katrina. Decatur Street also was (Is still?) home to the Cafe Du Monde, and was by far my favorite part of the French Quarter. Very very different from Bourbon Street, which runs parallel just a block or so to the West. My most memorable Tower Records visit was to the store at Picadilly Circle in London while there on a short-term mission trip in July 1991. Picked up a bunch of British label CD's that were unobtainable in the USA. Philly had a chain called Sam Goody (originally out of New York, I believe), and back in the early 70's (and before, I assume) they seemed to have the same philosophy as Tower, of trying to stock "everything", though their corporate structure made them "just another chain" much earlier on.

Buried in the same family plot:

LOL! Teenagers = Rage for sure!

Not nearly as unwieldy, cumbersome, and space-depleting as you-know-what, which are all the rage now: