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Paid under $20 for my GE clock radio. It wakes me up fine, and gives me the traffic and weather via KYW.

Francis, as far as I know, is still doing fine and teaching jazz history at Temple University here in Philly. We email each other occasionally. In case people aren't aware, he's married to Terry Gross, host of NPR's "Fresh Air". Temple has a pretty amazing jazz faculty, including Eric Alexander, Tim Warfield, Terrell Stafford, Carla Cook, Tim Green, Byron Landham, Joe Magnerelli, Dick Oatts, and John Swana.

It won't, no one makes albums like that first Dreams album any more. Dreams themselves couldn't even follow it up - "imagine My Surprise" is one of the great sophomore slumps of all-time. For that first album, they were a fascinating group who made a fascinating record. High quality ca 1969 BST/Chicago, wonderfully written and performed on side 1, and something very different and quite wonderful on side 2. And any group with the Brecker's, John Abercrombie, and Billy Cobham, all frisky, pre-fame, and in their 20's, had the potential to make some sparks.

Galper did some really firey albums with the Brecker's in tow between '76 and '78. Very different than his work with Woods and since, more than a little McCoy Tyner influence in places.

I like this one quite a bit:

A lot of live material available by that version of the messengers that year, and that is a lot of $ for that set, which could have fit on one CD. Personally, I'm good with the Paris Olympia and St. Germain sets.

I'd be in for 2 CD set if there were one.

I'm sure Cashman is working on it...

He did some nice work on Lloyd McNeil's mid-70's albums.

Yes, very well done. BTW, I really like the two albums (combined on one CD) he did for Catalyst a couple of years later. Every bit as good/essential as the Mainstreams.

I realize that I may be the only person in this community who cares, but the complete recordings by legendary Boston New Wave era group Robin Lane and the Chartbusters is being reissued on a 3CD set in March.. Available for pre-order on Amazon. Their classic "When Things Go Wrong" was the 11th video (and the first great song) ever played by MTV:

Then they aren't giving you a straight answer. They had room for about 2.5 hours more of material on those five CD's.

That could be.

Again, there is tons of space on those discs. Three of them have 15-20 minutes of free space, one has 35-40 minutes of free space, one has an hour of free space, is less than 20 minutes long.

Regardless of what you think of the music, the work of Giles Martin in his remixes of this and Sgt. Pepper's is breathtaking.

I'm sure that would be what it is.

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They can both hit. Machado is a gold glove 3B and subpar SS, so him insisting on playing SS screams "there's no team in I". Harper had dreadful defensive stats in '18, which concerns me, though I know defensive stats are not as foolproof as others at this point. I'm in Philly. The buzz here is mainly about Harper, especially after Machado's postseason (the "hustle" comments are not gonna play well in Philly), but I wonder if Boros isn't just playing the Phillies to drive up the bidding on Harper, since the Phils have a lot of $ available. We shall see. Either/both would look great in red pinstripes, of course, even with their imperfections, but whether they still will in their mid-30's is a totally different question (remember Ryan Howard - and he was already in decline when they signed him to that contract, though the injury exacerbated it).

I will also want the book. Strata and Tribe released some really interesting work in the 70's.

The extra cut is 19+ minutes. There is less than 19 minutes of content on the fifth CD, so even adding that cut would still make the fifth CD less than 40 minutes. So "cryptic" is too good a word...

I got th3 3CD set of the Beatles from amazon for $21.67. Arrived today and stunning.

Has anyone listened to the 40 minute Roy Brooks interview on this set? Worth the listening time?

I'm glad to do one, and have been doing December for a number of years. But if you get a rush of new people, I'm fine deferring to them.

Not nearly on the level of, say, Sticky Fingers. I don't even own them.