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Blessings on both of you!

Simple math equation: Don Sebesky > Bob James > Dave Matthews. CTI was making incredibly poor albums by the end. Most of the CTI stable of "names" had gone off to major labels by then. The CTI golden era was early on, when guys like Hubbard and Turrentine and Benson were recording for them and Sebesky was doing a lot of the arranging.

I have a perfectly good Stan Tracey 'Portraits Plus' CD on Blue Note to give away. Missing the tray card, comes with the booklet. Shipping is free in USA, for cost overseas. Great CD, this is an extra.

Sure feels like it. The CD Golden Era certainly is.

A shame Atlantic didn't do that back during the CD era.

Up with $50 price.

I believe that one was actually a Pacific Jazz release, reissued on CD by Blue Note.

Tolliver also played on Andrew Hill's "Dance With Death", but I agree the McLean recordings were a great feature for him, including some spectacular writing (love "On The Nile"!).

Asking price lowered to $65. Will keep lowering it every day this week, then take it out to ebay if no one wants it.

Go ahead - take the leap Yep, you'll not regret it. Something like 17 or 19 albums worth of primo material.

Asking price lowered to $70

Price lowered to $50 October 29. I have come to possess the 3CD set "Strings With Evan Parker" on the Emanem label. It is apparently quite rare, going for $135 on Amazon Marketplace. It is also totally outside the pale of what I listen to, so I would like to find a good home for it. I certainly don't expect $135 for it. I guess I'll offer it with "asking $75" and will lower the price daily until it finds a taker. I'm also open to lower offers and trade offers, anything reasonable in return. So if this is a set you would like to have, please contact me at john.felser@verizon.net or via PM and let's see what we can work out. Thanks.

Received this via email from the Miles Davis site. Hope I don't get trampled by the hoard rushing to get in on this now-bargain purchase: Genius Of Miles Davis Price Reduced At Legacy Recordings, we value feedback from our fans, and have been reading some of your comments about The Genius of Miles Davis pricing. For that reason, the price of this item has been reduced to $749 US.

Breakin' Away and the first live album are the two I've always liked by him. The last 30 years, he's left me pretty cold.

No sound quality difference whatsoever, just the blemishes to the artwork as described. I'm big on Newbury Comics and -importcds. Have had nothing but good experiences with blowitoutofhere, but haven't gotten nearly as many from them as I have from -importcds. I've had a couple of not great experiences with MovieMars, tend to stay away from them if another reliable seller is in the same price ballpark, though they also are normally fine. I probably end up getting around 50% of my total Amazon purcases from -importcds at this point.

It will stand, indeed.

Those two and 'Where' have been the Carter "keepers" for me through the years. On many of his other leader recordings, I've found him to be much too enamored of his own bass playing as opposed to the total impact of the music.

Which also doubles as the best Simon a& Garfunkel song. Very efficient, Allen. I also didn't vote, as my favorite is "Live at Blues Alley". Have found him basically pompous (to varying degrees) on every release I've heard since that one. I like his initial work with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers quite a bit, and think how different it could have all been if he hadn't become so "important". I did like his contributions to the Ken Burns Jazz series, and liked that series, admitted glaring flaws and all.

Arrived in excellent condition, thank you!

So is the Phil Spector set.

Quick couple of thoughts: 1 - I really like the first two Chicago albums and the first two BST albums, especially the first one by each. 2 - England had some great horn bands. My favorite was If, with Dick Morrissey and an excellent guitarist named Terry Smith. They made some fine albums. I also really liked another one, more obscure, called The Greatest Show On Earth. 3 - It was a wonderful time with jazz and rock and pop mixing together seeking something new. Columbia marketing Soft Machine III as a pop album was incredible in retrospect.

PM sent on the Rick Nelson

Did he say who that one was?

And the only thing I would add to that is that, when it comes to human beings, never understimate the true depth of neurosis and self-defeating behavior, in all it's various forms (some much more "socially acceptable" than others). In my experience there's always more than meets the eye. And that goes for me as much as for anyone else.