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Lesley Gore had four top-5 charting songs in the 18 months prior to this, was a huge presence at that time, though she had very little commercial success afterwards. The songs were "It's My Party" (#1), "Judy's Turn to Cry" (#5), "She's A Fool" (#5), and "You Don't Own Me" (#2 for three weeks in early 1964, kept out of #1 by the Beatles). "That's The Way Boys Are" (#12) and "Maybe I Know" (#14) were also significant 1964 hits for her which would have charted even higher but for the British Invasion. And some of those are great pop records, especially "You Don't Own Me", which still produces goose pimples when I hear it. BTW, she was a Quincy Jones discovery/production.

Yes he is, a truly great drummer. Played with McCoy Tyner again in recent years I know. He's been discussed before in the last couple of years in a thread here somewhere. I think Chuck knew more about his recent activities, if I remember.

but he had a great glove at short!

I also consider it their best. 1/4 of it showed up on side two of 'I Sing The Body Electric', which is their best US release to me. 'Sweetnighter' is a great groove, though. Different and simpler.

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I think that is a good approach, tracks pretty closely to what I do, and I have been able to sell a lot of CD's to members (and buy a lot of CD's from members!). Do whatever you can to keep the shipping charges low, especially in bulk. Amazon Marketplace charges $3/CD shipping on top of the prices for used CD's, so if you are both coming in well below the Amazon prices and well below the Amazon shipping, you should do OK as long as you have titles people want (no Kenny G around here!).

I don't remember that one at all, will be interested to hear, since I own that box and hope I didn't miss something! I remember that they had to repress one of the Sam Rivers Mosaic discs due to a mastering error.

I love the Heavyweight Champion box set of his Atlantic recordings. They sound good to me considering the source material (I'm sure there are arguments that other editions sound better, but how much so? - they were a big improvement over the original CD issues), and the packaging is top notch. The Atlantics did sound funky - what in the world was going on with the recording of Tommy Flanaga's piano on "Giant Steps"?

The Missus and I will look to be part of the mob. Shorter is, what, 75 now?

More what ? He's recorded quite a bit over the years . Allmusic shows eight recordings as a leader in the past 44 years, almost all of those on obscuro labels. And I've never heard or come across any of them, even his ESP_Disk.

Agreed that is a great date. Also agree that it is not overly "difficult", even though it still sounds fresh all these decades later. Why didn't more ever come of Perry Robinson?

Fill us unknowing types in on the background! I'm not sure it's funny to anyone other than Ron and myself! I'm sure. It isn't. Several years ago, that CD was sent to me by mistake all the way from Germany in an order from Zweitausendeins, and they told me to go ahead and keep it. I Googled the guy, and found out that he's apparently referred to as "the German Bob Dylan," a fact that both Erik and I found to be quite amusing. I've actually never opened it, but that hasn't stopped it from being an endless source of entertainment for Erik and me. Now, aren't you sorry you asked? Nah, great story!

I hope the partnership would go in that direction rather than it going the other direction, and being stuff like "The Complete Miles Davis Plays For Lovers Sessions".

Fill us unknowing types in on the background!

PM sent on the Bill Holman

The Rhythm Section is great on this - Joe Chambers is unbelievable.

Do piranhas feed on piranhas? Why all the griping, this label is filling a heartfelt collectors' need: We should all be rejoicing that Kind of Blue will finally be available on CD!

PM sent on the Kossoff.

Way back when his writing mattered, Christgau talked about how the music we were drawn to was that which reflected what we recognized as the rhythm of life. I'll try to find the exact quote at home, somewhere is his book of 70's Record Reviews. I get him mixed up with Lester Bangs. Which one died? Maybe that's why he can't write anymore, he croaked. To quote that nonpareil actor Billy Crystal in a great and cruelly neglected dramatic role performance in the American classic tragi-comedy, Throw Momma From the Train (supported by an equally unforgettable performance by Branford Marsalis): 'She's not answering the phone 'cause she's dead! 'You don't answer the phone......when you're dead!!' Lester Bangs is the one who died early. Their writing styles weren't actually all that similar. Bangs was a gonzo journalist type.

Proper has a nice 4CD box set of early Torme, and the Membran Quadromania 4CD set makes a nice supplement to it, surprising how much the material does not overlap, if you're OK with that route.

And the Patterson Christmas album, with the same title as the Timmons. PLEASE! MG Yeah, good luck with all that. I imagine they're gonna do the same old titles.

Available in it's totality on "The Major Works of John Coltrane", which is available very inexpensively (under $5) on Amazon Marketplace. http://www.amazon.com/Major-Works-John-Coltrane/dp/B000003N6C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267459794&sr=1-1

PM sent on the Parlan, the Corea/McLaughlin, and the Stefan Grossman.

Because no other label so cluelessly bleeds and rebleeds the same titles over and over and over again. There actually are some ways I would rebuy yet again some of the same music, if it were more efficiently and attractively packaged, like the three Coltrane box sets of recent years, but individual titles yet again ain't it. However, another Valentines day has come and gone, and I'm still waiting for "Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons Play For Lovers" to be released.

I do too, but they certainly are different. Mighty big of Hutch to give Joe so much space on his dates. Nearly an hour of Chambers tunes (in total), if I remember correctly. I intended to make a CDR of all of them once, but never got around to it. I should at least remind myself of what all those Chambers tunes are (yes, I'm fishing to see if anybody already already has that list handy, or else I'll get to it myself one of these days). Third the Chambers tracks. In fact, I like the second half of Components waaay more than the first half. I'll publicly concur with Al's view, so he doesn't feel too isolated. I've always found those Chambers cuts to be overly difficult.