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Here's my suggestion - go to Rhino Handmade (the web-order boutique for WEA), and suggest that they release a limited edition of it. I mean, they just came out with the complete Atlantic Recordings of Rufus Harley, so they aren't worried about huge volumes! They've done as few as 1500 pieces in some of their limited edition runs, and I would think, with their PR muscle and the instant collectability of their titles, they should be able to move 1500 pieces of the Cherry/Lacy.

The LeGrand is an interesting recording, and one I wasn't familiar with until about a year ago.

It's my understanding that Trane left Atlantic for Impulse! due to dissatisfaction over the sound quality of his Atlantic releases. Have to agree with him. The piano sound on 'Giant Steps', for instance, is unbelievably poor. Chuck, what happened on that one, do you know or can you hazard a guess?

Send me a PM. If you want, you can order it and have it sent to me, and I can forward it up to you.

VHS available on half.com for $15.

Offering CD of Dee Dee Bridgewater - J'ai Deux Amours. I just have the CD, no artwork, but it is a legit CD. Let me know if you want it.

I've seen this before - it will likely lower to $8.39 closer to the release date,

I'm really glad to hear about this. The last I remember, we were hearing very dire health reports on Hill.

I have a lot of new, sealed extras of several of their CD's. Contact me if interested in any.

That statement is true for countless sessions. Why did Trane replace Workman with Garrison? I've never read an answer to that, and it's not clear the way that replacing, say Art Taylor/Lex Humphries and Steve Kuhn with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner would be.

The Paul Desmond notes, also reprinted in the Desmond RCA box.

PM sent RE Alice coltrane-huntington ashram monastery Beat you to it by over an hour! Sorry. Sent huge list to Adam, didn't put it in string.

It's a lot like a weak moment, but not spelled as correctly.

Great choice, love this one. Dolphy did an amazing job on the arrangements, and Trane's playing is awe-inspiring. I agree about the originally released masters being the strongest (the original album doesn't have a weak moment on it, stone classic start to finish), but there are titles on the "complete" set ("Song of the Underground Railroad" and "the Damned Don't Cry") that are well worth having, and the set is not expensive. edited to correct week/weak spelling mistake!

Who are the good guys online, especially in Amazon Marketplace, in terms of both price and service together - who offers the whole package? There aren't any cool brick and mortars left in my area, just generic chains, and I don't want to pay an extra $5 per disc anyways. I know (and agree with) Newbury Comics, and also do well with Django's, but who else? Who offers prices within, say, $1, of Caimen and beats them in fulfillment and service? I don't find the other biggies (Import CDs, 101 CD, Amazon Fulfillment) even as good as Caimen, let alone better.

This'll get me more of Elder Clementine's wrath, but a couple things to consider. Caimen has over a MILLION feedbacks on Amazon (including 400,00 in the last year), and about 400,000 on Half. And a lot of people don't leave feedback (I don't). That means they have at least 10,000 CD's a week going out the door (figurative, Clem). Two consequences of this: 1 - you're gonna hear a lot more bad experiences (and a lot more good experiences) with Caimen than with ma and pa regardless of how good Caimen may be or how bad ma and pa may be. 2 - I really doubt the OOP thing is sinister at all. Probably more like they list their price for virtually every CD that is released, and don't try to go back and figure out when something is out of print or not, because that is cost prohibitive in their operation, which has to be running at a very small margin, as low as their prices are.

How do you tell the good guys? I know about Newbury Comics, but don't know who else I can really trust out there. I've had much bigger problems with the mom and pops (especially on grossly misgraded used discs, but also on non-delivery of new ones) than I've ever had with Caimen or the biggies. If Caimen doesnt' deliver and I request a refund from them, they give it to me. That's not been my experience with a lot of the smaller sellers on Amazon and Half.

Thx for the recommendation. Not familiar with this, but it's available for as low as $1.13 on Amazon Marketplace, so I ordered one.

Theresa records was Bay-Area based, so it is West Coast!

Agreed. "You've Got To Have Freedom" on this one is my favorite Phaorah cut of all.

He was a "guitar for hire", showed up all over the place, some memorable, most not. His late 60's/early 70's solo stuff was pretty interesting.

I'm thinking of going with that Sarah Vaughan + 2 album. Has anyone heard that one? Otherwise, Lou Rawls Live or some of the remastered Journey stuff.

I agree. Nothing more fun than giving away other people's stuff.

Isn't that an oxymoron? I end each track on 'Night of the Cookers' when Big Black starts to do his thing, go onto the next one.

PM sent on the Rava, Bartz, Franklin, Haynes, Bishop, Gibbs, Soft Machine British Tour '75