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Good to hear. I have them in the house (as well as the 2002-2003 Forest Whitaker ones), but have never seen any of them. Planning to get to them all over the coming months.

It is. 1959-1964. With three subsequent revivals. I'm working through the 1985-1989 first revival right now. And they are splendid.

BTW, the hour long season 4 episodes came because TZ was not renewed after season 3 due to lack of sponsors, and they replaced it. But the replacement show, which was an hour long, bombed. So network offered Serling the opportunity to fill out the rest of the season following that cancellation (I assume sponsors must have been found), but the shows had to be an hour long. Serling hated the hour long format, and I agree that even the best of them ("On Thursday We Leave For Home", "Valley of the Shadow", "He's Alive", "The Parallel") would have been stronger in the 30 minute format. I'm up to date on a lot of the details of the show and of the DVD sets (the quality full-season ones are now available cheaply) if anyone has questions after all these years.

I just finished working my way through the five seasons of the original series. Here are my 10 favorite episodes, in approximate order. "Two" and "A Passage for Trumpet" are definitely #1 and #2 for me. The others can shift around. Not saying these are the 10 best (famous episodes like "To Serve Man" and "Eye of the Beholder" would belong on that list), but the ones that hit me the hardest. I cry at the end of "Two" every time I watch it, because I just totally get where both of the characters (Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery) are coming from on a very deep level. Montgomery is just brilliant in this - she has one word she says the entire episode, and that word is in Russian, yet I can totally "get" and care about her character. Same with Jack Klugman's character on "A Passage for Trumpet", you feel him. Two - Pittman A Passage for Trumpet - Serling Walking Distance - Serling Static - Beaumont A Stop At Willoughby - Serling Five Characters In Search Of An Exit - Petal/Serling On Thursday We Leave For Home - Serling I Am The Night - Color Me Black - Serling The Big Tall Wish - Serling Nightmare at 20,000 Feet -Matheson

No, I have her wonderful 'Strange Lands' album, picked up after being introduced to her playing by @webbcity on his November BFT. Tim has seen her live.

You can get the NYT for $1/week, which includes the excellent The Athletic, which is worth the price of admission by itself (and the WAPO for $30/year), so that's one way to go about it, and helps save journalism.

Silly me, I've always liked “Rhapsody in Blue” just fine.

I was doing it from a laptop.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/08/23/gIQA6Z6XeJ_story.html I believe. But I'm also a WAPO subscriber, and can't open it.

Great to see Nicole Glover get on a label with some real distribution and name-power. She's a stunning player.

They have reissued a lot of that also. I have a lot of 60's rock CD's from them. Very extensive and eclectic catalogue. And they have a sense of humor about themselves which is refreshing.

They do some strange, obscure titles at times, but execute well on everything they touch. Did an interesting early Gary Burton set including Hank Garland album IIRC.

https://sundazed.com/compactdiscs.aspx Looks interesting - 1981 septet including Eddie Henderson and two bass players. I think Williams is very underappreciated.

Looking forward to reports from you both!

R.I.P. Melanie (1947-2024). Unfortunately, she is best remembered for the cloying novelty tune "Brand New Key", but there was much more to her than that. Not a major artist, but at times a very compelling minor one. Her work included one truly memorable woodstock anthem and a lot of other good recordings:

BN ran a lot of CD's out of print in 1987-1988, which is what prompted me to finally get a CD player. I bought a big bunch of those CD's at Tower Records on South Street in Philly, thinking I'd never see them again, then bought a CD player the next day. Turns out that the running them out of print was just to reset the catalog numbers IIRC, and they were very shortly all available again. 'The Prisoner' is a great album, I especially have a soft spot "I Have a Dream" and "He Who Lives in Fear", which I first encountered on that Best of Herbie Hancock 2LP set you mentioned. That set and Lee Morgan 'Live at the Lighthouse' were my first jazz purchase, bought together at Franklin Records in late 1972 or early 1973, my first year of college.

I also like that one. Actually loved Wynton's early sideman work. Blakey, this one, etc.

Up with edits showing what is currently left. Over 110 sold since last week, thanks!

The Headhunters records grew on me over the decades as I was more able to embrace them for what they were rather than keeping them at arm's length for what they weren't. The BN's and Mwandishi stuff still knocks me out, and I do like the VSOP recordings a lot. the nightmare to me was/is the 80's funk stuff with the vocoder vocals etc. Hope I never hear "Rockit" again, though it sits on my shelf in the big Complete Columbia box.

Blessings, Larry, glad you're back and hope the issues work out for you.

I'd also buy it. There's albums on there I've never heard of! And anything to get Max Roach titles from that era on CD.