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Give the vibes players some! #3 (Bags-ish) and especially #8 (Gary Burton-ish) were the highlights for me.

Great BFT, thanks so much! How did a 16 year old TLC recording her first album on a small label come to lead a session with George Coleman, Kenny Barron, and Buster Williams? Will need to pick that up, as it has just been released on a Candid CD. Wish that Lowe were available on CD, it's a gem. Would be nice to come across that Basie and that Budd Johnson some time. Thankfully, I already have the Dizzy's, Blakey, Mitchell, Mobley and Lawrence!

Our friend Ruth Naomi Floyd recorded her first three albums at Systems Two, we were there for sessions for the first ('Paradigms For Modern Times') and third ('Fan Into Flame'). The studio did have a great sound. Good place, though the neighborhood terrified me.

I have bought boxless/bookless sets by Sam Rivers and Quincy Jones, plus partial sets by Joe Pass, Johnny Smith, and J.J. Johnson. Sold the Jones years ago, have been trying to sell or trade the Rivers for years since I was able to acquire the individual Rivers CD's (always my BN preference over a Mosaic set, the artwork was part of the magic for me). The partial sets fill some gaps for me, though I don't like that format for owning the music.

Those 90's BN boxes (Monk, Powell, Clifford Brown, and especially the Dex and Hancock) were beautifully executed. Much prefer them to the Mosaic format. Wish they had continued in that way.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1376982-Jackie-Paris-Sings-The-Lyrics-Of-Ira-Gershwin If it's Beautiful World Syndicate, they have an excellent fill rate in my long experience with them, well over 99%.

Bobby Zankel is an excellent musician and a good guy. Ruth Naomi Floyd is my wife's old roommate, an incredible talent. She and Zankel have done a lot of work together. Sumi Tonooka is a masterful Philly pianist who has always been greatly underappreciated. First saw her in the 70's at the Ethical Society, when she was barely 20 years old, but she was special even then. The Painted Bride Art Center is my favorite venue in Philly for hearing jazz, so will look to make that show as well as acquiring the CD. I haven't been to a live jazz show in several years, so this will be very special for me. Really looking forward to this one, thanks for the heads-up. If anyone else in the Organissimo community thinks they may make that October 21 show at the Painted Bride Art Center, let me know. Would be great to meet you in person!

I have CD's which run well over 80 minutes (up to 83), and they play OK for me, as does this one. My equipment is not expensive (quite the opposite), but is also not old, purchased new within past five years or so.

Agree that there was some magic in those Columbia vocal albums recorded there. For me, especially the Johnny Mathis ones, but also quite enjoy many of the Andy Williams ones.

My mother bought and played that single when she was/we were separating from my father (it needed to happen). Back to the subject at hand, I find Sinatra's Reprise albums to not be nearly as compelling as his Capitol albums, so credit to Capitol there. Though I find the Reprise singles much stronger than the Capitol singles. And of course, Sinatra owned Reprise at first, so he could do whatever he wanted. Though obviously he had sold by the time they were dropping Bing Crosby and Jo Stafford and signing the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and the Fugs. Bennett is a semi-acquired taste at best for me (and I've tried many times over the past 45 years), but he's a fascinating story, which I bet will make a great biopic some day soon.

(Rudy Stevenson – guitar, Lisle Atkinson – bass, and Bobby Hamilton – drums)

Received this from Matt at Nimbus West this morning: Nimbus West Records IUCC UPDATE Vol 2 + 6 SHIPPING FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST Greetings, In early June we received the finished jackets for volumes 2 and 6 in the IUCC series. In short, the print job was awful. Oversaturated print density which resulted in a dark and blurry images on both volumes.. This took several weeks longer than expected to resolve. The jackets are now in production at a new printer and we are expecting the finished product to land here at HQ in the next 10-12 days. We’ll begin shipping immediately and plan to have all copies ship out during the first week of August. We are sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate your patience during this short delay. The discs for the entire series have already been manufactured so the rest of the series will move along quickly from here on out! We are planning on 2-3 volumes each month until the series finishes. Bright moments, Nimbus West

The club I liked is Chris's Jazz Cafe, though I haven't been there in years. Can't speak to the musicians appearing there when you are in town. https://www.chrisjazzcafe.com/ I'm not a restaurant guy - give me a good cheese steak or a good meal in Chinatown and I'm happy as can be for under $20. I'm in the suburbs, and don't do vinyl, so buy everything online at this point, never get to the stores.

$4.00 shipping for first 3 discs, $.75 for each additional 3 discs, USA Media Rate shipping. Free shipping on $75 purchase, 10% discount and free shipping on $150 purchase. Willing to consider sales outside of USA at higher shipping rates, but need you to assume the risk on the package for overseas shipments. I want to move these discs, so will eventually consider reasonable offers on them if they don't sell at my asking price. I can answer any questions about label, personnel. Assume excellent condition. When you request to purchase any titles, I will examine them and inform you of any imperfections before we finalize sale. I may consider trades, but am more looking for sales. Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers At the Café Bohemia, Vol. 1 $5 RVG Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers At the Café Bohemia, Vol. 2 $5 RVG Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Free For All $6 RVG Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Moanin' $5 RVG Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia $6 RVG Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Free For All $4 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers The Big Beat $5 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Les Liasons Dangereuses $12 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Caravan $6 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Live at Kimball's $8 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers New York Scene $6 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Drum Suite $9 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers The Jazz Messenger $2 Columbia compilation Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers The Jazz Messengers $5 classic 1956 Columbia album Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Moanin' $4 1968 live Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Straight Ahead $7 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers The Art of Jazz $8 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Jazz Messengers! $6 Impulse digipak Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Blues March - Roulette Years, vol. 2 $6 Gypsy Folk Tales reissue Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Originally $4 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers 1957 Second Edition $4 Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Night in Tunisia/Lerner and Loewe $7 RCA Blakey,Art/Jazz Messengers Hard Bop $10 Mosaic Blakey,Art/Persip/Jones/Jones Drum Night at Birdland $10 Bley ,Carla Dinner Music $9 Bley ,Carla Big Band Theory $5 Bley ,Carla Heavy Heart $9 Bley ,Carla Escalator Over The Hill (2CD) $15 Bley ,Carla Night-Glo $10 Bley ,Carla Social Studies $11 **ON HOLD** Bley ,Carla Goes to Church $8 Bley ,Carla Looking For America $7 Bley ,Carla Sextet $8 Bley ,Carla Fleur Carnivore $6 Bley ,Carla European Tour 1977 $15 **ON HOLD** Bley ,Paul With Gary Peacock $7 Bley ,Paul Hands On $8 Bley ,Paul The Floater Syndrome $14

How/why was he able to start recording his first Impulse! album before recording his last Atlantic album?

Agreed, they are much much more active in buying jazz CD's there, and those who have bought CD's from me have been pleasant and responsible. As far as the discussion threads there, I find them chaotic and not nearly as knowledgeable as here and much more impersonal, though I am admittedly basing that on a small sample, as I have not really participated much there beyond getting to my 50 posts to access the classifieds. My lasting impression is posting that I did not much like those bad R.E.M. albums from 'Monster' to 'Around the Sun', and being told that I was basically an idiot to hold that opinion, with no explanation of why that was. That was enough to turn me off. Everything else over there just feels disjointed to me, you post a comment or even a thread, and it just goes off into the ether somewhere, with no interaction.

Great sets at excellent prices.

RIP. Shows up on a lot of albums from the 70's in my collection. Dependably good player.

Two versions for every song.

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Then count me in!

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Love the Hardee portions of that box. Never had heard of him prior to the box, wonder why he didn't record more.