Stefan Wood

Thanks, all. It was a good day!

Haw haw guffaw! uh...yeah!

Right on, thanks guys!

I should get tickets.

I agree.

Been way too negligent with updating this thread. Here are a couple of relatively new releases that are worth getting: Another amazing 2 cd collection from Soundway. Volume 3 of this equally amazing series from Analog Africa. Beautiful acoustic music.

Good story. I hope she succeeds.

Something to consider: Selling on ebay is NOT what it used to be. One could say it has evolved, from favoring the sellers, to putting things in place to protect the buyers, to now somewhere in between, but still favoring the buyer. The scams, the 10% cut that ebay takes, in addition to the 3% that paypal (owned by ebay) takes, and exorbitant shipping costs drove a few (including myself) away from considering ebay as a place to sell. Still, if you are looking to maximize your investment, it may be the best choice, though, like others have said, the runaway costs for many of the OOP boxes have gone down. You could do Amazon, but they also take 10-20% off your total, depending on selling price. Or you could list them on forums, such as this one. I no longer think music buying as investments a viable option, but that is just me. I did it for over ten years, saw some good things come out of it, and moved on. Now I am downsizing my collection and concentrating on enjoying the music that interests me.

Selling the John Pattons??? Sacrilege!!!!

I've heard samples from this cd and it sounds pretty damn nice..... http://elleryeskelin.blogspot.com/2013/04/trio-new-york-ii.html

curses!

I'm with jazzbo, the Billy Cox stuff is fantastic. But to answer the question, the BBC sessions is recommended.

A beautiful amp!

Shoot, I had this on my For Sale list not too long ago. Had I known....

No, it is a completely unissued session.

I don't think so. I use Airfoil.

On the Airport Express Base station there is a single analogue/optical jack that one can connect to the stereo, using a 'Y" adapter/cable splitter.

I like Fritz, but holy cow, that's a bit much. Now if someone would do a Scherchen, I'm in!

I use Vox, not itunes. I plug the Airport directly into the input jacks of my integrated amp (can't remember that particular connection wire scheme).

But do you think they are taking big risks? The kind of risks that have huge payoffs a lot of the time but can also result in big mistakes/train wrecks? Yes? No? Maybe? Sometimes? If opportunity presents itself? Size of reward not always related to size of risk? Surviving is the biggest risk of all? Exactly Jim..... I think you described it well before I even tried to respond.... If any of the individual players are making choices that just fuck everything up, we are certainly not hearing it overtly in that way..... My initial impression of the group was they all waited with baited breath to react to what Wayne did as opposed to say what Herbie Hancock did which was to create a mood for Wayne to play over. This created a stasis of sorts as no one really seemed to take charge or really even direct things but there would be these short peaks that would create some genuine excitement and then would quickly go back to where they started. They have made this their language though and over 12 years have refined it into more of a group improvisation thing that certainly has it's moments and is certainly more then that to those who find this sort of thing deep and enjoyable (to each his own of course). It's been 12 years and they have certainly evolved and taken the music somewhere. Since I guess we have all been listening to the 1969 Miles stuff though and I assume most here have heard most of that stuff from the beginning of the band until the end, for comparison sake (though not fair I guess), see how far that band went in 7 months time, how they morphed into an almost completely different sound in that short period of time in the course of finding their true group sound. I don't think that it is a fair comparison (Shorter's 2000s quartet to Miles' 60's groups, in whatever configuration). Different leader, different personalities, different stages in lives, etc.

I've been streaming flacs from my mac mini to my stereo (via Airport) and have been extremely happy with this set up. To be able to play 24 bit files...

Spot on. I would say the same. Boulez's version on Nonesuch would be a third.

Flight for Four is a must purchase.