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Dmitry

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  1. FB page dedicated to Slug's / Slugs. https://www.facebook.com/slugssaloon/
  2. 3.5 gram vtf is nothing terrible. If you're buying 1950s-1960s records, many, if not most of them were tracked by much heavier cartridges, and are still well-listenable.
  3. I accept the possibility that this photo was taken at the Village Vanguard. 1. Tables are the same, or similar, but tables are tables, they could be replaced. 2. In the background, we can see a wall, with wooden staves. In my opinion, this is a partition between the main floor and the section of tables lined up along the wall. 3. To Lee's left we can see a small section a velvet curtain, for which the Village Vanguard is famous. Lee appears to be seating on the stage, his back touching the curtain. Approximate position is in front of where George Cables is seated on this photograph. I'm trying to find a photograph of the view from the stage. Meanwhile, I think Lee may have been seated on the edge of the far left of the stage, where the speaker is hanging now. We can see the partition on this photograph. It's on the right. Did Lee and Hank perform at the Vanguard?
  4. Not a very good singer, in my opinion. Just happened to be in the right place, as fate would have it. Also not sure I see her being 'the face of bossa nova"....maybe in America in 1964 she was.
  5. Well, if that indeed is the new law of the land in USA, good luck to the European and Japanese collectors buying records on the interwebs. The sales of rare albums will move back to the record fairs and record stores, where they were before eBay took over.
  6. Since the first Black Saint title was Billy Harper's, I guessed the same, but it doesn't look like him. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/billy-harper-portrait-holding-tenor-saxophone-at-his-apartment-new-picture-id1364245277
  7. If the seller accepts returns, might as well give the old pressing a spin.
  8. Is this a musician, or at least a real person, whose identity is known?
  9. I don't know which album you're referring to, but Prestige vinyl quality was not uniform. You can get a noisy pressing, and that's just how it was. Or not.
  10. I don’t know who to credit for this great photograph, which is described to have been taken in 1965 at Slug’s Saloon. Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley.
  11. Now, with all of yours help I've figured it isn't. I'll see if anything comes out of it.
  12. Note the remnants of the STRAWBERRIES RECORDS sales tag/label on that Morgan. Strawberries was a chain of record stores in New England, owned by Morris Levy, the gangster who also owned the Roulette Records. After his famous televised apprehension, the company was sold several times, until it ceased to be in the late 2000s. I managed to shop there a couple of times when I moved here. Although they had virtually no LPs at that time, they did have an unpredictable used cd section, which sometimes produced a gem. At the very end I was one of maybe two or three customers in a 10,000 sf store. Then it became FYE Music, then that also died, and is now a Tall and Big Male clothing store, or something else. Now, returning to the previous post, the owner of the store where I snapped this photo, got a hold of a bunch of sealed Fantasy/OJC vinyl, still with Strawberry tags. He priced them from $20 up, most in the $30 range. Those OJC records have really appreciated over time. I would routinely see, and buy them for $5. Madness....who is buying these?! Do you know anyone?
  13. This, yesterday at one of our State capital's finer record emporiums. Some very subtle differences between this and the original, that only the most discriminating connoisseur will spy.
  14. Not eBay, obviously, but at a local record store yesterday. DMM Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land, $75 plus tax = $80.25. Do you think someone will bite? Lee is sceptical.
  15. This series slipped by me. I am sure I haven't seen any of these albums in the records stores here. Starting with the BLP-4004, Holiday for Skins, RVG started to record on the two-track tape almost exclusively, and to fold it down to mono for LP releases. The kink in that is not all of the two-track recordings were released in stereo format until much later after the label sale. I would love to hear some of these Disk Union mono titles. I'll pay attention now.
  16. Which BN mono replicas? LPs?
  17. I borrowed the blu-ray from our library, and we watched it in two sittings. I concur - Parasite is a very good film. I'm not going to say it gave me a true perspective on how life is in metropolitan South Korea, because the film is a product of subjective workings, but I really enjoyed watching it. Korean cinema is very interesting. Hollywood has fallen way down on my expectations ladder a long time ago. I wonder why the title is singular Parasite, and not Parasites.
  18. Thank you. When I called the store, he went on a RSD web page for record dealers, and told me he'd order the set from the distributor. He told me the price for it, and I paid. How does this RSD work? The record stores order titles they think their customers will want, based on their knowledge of their customer base? No prior reservations are allowed? For instance, had I gone to the store on the Record Store Day, how would I know that they carried the titles I wanted?
  19. I went to my local shop, and paid them for the set. The man said he will be ordering it, but if it falls through, he will give my money back. I haven't bought any RSD titles before. Does this sound kosher to you?
  20. How dies one reserve the records? Go through the local record store?
  21. This thread induced me to order the Getz bio from our library. I’m sure many of you have read it.
  22. Wife and I just joined a book club. It's a noble exercise - a monthly meeting at the member's home, potluck, drinks, followed by the discussion. This is what was chosen by the next month's host - Kristin Hannah - The Four Winds While in possession of the library-borrowed tome of significant Amazon repute, I observed and documented an Interesting parasympathetic phenomenon. After reading the first 25 pages, this is exactly how my lower intestinal tract heralded the cessation - by emitting four giant, Texas-sized winds. Obviously I had to comply. My wife is promising to soldier through the remainder of this masterpiece of socrealism.. I'll tag along for company [read - alcohol], and hopefully will keep my mouth shut. But the winds...they may still make their way.
  23. I just reserved it from our State's public library system. Looking forward to reading..
  24. Nice voice!
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