Dmitry

Is your VG same as the Goldmine VG ? Very Good (VG) Generally worth 25 percent of Near Mint value. Many of the defects found in a VG+ record will be more pronounced in a VG disc. Surface noise will be evident upon playing, especially in soft passages and during a song's intro and fade, but will not overpower the music otherwise. Groove wear will start to be noticeable, as with light scratches (deep enough to feel with a fingernail) that will affect the sound. Labels may be marred by writing, or have tape or stickers (or their residue) attached. The same will be true of picture sleeves or LP covers. However, it will not have all of these problems at the same time, only two or three of them.

Just got off the phone w/Mosaic. 6 Ventura/Philips sets left on the shelves. 300 Chico Hamilton sets left.

Which albums came out in this awesome series of the 20bit k2 remastered cds ?

Valery Ponomarev - PROFILE [pretty good contempo hard bop date] Donald Byrd - GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS [byrd is mediocre, while Joe is very good]

For the risk of being crude...how well do you think he can play after 30 years of absence and not practicing or having an instrument to practice on? They say William Parker sent, or will send him a bass. A hypothetical question from a non-musician. Has there been a case of someone coming back after, let's say after 20 years of inactivity, and making it?[in jazz, of course]. Depends what music they play, also, I guess.

This place is happenin'.

The only time I watched the Millionaire show happened to be when a question was asked after whom Birdland was named. Dude called his friend, music "expert", and the friend said Louis Armstrong. What a dummy.

He gigs frequently in NY, I have seen him many times; he's a very talented and versatile pianist, as you know, but not all of his records are on the same high level, imo. That being said, the recent Sonny Clark tribute disc is pretty good.

You're talking about the Vito Price disc, right? It's one of those topics that perished in the Great Blue Note Purge of 2003. Nice swing record, made when Basie was gging in Chicago, with Freddie Green and some other cats from the Basie orchestra, not anything essential, imo. Mine is the Fresh Sound issue, I believe it recently came out in the mini-lp incarnation. Sound's all right.

I never had a digipack break when dropped. Jewel cases, otoh... Verve Master Edition digipacks suck bollocks.

Everything gets damaged easily if you don't take care of it. Except for THE BOX, of course.

I like digipacks. What's not to like?

Thanks. I'll check it out. Saw it at the used cd place the other day, and it looked like one of those European digi-packs.

How's the McFarland-Kuhn disc? Is it similar to Gil Evans' arrangments?

Which Russell disc is it? George?