Dmitry

The building is owned by the 116 ASSOCIATES LLC 116 is the street number for the club.

Yeah, it's stamped VAN GELDER on both sides. The matrix numbers are PRST 7650 A and B. ST catalog prefix is for stereo, which this is not. You'll get a kick out of the shrink wrap that's still on my copy. It's a got a JORDAN MARSH price sticker. 7.79...not cheap, in 1969.

Thanks.

is this BB?

Trying not to look at your guys' replies. So far I've listened to the first 4 tracks - 1.1970s big band. A Latin-spirited, driving beat. Keyboardist could've been more interesting. Overall - I like it a lot. 2.Kenny Burrell. I am a fan, just not of this cut. 3.Late 1950s-early 1960s feel. A very talented classically-trained pianist, maybe Bill Evans. 4. A Blue Note style mid-1960s sound.

I am very upset. It was one of my favorite clubs. I've been a patron for 20 years. It's a damn shame.

Too lazy to check if someone had already posted this one.

I've got a few of those Music Matters 45 RPM albums, still sealed. It was an impulse buy. I was thinking maybe it's time to sell. I checked eBay, and some of them sell for a lot of money, especially the ones on SRX vinyl, of which I only just found out about it yesterday. It's hard to imagine that after decades there are still developments in vinyl composition that surpass the existing formulas, but I could be just talking nonsense, and the SRX vinyl is amazing.

How do these generally stack up against the Music Matters releases?

How old were you when you bought it?

I remember when mail was being delivered twice a day, morning and afternoon newspapers. Mail carriers also delivered monthly pension disbursements [in cash!], and telegrams. Packages, however, had to be picked up at the post office. When I was in my teens, I used to order LPs by mail directly from the Melodiya record label's catalogue, and pay for them when they came to our local post office. That was in the old country.

It also appears that the tail of Fats's pooch terminates in a phone receiver. Lucky dog!

Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, 1969 Prestige reissue, PRST 7560, cover labeled ELECTRONICALLY REMASTERED FOR STEREO. I bought this LP in a yard sale last year, for a buck, didn't notice the off-putting ELECTRONICALLY designation, and was really surprised to hear it, because this record is proper MONO, not a fake STEREO, and in fact the sound on this LP is remarkably good. I don't know how they managed to squeeze over 30 minutes of music on one side, and almost 30 on the other, but the result is top topnotch. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is probably the only way to get the whole December 24th, 1954 session on one disc. Grab one, if you see it. You won't be disappointed.

Lucille is dressed in a Christmas bow: it's a kosher Christmas cover! Was this ever issued in the US on CD? I don't think so.

No go. They are not dressed 'in' Christmas. But he is - And so are they -

One rule - the artist's dress must include an article of Christmas-associated paraphernalia.

Good movie. I watched it again recently, after about 25 years. No, Slater doesn't present as a Nicholson-lite here. He does have a tonsura. Umberto Eco is a thinking man's Dan Brown.