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If it is all automated, maybe they'll ship without a hitch.

It seems that you do not even need to buy a disc at regular price. Just ordered Mingus at Cornell 1964 and Johnny Griffin Introducing, paying only shipping. WTF! $2.72/disc! Too good to be true?

So I used the code again: Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi 2CD set Miles Davis - Lift to the Scaffold Trio Mediaeval - Stella Maris Bill Frisell, et al. - Floratone $4.23 per disc! Dare I do it again? Will these actually ship at this price?

What did you order? Actually I'm more curious as to how many you ordered. Since you asked, here are the details! David Torn - Prezens Coltrane/Hartman Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits Gerry Mulligan - At the Village Vanguard Getz & Gilberto Paul Chambers - Bass on Top I had the unlimited $3.99 deal, so the more I ordered, the more the individual disc price went up. Maybe I should try to use the code again...

The drums on their take on When the Levee Breaks gets me every time. I liked them in high school, hated them in college, and have taken to loving them again. After a recent promotion, I treated myself to their complete recordings set. II still kicks my behind.

Just placed an order with the code -- worked out to $5.07/disc!

Did he actually convey anything other than 'I wanna help people'? Oh, and a boatload of creepy?

I love that show. Every tune in that set is just killing. I was listening to that one last week. I bet an organ trio could rip into Clementine... On your copy of the show, is the Dark Star victim of a fade-out after a couple of minutes?

Listened to 1-20-68 this morning. It opens with a smoldering version of Clementine, a song I wish they would have expounded upon more often.

Thelonious Monk's Blue Notes. Miles Davis's Blue Notes. RVG remastered Ornette's Golden Circle recordings, even though he didn't record them. NY Is Now and Love Cry sound fine as LPs - the Cds are mediocre at best. It'd be nice to have them (with the non-LP tracks) in decent sound. And it would renew interest / bring new attention to albums by an artist still living and able to reap the benefits.

I think that reissue of Moto Grosso Feio was part of a contractual oversight on someone's part, IIRC.

I think of it this way : When someone says , " Today's pop music is awful " , they should be understood not as asserting that aesthetic appreciation is the sole function of music , but rather as asserting that pop music has other functions which they don't value as highly or at all . Among these functions are the promotion of group identification , facilitation of courtship , expression of aggression or anxiety and the enablement of the release of physical tension through dancing . In this way , older people who say they have no use for pop music mean it literally . Hence the popularity of oldies stations...

This was in my email today: Thank you for keeping your Music Queue updated! Unfortunately, Baby Face Willette: Face To Face (Remastered) is no longer available and has been removed from your Music Queue. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

I just bought this today at the going-out-of-business Borders around the corner. $97, and I had the chance to see that it was not dented or scratched. This is my favorite era of Miles. The only thing that could top this is a set of soundboard tapes of the complete 1974 & 1975 tours.

I'm also very soured on Ebay this morning, as paypal just ripped me off for $43 plus all their listing and selling fees by issuing a bogus refund to an unethical buyer. Had no real response from them to the evidence I submitted, just auto responses from a machine and canned responses from the paypal customer service androids. So I'm very sympathetic to your plight. Anyone doing Ebay fulltime has my unreserved sympathy. Wow. That's unfortunate, but good to know. I was about to put a bunch of (cheap) LPs up on eBay. Think I'll just take 'em to Forever Young instead. I have moved some LPs on eBay in the past, and it is the biggest hassle of them all. After making too much money in 2007 [selling CDs, mostly; some LPs] I did my bookwork and discovered that I will be paying taxes this year on it. Further work reveals that it really isn't worth my time, given the PayPal and eBay cuts taken. I, too, will add to the chorus: Anyone doing Ebay fulltime has my unreserved sympathy. I once approached it with enthusiasm, but after seeing the actual profits, I am out of the game in 2008. On topic, I would love to see the list!

Can't wait to hear Floratone! I have listened to a couple of cuts on Rhapsody, and it feels like the two Viktor Krauss albums that get many spins around the household.

So the Borders by my office is going out of business, with doors set to close on Feb 2nd. Everything is at least 25% off, with a few things at 50%. My question -- how low will they go, in terms of final percent off, and when? Will the discount increase 5% each week or something? When the Sam Goody store nearby closed, that was the case. [Not that they are related, of course.]

I thoroughly enjoyed Surman's other outing with this same lineup on "Coruscating" from a few years ago. Rather unlike anything else around!

Beat this, y'alls: Michael Bolton at the Iowa State Fair.

To me saying "African Music" is akin to saying "American Music" -- there are so many different regions, cultures, and traditions. I especially find myself drawn to the guitar music of Southern Africa/Madagascar, and the Touareg music of the Sahara. And the traditions in Mali. If you are looking for some great music recorded in the last 15 years, go with this: This was the best concert I have ever seen, hands down.

He was in my home state of Iowa the same weekend that the great Japanese doom rock trio Boris was in Mpls. I had to make the decision, and I went with Boris. I saw that latest set -- it has a slipcase. That is pretty deluxe for Corwood!

I was hoping to see Ornette's albums come out as RVGs in 2008. The Empty Foxhole has been gone for a while [whatever your thoughts might be on that one] and the other two with Elvin, Dewey and Jimmy were deleted, IIRC. Surely they would sell! Those covers, man!

I missed him in concert last month, when I had to be in a wedding. It was the Kinsmen/Svajanam group, with this line-up: A. Kanyakumari (violin) Rez Abbasi (guitars) Carlo De Rosa (bass) Poovalur Sriji (mridangam) royal hartigan (drums) Kadri Gopalnath (sax) I had to miss Gopalnath to be in a wedding. My buddy owes me.

I would come out on the other side of that issue. I guess I am a traditionalist on that kind of stuff. Hasn't it been the case in recent years with these albums that were released long after they were recorded that the artwork was redone by Patrick Rocques [sp?]? Since this was released in the late 70s, i thought they might put a more classically stylized cover on it.