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Steve Hoffman Forum thread here... http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-last-five-unidentified-tracks-in-my-itunes.357432 Can't seem to post a neat and tidy link from my phone, so hopefully the long URL above is clickable. If anyone can figure this out, it's as likely someone here as anywhere. The Hoffman Forum thread had clickable links to all five tracks, playable (stream-able) as on-line MP3's, hopefully accessible whether one is logged in over there (or not). Thanks!!

Me too. I'd probably have bought one this go around if it were included. Eventually I'll take the plunge, sale or not, I'm sure - but it could be a year or more. BTW, I'm not complaining that it wasn't included. I readily bought the Woody Shaw Muse box, full price. Just a matter of priorities, and cash availability.

No regrets having pre-ordered mine, but if I hadn't - I'd sure be jumping on one now!!

I enjoy the later studio material a lot more now than when I first got the set. Essentially disks #5 & #6 (presuming the Lighthouse material is disks #7 & #8). I really need to spin this whole set more offen too, I'm realizing.

It's right up there for me too -- and I generally really love most of Miles' output post-Bitches (pre-semi-retirement). By which I mean nearly as anything I've ever heard from him in the 70's.

I almost pulled the trigger on this in a Dusty Order last week, but spinning all I could find on-line from it (several full-length Youtube clips), I couldn't help but think the "wheat-to-chaff" ratio on this just didn't seem enough for me. Maybe someday, or if I could ever spin the whole thing first. I'll bet there's a solid single-album's worth of stuff in there, but a lot that I probably would always want to skip too.

Top drawer Freddie, and I like it better than any studio date of his from that entire decade (at least those I've heard). Recommended!!

I put off getting the solo Hill for ages, but finally got one a couple years ago - and really love it. And it gets better with repeated spins, as I start to anticipate the shifting themes better. I'm hardly impartial, but I didn't think I would end up liking the solo Hill set as much as I have. Great listening while I'm at work, which is where I keep my copy. (Didn't spin it nearly as often at home.)

All my rant to the contrary, I to think the show is very well acted - and I have no complaints with it otherwise (I don't think it's "stupid" - quite to the contrary, it's arguably one of the better series on all of television). That said, I still avoid seeing too much of it, cuz it just pisses me off.

My wife is hooked on Mad Men, so it's on every week like clockwork -- and in our small, one-bedroom apartment, I've seen more than my fair share. I love the production values, and sets and such (and especially all the design-related eye-candy, i.e. furniture and clothes) -- but I mostly don't care for the show much at all. Half the characters are archetypes of people I've tried to avoid my entire life. And the old boys network of that workplace reminds me of aspects of the corporate world I was in for 10 years starting in the mid 90's (with tons of Type-A personalities, which I particularly dislike in men, though I don't mind them in women much at all). I don't mean to suggest things were anywhere near as bad in my work experience 15 and 20 years ago, but I worked in the fairly male-dominated world of a IT (Information Systems) team, within the fairly male-dominated world of a metal-buildings manufacturer -- so some of that bullshit was a little bit the norm. I see enough of Mad Men to enjoy some aspects of it, but I try NOT to see enough of it that it pisses me off (which seeing all of it would inevitably do). As a result, I probably see 20-30 minutes of every episode (and I try to avoid seeing entire episodes). What my wife sees in it, I'll never understand. The stuff that annoys me about it, pisses her off even more than it does me. And yet she watches week after week - and she can't stand to watch it on the DVR a day or two late (she has to see it on Sunday nights, in real-time). All that personal, back-stabbing work-related politics (especially testosterone driven as it is), just annoys me to no end.

Wait, you mean maybe Led Zeppelin didn't write all of their own songs?

I can't be the only one who saw this thread, and was hoping this would be something that revisited the material from Herbie Hancock's last Blue Note leader-date. (Not to thread-crap.)

Another similar Waldron enja ("Hard Talk") from around that same time is also excellent. With Manfred Schoof (cornet) and Steve Lacy from 1974, highly recommended. But back to the sextet tracks from "Moods" -- special mention goes to trombonist Hermann Breuer who (at least on this recording) has one of THE most exciting, aggressive tones I think I've ever heard on his instrument. Really something special, and a name I don't know otherwise.

Funny, there's nine (9!) different copies available on eBay currently (of that Miles "Orbits" comp). One of them has 8 or 9 different images (including one of the 'record club' info); and was also finally able to see the copyright date: 1968.

Have never seen nor even heard of that Miles "Orbits" compilation before.

Maybe my favorite non-BN Select.

Fantastic music, good price!

I think all the musical discussion was in an essay by Carlos Santana (2,200 works, by one account) -- which didn't end up in the final version of the liners.

I was initially on the fence about getting this set (at least now, cuz I figured eventually I'd probably get it. As much as I've enjoyed vols 1 & 2, I was thinking, do I really need 4 more disks of electric live Miles? Well, vol 3 has done nothing but exceeded my expectations (too), and I was really surprised how much I've enjoyed this new material.

Third Season and Slice are my two favorite Mobley dates - of his entire catalog.

Jazz: 1963-1973, or if two decades: 1956-1976. Classical: 1910-1920 was pretty darn amazing, but so too was the last quarter of the 19th century (a wee but more than a decade, too hard to narrow down beyond 1875-1900, or maybe 1865 or 1870 might be an even better starting point). My rock/pop/alternative interests are too all-over-the-map to tie to any one decade. 1968 to whenever Radiohead's last album would be about as narrow as I could go there.

Don't believe it, really? Cassettes?

They were from 1962 & 1963, with further BN dates in '64 & '65 (so not quite).

Definitely. One of Patton's very best, IMHO. Fantastic album!

Much of Gleam is downright fantastic, BTW -- maybe one of the best Hubbard 70's dates I've yet heard (as I'm not the biggest fan of the CTI stuff, which I find to be a little over-produced).