Rooster_Ties

Yeah, don't sell Grand Max.

I sure am glad we done learned you more better 'bout how to write and talk more good.

Amen to that. If an eBay seller only does USPS "priority shipping" -- especially if I'm only interested in buying one or two CD's from them -- then I almost NEVER bid on items with high shipping charges (and "priority" is usually $2 more than media mail). That's often a deal-breaker for me. Same thing for most on-line retailers. I hate paying more for shipping than I have to. Dusty Groove is really good about having a media-mail option.

Fascinating. I'm only spinning through these tracks very quickly (needle drops, if you will) -- but this sounds like material well worth revisiting - and revisit it I will. Thanks for posting this!! -- Rooster T.

So, what's the best recorded evidence of this currently available?? Not questioning the premise -- just wondering what I could listen to, to get my ears wrapped around that concept.

OK, it's really late, and I'm a little under the influence (for the first time in ages – like 5 or 6 months since the last time I had four drinks in one night), and I feel like posting something I probably wouldn't otherwise. How soon / early in the relationship did you get really serious with your current significant-other and/or spouse. (For the record, I am NOT trying to ask for "too much information"-type posts in this thread (nor will I post any) -- I'm just looking for a general, academic/intellectual discussion about how fast people here have moved into what turned out to be long-term-relationships.) My wife and I first met 10 years ago (this month), and we got married 5 years ago (also this month). And it was probably "love at first sight" less than two weeks after we first met. We were living together within just a couple months. How about you?? I've been in three long-term-relationships in my entire life -- and all of them started with me getting pretty darn "involved", pretty darn quickly. (In all three cases, we were practically living together within a month or two after we first met.)

It's un-freaking-believable. Oh, go ahead and say it -- cuz it's true -- that Jimmy Woods date is un-fucking believable. Seriously, one of THE best dates I've bought in the last three years or so. 5-stars, with a money-back guarentee.

I am, and Blue Black is probably the best of the three dates. Thanks for the correction!!

Funny, I hadn't remembered that this thread even existed. AND, when I saw the title on the "todays topics" page just now, I immediately thought of the EXACT same image that I apparently posted about earlier in this thread (which I have absolutely no memory of having posted two years ago) --- where I mentioned the "Ornette Quartet Loft" pics from the early 70's.

I pretty much do it that way too. One can easily print the contents of one's shopping cart that way -- and then sleep on the list a bit. I usually mull over my Dusty Groove purchases for 4 or 5 days, often taking print-outs of shopping carts and spending a little time looking for on-line audio samples of the stuff I've found there, before really deciding to pull the trigger. Also, much as we all laugh about Dusty's "madlib" product descriptions, I will say that they are often really useful (as long as you know how to read between the lines). They sure do hype stuff at Dusty, but at least they do it in a way that is more useful than not. Good product descriptions, often with comparisions to other artists - is often a very helpful thing.

Just bumping this up because we just made our lodging reservations (5 nights) at the following B&B: Evelo's Bed & Breakfast Located here (look for blue/turquoise dot in the middle): This trip will be just about the 10-year anniversary of when my wife and I first met (in late April, 1996). Only slightly more than a month after we first met, I happened to be taking a business trip to Minneapolis, and she met me up there for 2 day whirlwind weekend (probably the first or second weekend in June, 1996) -- which was our very first trip together, ever. We didn't really plan this trip late next month to coincide with our anniversary (nor did we pick Minneapolis for that reason either) -- but it sure is turning out to be a lovely "half-coincidence".

It was recently reissued here in the states, along with the other two Hill "East-West" dates (the other two are trio dates). Not all that hard to find nowadays, actually.

Shipping charges are, way more often than not, the real deal-breaker. In the best of cases, I want to find enough stuff to buy (all in one transaction), such that the shipping doesn't set me back any more than about $1 per disc. So $5 shipping on 5 discs is good, but $5 on 2 or even 3 discs is bad (and a deal-breaker). I only buy from Dusty (or Mosaic too, for that matter) when I can find enough stuff (all at once) such that I can spread the shipping cost across many items. I'm always looking at "total cost per item" as my final reason to buy (or not buy), as the case may be. As such, I usually only buy from Mosaic about once every two or three years, but when I do - I usually get LOTS and LOTS of stuff all at one time (my last order with them was over $400, but I hadn't ordered from them in almost 4 years). I only order from Dusty about four times per year, but I rarely spend any less than $100 per order. Ususally two or three buddies of mine all go in together on one order, to save even more on shipping.

Haven't had the chance to check the site closely (so this may well not be a problem with yours), but I might also offer that ALL the various shipping costs and methods better be available, and easily visible before I'll enter any personal info on a site. There's nothing I hate worse than not being able to figure out what the TOTAL cost of my transaction is before I even have to enter my name and address (let along any credit card info). And I simply WON'T buy from any site that requires my credit card info before telling me what the shipping charges are. Also, do you accept Paypal?? If I didn't know anything about a site (or only knew very little), I'd be more willing to purchace from them for the first time if they took Paypal -- than I would give them my credit card number. I'll try to give the site a gander later today, if I get the chance.

BTW, in no way was I suggesting that Miles copped anything from Hino, or from "Hi-Nology". I was simply amazed at the degree to which Hino seems to have occasionally tread into territory that Miles really didn't get into until shortly after "Hi-Nology" was recorded. I do think your "Lost Quintet" observations/comparisons are useful, and probably spot on correct. But while you are correct (akanalog) that none of the tracks on "Hi-Nology" directly presage "Bitches Brew" -- I do think some rhythmic things Hino does (in his trumpet soloing specifically), get mighty close to what Miles was doing more in 1970, than what Miles was doing in 1968 and early 1969. And THAT'S what I find so interesting and/or puzzling. Wish I could describe what I'm hearing in more technical terms. Sure it's not Miles. But so few musicians have contemporaneously tried to play like Miles after 1965 (either specifically in terms of trumpet technique and language, or in terms of overall compositional concept), that I'm fascinated by the few that did – even if they don't quite reach the heights that Miles did. Would love to hear what others think of this album. Go get it if you don't got it, and report back here right pronto!!

Shame his shelf-life is limited. I mean, if he could somehow milk the "4-year old trumpet prodigy" thing for 10 or 20 years, he could probably really make a career out of it.

Anybody know of any other Grant Green footage of any sort?? Just wonderin'.

Has this ever been issued on CD, even as an import? The AMG only mentions two LP issues in the mid-to-late 70's (enja and Inner City). I'd sure love to hear this one.

Although I was brought up in a mainstream protestant church (United Church of Christ), and am now a Unitarian Universalist -- I have been fortunate to attend a couple Jewish Seder dinners over the years, which I greatly enjoyed (speaking from both a spiritual and culinary perspective!!) And more generally speaking, I find the Jewish faith to be a wonderfully interesting and meaningful faith tradition - and one that I wish I knew better. And I wish that I had had more contact with Judaism when I was growing up (didn't hardly know anyone that was Jewish when I was a kid).

I was adopted, and although I have very little curriosity about my birth parents (since that's a can of worms you could never put the lid back on), I have to admit that I would also be a bit currious about my background, ethnically speaking. I'm a standard white-bread W.A.S.P Euro-mutt, through and through. Still, it would be interesting to know, if the expense to find out wasn't too bad (say $100 or so).

this thread stinks.

I ain't no audiophiliac, but it sure don't sound half bad to my's ears. (a.k.a. "it sounds pretty darn good to me!") Edit: Here's another copy of the cover, so when the hot-link fails up above (which it will eventually do when Dusty doesn't carry it anymore at all, and can't order it), it'll still be here. And seriously, people, these sides need to be heard and discussed. Freaky stuff.

Got it today.

Another important question: Is that the only footage of Green that anyone here has ever seen, or heard about?? (Would be kinda surprising if that's all there is of Green.)

Grounds for bannination? Edit: If not, then surely it must be time to update the rules and regs around here, no?