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Update: Half the discs went out this past weekend (meaning the day before yesterday), and the other half will go out by the end of the day today. I will be PM-ing the individual distributors with their distribution lists, within a day or two. I also included hard-copies of the distribution addresses with the mailings themselves. Again, my apologies for the huge delay, everyone. These past two weeks have been mega-ultra busy for me (the whole past month, really). Every day there have been deadlines related to this Historic Homes & Gardens Tour that I’ve been managing, as the committee-chair pulling the whole thing together. I’m really not a very good manager at heart, so much of the work for this project has fallen to me, with each deadline being met at the last minute (or close). I do realize I have no one else to blame for this, other than myself. If I were better organized, I might have been able to delegate things more. This Homes Tour thing is my first time taking on any kind of project even remotely this size, and it’s been a trial by fire, to say the very least. I’ll open up the discussion threads by the end of this week, as that is when the first discs should be received by (roughly). Again, an infinite number of apologies for not getting this thing going as quickly as I would have liked to.

Most of the mailings are all packaged up (about 2/3rds of them), and I just need to fill out the customs forms (for the overseas ones, anyway), and get to the post office. Had hoped to do that today, but I've spent all my time working on this homes tour event that I'm in charge of -- which has consumed way more of my time over the last two weeks than I'd ever expected. I should be able to get to the post office on Saturday (knock on wood). I'm terribly sorry for the delay, everyone -- the timing of things just hasn't gone anything like I was hoping.

There's one currently on eBay, click. Closes in 2 days, so get on it.

My favorite Berg is his Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1925/6), followed closely by his String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910). They are often included together, since they fill a CD nicely. I have a few recordings of both, and the one I think packs the biggest punch are the 1991-92 recordings by the Alban Berg Quartett. Alas, this recording appears to be out of print -- but is well worth tracking down. Anyone else have this particular recording?? If so, what do you think of it?? Like Bev, I'm pretty sweet on Berg, but sour on Webern. Spontoonious has tried to convert me several times, but Webern pretty much does nothing for me.

Did anybody here ever get the Special Expanded 8-disc version?? Were the "extra" extras worth it??

When I heard Paquito play it, I'm pretty sure the museum hadn't been built yet either (somebody with access to the KC-Star archives, check my math on that -- it was the year Paquito played down at what I think was the old "18th & Vine St. Jazz Fest".) I think it was before The Gem Theater had been rebuilt too. I could have sworn they said that nobody else had played the horn in like 30 or 40 years, until Paquito did that one afternoon. There were about 200 people there -- it just sorta happened between other acts on the bill, with no advanced warning (if I remember right). PS: Maybe might have even been the same year David Murray was down there, and if so - that would back up my incredibly vague memory that Andrew Cyrille backed up Paquito for those four choruses. (Cyrille played with Murray one year down at 18th & Vine. Whether it really was that same year, I really couldn't say.)

Not one -- but SIX complete, separate copies of the Dinah Washington set (maybe more, perhaps some have already been purchased??) -- and all of them still sealed. No way that could be anything other than theft of some sort. And that being the case, then the origin of all the multiple-copies of the Selects this seller has are all suspect as well. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

OK, here's a real world example... A certain used CD store in your town has the habit of having used copies of brand new box sets within a week after they first hit the streets. (How about something more specific, how about the fancy Miles Columbia box sets with the metal spines.) Usually a couple copies, sometimes three -- though they never have all three out on the shelves at one time. But once one is gone, there's another "used" one in stock, in just a few days. You hear through the grapevine that they're "falling off the back of trucks", and later hear that one or maybe two of the employees of that used CD store also happen to work part-time at Best Buy (or have friends that work at Best Buy -- the story isn't always the same, but there are similar details.). Easy to put two-and-two together, right?? So the latest Miles box set comes out, and sure thing -- two days after the street-date, they have a used copy for sale. Knowing what you've heard through the grapevine, do you buy the "used" set at their great price?? - knowing that in all likelihood that it was stolen. This isn't some pansy-ass "hypothetical" question -- there was one particular used CD chain here in Kansas City, where this exact thing was very likely going on. I saw the used copies of the Miles box sets myself, and I've heard the rumors from more than one independent source. Full disclosure -- there's some chance my Miles 1965-68 box was one of those that "fell off the back of a truck". I found it "used", at the store in question, about two weeks after the street-date. It was a great deal, and it never occurred to me at the time that it might have been stolen. Then later, I heard some rumors, and sure enough -- there were a couple Miles & Gil sets that passed through there shortly after the street-date. I later found what I think (or at least hope) was a legit used copy of the Miles & Gil, for a good price, about six or either months later ---- at a different store.

Fair enough. But if one reads your prior posts in this thread, it sounds like you wouldn't care one way or another, if you knew it was stolen. "Not MY problem, just as long as I'M not the one getting screwed." So who cares if they're stolen?? I'm gettin' mine; that's all that matters.

I briefly heard Paquito D'rivera play Bird's alto too (just two or three choruses), shortly after it was first purchased by the American Jazz Museum. This was at an outdoor event down at 18th & Vine here in KC, and the alto was still in it's original condition. Not every note would play (and that was quite a few that wouldn't play), but those that did - sounded marvelous. I think that the event you heard, Spontoon, was maybe after the horn had been refurbished?? It was definitely not exactly in "playable" condition when I heard it.

I'm not saying one has to personally investigate the origins of every single product one buys from every 3rd party source. (I buy used CD's all the time, and clearly I don't thoroughly investigate to confirm that each and every one wasn't stolen.) But when confronted with evidence that something is likely stolen goods, that should influence one's purchasing decisions. If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is. If somebody offered to sell you a "like new" car, at a significantly "below-market" price, such that you had reason to believe that it was stolen -- would you buy it anyway?? -- and blame the original owner and the police for not having recovered the stolen car yet??

Terribly a pity that your choices are so limited... You know, if one takes that "I don't have a choice at this time" logic only a little bit farther, one can justify just about anything. Illegal downloading of material otherwise available for purchase. Shoplifting. Outright burglary of the "breaking-and-entering" variety. The sky's the limit. Me too!!!

The first time I glanced at the title of this thread, I thought it said BILLY Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Now there's a collaboration I'd pay good money to hear. B-)

Thanks Jim, I maybe should have qualified by question to ask if there was anything that Fantasy owned with Joe, that wasn't on the Milestone box, from the same time-period (as the Milestone box). I'd forgotten about the Charles Earland stuff with Joe. Don't have as much of the rest of Joe's 70's output as a sideman.

Anybody know why the tracks with Joe on Patrice Rushen's "Prelusion" (1974) weren't included in this set?? My copy of "Prelusion" is a Japanese Import, and it says Prestige on it. If that's right, then it wasn't a Milestone release originally (so there's my answer). BUT, it's sometimes hard to tell with all the Fantasy stuff, exactly what things were originally. (Pardon my ignorance, but I didn't think Prestige was an active label in the mid 70's. That's why I question the Prestige imprint on my Japanese issue.) Is there anything else with Joe on it, in Fantasy's vast holdings?? - besides the Milestone box material, and this one Patrice Rushen date??

Borrowed this on CD from a friend several months ago, and really liked it. Not enough to pay $25 for it (only available as a Japanese import), but if it was available domestically for about $13, I'd already have it by now. (And no, I didn't burn his copy.)

Here's a little update that I posted yesterday afternoon. The bulk of my BFT discs will go out by the middle of next week. (Posted HERE originally.)

Hi gang, Been busier than you could ever imagine, working on the details for our neighborhood's first ever Historic Homes and Gardens Tour -- and actually, we're calling it an "Eclectic" Homes and Gardens Tour. B-) (BTW, AfricaBrass did the poster for our tour (Thanks Jeff!!!!), and I'm THRILLED with the results.) I'm on the governing board of our neighborhood association, and since the whole event was my idea -- I found myself in charge of it. ( ) The tour is only about 4 weeks from now, and I've been up to my neck in work for the event, for about the last week or so especially. I've been sending out my BFT discs this week, as I've had the chance to -- and haven't had much time to read the board, or post any. I should have things a bit better under control by early next week. Part of the push was for some key deadlines that we had to get to at the end of this week, plus I'm planning to be out of town this weekend - which added an extra crunch to the timeline. My apologies for not checking in for several days (I see it's been more like a week), and I hope to have all my BFT discs done and in the mail by the middle of next week. Most of them are burned (80 discs total!! -- and my PC takes about 10 or 12 minutes per burn -- yikes!!!), and I just need to find time to package the rest of them up, and address all the envelopes, and get to the post office. I'll check back in when I can, but I'll definitely be out of pocket this Fri-Sun, in St. Louis visiting my Dad. Cheers!!!

OK, Dan, if you could snap your fingers and have BN reissue two "Three Sounds" titles as RVG's -- which two would be the most deserving of wide availability to the general buying public??

Nah, the thread is still there. I can still get to it with the link that somebody sent me earlier today. It hasn't been deleted.

It's still around. It wasn't deleted. Catesta just provided the search key, a couple posts above this.

Would this have to do with his political preferences? Not really. From my perspective, it really had much more to do with the way he conducted himself on the board. Not bad enough to warrant banning -- but then he brought that on himself this afternoon. (And frankly, I didn't even see the anti-Semitic thread he started until earlier today, when someone sent me a link, at my request.) But really bothered me is how he came in here, and less than a month later he was trying to tell people how to run the place -- and how the board "should" be, and how things had really gone downhill around here. Now maybe he was a lurker for the last year or more, but he never said so. And being on a board for one month, does not give someone the right to try to stir up as much shit as he did. 80%, maybe 90% of what Che posted around here didn't bug me all that much. But on more than one occasion, he really tried to play this board like a yo-yo. Maybe he was a long-time lurker, and had opinions about the place that went way back. But you don't just bust into a party, and try to stir shit up – not without taking some heat for it. Most of Che's persona didn’t bother me, but the parts that did – were a pain in the ass.

Keep 'em comin'. This guy was brilliant!!! R.I.P.

Not everything Che did bothered me. But there was plenty of stuff he did, that was really bothersome. Edit: to add italics to the word "really".

'Tis true...