Rooster_Ties

Hey Jim, where in the alphabet do you file Sonny Blount's recordings??? "B", "S", or "R"???

Haven't a clue. (And probably not the first time either. )

Wanna elaborate, Chuck?? You've been sour on Strata East and Tolliver before, but haven't ever said much beyond the fact you think they're overrated (as a label), and that Tolliver is/was/always-was overrated too. Thanks!!

Kirk Lightsey and Harold Danko: Shorter by Two (Sunnyside) Recorded on July 19th & 21st, 1983, but released in 1989 (copyright 1989, anyway). Also, my CD of this says 'Made In France' - but I'm sure it was probably released on disc in the U.S. as well. Great album -- It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Edit: Free For All beat me to it with the album cover, but I gave you a link to the AMG review, so there!!!

Depends on which one ya got more of --- I'd file all of it under that one!!

Nobody else has this CD?? Spontoon said he'd check when he got home tonight. -- Rooster

Quick, does anybody have any opinions about the CD issue of John Hicks "Steadfast" (Strata East, 1975)??? Is there more than one CD issue?? (It looks like the one Dusty has for sale is the one on Bellaphon, being that it's from Germany. Has Charly even issued this on CD???) Anyway, Spontoonious and I were just having lunch, and I mentioned that a friend (on the board) was going to be up in Chicago, and might be picking this up for me at Dusty. Spontoonious said that the CD issue of this that he had (on Bellaphon), sounded really, REALLY bad. He thought it was taken from vinyl, and warped vinyl at that!! Any opinions out there of the CD issue of this title?? Any advice within the next 12 hours would be much appreciated!!!!! John Hicks -- Steadfast . . . CD . . . $9.99 (Item: 84626) Strata East (Germany), 1975 Condition: New Copy View Cart Beautiful solo work from John Hicks -- one of the few straight pianists that can hold our attention in a setting like this for so long! The album's deeply introspective, but never overindulgent -- and features Hicks on a variety of short numbers that include some beautiful lyrical originals, and a few very well chosen standards. Titles include "Pensativa", "One For John Mixon", "Soul Eyes", "The Bright Eyes", "Serenade", and "Steadfast". (From the Jazz CD (E-I) page.)

Doesn't look that way from the calendar: http://dakotacooks.com/calendar.htm Would love it if you guys came to town! I'm a big fan of the CD. I sent them an email. I will try phoning them soon. Thank you! I know both a drummer and a bass player, who are both on the current Dakata schedule for a couple dates this month (from the link above). They're both local guys, Chris Bates (bass), and J.T. Bates (drums) -- yes, they're brothers (both in their early 30's by now). I may be able to dig up some contact info for either or both of them too, e-mail or perhaps phone numbers. Jim, let me know if this is an avenue worth perusing, in terms of their suggestions for getting your promo stuff in front of the right people at The Dakota. I know them well enough that they’d probably be able to make some contacts on your behalf too. (They were both in a band, The Motion Poets (formerly The Little Big Band), that crashed at my place about a half-a-dozen times in the mid-90’s -- whenever they played in Kansas City. Long story how that happened -- but the short story is that they’re all great guys, and they’d probably go to bat for you.) I know a couple other guys in the Twin Cities area too, of a similar nature (local guys, great musicians). So just say the word if you have any trouble getting the kind of feedback you’re looking for from The Dakota people. -- Tom

You got that right. That BBQ chicken pizza I had at 1am last night had it's revenge this morning. TMI!!!

Thanks couw!! Actually, I just went ahead and created a new Amazon account, and figured that would get me into the order enough to figure out the shipping charge. BUT NO, I had to enter my credit card number first, and it was only on the last screen of the order that they said what the shipping would be. Same as half.com, basically, although it appears they don't give you a break on shipping multiple items from the same seller.

I'm trying to decide between something that's OOP, either from half.com, or through Amazon's used marketplace. What's the standard shipping rate for one used disc through Amazon?? And do they cut you a break for shipping additional discs from the same seller?? (Like half.com does. Half.com's rates: $2.50 for the first disc, $1.50 for every disc after that from the same seller.) Can't seem to find the shipping cost info on Amazon's site, I've lost my Amazon password -- and their "I forgot my password" thing doesn't work for me (some crap about me having to enter in the last X digits of the last credit card I used for a purchase from them, and they want some other info too). Hell, maybe I'll just go with half.com, but if anybody happens to know Amazon's used-CD shipping rates, thanks!! -- Rooster

I've got the Cherry Mosaic, and my favorite of his three BN albums is, by far, "Complete Communion". The other two aren't bad, but if I had to pick one...

Well, at first I wasn't even gonna bother. But then when I discovered that I couldn't open it, I simply had to figure out how to!! PS: I probably will save it, and use to send some discs to somebody some time. It looks like it would hold about 3 or maybe 4 CDR's (without jewelboxes, of course).

Waitin' for a bargain price, on a 'used' one, something more in the $70-$80 range. Just not excited enough about this material (most of which I've heard before), to fork over the $$$ now. (I'll get one some day, sure, but I'm in no rush on this one.) But I got the "Jack Johnson" set the very day it came out!! Of course that was with a "40%-off" coupon from Borders.

Maybe Dmitry or The Red Menace™ can explain this one... Link: МС УUЯI - "IИ DД СДБ!" And, do I get a gold star for figuring out how to get the Cyrilic characters into the link?? I think the answer is ДА!!!

Did you get one too, Scott?? Can't tell what the hell it's made out of. It looks like cardboard, but it's as heavy and solid as wood. I could maybe see making this stuff for things that were actually being sold. But for promotional products??? Stuff that's designed to be thrown away???????? Who's bright idea was THAT!!!!!! Yeah, that's right, I'm...

What about The Dakota in St. Paul?? I have some musician friends in the twin-cities who could maybe put in a good word, or who might have some advice. Would be a great venue for you guys, me thinks. I've only been there once or twice (and that was years ago), but I remember it being a seriously hip place. Edit: Where's Vibes?? Isn't that his neck of the woods???

Got two AOL CD's yesterday (both of them in some sort of damn "masonite/cardboard-on-steroids"-type box (very thick, very heavy), that took me like two minutes to figure out how to open), and then another one today -- this time in a damn "DVD-like" box. And I've gotten them before in tin-cans (at least three or four last time, like 6 or 8 months ago, if I remember right). How can I stop this shit???? I can't imagine anybody buying AOL when they send you dozens of CD's in the mail, in ever more environmentally-fucked-up packaging. Burn in hell, AOL!!! ( Whew, that felt good. ) Seriously, how can I stop getting this stuff?? How many trees and petroleum products were used to create the millions of CD's and packaging that AOL uses whenever they upgrade or decide to do some mega-promotion?? Can't pick up a free weekly newspaper any more without an AOL CD falling out either. What the fuck?????

And actually, the same seller has a few other non-BN LP's listed in the same catagory... click here too or look at what the user "pop-a-licious" has for sale. -- Rooster

Don't know anything about the seller, but it appears s/he listed a number of BN LP's, many (most?) with NY labels --- but they're under the catagory chain: "Home > All Categories > Collectibles > Advertising > Other Advertising" ...which means they aren't likely to get as many on them, so perhaps the bidding won't go up very high?? Who knows??? click here Or do a search on "Blue Note" in the main 'title' (never mind 'descriptions'), in the catagory "Collectibles".

Don't you have any graphic-design people at that paper of yours?? Come on, Joe. Have one of 'em whip-out a floor-plan for us - chop, chop!!!

Just bumpin' this up, in case anybody missed it. Amounts to a full 25% discount, if you buy four discs that all are priced exactly the same. Time to catch up on some of the recent RVG's, me thinks!!

'bout damn time!!! B-)