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Hey Connie, Is that extra copy of Jacknife still available?? I've got the Mosaic, but wouldn't mind having the Conn of this one too. I'll PM you too... -- Tom

Oh man, I love half.com, and will be sorry to see it go. I've probably bought 30 discs over the last two or three years from them.

Hi gang. I'm back!! Actually, my PC got back up and running late last week, and I've been just 'lurking' every now and then, since then... ...a self-imposed ban on myself being on the board, until I got a long-overdue package in the mail to Couw, to whom I've owed some CD's from a trade we set up a long, long, long time ago. Couw, that package went in the mail to you this afternoon (at 4:30pm), and I spent the extra $$$ to sent it to you air-mail (4-7 days), vs. ground (4-6 weeks). I figured I took so damn long to get this in the mail to you, that I'd better spring for the extra postage to get it to you more quickly. I know that doesn't even begin to make up for how long I took to fulfill my part of our trade, but I figured it wouldn't hurt any to try to get it to you more quickly. Couw, please let me know when it arrives, and hopefully the 16 discs (total), most of which are CDR's of either OOP material, and/or live concerts that were never commercially available, will help to make up for the time it took me to get my shit together and get all those discs sent off to you.

How are the bonus tracks??? Are both Tolliver and Joe Henderson on both of the bonus tracks??

So, then does that mean the original album was called "Gemini II", but the resissue is only called "Gemini"??? --- and they're really the same recording??? Lazaro, I assume the copy your quoting from is a promo of one of the new CD's of this release??? (Since you list the catalog number as being "TRCD 4004", the "CD" part makes me think it's a CD (funny how I'd get that idea).) Also from the way it refers to the rerelease of something.) In any case, it still sounds like the rerelease (the CD release) is called "Gemini", but the original album was called "Gemini II" ---- and that the two are in fact the same 1974 recording. Or am I missing something here????

And for god's sake, try harder than these guys...

Wait, Late. I think these are one in the same. From http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/news.htm... So, all these references to "Gemini" - are one in the same with "Gemini II"???? Yes??? No??? I don't think I'm confused, but should I be???

Hot damn!!! -- Dusty Groove says this is gonna be reissued on CD (and also on LP) later this month!!! Don't know for sure what label is doing the reissue, though (and they don't seem to know either). Nothing listed at Jazzmatazz yet, but I e-mailed Alan about it. 1. Marcus Belgrave -- Gemini II . . . CD . . . Upcoming Release: Around July 26, 2004 A classic of the spiritual soulful Detroit/Tribe jazz scene! Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave plays in a beautiful ensemble, packed with Tribe labelmates like Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, and Harold McKinney. The record includes Belgrave's beautiful track "Space Odyssey", which has a long flowing cosmic groove, nice electronics, and haunting trumpet solos. Other cuts include "Gemini II", "Marcia's Opal", "Glue Fingers", and "Odoms Cave". FYI, Dusty Groove has it listed as being just "Gemini". (I added the "II" to the above listing, assuming that is the correct full title.)

I have the Hill Mosaic, but I bought the new RVG for the new liner-notes, and also because I'm a confirmed Andrew Hill nut (and I was also curious about the sound quality improvement, though I didn't expect it to be all that much better). I normally don't buy all the RVG issues of titles I already have Mosaics for, but there are exceptions -- and this was one of them.

You know, I was really late getting to 'The Smiths' party. I went off to college in the fall of 1987, and probably heard some Smiths, here and there, but I never even really became aware of the band until much later -- like around 1991, 92, or 93 (when I worked as a DJ on a local top-40 FM station). Then, a couple years later, I borrowed some Smiths CD's from a friend (this would have been around 1995), and it was only then that I got hooked. But actually, oddly enough, I was already well aware of Johnny Marr, having heard him on a couple albums by the supergroup "Electronic" -- with Marr on guitar, and Bernard Sumner on vocals (from New Order), plus Neil Tennant (of The Pet Shop Boys) on vocals on at least a few "Electronic" singles.

I see "Black Fire" as kind of being the ultimate Andrew Hill album. It's incredibly progressive, with some of Andrew's strongest tunes. But it's still a pretty accessible album too. Thus, it's an excellent choice for the RVG series. In fact, I've always liked "Black Fire" more than "Point of Departure", which (for right or wrong), has always been the Hill disc most widely heard (or at least in the CD era). I often don't upgrade my McMasters to RVG's, but I definitely ran out and got "Black Fire" -- for the new linernotes, and for having the alternate takes at the end of the disc. I've already got the Mosaic, but for key artists, like Hill, I usually get the singles too, particularly when they available cheaply, like in the RVG series.

Picked up a couple things fairly cheap (but only when you take into account both the 15% discount, plus 'free shipping') ---- just a recent BN Conn ("Sonic Boom"), and an OJC (Charles Earland's "Intensity"). But, in particular, I've been looking for Phil Grenadier's "Playful Intentions" (on Fresh Sound New Talent), for a price that wasn't too ugly. Buying direct from Freshsound's website means mega-expensive shipping charges, so getting it for $12.75 (shipping included) from Tower was great!!

That's the other Ornette tune I was trying to think of earlier. "Law Years" and "Humpty Dumpty" are probably my two favorite 'underrated' Ornette tunes.

I've got about a dozen Mosaics total (all of them larger sets, I haven't gotten any Selects, yet). There are plenty I've passed up over the years (that have since gone OOP), with only a couple minor regrets. In every case, I've tried to sample at least one album from each set before I bought the full set, to have a good sense of what I was getting into. This isn't because I think any of the Mosaics are going to be substandard. But rather that my tastes run really deep for some artists, and definitely 'not-so-deep' for others. (For example, I easily own 10 times as much Joe Henderson, as I do John Coltrane. Yeah, I'm weird that way.) I love Mosaic, but I also know that there's no point in me buying a set that I'm not going to really listen to all that frequently. Most of Mosiacs are Blue Note sets (and nearly all of them are of material from the 60's B) ). The only non-BN set I have is the Gerald Wilson box.

I've always thought "Law Years" was one of Ornette's very best tunes (and probably not the first tune people think of either).

I had it once too, and sold it about four years ago. I'm curious to hear it again, but don't plan to buy the new RVG. A buddy of mine will have it, probably, I'll give his a spin some time, and see if I feel the same way.

Great. Thanks. Now my mind's blown.

DUDE! A good friend just hooked me up with a copy of this, and it's BAAAAADDDD. Clifford's got his burr on real nice, and the rhythm section SMOKES! Probably a bitch-and-a-half to find, but well worth it! I see that nobody's commented on SOUL FOUNTAIN. It's good, not great. If you can find a good deal on it and want something short and hiply entertaining, get it. There's far worse music to buy. Good to hear you like it! Just got to ignore the ugly cover - it could disturb or even keep you away from the CD... ubu Dare I ask what the cover looks like????

Best laugh I've had all day. Thanks Chuck!!!

Not sure how to vote, cuz I discovered my settings were at 16-bit, but then I bumped them up to 32-bit. When I first saw the page under my 16-bit settings, the header looked like crap, but now under 32-bit, it looks fine. Frankly, I think the benefit you get from having such a slight gradient is so minimal, that I would just go with a solid color. Or perhaps you're just using that gradient to test your theory about whether people are running at 16 or 32 (and the real issue has to do with how you will be presenting other content that we're not seeing yet). In any case, I guess I'll vote "16", cuz that's what my settings were at when I first brought up the test page -- and if you hadn't said anything, I would have still been at 16-bit. Simpler is better, and more straightforward, in my opinion. We've all learned from the Allmusic changes this week, that change (and unnecessary complexity) aren't all they're cracked up to be. Just an unsolicited opinion.

I think 100 years sounds like a pretty good, round number. Anybody else think so?? I would think that it'd be hard to argue with a number that's way higher than that. What's the point in having 150 years??? Or 200??? Chuck??

Yeah, but not all the Blue Notes are $8.99. In my experience, the most recent two or three rounds of RVG's are never included in the "$8.99" sales. So, a 20% coupon means that the newest RVG's are $11.99 minus $2.40 equals $9.59, which is still pretty darn close to $8.99.