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I had to go read Varese's name when I had 25 eMusic downloads left. The two Naxos volumes knocked that down to 2 and I found a Joe Maneri to finish them off. Been looking forward to checking these out, I fondly remember hearing Ionisation in a music class.

Hell Yeah! on Bonnie Raitt. Count Basie might have been dissapointed to find out Jummy Rushing wasn't a jazz singer.

Joan Armatrading is my personal favorite, with Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson and Bruce Springsteen not far behind. I'll also concur on Al Green and Kate Bush.

Loving what I've heard so far of The Ultimate Frog. Stylistically, it's closer to Ralph Towner on ECM than Brotzmann on Okka.

clifford_thornton's reply to my question on a thread about Guiseppe Logan's return to playing alerted me to Alipio C Neto, Aram Shelton and Matt Bauder and a bit of emusicing later, I have heard all three and been back for seconds on Alipio C Neto. Strong stuff, full of passion but never out of control. I'm also a fan of James Finn's Ginkgo Leaf releases and would like to hear the two early dates of his I haven't heard yet.

A great man and a profound influence in my life. RIP Harrison.

Yeah, it's a pronunciation thicket alright! Great record... Yeah, that's the thicket!

I like most Jarrett, and Solo Concerts Bremen Lausanne and Oregon - Winter Light were important bridges in getting me from rock fan only to fan of all music with a concentration in jazz. Melodrama is a good thing to me - Lee Morgan's version of In What Direction are You Headed, Derek and the Dominos' Layla and their version of Little Wing, Woody Shaw's Obsequious. I paid less attention during the Standards Trio period, but like much of what I have heard, I just didn't hear it as many times. I'm looking forward to hearing new solo music and can't say I have disliked any solo Jarrett. I actually do feel some distraction from the vocalizing, as I do with Walt Dickerson, but I find both artists so sublimely lyrical that it's a small price to pay. In rare circumstances a grunt at a climactic moment works musically better than its absence would have. Jarrett's treatment of audiences is a minus, but he's well behind Getz and Miles in the extramusical baggage department and probably behind Art Pepper too. I'm glad he played for us, and continues to. Dedicated persistent and one sided attacks start to communicate more about the attacker than the target.

I believe he hosted Hearts of Space. Slight hijack.

John DiLiberto was my employer for a week or two, he and Geno Wong opened a short lived import record store in Philly. Nice guy and very knowledgeable. I just haven't happened to have his radio show on except on long driving trips.

Three out of three available on eMusic, I'll be checking them out.

One of my favorite classical LPs for a long time was 20th Century Violin Sonatas by Ion Voicu and Monique Haas (on London Treasury). If featured sonatas by Prokofiev, Debussy and Milhaud. I don't listen to LPs these days and decided I would search the internet for an alternative. It turns out that two of the works are available from a Romanian (possibly state owned?) company called Electrecord. Aparently Voicu's son became a conductor and they share a 2 CD set, adding in a violin sonatas Georges Enescu and Maurice Ravel but not including the Prokofiev. In the meantime I had picked up the Naxos French Violin Sonatas with Dong Suk Kang. I found it a little too clear and explicit, lacking that dreamy quality which to me is almost the essence of Debussy. So I decided to try to puchase the Voicu 2 CD set and it was an adventure in Google Translate, but I think I have it headed this way. It was about $11 for the 2 CD set and $23 for shipping to the USA. I'll post again when I get it.

Jim, I have the one disc 4 Seasons. Does anybody have a 2 CD version, or both to comment on the differences?

I think Henry Grimes brought a little attention to the avant scene because he was a quality human interest story. From Dennis Gonzalez' posts on Jazzcorner, it seemed he was close to coaxing Charles Brackeen back to the life of an active musician, but didn't quite get there. If Giuseppi can do a little more of the same, great. If he can succeed musically all the better.

John Handy - Hard Work has always been a favorite, even though I've usually been slow to warm up to soul jazz. G-Man by Sonny Rollins is worth listening to in this context - it's actually my favorite thing by Rollins despite my purist tendencies. And I've enjoyed getting reacquainted with Tarika Blue - The Blue Path. Leon Thomas, Impulse era Pharoah Sanders and early Lonnie Liston Smith may also work for you.

So give us three names to listen to in Giuseppe's honor. Do you like Malaby?

George Adams! The Don Pullen Mosaic Select is a good place to start, I'm alsp particularly fond of Hand to Hand. The Keith Jarrett (American) Quartet releases on Impulse have much of Dewey's greatest work.

Boxes like Proper sets usually overlap LPs rather than containing them whole. track leader sideman release tracks have one or more leaders, zero or more sidemen and one or more releases. This allows you look up Much More under either Marion Brown or Mal Waldron. A few linking tables do the trick. TrackID, ReleaseID TrackID, MusicianID, Role, (optional) Doubles_on If you wanted to know the instrument played on each track, you could establish a primary instrument in the Musicians table and only fill out the doubles_on when some other instrument was played on the track. I'm not feeling anywhere near that ambitious, myself. A wish list item for Microsoft. It would be nice if Media Player could play shortcuts as if they were MP3s. Then you could create shortcut directories for the original albums contained in a burned box set and easily choose to listen to the set or the original album as suits you. Alas, my Media player won't play my shortcuts.

While lower pricing would be even better, CDRs plus downloads are an utterly sensible business model for items like J R Monterose and Louis Smith. Beats the heck out of out of print forever and 200 bucks on eBay. Just a coincidence that it comes at a time when in-print availability of the 50s-70s Blue Note catalog was at a peak. (I remember that titles like Larry Young - Unity were excruciatingly rare in the mid 70s!) I don't believe the number of in-print Blue Note stamped CD titles will ever go up again, and CDRs keep the music available. The lumbering behemoth has moved a few millimeters in the direction of reality, give them the tiniest bit of credit.

Mario Pavone with Thomas Chapin's trio and Abdul Wadud with Julius Hemphill both give up the funk. Sky Piece and Dogon A. D. are good places to start, respectively.

There's an enormous thread that Pat participates in over at All About Jazz. Very interesting to immerse yourself in his philosophy, and the unique perspective of returning from a severe loss of memory and skills. Much technical content regarding key relationships and chord substitutions that is over my head, but you get a sense of the man and can't help but appreciate him more. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=14335 It was easier to find through pats own website than thru AAJ, so I linked it.

Next stop: Sunny from Pat Martino Live. Stone classic.

A reissue I had been hoping for slipped out on me a couple years ago due to a new title, but I was mainly looking for one track, so I caught up. 4 of Charles Earland - Charles II's seven tracks were reissued on Funk Fantastique, including my much wanted Auburn Delight featuring Joe Lee Wilson. Supplemented it with Black Saint's by Bill DIxon, Julius Hemphill and Bakida Carroll, then returned here and DUHHHHH - ran myself out of DLs without grabbing Organissimo!!! A booster pack is under consideration.

I'm coming down on the sideman side, and Dialogue, particularly Ghetto Lights, and Maiden Voyage were the first two to jump, along with Night of the Cookers. It's the intense drive of the theme of Jodo that kept me coming back to that album over and over. If we're going to mention Ascension, let's not forget Free Jazz. He always seemed to be around when history was being made. Big ears and an open mind.

Joanne Brackeen had a fine quartet date with Michael Brecker on this label, Tring-A-Ling.