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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.

Google was my friend on the subject of Charles Sullivan - Genesis and also Piano Choir - Handscapes, both of which my old vinyl was too battered to rip.

If they do the Roulette's they might as well throw in New View to round it out to 3 CDs.

The two I'd most like to see that aren't on jazzsession.com are Ted Curson - Jubilant Power and Charles Sullivan - Genesis.

The Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Illumination! on Impulse has some fine Prince and Sonny.

Some guys named Organissimo showed up on eMusic today. Anybody ever heard of 'em??

Big red box says Booster Pack Blowout 30 cents per song as I'm checking new releases. Back button, a little math ... I'm paying 15 for what costs me 12.50 if I wait, Close Enough! Click! and ... Geri Allen Etudes Ran Blake The Short Life of Barbara Monk Billy Bang (with Sun Ra) - Tribute to Stuff Smith Max Roach and Anthony Braxton - Birth and Rebirth New Air with Cassandra Wilson - Air Show No. 1 Paul Motian - Story of Maryam some digging for a three track album ... and John Lindberg - Trilogy Of Works For Eleven Instrumentalists Billy Bang's on the headphones right now. Instant gratification is a beautiful thing.

I'm familiar with the Herbie Nichols, Andrew Hill, Larry Young and Cecil Taylor sets as individual releases and all are must have in one format or another. I'm usually happy with the master takes, so no pining for a few bonus tracks here. I guess my favorite Mosaic that I actually own is the Don Pullen Select, McCoy Tyner Select a close second. Also, Jazztet, Parlan and Gerald Wilson that I haven't had as long ... Weston, Patton, first Hill Select, Amy ...

Congratulations Jazzpizzi-Cat. No one has ever offended both me and Dan Gould in the same sentence before. It's quite an achievement!