Eric

LOL (when read in conjunction with post 2)

Very creepy. Kinda hard to hear the cameraman at the end. Had to turn up the volume a bit. ← Yeah, it is kind of hard to see, I had to put my nose up close to the screen. Very weird

Yeah, I have tried to listen to the Mizell stuff with no luck ... a shame because Kofi was/is a sweet recod.

Just bought Breakfast on CD after owning various formats in high school 25 years ago. It still is a cool record. Just Another Nervous Wreck is a favorite.

Car Wheels is a top 10 album for me, regardless of genre

This one is very cool - I just picked it up a few weeks ago myself.

I think both this and Fancy Free (which was of the same era) are very nice. They are transitional albums for Byrd, but unlike Miles, what followed was kind of crappy.

tough call ... I probably like the Silent Way stuff the least, but I will admit I don't know it as well Love the Jack Johnson Most of the rest of it was etched on my brain over the course of the last 25 years ... so it is just a matter of mood.

I preordered from CD Universe at the $38.49 price back in August, and still get weekly emails telling me that my order is still valid. There is no release date associated with the box on their site, but it's still showing the pre-order at the original price. I'm going to assume that whenever this thing eventually does come out, that they'll honor their price. Otherwise, wouldn't they have cancelled all of the preorders that they received already? ← ditto

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Another for this one!

Any time I see "software updates" discussed in the context of music, it makes me want to run to vinyl ...

Gerry Rafferty - City to City

I am not a collector per se, but I am curious as to what an "ear" is? Is there some online doc that explains it or would one of you guys mind to enlighten me? Thanks

Believe it is Garth Bartz ...

Tom - do you know this book? I think it pretty much nails what you might be looking for.

This is still listed at #2 on Amazon's best sellers list. Pretty damn cool.

← heh heh heh ... very nice that entire skit brings me to tears every time I watch it

Exactly how I feel about it ... plus there is still Live-Evil to listen to!!!

from the Miles Beyond website: October Earlier this month, Seth Rothstein, VP of Columbia Legacy, confirmed the release date of the Cellar Door as November 22 in the US. A week later someone closely involved e-mailed me with the message that "Vince Wilburn has put a kibosh on the whole thing again." Wilburn, Miles' nephew and a drummer in his uncle's band 1985-1987, is the leading voice in the Miles Davis Estate. He was also the person behind the first delay of the boxed set release. The latest news is that the release is abandoned altogether. Please watch this space for official confirmation, and more details on the story behind all this, insofar as they can be revealved without compromising my sources. (More information on the set below.)

Here's what da Bastards have to say about it ... Rare live work from the Miles Davis quintet with John Coltrane -- issued here with some even more interesting bonus tracks! The first 5 tracks on the album feature Davis and Coltrane blowing live in Den Haag in April of 1960 -- playing long renditions of Davis-tuned classics that include "So What", "Walkin", "On Green Dolphin Street", and "Round Midnight". These are followed by a Studio 61 TV broadcast of "So What" with the same group from 1959 -- but then go back even further, to 1955, when Coltrane had first met up with Davis -- as the quintet (with Red Garland) plays live on "Max Is Making Wax" and "It Never Entered My Mind", both recorded for the Tonight Show! The last 2 tracks on the set feature the same group a year later, recorded at the Blue Note in Philly -- on versions of "Tune Up" and "Walkin". 10 tracks in all -- and a great document of this important group!

$5 in 1956 would be worth $55 in 2005 dollars, assuming 5% annual inflation. $5 in 1966 would be worth $34 in 2005 dollars. I know it seems kinda counter-intuitive, how could $5 in 1956 be worth $3,000 at 14%, but only $55 at 5%. The power of compounding over 49 years is what does it! The other point is that if you accept 5% inflation, CDs are pretty cheap today on an inflation-adjusted basis.

You know what is really amazing ... I was thinking about that Mobley 10" that went for ~ $3k on ebay the other day. Let's assume it sold for $5 in 1956. What kind of return is that? Oddly, it is only 14% annually. In other words, if you had put $5 in the bank and earned 14% every year since, you would have $3,000 today. I'm not saying you could have found a bank to pay 14%, but it is a lower return than I would have expected. The fact that 49 years have passed is what makes the difference ...

Hmm, I've never had one import that quickly - when you check your library, do the imported tracks show time listings? Reason I ask is that for some stupid reason, iTunes sometimes only imports *6 seconds* of the first track. Wonder if you are experiencing something similar, albeit on a larger scale. What I do is immediately try to re-import the first track and it always comes through at the correct timing. No doubt, iTunes is quirky ...

Wow - been a while since I thought about this one - was one of the first jazz lps I purchased. A great intro to the music ... but I have never seen it on CD. Wasn't it on Musician? Or maybe Columbia?