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I have a couple and want to label the spine. Mine are those "cloth" ones not the "leather" ones. Any good ideas from you guys?

Thanks everyone for all your help on that one.

Anyone know? I think it was 89 or maybe 90 or 91? if anyone knows the exact date of the airing of that program, please let me know.

I have one sort of interesting Johnny Griffin story. I was watching his gig at the Village Vanguard when Griffin announced to the audience that Miles Daves had died. There was an audible gasp in the room... then Griffin played a Miles tune.

I found this book to be very disappointing and after reading it, decided to sell my copy. I haven't missed it at all.

Someone above mentioned the Omega tapes - I think these are issued by Blue note as the "Aladdin Sessions" as a subtitle with real titles like Modern Art, the Art of Pepper, etc. These are great. These are my faves along with those great Contemporary dates. I don't like too much of his stuff after that, although some of the Galaxy live stuff is nice.

I have a mint copy. It's four cds, the booklet and box. $150.00 plus shipping.

I checked my balance knob and it is directly in the center. I only hear the emphasis on the left channel on "tune up" - the rest seem very equally balanced and on one track it seemed the right channel was stronger.

That's strange that everyone's mentioning problems with the right channel. My RVG shows no such problem- at least on all the tracks that are more than 2 instruments.

It's the pre RVG Japanese version, so all you RVG haters will love it. $20.00 plus shipping.

My first concert of any sort was the Beatles in Cleveland, OH in Aug. 1966. First jazz concert was the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early seventies, can't remember the year, but they were playing stuff from the Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire. both concerts were fantastic.

Actually I don't think it's so odd. I adore Stitt, but I have always found this one to be oddly unsatisfying. It doesn't make my top 10 Stitt recordings.

It's the Leonard Feather book in hardcover and the book is in mint condition. The dust cover is torn up a bit. Looking for $25.00

I like this Jonathan Kreisberg and his Nine Stories Wide cd on Criss Cross.

"Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" is the Chick Corea date on Solid State. It has the gatefold cover. ($20.00) "Andrew!!!" Hill of course, is a blue note from Liberty Records and features John Gilmore on tenor. ($25.00) Both LPs are near mint. Shipping is extra, but if you're in the NYC metro area we can meet.

the one with Ben Webster - love that one.

Dr. J, I assume you have the Getz cd entitled "The Master" where Getz and Dailey team up again, but this time it's with other musicians too, don't remember whether it's a quartet or quintet date. I like this one too. Different feel than Poetry, but very good.

I like this one too, it's not my favorite Horace Silver, but I like it a lot. I think Horace Silver is seriously underrated!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on this one Dr. J. It's one of my favorite Getz cds and I also think it is close to the top of my all time duet jazz cds. I just love this one and I am surprised it's going out of print.

RDK and Kevin I'm sure you guys know more about this than I do and you raise some interesting points about dynamic range, etc. All I am trying to say, though not very well, is that I notice that my stereo sounds better with the volume dial turned up about halfway than it does turned up to only about a quarter of the way. When the system is turned halfway up it sounds much better: it's not just a volume issue, I get more soundstage, more space between the instruments, more fidelity, etc. than when it is turned down. So in that sense, it appears to me that louder to some extent is better. My sense was that maybe RVG by setting the volume higher on the recordings was getting some effect like this.

I think what Morganized is trying to say is that there is no question that the RVGs are set at a louder volume and I think that in general louder sounds better on most systems and that it is very hard to make a fair comparison between versions unless you have some device that is able to exactly match the volume level. I don't have such a device and find it difficult. That said, I have compared the Sweet Honey Bee RVG to my earlier version and I prefer by a tad the RVG. It is not a radical difference but somewhat better.

I like Jim Hall too. One of my favorite Jim Hall moments and a Sonny Rollins moment too is from The Bridge. After Hall's solo on "Where are you" he plays a chord expecting Rollins's return with more of Sonny's solo, but Sonny comes in so, so late, agonizingly so, you wonder if Sonny was rushing back from another room. The reality is more probably that Sonny is just showing his mastery of stretching the time. But does Jim Hall get flustered, lose his place or stumble at all? Not in the least. 2 masters in action.

Update on above, apparently Mingus 1968 is not out of print, but the Oslo concert apparently is. So I change the Oslo video to $25.00 Mingus 1968 is $20.00

this is a great 1966 interview of Bill by his brother and it includes a lot of discussion about Bill's ideas on jazz and music in general, a bit of theory thrown in. It's got a bit of narration by Steve Allen and also Bill plays some of his tunes like "Very Early" and "Time Remembered". It's unlike anything about him I have seen. $20.00

These are out of print on not on DVD 1) Charles Mingus Sextet (Oslo Norway 1964 with Eric Dolphy,Johnny Coles, Clifford Jordan,Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond) $20.00 2) Mingus 1968 (directed by Thomas Reichman) (features club performances including John Gilmore and Charles McPherson, interviews and Mingus getting evicted) $25.00