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On page d7 the headline reads: Jazz Players Are Different, But the System Still Works Man they got that right!

Anyone bought any decent machine that does this? I have seen one box units that have both VHS and DVD and say they record. Does that mean you can chuck your VCR and transfer your VHS tapes to DVD and play either VHS or DVD on one machine? Anybody have any suggestions for good units?

Happy Birthday Dmitry!! Hey I thought you left this Board.

Thanks everybody for your helpful info.

I am supposed to take a bunch of kids to an Xmas movie. Has anyone seen this one and know if it is appropriate for kids who are young enough (around age 6) to believe in Santa or do they reveal the awful truth?

Evan, If you are looking for the big jazz names of international fame, well yes, they rarely pass through Cleveland, but there should have been some local guys playing that are quite good. Don't tell me the Boarding House or Nighttown, which feature live jazz 5 nights a week have closed? these clubs are on the east side and maybe you didn't go there.

I need a translation Chris.

Man with Golden Arm and Evan, Sadly Wax Stax went out of business about 5 years ago and so did the place in the Old Arcade- that is a beautiful place to visit but the store is gone. Oh Evan, not jazz related but if you get a chance treat yourself to a visit to Great Lakes Brewery near the West Side Market. This place has some of the best beers I have had on any continent.

Evan, If he's playing I would highly recommend seeing Ernie Krivda. He's a marvelous local tenor player who can really surprise you. the Boarding House in University Circle has some great local guys and Nighttown on Cedar Hill hass both local and national acts. Check it out. As for cds, Record Exchange used to be so good, but is dropping in selection over the years. Not sure there's a great place to buy jazz.

Bol, I think you did the right thing. The box is about one third alternates and other material that I found I rarely turned to. It's a bit of overkill and also the packaging and particularly the booklet for the box I found to be disappointing. With your 4 cds you have got what you need, I think.

Joe Henderson - The State of the Tenor Volumes 1 & 2.

I agree with you Clifton. That's why I started a similar thread a couple of weeks ago. I see you are having the same luck I had. And I thought it was just me.....

It's one of my all time favorites. This one should be a revelation to those who think Joe is strictly a "licks" player. The sound is not bad, but I would love an RVG of this one.

One of my all time favorite albums. Great tunes, great players and great playing. It's a monster.

This is one of the greatest records of the 90's and one of my favorite tribute records. No attempt to ape the playing on the original records and the instrumentation is quite different- just drums, sax, electric guitar and bass. Brilliant playing by Motian, Lovano, Frissell, and Marc Johnson. Can't say enough about this great record. Just reissued on winter & winter from the old JMT label and the sound is now 24 bit and a bit more sharp at that!

Well, you have put a lot of restrictions in your post Hutch head. The best single Cd on lester young is, in my opinion, the Ken Burns Jazz series - it's a compilation but great picks and the sound is excellent, to my ears. my favorite Lester Young is with Count Basie 1936-40, but this necessarily involves multi-disc sets either the Decca Box or the Hep labels volumes 1 and 2. Next favorite is the Aladdin Years, but that is a two disc set - great stuff.

I am more in the camp of JSangrey, DR J, and others who are fans of Joe Henderson. He actually seems to me to be less of a licks player than a lot of other guys out there (and I note that if you compare his solos on the same tunes from different recording they are often quite different) And as for being a "mike" player, I managed to see Joe about a dozen times and in small clubs (such as Fat Tuesday's in Manhattan), he often turned away from the mike or else seemed to be completely unconcerned about whether the bell of the horn was on the mike and he filled up the room at all times. I can't get into a big analysis of why I think he's so great, others are more intelligent and articulate, but I can't get with the devaluation of the man.

Please, take the strings and/or sappy choirlike vocals off of: Bird with Strings Clifford Brown with Strings Ben Webster's - Music for Loving Ray Charles's - Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music (especially the Marty Paich arrangements!!!) If these are already available "naked" please let me know. I'm sure you have your own list

An interesting story about Horace's business acumen. Like Sangrey I have heard Horace is a good businessman. However, the only time I saw him live was in the mid 90's at Fat Tuesday's in Manhattan. It was before he got that recent contract with Verve or Impulse of whoever it is. After finishing an excellent set, he pulled out a ratty cardboard box from under the piano and proceeded to attempt to sell these cds from his own label to members of the audience. This actually brought me to tears!

I got interested in my middle to late teens and my first jazz album was "The Inner Mounting Flame" by the Mahavishnu Orchestra which I got right when it was released and this led me to Miles and Trane etc. and within about a year I was getting a lot of the nonfusion classic jazz stuff. I think that my prior interest in rock groups that used a lot of improvisation(Cream, etc.) and my interest in the blues prepared my way for liking jazz.

No one has mentioned Bird with Strings???? And for the record, despite some great solos, I hardly ever play it.

I owned the LPR and compared it to the 3 cd set. The sound might be a tad better in terms of fidelity, but I find that the LPR has an echo or reverb that I found very annoying so I sold it. I agree with Chuck that Nick Stabulus's playing is quite good. I even once did a blindfold test on a jazz knowlegeable friend and he couldn't tell Elvin from Nick. Of course Elvin is not playing like he does with Trane.

I agree with Dave James on this one. I picked it up and am loving it. Somewhere I read that this set won't replace the Fillmore set as the greatest live rock concert ever recorded, but this set is definitely not inferior. ABB fans will love it. One thing though, the liner notes say that Johnny Winter guest stars on one track (Mountain Jam- second day) but I can't discern that he took any solos.

SEK, does The Mountain contain the complete EKAYA album?

Thanks for the list Mikeweil, but no it wasn't on the list.