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There's a reissue on Ocium that's pretty good and reasonably priced. It's got some Rouse (as I recall) but lots of Wardell Gray too! Here's a link to the CD at Amazon. Obviously you can get it cheaper elsewhere. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...glance&n=507846

Congratulations, Vic!

What time is it? http://211.155.23.192/~pilu/hbdx2002/clock/clock155.swf

Second the Cambridge Audio rec. Affordable and good. DON'T BUY BOSE I can only echo the sentiments already expressed. Bose = Bad. Cambridge and Tivoli (Henry Kloss) = Good. There's also a Boston Acoustics that I have heard fine things about, but haven't heard myself.

Big Al? He's still around? Must be entering double-slam-Geezerhood about now, ain't he? BIG AL....IF YOU CAN HEAR ME...IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY. YES, AGAIN. HAVE A GOOD ONE! I'LL ASK THE NURSE TO INCREASE YOUR DRIP RATE FOR THE DAY. (Not sure what all of this means, other than Happy Birthday. I'm just a little punchy today.)

http://www.gemm.com Good site, but be sure to check vendor ratings!

Jazzmoose, Thanks for the explanation. Truly helpful. Not likely to change my bidding approach, but I'm down to bidding once every six months or so anyway.

How does bidding at the last minute, second, nanosecond increase your chances (assuming bidders are rational)? Perhaps that's the answer; bidders aren't rational. So, the theory behind sniping is apparently that one is bidding against parties who have not put in their "maximum" bid and who aren't paying attention at the last second (or have a dial-up connection or don't employ a sniping service). It all seems rather infantile. "I'm going to hide in the weeds and jump out and trump your bid by $0.04 at the last second, then dance and clap with glee." To the extent I bid, I just bid the most I am willing to pay and leave it at that. My bid doesn't go up unless someone else escalates it. And if they're willing to pay more than my max, it's all theirs. I don't have time (which, incidentally, is money) to monitor the entire eBay community. There are some items I have seen once or never in six years (or however long it's been since I started with Yahoo! Auctions, eBay and the like). Life's harsh. The antics of snipers ease the pain - they're quite amusing as they work through their frenzy and often overpay, at least by my valuation. And that's their right. Don't mean to disparage anyone's activities, but I do find myself amused and confused by it all.

I've found that the middle finger and the 'OK' finger circle cover 90 percent of all situations, Sudan to San Salvador.

Yeah, I had one of those. Had a two door coupe too. Not great cars - fairly reliable, but when something went wrong, it was always costly and difficult to get repaired. I suppose that, by modern standards, one wouldn't even consider them fairly reliable any more. But the coupe especially was pleasing to the eye.

Heading overseas for a while. Want to pack one jazz book (knowing I won't be able to hear any jazz while traveling and knowing I won't be able to pick up a jazz book while overseas). The following books are unread on the bookshelf. Have persused the cover notes, but want to pick the best of the bunch: Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Pettinger) - Obviously, this has received some 'ink' here and on other boards, so I know more about this than the others. Jazz Profiles (Carver/Bernstein) - Again, a fairly widely read book. Blue Bossa: A Novel (Schneider) Bebop: The Music and Players (Owens) Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton (Lock) Any thoughts?

I think everyone should begin with 5,000 "posts" and have one deducted each time they post; when they reach zero, they are put out to pasture (or to stud, as the case may be). People who post abusive things or act as trolls should have 500 "posts" deducted for each such post. Man, I've been up far too long.

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you add anything, it's no longer coffee.

I'm still looking for Buddy Bolden.

My wife hates jazz, or at least thinks she does...I'm not convinced she's ever listened to it with anything like an open mind. It used to bug me. No more. The fact that she likes music - even Top 40 - puts her a category above much of the population. Hey, even amongst the denizens of this board, we don't all agree.

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The 'k' key; that's the one I repeatedly jab with my middle finger.

Hey, I'm a big spender. I'm headed to the Record Shack on the Uptown "A" for some of them $3 tickets.

What, you never seen James Moody in concert? Great stuff.

Hey dude, if I remember the "stage band" days correctly the saxes (or trumpets for that matter) weren't exactly setting the world on fire! Unless you're talking about getting whacked in the back of the head by an errant slide or sprayed by a leaky one. You don't think that happened by accident, do you? Exactly!

Hey, I was a stage band saxophonist in high school. I've every reason to dislike the trombone, if not trombonists.

After offering up "trombone" as my dislike, I pulled out a couple of discs featuring a couple of my favorite trombone players. Vic Dickenson and JJ Johnson. (No Frank Rosolino handy). I find myself retrenching a bit. The instrument isn't a problem. But put it in the hands of a showboater or a rank amateur and the sonic damage that can be done... Then again, just about any instrument in the wrong hands can be deadly. A tenor in mine, for example...

Trombone. (No accounting for taste, eh?)

organissimo.org is still my only real 'hang'. But, social butterfly/commitment phobic that I am, I signed up for BN Europe and will probably peep from time to time. Forgive me Father, for I am about to sin.

Shazam! I'm part of a plague. I always wanted to be like Locust Boy. P.S. Norah who?