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Thanks for making that list, Impossible. Now, Jim and Joe have to go through it and point out, say a top-10 or top-20 that they would be willing to do. Then they leave us with a vote to come up with another 5 or 10. How's that?? We could then use Rooster's idea of naming our top 3 that were NOT already selected by Jim or Joe. I think it is important that Jim and Joe choose what they want to play, and NOT US!! We want to hear some quality stuff. Basically just look at the list that impossible has compiled and choose from that. (Big weekend confab now on the agenda for Jim and Joe and Randy! )

This is a great idea. Either Jim or Joe makes up a poll of ten choices each. The first poll has stuff you guys are pretty familiar with already. Then the other poll would have stuff that you don't know but are interested in doing. Then you take perhaps the top five of each poll. Just make sure "Leeann" is in one of the polls.

For trade: XXXX=gone Duke Ellington, Live at Newport 1958 (2 cds Columbia) Dexter Gordon, "More than you Know" (Steeplechase) XXXX Dexter Gordon, "King Nepture" (Steeplechase) XXXX all out of print, I believe.

You guys do "Mellow Mood" really well. That's a good one to include. Can never hear that tune too much!!

I suggest doing your terrific version of "Tenderly" Also, you mentioned that you can do Groove Holmes' "LeeAnn" Gotta do the beautiful "Laura" This will be a terrific disc. Great idea, Jim!!!!

Brilliant, AB; you have just added a new idiom to my language.

Wynton with lots of drugs in between.

Well, AB, what's the chances of it being 200,000 copies of Lee Morgan, "Delighfulee?" Aint gonna happen. It's a pile of WYNTON!!!

We will have to ask Ramiro whether those are bales of music or bales of drugs. Who is going to give that kind of money to a guy without a feedback record?

Chuck made the comment in another thread that perhaps people might prefer Spiritual Unity because it happened to be playing when they had their first lay. This brings up the thought: which cd would you like to have been playing during this momentous occasion? Here are a few: HOT DOG! PECKIN' TIME WORKOUT ANOTHER WORKOUT COMIN' YOUR WAY STEPPIN' OUT HAPPY FRAME OF MIND WAHOO STRAIGHT NO FILTER DIPPIN' I'm sure others can find better examples...

Hmm, this gives me an idea for a thread.

Must have been a moment of insanity, Lon. It just didn't hit me at the time. I bet I'll love it now. Will have to rebuy it.

$$null is staying true to his name and is riding on the bottom of the bids. Damn it: he needs her advice!! How else to explain why women run away from him all the time?? Of course, if he had the business acumen of the enterprising Mr. Pervert there, he would just win the bid anyway.

Make sure you guys check out her other auctions as well. It's a damned shame: that povor guy (read "pervert") with a negative feedback history was willing to put down any kind of bid. Why not when you have no intention of honoring the auction? In the meantime, chosenfool threw in the towel at $40. Oh, what could have been...

Looks like an imaginary buyer won too. Course, the seller has no buyer recommendations in her ratings. Man, this is some enterprising young lady. It's a novel way to get money but isn't this a little dangerous? Have you guys checked out the names of the guys bidding on her services? I mean it's a scream! Winner was povor36km (think he meant "pervert" but couldn't spell); and the lady will be writing him all these emails for free as he obviously has no intention of paying for anything given his feedback history. He beat out other illustrious dignitaries such as, $$null and snotrocket and blinddog (who nevertheless mustered up enough vision to view her auction). I'm sure she's disappointed that a certain Mr. "Phartman" is outduelling chosenfool and sibrwulf and kenspy on her other auction. There's gotta be a better way to make a living!??!

Well said, Bob and thanks for letting us know. These big companies are awful as far as their unwillingness to receive calls. They purposely place barriers out to sequester the less determined and hardy callers. The big companies just don't want to put customer service people on the payroll. It's sickening. BTW, isn't half closing down at the end of the year??

Continuing in the vein of soul jazz... Has everyone noticed the low grades AMG plants on Lou Donaldson's soul jazz stuff? Here's their analysis: GOOD GRACIOUS (3 stars) ALLIGATOR BOOGALOO (4 stars) MR SHING A LING (2 1/2 stars) MIDNIGHT CREEPER (4 stars) SAY IT LOUD! (1 1/2 stars!) HOT DOG (2 stars) EVERYTHING I PLAY IS FUNKY (3 stars) PRETTY THINGS (2 stars) THE SCORPION (2 stars) Pretty low ratings generally and very inconsistent. They give SHING A LING 2 1/2 stars and I feel it is a better session that ALLIGATOR BOOGALOO, which I traded away. MIDNIGHT CREEPER is a keeper, so I go along with that rating. I think GOOD GRACIOUS is worth its rating just for the cover alone! Haven't heard any of the others. Been frightened off by these low assessments. SAY IT LOUD! is given only 1 1/2 stars and my favorite song from the Blue Note compilation LOST GROOVES is "Brother Soul" which comes from the SAY IT LOUD! session. Man, that song is as good as it gets for soul jazz! Is AMG way off on these sessions?

I can't either. He's one of my favorites.

Which brings up the question: what do you guys think of the K-2 remasterings? I think I've only got one of them and have declined to upgrade so far. Should we be upgrading? And what about those gold discs?

Thanks for the info. There's enough there for you to start your own "equipoise" thread.

Everytime I listen to a recording with Stanley Cowell, I remind myself that I should explore his work further. I never got around to doing it. The man originally hailed from Toledo too (right?) how could I have ignored him for so long? He's terrific on Clifford Jordan's "Glass Bead Games" and I recall that I love one of his compositions called "equipoise," which he plays on Heath Brothers, "Expressions of Life." It's an astonishingly beautiful composition. I don't own any of his sessions as a leader, but I've got several cds where he particpates; can't remember them at the moment, but I've always been impressed. What do you guys think?

I'll put on something on the stereo that will get me up to shake the old booty. First I get immediately reacquainted with all my aches and general stiffness. Then although I love the song, I start wondering when it will end. Maybe I just need more practice or something. The mind is willing, but the body protests. I can reach a modest compromise with physical limitations by setting my feet firmly and just let my stomach jiggle to the rhythms! Then after the stiffness gets worked out a bit, I can muster the ambition to throw in a few more hip movements and might even be able to venture the feet into a few step movements. It is imperative that these movements be performed in a kind of soundbooth-isolation as this will likely elicit a good deal of public derision. Is this what they call jazzercise??

GOOD LORD! There goes my budget umm...but which 200? I've only got around 100 of Chuck's essential-200, but here's the ones I like: Many Bill Evans titles Many Yusef Latif's titles Many Blue Mitchell titles Many Booker Ervin titles Many Wes Montgomery titles Many Cannonball and Nat Adderly titles Miles Davis' "Workin, Relaxin, etc" Coltrane on Prestige Some individual ones: Charles Earland, "Black Talk" Walt Dickerson, "To My Queen" Pepper Adams, "10 to 4 at the 5 spot" Pepper Adams, "Encounter" Jack Mcduff, "Honeydripper" Cedar Walton, "Cedar" Art Blakey, "Ugetsu" Art Blakey, "Caravan" Harold Land, "Harold in the land of Jazz" Harold Land, "Eastward HO!" JJ Johnson, "Concepts in Blue" Richard Groove Holmes, "Misty" Roland Kirk, "Kirk's Work" Thelonius Monk, "Monk" Thelonius Monk/Sonny Rollins Wynton Kelly, "Kelly Blue" Obviously, I need to get more myself.

Hmm, I listened once more to "Mercy..." and was immediately uplifted by the buoyant sounds; but alas, was tired of it by the end of the cd. Great party music, but it's a fatiguing listen while in the car or doing normal pursuits. Strange. Of course, I realize the irony of my earlier comment ragarding the immediate visceral appeal not holding up to repeated listenings. One could say that describes "soul jazz" in general.

Well said, Ghostie. Thanks to all of our veterans for their efforts and sacrifices. Mooser and all the rest.