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It's true. He could really grate.

I'm on a Bud binge lately. To honor his 84th, I'll spin his version of "Idaho" with Johnny Griffin. An amazing duo track.

Has Savoy's reissue program for Muse stuff fizzled out? Nothing's come up on the radar lately that I'm aware of.

Did anyone pick up the Andorran issue of The Gap Sealer, which contains "bonus" tracks from Love and Understanding? Dusty Groove pulled it from their site (at least for the time being), and I wonder if there might be some legal issues (finally) at stake. My personal choice is to not support the Andorrans (though I did own two titles at one time), but I'd like to hear this one.

How would you all rate Tenor Madness Too?

I might be wrong, but I don't think any of the 32Jazz reissues were remastered. Well, maybe not re-mastered, but the CD booklet (for the Ford title in question) says "Mastered by Gene Paul at DB Plus Digital Services, NYC." Regardless, the CD sounds pretty good to me! For anyone with an interest in Ford, I'd say this is a very good sampler of his Muse work. The track "Esse Nosso Amor" is everything the music for The Bill Cosby show wanted to be.

Mostly CDs. I haven't been following the market for LPs in a long time. (I still have a turntable though!)

Muse titles have been popping up on Dusty Groove lately, usually for $4.99. Picked up the Bill Barron there. Some Muse and 32Jazz titles, however, are being offered through Amazon's marketplace for sky-high prices.

Why pay rent when you can buy Catalyst's 2-CD set for $53, or Eric Kloss's Doors for $250? Jeebus.

Mang, I wanna hear this rekkid.

This one is very much worth owning. Great remastering and a nice selection of tunes picked by Ford himself. Get it for cheap!

What Coltrane are you going to/did you spin in celebration?

Original French cover attached. These tracks are indeed amazing.

If people are curious about the record, iTunes does have it, with the two bonus tracks. $10 isn't a steal, but hey. The original cover art attached.

Yup. I didn't either, but using "new math" I had to order the box. Hey, maybe if you could share a website or something regarding that new math — I only made it through trigonometry in high school — then I could understand, or at least rationalize, the same purchase. Why of course. Thanks (?) to my parents I had this song memorized* by age 4. New Math *Okay, that's an exaggeration. Wow, didn't even know about Lehrer. I learned something today. 64-7 = 59

Yup. I didn't either, but using "new math" I had to order the box. Hey, maybe if you could share a website or something regarding that new math — I only made it through trigonometry in high school — then I could understand, or at least rationalize, the same purchase.

Thanks for posting that video, Corey. Maybe "decline" might actually be considered in a different perspective: as maturation. Like Louis Armstrong, I think Monk's playing in later decades was less facile, but more idiosyncratic. They both became more inimitable later in their careers. Armstrong wasn't pulling off the same type of pyrotechnics from his 20's playing during the 50's, but his sense of nuance, to me, developed immensely. There's this obscure trumpet player, I think his name is Wynton Marsalis, who said: "Pops could play one note, and it would be jazz." The same concept (despite the source) might be applied to Monk.

That was my original thought too. I have a hard time conceiving two pianists in addition to Cecil — unless maybe Paul was playing inside the piano, and Carla was on a prepared piano. That would be interesting!

Now that would have been a show. Three pianos?

This appears to be the lowest price.

Damn, that bonus disc is hot! I had no intentions of ordering the whole sh-bang, but now ... who knows.

Thanks for posting those covers, Chas. You are the go-to guy for obscure cover art!

Thanks for posting that, Bev.

I hear ya and don't disagree. I do. Complete 5 Spot was the sort of thing that Fantasy was starting to do beautifully (Evans Vanguard and Garland Prelude and Monk/Trane sets as well as the Stitt, Miles and Trane boxes) before they sold out to the clueless crew at Concord. weren't all of the box sets you mention released after the sale to concord? I believe so. The Evans is my favorite of the bunch. Homely packaging but the sound on that set is something else. And it was/is really affordable. It did seem promising that a Dolphy set would come to fruition. Who knows, maybe we'll be surprised down the line. Until then, I'm going to enjoy the music in the format I have it.

20% off through September 29. Good on whatever two or three cd's you can find in their jazz section It's weird — there've been a number of stories here about Borders shrinking their music section and having virtually little or no jazz, but the Borders here seems to be an anomaly. They have all the current RVGs, and the jazz section actually appears to have expanded some. I don't get it, but I'm not going to complain!