Brad

I agree with you in part. Yes, don't muck it up while remastering it but also don't throw the baby out with the bath water. In looking at that Hoffman forum, I found the whole tone a little patronizing towards Rudy, which bothers me, especially with the participation of some members here. It's not a science and it's imperfect as Mr. Hoffman recognizes.

I second Chuck's opinion. Much (too much) is made of the remastering as opposed to getting the music out to those who want to hear it.

That dancing dude is cool. Let's add him to what we already have.

Dynomite!

My choice would have been Blakey although I'm not sure about Prestige. What about Cannonball?

I've got a CDR of this so never picked up the Conn. It's not my favorite Mobley session of the 60s or even the 50s but hey it's Hank. It's a lot better than Reach Out, that's for sure.

It will definitely not crash (knock on wood)!

I'd think that it would be hard to argue that George Marshall isn't the most important marshall.

Following my trip to France and Normandy, I'm now reading Max Hasting's Book Overlord, recommended for history buffs.

FWIW, I saw a few of these recently at Jusseau Music in Paris but didn't take the plunge although I sort of wanted to.

It's Pierre Michelot on bass and Klook on Drums. This was recorded at the Blue Note and they frequently worked with him there.

Any time I read liner notes. In fact anything in smaller print, I find I'm taking off my glasses. And this on top of my having those bifocals type glasses that don't have a line through them, which, btw, I fought for two years before I got them. Maybe they just need strengthening.

For those who don't have it, get Good Gracious and the Sonny Criss Imperial Sessions, truly wonderful music. Why they would let the Sonny Criss go out of print is beyond me.

Of the current sets, I only have the Joe Pass and that's a very nice set. I hope to get the Farlow soon. Of the OOP ones, I'd recommend them all, particularly the Desmond Hall set, truly a special set.

I don't see a lot of discussion about the Woody Herman Columbia upcoming set of the First Herd and Second and this promises to be a great set, esp. with Sonny Berman. I've just preordered it.

I suppose if I posted to the politics forum, I'd have more than I do and in the other areas I don't always have something to say that's worthwhile reading about.

I just picked up a couple of these (Lee Morgan and Mulligan-Farmer) from Virgin when I was in Paris but since I just got back haven't had a chance to listen yet. However, am looking forward to them.

Don't think we need it. We already have a forum devoted to that as Underground Agent indicated.

We knew that the Jazztet and Dex was coming but Dinah is a surprise to me. At least it's spread throughout the next few months.

Following up on the Spanish debacle, England should not play for the one point, as Spain did, but play as if they needed the 3 points. Anything less than a full out performance will not them a loss. It's amazing to me how coaches in both football and american football will get cautious. In american football when the coaches go into a defensive mode they play what's called a prevent defense and the saying is that the only thing a prevent defense prevents is victory.

Does Hiroshi still take international money orders. I thought he was just taking paypal. Anyway, go to a post office and tell them you need an international money order and where it has to go and that's it. Not every post office does but many do. However, paypal is much easier and less time consuming.

Some of their offering may not be all that enticing to some but Dizzy's Big 4, plus some of those senior citizens, who were trailblazers in their day, deserved to get recorded.

I knew we were in trouble tonight when I saw the referee (my apologies, Swingin Swede). That fool nearly cost us a quarterfinal victory against Ireland two years ago. Spain didn't deserve to win because they played not to lose. When you play like that, you will lose. You need to grab the proverbial bulls by the horn. The Portuguese basically took it to them and except for a few occasions I didn't see much. The one goal that Morientes scored in the tournament was nice, although a mistake by the defense. Other than that Raul and Morientes didn't show that much. Following the heels of the disaster in 98, the robbery in 2002, this is just extremely disappointing. I can hardly wait for 2006

Man, that must have been a hell of a match! I'll have to watch the replays on FSW tonight.

Great price as far as I'm concerned. Can't beat $10 or less from cd universe, as noted.