Brad

I have heard that the Capitol Jazz Sessions are superb. Unfortunately, the price tag, $192, is a little too high. Of course, when it goes on the endangered list, I'll have to bite.

This one doesn't particularly interest me, at least not at this time. This one has elicited a lot of discussion and as Lon said a while ago some like it, some don't. As with many others, I'll probably wait until it goes on the endangered list before making the plunge. Four Freshmen? That could go oop today and I wouldn't bite.

I'm not really into junk food although I do like Corona. Porn sites, no, unless the babe thread qualifies. Since I hate the Yanks, Bronx cheers are out. While I would like to think I'm an arbiter of tastes, I know better. Well, so much for your profile. Back to the drawing board.

I'd rather give the business to Mosaic and have them keep everything.

The Hummers are an abomination to the enivronment. It's bad enough that there are a lot of gazz guzzlers. But that thing should be banned.

Well, too bad about these so-called reissues, including those Dizzy Days. Would have liked to have had them.

Whatever it says, I ordered both of them.

Sound like everybody, coast to coast, is paying more or less the same. I see it going to $3 come the summer driving season. BTW, Rooster is right. We're coddled. People pay much more, not just in Europe, but everywhere else.

This is probably in the dumb question category but how does one clean up a cache?

I just picked up Atlantic and read this article. Quite a fascinating look at this icon. Very well written and a great all around article about Wayne. I haven't picked up those cds but I want to check em out now.

Garth, great avatar. Love it. did couw help you with the animation? BTW, I had the same problem. I changed it at home but when I looked at work it was the old avatar. Very strange. Eventually the one at work matched the one at home.

The test is pretty simple. My wife took it in the mid 80s and we studied hard for it but they asked questions like who appears on the five dollar bill, who was the first president and things like that. Nothing complicated.

4 of the new Fantasy releases including Red Garland Alone, James Moody Brass and Lee Konitz' Piecemeal.

This is a very fine list with some great stuff on there with one notable exception, Night of the Cookers, a simply awful set. I had the Spanish BN set and sold it. I will definitely upgrade Inner Urge. There's a few I don't have that I will be getting like Breaking Point and Blue Spirits.

Richie Kamuca, according to AMG, has 11 leader dates from various labels. This would make an excellent Mosaic project, akin to the Serge Chaloff Mosaic. One can never have too much Kamuca, an often ignored player, in my view.

Further to Rooster's post about last chance, here's the related topic.

I really like the Kelly set, plus how can you go wrong with Frank Strozier. The Shorter set is good but I really do prefer the Kelly Chambers set.

According to AMG, his first and third albums that are the subject of the two fer (the second being a live date, excellent by the way) are The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance and Big Chief.

I intend to get in the next couple of days some of the new Fantasy reissues: Red Alone Lee Konitz Peacemeal James Moody Phil Upchurch Feeling Blue Then in two weeks, Fantasy is putting out a bunch of twofers that I won't be able to pass up, including Junior Mance Shirley Scott Harold Mabern Johnny Hammond Smith

According to the stats, 17% of my posts are in the Mosaic forum, although I'd guess Reissues is probably a close second. I guess I'm pretty spread out.

Hasn anybody checked out thenew Fantasy reissues? The Moody and Red Garland ones look particularly interesting.

Irwin, we hardly knew ye . Maybe I'll go back to being Brad. Wait a second, I already am Brad . Oh, never mind

I've tried the A-Z approach a few times but with a variation. I'll pick one cd from each letter of the alphabet. 26 cds shouldn't be difficult but I always get sidetracked.

Sal, You won't regret it. I was on the fence like you and in fact I even said I wasn't going to get it. I'm glad I changed my mind. Even if you can only get a partial set, that will still be some great music.

I don't think anybody gets a kick out of him. Short of giving him a holiday from the Board or ignoring his posts, there isn't much to be done.