Brad

The first 2 Pres cds I had were Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio on Verve and the aforementioned KC Sessions, which is simply awesome. So why not start there?

I prefer the Moose way. I like to start at the top and work my way down. I don't really use new posts because I like to look at the topics. Just because it's new doesn't mean I necessarily want to post. Sometimes in the middle of a session, I'll scroll down to look at what member are looking at what, just out of curiosity.

I may have missed this earlier but what's the view on the Pablo material: the Solo Masterpieces and the Group Masterpieces. I picked up Volume 1 of the solo last night. I'm just about finished reading Francis Paudras' Dance of the Infidels where he cites Art Tatum as being an inspiration for Bud. Ergo, my newly kindled interest in Tatum.

Dan is right. That completely slipped my mind. He's good to deal with and quick to ship, although his prices are a little more expensive but he may have stuff that other retailers don't.

That's like asking about the history of jazz. I especially like the Blue Mitchells, there's Bill Evans, Kenny D, some Hanks. I suggest you take a look at the www.fantasyjazz.com web site. You can see what they have. You can also order direct, at a cheaper price.

As an aside, a good example of what Mike is talking about are the RVGs of Bud Powell, Milt Jackson and I believe Monk where they didn't even include the original liner notes because they had rearranged the track listing and included or excluded songs that they believed belong to other artists.

A lot of his 70s stuff seems to be on Steeplechase and Timeless, plus one on Black Lion and Enja. Some Black Lion material is being reuissed by 1201. Otherwise for that and Enja, you may have to look on Ebay. For Steeplechase, look at Jazzloft or CDUniverse. Maybe Jazzloft has Timeless. Worlds Records is always a possibility.

Those are some pretty nice reviews by someone who sounds like he knows what's he talking about although I'd disagree with the Natural Soul disc. If this is a rocker magazine, they must have an intelligent jazz critic.

I haven't listened to this in a loooong time, so this is a good opportunity. I'll pull it out tonight. I only the Mosaic so I guess that will just have to do .

Approximately 42 Pounds translates to about $70. Assuming shipping is $15 or so, how can you not pass that up. That is an amazing per disc rate.

I don't have a lot of the things you mentioned but I do have Midnight Creeper and Good Gracious and they're fine cds. Really love Good Gracious. Some serious organ going on in that one. My feeling about AMG is that if you like a particular artist and see a cd and they don't give it a good rating, who cares. They're only a guide anyway and not a be all as far as I'm concerned. They're a useful source but I try not to let myself be swayed by a review of someone I know. They're very useful if you're looking at someone you don't know that much about. Plus, their star system is just for a comparison of records made by that person, not by that person vis a vis person. But, I'm sure you knew that.

I know they were available because I picked them up at a small store here in Jersey. It's possible there wasn't much fanfare about Jimmy Smith but I know there was about Jazz Immortal.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to pass on these for now. I'd love to get all of them but finances being what they are, I'll have to wait to hopefully get them as gifts. My priorities there are the Amy, the Eldridge and the Pearson. The Eldridge, since will be available for a decent period of time, will have to be put off until next year .

I think somebody had posted that back at the BNBB when the Select first came out. It's one of the best sites I've ever seen. Thanks for bringing that up again.

Ditto! Actually, the email I received back in October said the 15th but maybe they're giving themselves 3 days to mail.

Thought I'd bring this up again. There appear to be some good deals here. I just bought the Bud Powell Verve Box for $66 (including shipping). It goes for about $72 at CD Universe. They've listed another auction for this box, in case anyone's interested.

Hope you get some conns for your birthday (but you probably have them all).

Charles Kynard - The Soul Brotherhood - Prestige Sonny Stitt - At the DJ Lounge Shirley Scott - Queen of the Organ. Actually, any Shirley/Stanley date is good. Eddie Lockaw Davis - Going to the Meetin'. Also his date with Shirley, Bacalao. Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious The Cannonball date is not bad. I didn't like it at first but repeated listenings changed my mind. Give it a chance.

Just a reminder, this is slated for reissue today by Quicksilver. A must, I believe, for any Tadd fans. It's available from Quicksilver directly for $12.98 (includes shipping).

Happy birthday Dr. Freud, Red Menace, Sybill or whatever identity you're going by this week . If you're the Red Menace today, I assume you were born in 1917 or 1918, one old dude

CS 500, why don't you contact the losing bidder in some of those auctions. They might be interested. Here are the links: Dexter Volume 3 and Dexter Volume 2. I just saw that all three volumes were listed yesterday. Here's the link for Volume 1. All opening bids at $9.99.

Lon, Sent you an email. Brad

I don't think that's a typo. There was an auction a couple of weeks ago where Volumes 2 and 3 went for over $100 although I believe Volume 1 went for about $25. Go figure.

brownie, do you know or can you find out if the Stitt has bonus tracks. Also, just curious what the packaging is like: is it digi pack. I assume Amazon France will have these.

What Bruce and others said. Never had a bad experience with them and they're pretty prompt.