Brad

Aric, See the following thread: Blue Note Pricing.

Dan seems to have said it all but here in NY, there's really no middle ground. The Yankee fans love to give it to the Mets and vice versa. We loath each other. This really dates back to when NY had three teams. It was probably more virulent then with the players on all three teams hating each other passionately. The Giants hated the Dodgers and vice versa and together they hated the Yankees. When both NL teams left New York, Yankee haters had to wait until the Mets came into being. The Mets traditional cap is a combination of the Giants NY and Dodger Blue. That basically continued the rivalry that has been going on since the old Baltimore Orioles moved to NY in the early 1900s. They changed their names to the Highlanders (because that's where they played in Manhattan) and then to the Yankees. Usually, you became a fan of the team that your parents rooted for. In my case, my father was a Dodger fan and my mother a Giants fan. So, I become a Mets fan. My first game in 1962 was at the old Polo Grounds where the Giants used to play. I saw Hank Aaron beat the Mets 4-3 and I still have the program. So, that's why I don't like the Yankees. I'm sure you'd find the same thing in Chicago. And I'll bet before the Braves to Milwaukee, you had the same thing in Boston. Ah, the Yankees loooose. Just love that ring

The Mosaic set was probably remastered in 16 bit, whereas SBM is probably better than that. But I'm no expert so don't hold me to it. My recollection was that the two cd set left off sessions that had less relevance for the concept. Take a look at the AMG Review for a better explanation. As others have said the remastering is irrelevant, if It Ain't Necessarily So, doesn't send you into orbit, then there's no hope. Blakey's rhythm drives these guys into areas I've rarely seen. It is just incredible. Run, do not walk, to grab this cd. It'll be one of the best things you ever pick up.

Welcome back Aftab. Good to see another familiar face here.

You have to hear the Yankee fans today. I was listening to WFAN (the local sports station here in the NY area) this morning. These guys are about to ready to jump of the Brooklyn Bridge this morning. Change this, change that. This is my reward, hearing those arrogant idiots brought back to earth. As Dan said awhile ago, this will be a far different team next year. No Roger, no Wells, maybe no Pettite. They may find out how the other half lives. Ah, the Yankees lose. That sure does have a nice sound to it.

As the Yankee announcers might have said: GAME OVER. SEASON OVER. WORLD SERIES OVER. AH, THE YANKEES LOSE, AH, THE YANKEES LOSE!

Oh, some of these look pretty awesome, Stu Williamson, Herbie Harper... forget that, they all look pretty darn good. I'll be emailing Hiroshi soon. Thanks Late.

Actually, they're insufferable already. I don't know about GM but there was a book that was in print about twenty years ago by Peter Golenbock that was a history of the Yankees from 1949-1964 and the subtitle was "When rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for U.S. Steel." Maybe that's the origin.

Thanks to this thread, I just ordered a couple of things from Hep. Unfortunately, I didn't see the last post until after I ordered. I just assume they haven't removed this cd from their site. Anyway, I did email Mr. Robertson and I'll get one of the Red Norvos instead.

I frankly don't see how the Yankees lose Game 6. I just don't see it. You know the fans will be pumped and although the team shouldn't need any extra motivation, that will help. I also think the Marlins are making a big mistake by going with Beckett on 3 days rest. Why not save him for Game 7, with full rest. Someone mentioned today on WFAN here in New York today that in '73, Seaver talked Yogi into letting him pitch on 3 days rest, which meant that if they lost, then they'd have to go to Koosman on 3 days rest. Well, guess what, the As did just that and instead of having a rested Seaver, they had to go to Koosman and the rest is history. McKeon should look at Game 6 as a throwaway and have his best going in Game 7. Instead, if he loses he'll have to go with Pavano. I don't think he'll be able to do it.

Count me in the ecstatic category. I have very little of the Pearson, only Katanga from Curtis Amy and not much of Roy's Verve years. So yes, I'm with Tony on this. This is real exciting stuff.

I turned on WKCR, hoping to hear some Charlie Parker but instead got the following. What they were playing was what they call in the third paragraph of the release, soundscape field recordings. For example one of the recordings was a recording of people walking through a park in Oporto, Portugal and street sounds in Istanbul. Yes, I listened for a few minutes. Frankly, I don't see how this is music. I could go out and record this kind of thing. That doesn't make me a musician. While music may be a flexible concept, recording what happens in a street doesn't, IMHO, constitute music. I'm not questioning the rest of the festival, just this aspect. If that makes me an old fuck, so be it. What do you guys think? WKCR New Music Fall Festival The WKCR New Music Fall Festival will take place over 72 uninterrupted hours from Wednesday, October 22, midnight, through Friday, October 24, midnight. To celebrate 25 years of new music programming on WKCR and the twentieth anniversary of our New Music Department, the Fall Festival will not focus on a single subject or artist (like our previous festivals: John Cage, Evan Parker, "noise", etc.) but on various genres intended to showcase a wider scope of the department's collection. The festival will open on Wednesday (10/22) with a historical survey of sound poetry, from its roots in the Dada movement with Raoul Hausmann, to Kurt Schwitters, Henri Chopin, and their present-day contemporaries. Wednesday will also feature music from the Fluxus art movement, including archival recordings by artist and percussionist Joe Jones. Tune in on Thursday (10/23) to hear music by large improvising collectives (from AMM to Globe Unity Orchestra to No-Neck Blues Band) and soundscape compositions (music made with field recordings, including early musique concrete, environmental-sound artists from R. Murray Schaefer to Chris Watson and Francisco Lopez, and a slew of recent urban field recordings from the chicago label, Locust Music). To conclude the festival on Friday (10/24), we will broadcast 24 hours of solo percussion, including recordings of composed and improvised music by Milford Graves, Toshi Tsuchitori, Le Quan Ninh, and live performances by New York City percussionists Tim Barnes, Sean Meehan, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jim Pugliese, Christine Bard, and others. Tune in to the festival as well as our regular programming to hear the best in new music

In the last few groups that Verve has done, starting with (I believe) the Sonny Stitt New York Jazz, they've given up the mini lp concept and gone to digi paks, probably because they were to expensive. So the more recent ones are cheaper but they're not really mini lp. Overall, I found this to be a good series. All the ones that I've bought are good and I found the sonics good as well. I particularly like the Sonny Stitt, Billy Mitchell, Count Basie and Woody.

Well, I tried yesterday but got stiffed. The clerk was prepared to accept it but then saw "no online sales". My mistake was reserving it through their inventory system. So he calls the service manager. She knew all about these and said it applied only to computer books or something. She further explained that if you read the whole thing on the website, it only applied to those kinds of books. Hard to argue with that. That's the way it goes.

Glad to be able to get it for you

And now for my next predictions: Ebay will never succeed as a good idea and Enron stock will take off

This is not fair . Mosaic and EMI are engaged in huge conspiracy to take my money away .......... and it's working!

It's over dudes, stick the proverbial fork in them because it looks like the Yanks have caught some marlins. Let's get it over asap and get the f***ing parade finished so I don't have to think about these guys or deal with Yankee fans until March.

Since I'm going back in time, which means I can change history, I'd want to see Rudy record Bird, Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey. Well, I can dream, can't I?

I just received the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Live cd today and it's everything described in the AMG review. Very fantastic arrangements and playing. This is one of the best big bands I've heard in a while. Highly recommended. They take paypal too.

At the risk of repeating myself from another thread, how about some of the earlyl BN stuff. BTW, the Erroll Garner is an excellent suggestion. There's a lot from the early years (40s) and early 50s that needs to be Conned. Not to belabor the point (although I haven't done it in a while), how about a Three Sounds Conn, if a Select won't be forthcoming for awhile. When Conns come out, I'd like them to reflect all the kinds of music that BN has reissued in its history. I'd say the most recent set was weighted towards later years.

Well, I'm going to try this today with the MJQ box. Let's see what happens. I'll leave mysyelf enough time in case I have to argue with the manager.

Sal, there hasn't been too much discussion but see the following Eldridge Thread. See also AAJ Eldridge Mosaic Thread.

I just talked to Mosaic about this and their estimate (obviously subject to change) is mid to late November.

Now that Lon mentions it, there are several BN swing sessions that could be reissued. I'm sure many don't even realize that Alfred recorded a lot of swing before he caught on to hard bop bandwagon.