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Please provide a link for pre-ordering when one becomes available!

Hmmmmm.......now wondering how many of those $5.00 Jazz Scene Photo Albums as advertised in the OG are around today, and what quality paper was used for them?

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Revolution is not answering their phone yoday, probably had to lock up and go to the basement to avoid the Zombie Collector Apocalypse...All I want is a quote to make sure I can't afford it.

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Thad Jones Airto Mary Ann with the shaking hands, no mention of fingers, though.

Yeah, for real As far as just records...eh, get the CD version. But as an object...If you feel the tingle, consider taking it home and gazing into its eyes forever more...are they asking, like, lust money for it, because lust demeans this thing, it is meant to be loved. Miles there gets it, tell him that a cat in Texas extends full props to him about that. More Miles, less eBay, yes. Again, I am completely serious. I've only seen it 3 times in the flesh, and only once when it was for sale. I didn't have discretionary income then, but now, for real, if you can entertain the paradigm that you gonna keep getting paychecks but you not gonna keep getting this thing, then there you go. I paid 50 bucksto see Sinatra at Caesar's, a bit of a reach at the time, but, you know, eat less for a week, right?.How many more 50 bucks have I seen and how many more Sinatra at Ceasar's have I seen? Sorry, don't mean to be getting all lathered up, but...just sayin'.

Eva was much prettier, imo. Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder Don Was

It's a glorious package, really is. The full page hi-res B&W photos are almost literally stunning. I would not mind having it as an object , and if ever found locally for a not silly price, I'd pounce if I was flush at the time. $35 in great condition, tthat's not silly, not for me. But it would have to be local. Y'all in KC owe it to yourselves to go and just look at the pictures, seriously. Take your time at it and soak 'em in, all of them.

I've known two people who have had the original 78 issue, if that's what you mean. Not a box but a very elaborate folio, irrc? If there was a subsequent LP box, no I have never seen that before.

Yeah, when I grew up and realized that what McDonough was writing in DB was more about being a sort of bow-tie contrarian, I sort of cut him off. And this was before some of you kids were even born! Although, I think he was the guy who got the Lester Young court marshal transcripts into DB, so hey, not a menace to society or anything, just a bow-tie contrarian, for me, pick one or the other and it's coll. But both? Nah.

MISTER Tibbs! Bart Masterson Mean Mister Mustard

Salem Witches Kool and the Gang Mister Kite

Go in peace.

Vision, detail, and pocket. Works for me.

Well, from what I've heard, Nancy is very protective of the reputation and the assets which she oversees and is not shy about it. And good for her on that. But at this point in time, especially with the right marketing "framing", I think it would be a great release. She might think otherwise, which is her prerogative. So, get Will Friedwald or somebody to start talking about the "lion in winter" Sinatra and how the Duets albums did a service to his reputation in the marketplace but not as an artist, blahblahblah and how private recordings show blahblahblah, let that gain some traction and build momentum and ripen. The start talking aobut Capitol is considering blahblahblah, give it a few years, and then it'll be ready to go. Or not Will Friedwald, maybe he's not the guy. But geez, you got a market, manipulate/keep manipulating it. If you can do it for crap like Duets, do it for this. What's the point of having that much juice if you can't make good things happen?

If Nancy Sinatra is handling things with Capitol now, here's hoping that she gets in touch with her Inner Lee Hazlewood and comes to appreciate the full value that an unvarnished Duets Solo release would have, especially the general cultural amusement in seeing how it plays out as far as who really gets it and who howls about "bad idea in the first place, should've just let the old man go in peace, this is tarnishing the legacy, etc" and then again all the young hipsters who will claim to get it but really just need therapy to stop being so damn prematurely old. Can somebody design a Long Hair And Beard Hawk emoji?

Sinatra - Duets Solo Somebody leaked this out to the interwebs a while back, allegedly the source for the two Duets ablums, Frank live in the studio in front of the band with a hand mike free to prowl as he pleased. I think it's a disgrace to the zeitgeist of that or any other time that the need was seen to autotune and bring in (most) of the Duet partners. Yes, his pitch, hell, his whole voice, is old and croaky, but the dude is in there, the rapport with the band (Pat Williams charts, iirc, very nice) is rock-solid, and the meaning of the songs is firm. Ragged but right, like the song says. That man has the band playing hard, and he's not leaning on them to get through, he's putting them on his back and carrying them up to where he needs it to be. That's a perhaps underappreciated part of Sinatra's thing, hos when he found his pocket, everybody came along, it was so strong you had to come along. This is Sinatra in his Coleman Hawkins With Long Hair And Beard phase. Let an old man sound like an old man. When the old man is Sinatra (or Hawkens), any thing else is bullshit, what part of people get old and don't have everything they once did and until things get feeble and such that's OK is not understood? Let people go down swinging! What he does on "Come Rain Or Come Shine" is damn near epic, not for its correctness but for its sheer old man shaking his fist at life power. That motherfucker....damn.

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/792825 Been a little slow getting to this one because Dusty Groove loses that bet, I have all of it already. But this is a fine, fine, fine compilation of the period covered, and if one is disinclined for whatever reason to pursue the individual CDs from this period, this is a good (but not complete!) substitute. There is much greatness on here, including an epic solo by Chris Potter on "Cut To The Chase"...I'm not particularly keen on Potter overall, but that might be because he's not as "unhinged" elsewhere as he is here. There's also plenty of fine Dave Kikowski to be heard here as well. Quiet as it's kept, DK & MM seem to have had a really good musical rapport, every one of her projects that he's worked on has had delightful results. Some of them are here, "Generations" being especially standout-ish. Adam rogers is all over this, and on a good number of cuts there's Alex Sipiagin's visionary horn & strings chart of Monday's equally visionary compositions. My pick for an unlikely for dazzling success - her cover of the SOS Band's hit "Just Be Good To Me" previsioned as Brazilian aggression with layered vocals every bit as powerful as Brian Wilson's Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye's Marvin Gaye. The band played live, and...whoa. But Monday pretty much always has the band play live. Don't think that don't make a difference! Anyway, this is here, and for those so inclined, here it is. Monday's been hustling to survive, here's hoping she thrives. Popular music needs her, still, now.

We figured you'd be asleep. (happy birthday)

Dick Rising of Capitol Records Dick Lugar of Capitol Hill Sylvia Robinson of Sugar Hill Records