JSngry

True on all counts. Although... I shaved my beard off last month and am giving less and less of a rat's ass about listening to & playing the same shit for the rest of my life that I have for most of the first part of it, so who knows?

Quite a bit actually. But it's cool so long as you're not a middle aged bearded jazz fan.

Gee thanks. Either way you're saying that I look like a dead man.

Obviously? You mean that no dealer can actually listen to a record before selling it? Really?

As for why, I'd think it would be for identification purposes. Stampers don't have any label or anything else on them for ID, so that would be a way to tell which one was which. Now you got me thinking - just how and where were stampers stored between pressing runs?

The etch it into the stamper, I believe. As for who did it, it was Frank Sinatra. It was a passion of his. The death of vinyl, and the resultant loss of the industry's need to etch stampers anymore, is what really killed him He died of a broken heart. You might hear otherwise, but don't believe the hype.

I've occasionally made skips disappear by deep cleaning the affected area. Sometime it'll be a piece of crud in there (not always visible, btw) that's causing the skip, not groove damage.

Stiff or not, I didn't hear the noises, which I was listening for to confirm that it might be Hamp.

Night Dancing.

Nope. It's a shuffle. The album's pretty good. That poster was included with the first wave of 1980s BN reissues, when they relaunched the label. I put one up in my son's room when he was like 2 or 3, and he kept it up until he was 15 or so. Then he got into his own music. But he still knows good BN jazz when he hears it. That's all I wanted. Someday you can do the same for your own little chewy. Just don't rip the beating heart of of any middle aged bearded jazz idiots. Hard to make babies in prison, doncha know... Now, the Grant thing was part of a short-lived Liberty move to repackage some of the older BNs. Believe it or not, Soul Station was one of the ones that got a new cover.

Spent the day listening to and it does indeed kill. A welcome addition, it is. You say that Panama! is at least as good, eh?

Simple - the shelf life is infinite. There's no such thing as stale Grape Nuts. How could you tell?

Sorry, but I'm waiting for the liquidation sale, when prices drop to $50.

I agree w/all that Mr. Carter says about the Prestige material.

Could you please give us a little more detail?

Dammit, I really didn't want to spend that money right now. All I don't have is one trio side + the extras from the Lighthouse. But I love Elvin, so hey.

This was the rare Mosaic that I bought almost immediately. I think it's great.

Balloon Farm Bubble Puppy The 13th Floor Elevators

Mind if I help?

This would be that: Jimmy Woods on board. Hey Hey HEY!

Not at all a fan, but I've heard that he's a genuine "good guy". Still, when Mark Murphy retires, that'll be one less singer that I'm not a fan of.

Ben E. King Luke the Drifter Bocephus

Find the two A&M/Horizon LPs.

I'll have to respectfully disagree on all counts. Tyrone's spirit was in a unique zone of it's own. Don't think I can say that about Garnett's, which is not a at all dis. But compare Tyrone w/Horace & Garnett w/Blakey for an at least 50% relevant comparison. The difference is focus of intent & execution (whatever the source of that focus might have been). Tyrone had it & Garnett was working on it. That's the difference to me.