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Are you inclined to mention your line of work?

So versatile, and so perfect with it. RIP

Amazon DLs used to not be the highest available quality. Has that changed? Good calls on Joe Williams. Jack McDuff and Jimmy McGriff.

Yeah, I fixed that by getting CDrs of the two Blue things. So I "have" them. Better to have than to be had! Maybe "hack" is cruel, maybe he was simply a hard-working hustling brother who carpe-diemed. But good lord...enough of THAT shit...

That Blue thing is...questionable. IMO. If there was such a list at one time, it should be on it. Best paired with Bantu Village, (how was that one not on the list), the better to get the whole thing done with in one sitting. My distaste for Monk Higgins is no secret, or shouldn't be. Not once have I heard anything to suggest that he was too much more than an opportunistic hack. IMO.

There was a guy who make his mark! RIP

Yeah, dampen the lead vocal, get another bit of lyrics, remix the whole thing, and you could maybe have a decent record. Instead, it is what it is and nobody cares. That's a very good record, with liner notes to match! That there is so deep in the pocket it's name could be Lint!!!

Ok, so we are back to the NHKQ (which, if not great, is good enough) and this one, which I don't think anybody for is clamoring: Are there any 78s that meet this criterion?

Japan has been lazy! Did the McLean Mosaic get to CD or was that too early for that? What about the Dom Minasi and Moacir Santos records, then?

Maybe Waters ? Japan has cast a wide net. Very wide.

The Mack Avenue company strikes me as people who handle their business like it's...business. Glad for that!

My preference is for later Pepper as well , but if you heard a later Pepper record without knowing the player and/or his backstory, would you automatically hear "prison"? Or is that maybe projecting the narrative onto the music? I can just as easily believe that it was something in him that led him to his behavior, and that was what he was playing, not the prison. Prison was just something that happened along the way, and perhaps inevitably. Have you read Straight Life?

Some local (Buffalo?) band that he made his first record with had that record up on the blogosphere years ago. He was already a player then, and stayed one until the end. RIP

Rebecca Paris - My Foolish Heart Out of left field for me this one. Glacially slow standards and a singer who knows what to do with them. Never saw it coming. Check it out.

208 songs, then. Or sides.

Loel Passe is nonplused: Harry Kallas says likewise:

That's a butt load full of records! I don't think I've ran into one of those before, ever.

WTF??!!!!???

The stuff that is marginalized is some of the most interesting imo!

Ok then, I do have Masterpieces on an OG Masterworks LP (totally lucked into that one) and the other material that was first issued on LP, as well as a French LP called Primipn' For The Prom. So...just some stray singles is all that's left? All of the really "important" stuff has seen mainstream release in my lifetime? Ah, but the rest... I have enough LPs and CDs already. Also not in the mood to deal with foreign sellers right now. So a Mosaic would be just what my Ducal Doctor would order (if not pay for.

Are you referring to the three The World Of Duke Ellington sets? I bought those as released, and also have all that was released originally on LP. How much more is there?

Manira Lasupas Sketti - Say When!!!

The alternates are nice, but don't really offer any further enlightenment. Good to have to have, but that's it.

In favor of what? This Jasmine disc is not exactly great audio quality...