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Isn't that an 11-CD set?

Seacrest, to Kellie Pickler: "So, what did you buy while you were in California"? Pickler: "Shoes." Seacrest: "Anything else"? Actually, she's put on quite a few lbs. all 'round... Before: I thought the same thing, that she's sporting a pair of "store boughts". Could be, but they could also be due to the weight gain and a push-up bra. I thought that's what Ryan Seacrest might have been referring to but I didn't think he was that subtle or clever with his humor.

My picks for the top 5 women: (in no particular order) Melinda Doolittle Lakisha Jones Stephanie Edwards Jordin Sparks Sabrina Sloan (she's better looking than this picture.) As far as the guys go, does it really matter? I like: Chris Sligh I like what I've seen so far: Chris Richardson Blake Lewis All the rest could disappear and I'd barely notice.

I said the same thing to myself until I actually sat down and started watching a season from the beginning. (Last year-season 5)

From a post at AAJ. 01 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 1 02 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 2 03 Miles Davis ascenseur pour l’echafaud 04 Donald Byrd byrd in paris (live) 05 Donald Byrd parisian thoroughfare (live) 06 Holland/Clayton/Singleton club Session 07 Bill Coleman from boogie to funk 08 Chet Baker broken wing 09 Dizzy Gillespie the giant 10 Slide Hampton exodus 11 Django Reinhard django et compagnie 12 Django Reinhard swing from paris 13 Django Reinhard swing 39 14 Mary Lou Williams I made love you paris 15 Elek Bacsik guitar conceptions 16 René Thomas the real cat 17 Toots Thielemans blues pour flirter 18 Buddy Banks jazz de chambre Bobby Jaspar quartet barclay 19 Henri Salvador pardon my english – plays the blues 20 Various Chanteurs/Chanteuses 21 Don Byas laura 22 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter self-titled 23 Sonny Criss mr. Blues pour flirter 24 Guy Lafitte blue and sentimental 25 Henri Renaud New sound at “the boeuf sur le toit” (live) Zoot Sims quintet barclay 26 Barney Wilen jazz sur seine 27 Bobby Jaspar modern jazz au club st.-germain 28 Lucky Thompson modern jazz group 29 Pierre Michelot round about a bass 30 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 1 31 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 2 32 Michel Legrand paris jazz piano 33 Claude Bolling plays the original piano greats 34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke self titled 35 Eddie Louiss bohemia after dark 36 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon aux trios mailletz 37 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson paris blues live 38 Earl Hines paris one night stand 39 Kenny Clarke plays andré hodéir 40 Art Blakey paris jam session live 41 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien porgy & bess 42 Stéphane Grappelli improvisations 43 Jean-Luc Ponty jazz long playing 44 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 1 live 45 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 2 live 46 Lionel Hampton ring dem vibes 47 Various classic jazz à saint-germain-des-prés 48 Various modern jazz à saint-germain-des-prés 49 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer) 50 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas) 51 Louis Armstrong and friends 52 Dizzy Gillespie cognac blues 53 Chet Baker quartet plays standards 54 Various clarinettes à saint-germain-des-prés 55 Various saxophones à saint-germain-des-prés 56 Stéphane Grappelli plays cole porter 57 René Thomas meeting mister Thomas 58 Django Reinhardt swing 48 59 Django Reinhardt django’s blues 60 Henri Crolla notre ami django 61 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright piano aux champs-elysées 62 Lou Bennett pentecostal feeling 63 Rhoda Scott live at the olympia 64 Willie « The Lion » Smith music on my mind 65 Bernard Pfeiffer la vie en rose 66 Raymond Fol les 4 saisons 67 René Urtréger joue bud powell 68 Lionel Hampton mai 1956 69 Art Blakey 1958 paris olympia (live) 70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir 71 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 3 (Goraguer/Jazz Groupe de Paris/Humair Soultette) 72 Don Byas ree-boppers Don Byas/Tyree Glenn orchestra Howard McGhee sextet James Moody quintet 73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet all stars 74 Alain Goraguer go-go-goraguer 75 Earl Hines in paris 76 Various danse à saint-germain-des-prés 77 Lester Young Le dernier message 78 Don Byas en ce temps-là 79 Stan Getz quartet in paris (live) 80 Henri Criolla begin the beguine 81 Elek Bacsik nuages 82 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith stuff and steff 83 Sarah Vaughan & violins 84 Dizzy Gillespie & his operatic strings orchestra 85 Bobby Jaspar jeux de quartes 86 Gerard Badini the swing machine 87 Stéphane Grappelli django 88 Gus Viseur de clinchy à broadway 89 Henri Crolla quand refleuriront les lilas blancs? 90 Django Reinhard nuit de saint-germain-des-prés 91 Django Reinhard nuages 92 Jack Diéval jazz au champs-elysées 93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays standards 94 Blossom Dearie the pianist Les Blue Stars 95 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham play gershwin 96 Max Roach parisian sketches 97 André Hodeir jazz et jazz 98 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 4 99 Various harlem piano in montmartre 100 Various jazz sous l’occupation 101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams jazz at midnight 102 Django Reinhardt place de brouckère 103 Jean Claude Fohrenbach Fohrenbach French sound

What's up with all the conspiracy theories against jazz? She was voted off because she was not as good as the others, not because she sang jazz. The two women who were voted off deserved to go home. (If not this week, then in the next week or two.) The only woman still standing right now that should already be gone is Antonella Barba. The women have a nice group of strong singers and you can already easily pick who should be in the top 5. I don't think the guys or a guy has a chance at being the idol this year.

"Free As A Bird", not so much.

you must mean the American Goldfinch (Carduelis trístis), as the Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) has a red face. Yes, the American Goldfinch. In different lighting they can have that lime-ish yellow appearance like that tananger picture.

It looks like a goldfinch with a red face.

What, no Charlie Parker jokes yet? I live in south-central Minnesota and I'm a semi-casual backyard birder. I do have binoculars and a copy of "The National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Birds". I've hung 3 droll yankee type tube feeders around the yard, one containing nyger thistle, one with a special finch seed and the 3rd with the standard cracked corn/millet/sunflower seed mix. I also have a pole feeder (with squirrel baffle of course) which holds several pounds of feed. Two of the 3 sections in that feeder contain the standard mix and the 3rd has a mix of safflower seeds and black oil sunflower seeds. I also have a suet cake cage-type feeder hanging off the pole feeder. I put up a bird bath during the non-freezing months. I also have one of those squirrel bungy-cord things which holds a cob of corn. I haven't seen a lot of activity the last couple of days as we have been having snow storms on and off and I've yet to clear the snow off the feeders. Some of the regulars I've seen over the course of the winter: -black cap chickadee -junco -white breasted nuthatch -cardinal -hairy or downy woodpecker (I haven't investigated enough to determine) -red bellied woodpecker (once or twice) -crow (I pretty much hate them) -occasional bluejay -sparrows My interest in watching birds comes from my parents. For as far back as I can remember, we always had a feeder outside the window where we had our kitchen table. We'd always watch them and identify them as they came along. I love cardinals but I think the chickadee is my favorite. Like another poster mentioned, they are very comical to watch with how they seem to be happy in any position whether it be right side up, upside down or sidways. The nuthatches too for the same reason. I always look forward to this time of year with the change of seasons when we start looking for the first sighting of the returning robins which is a sure sign of the impending spring. It's also cool to see the other various species which start returning to the north in the warmer months.

I'm curious, and no offense or criticism intended at all, but why? Do you have a huge backlog where you're buying faster (much faster if it's over a year between buy and listen) than you can listen? Speculating knowing it's something you know you'd like down the road and didn't want to pass up but just haven't been in the right mood yet to listen? At worst, I've gone over a month between buying and listening because of time restrictions and a buying spree but to go over a year and not listen, especially after such a sizable investment, it would tell me that I needed to slow down.

More John Coltrane. I hadn't really been paying attention to the personnel playing on the various discs and more than once I had to check and see who the impressive piano player was to discover it was Red Garland. He wasn't playing his distictive block chord style which usually tips him off. I gotta tell you he is an incredible blues player. What he was doing on "By The Numbers" on disc 14 (From "The Last Trane" I believe.) just knocked me out much like his solo on "Soul Junction" which also knocked me out.

Chunks of this over the last couple days.

Some time in the 5 hours since my post the set has disappeared. Someone got themselves a pretty nice deal!

Ebay has a "buy it now", brand new copy available for $115 and change (delivered) for anyone else interested. That's probably the best deal currently available on the internet.

Yeah, I might have made it to Easter if I didn't have that "music money" sitting in the Paypal account. Maybe it'll be different now that the money is gone. If you're interested in checking out Tubby Hayes, you could do a lot worse than checking out "Commonwealth Blues". http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AA4GI...d=37C465BB2Z8IR It's a Spanish BBC radio broadcast which features Tubby with a trio in the studio. It's a series of four sets of 3 songs each which open and close with "Tubby's Blues". (I imagine there were announcements, ads and news between each set.) On the first set, he is featured playing tenor sax. In the second set, he is featured playing vibes. On the third set he is featured playing flute. On the fourth set I believe it features one song each on tenor, vibes and flute. From the music samples, it sounds like a great CD and shows off how skilled Tubby was on each of his instruments.

Hi, my name is Scott and I'm a jazz CD buying junkie. It's been 26 days since I last bought a CD. I'm sorry (kinda) to say I fell off the wagon today. OK, I said as of the end of January that I was going to stop buying CDs for 6 months and I couldn't even make it a month which is only more embarrassing because it is the shortest month of the year. I was doing pretty well until I discovered I had $101.00 in my Paypal account which does not effect the home budget. That's like putting heroin and the fixing equipment in front of a junkie in withdrawl and asking them whether they are going to take advantage of it or not. I caved. I guess if you're going to fall off the wagon, you might as well do it in a big way. Even so, I plan to start all over again but I don't think a 6 month ban is going to be realistic. Hmm... I'll have to work something out. Anyway, with that $101.00 I got: I purchased these four to round out my Paul Desmond/Jim Hall collaborations. (The 3rd and 4th albums are "Glad To Be Unhappy" and "First Place Again".) I got turned on to Tubby Hayes after hearing him play on the Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select. I had originally planned on getting the "Swinging Giant" vols 1 & 2 until I discovered they were both contained in Proper's "Little Giant" box set. I would have paid more for the two than the 4-CD box set so I thought, "Why not go with the box?" "Commonwealth Blues" sounds superb from the music samples I've heard. The repetition of the bumpers and announcer (which of course were intended for radio play) does not bother me at all. Wonderful sound and great variety hearing Tubby on sax, flute and vibes. This was too good to resist for so much quality music at such a great price. Just try and not move in some way to this music!! Jordan's an incredible link between jazz and early rock and roll. Wasn't he with Chick Webb? I was tempted to go for the Mosaic box set of Wilson's Pacific Jazz material but I decided I'd rather have more variety and quantity for the same money. This will give me a nice taste of the best on that box set. I already have 3 or 4 of his post-Pacific Jazz works on my wish list. That's some great music with some 60's nostalgia thrown in. So that's $101.00 spent for 15 CDs with some change back. What do you think, is it money well spent?

The Complete Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet

Same here. I seem to get the same thing from Ebay.

Thanks to all who have offered their advice and opinions. I still haven't come to a decision but I'm leaning more heavily toward the Gerald Wilson set. Since I don't have anything by either artist, I think I'll end up taking montg's advice and pick up a CD by each and see how I feel about it in a month or two. I'm thinking of "Side By Side" for Hodges and the Pacific Jazz "Artist Select" for Wilson. I suspect that I'm not going to need 7 CDs worth of Hodges. Wilson seems to intrigue me more and I've enjoyed samples I've heard from his post Pacific Jazz work. One of the comments by the reviewers of the Wilson set on the Mosaic site struck a chord with me when they mentioned that Wilson's sound brought them back to 60's-Sean Connery's James Bond, Matt Helm, Jonny Quest, etc. I thought the same thing (and always loved the Jonny Quest music) so there's a nostalgia factor there. I also really liked the soudtrack to the animated movie "The Incredibles" which was much in the same vein. We'll see how it pans out. Thanks again everyone!

I'm a big fan of the Stanley Turrentine set. Just look at some of the personnel: Blue Mitchell and Lee Morgan on trumpet; Curtis Fuller on trombone; Sonny Clark, Horace Parlan and Cedar Walton on piano; Shirley Scott on organ; Kenny Burrell on guitar. I was also very impressed with his brother Tommy Turrentine on trumpet. I'm a Mr. T fan and his Mosaic was well, well worth the investment.

Inspired by an earlier post and because I haven't listened to this in a long time. It's even better than I remembered! This set is awesome. I was pleasantly surprised by Tubby Hayes on the first disc. It makes me want to check out a little more of him.

Who's Chester Baker?

Charlie Christian-Complete Studio Recordings