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Well, it's a collectible. You can't just go to the store to buy one of these - though you can get a "copy" for much cheaper. You don't think Bird's sax (at the recent auction or whatever) is really worth $250,000 (or whatever)? You can buy a sax to play for much less...

Haven't heard the album yet, but Petra's been getting a lot of press lately. Check out the latest Entertainment Weekly - even Pete likes this one!

To add: while the jackets themselves weren't shrinkwrapped until later, I know that at least some labels' LPs were "sealed" in those waxy or clear thin plastic liners. I don't know if this was standard or not, but I've found "mint" vinyl sealed this way in its original state.

I can almost hear, from half a world away, his majesty the King laughing his ass off over our feeble guesses!

Really, Mark, you doubted Aric was capable of this?

I think I once asked this in a Duke thread, but similarly: is there a bad Mingus album? One of the greatest oeuvres in all of jazz...

And then there was that unfortunate incident with Jimmy Rushing...

No, but I've heard that Duke Ellington occassionally played piano while not wearing any pants...

Street Legal. Yeah, now there's a great, underappreciated album!

Same problem here, but as you report it's working now.

This isn't them, of course, but exploring this clue led me to this disc I just have to get... http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...mi8m968ojep1~T1 While I've been know to be wrong before (and often ), I'm still sticking to my original guess that this trio is Ginger Baker, Charlie Haden, and Bill Frizzell ....

What? Your Google broken? http://www.faeexmdev.plymouth.ac.uk/HES/hsilver.htm

Maybe not exactly "Irish" but close enough... ??? Johnny Griffin's "The Kerry Dancers" http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...10:bqf3zfi7ehok

"Slow Train Coming" is wonderous; the only reason I didn't bring it up is because I thought everyone already thunk that. But that's also a point where a lot of people (yet again) thought that Dylan went off the deep end. "Infidels" is okay, but once agan it didn't live up to the hype (for me) of Dylan's (yet again) "return to form." In some ways I actually prefer "Shot of Love." If nothing else, SOL contains "Every Grain of Sand," which I think is one of the half dozen best Dylan songs of the last 30 years.

I didn't participate in Cary's BFT, but I'm having a kick reading some of the responses. I gotta say, ironically, I think I would have done pretty well with this one, at least with disc 2. I have no less than seven of the albums, and I know I would have gotten "Silence," which is one of my favorite Haden compositions.

Damn! I always get "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "What is This Thing Called Love?" mixed up. No wonder my wife won't give me some...

Clem - let me check on those pre-Lanois TOOM mixes. I might have them, possibly as mp3s. I gotta say, though, I'm a big Lanois fan...

I'm actually not that big a fan of L&T, despite the praise heaped upon it by others. I like TOOM a bit better, but my favorite "recent" Dylan album is Oh Mercy, and it going back fifteen years make me feel old. I much prefer many of the live boots I have from this period, and such things as the MTV Unplugged show (especially the "complete" version). His recent shows have been a gas, though his voice is finally starting to get to me - and I usually love his voice. Somewhere I have a boot of a memorably bad show that he did and it's fun to listen to in a perverse kind of way. But it's an exception. Some of the stuff he's doing live - now - ranks among the best of his career. I don't mean to be glib in dismissing anyone who doesn't "get" Dylan, but I've spent years defending him against friends who can't stand anything about him. He's probably the single most important figure in my musical life, but I've accepted that he can be alienating (often, it seems, on purpose) and that some just don't dig him.

Given all the "warnings," I probably shouldn't hazard any guesses and just comment on the music. Fine by me, 'cause unless I recognize a tune I actually own I pretty much suck at identifying specific players (with only a few exceptions). That said, let me just make a general comment that all of the music I've heard so far on these discs is pretty damn fine. The BFT covers a lot of styles - and that's just the way I like it! Without further ado... 1. “Everything Happens To Me?” Lovely, absolutely lovely piece. Breathy sax – late Bean? Likely not such an obvious choice… 2. Hot… 3. Brief… 4. “What is This Thing Called Love?” 5. Sounds familiar. Lionel Hampton? 6. Also sounds familiar, but nothing I can place at the moment. Finally, though, something long enough to sink one’s teeth into. 7. “WITTCL,” obviously. Not sure the vocalist, though not one of the (my) usual suspects. 8. “Whisper Not,” with accordion and a decidedly Parisian sound. Perhaps from that dang Jazz in Paris disc that I can’t seem to get my hands on. 9. Nice track. Both hot and cool elements. 10. A bit more "out" than the other tracks, but not objectionably so. Sounds Cecil Taylor-ish to me, and if so it would probably rank as some of the better/easier CT that Ive heard - I stiill can't get into him too deeply. 11. Some (almost) boogie-woogie. Nice! I sort of recognize the tune, but frankly I get a lot of these tunes mixed up. 12. Like the droning bass underneath the soprano (?) in the opening. Got that Coltrane-ish modal thing going, but I'd guess Pharoah Sanders. I really, really like this sort of passionate, slightly-out there playing. There's something almost primitive about it that either reaches deep into my soul or has me running from the room. This one's the former. 13. Also rather out there – two saxes. Braxton is one? The "squawking" duck style of playing is not really my cuppa, but I’m appreciating this sort of stuff more and more these days. I like this one better once the bass comes in with authority, but then it gets a little too cacophonous for me at the end. 14. Ahh... back to earth with some loveliness. The opening sounds understated on the surface, but there's an air of menace underneath that gives it great depth to me. I'm curious to know who these cats are. 15. Very nice! Great arrangement. 16. "Hey, you got your avant-garde in my big band." "No, you got your big band in my avant-garde." Either way, yummy. 17. I know this too. Without looking, "Rambler" from the Ginger Baker/Haden/Frizell album. On no - a live version! 18. Duke, of course. And a "thank you" to you too, Flurin!

It's sort of like that definition of "jazz." If you have to ask, you'll never know...

I'd be interested in the Harris if still available. I'll PM details later. It's yours! Drop me your address when you get a chance...

Just wait until you crack that shrink wrap. Mine was mostly free of rust - but that was two weeks ago and you might have heard that we've had some rain in So Cal. Mine's not as bad bad as that picture... yet.

http://www.hyenarecords.com/main.htm I gotta say, Dorn sounds like a mighty cool cat...

I'm with Moose - them Bangles are/were a fun band. There's also some Elvis on there. To me, it's not the individual albums that are so bad - yeah, I know we like jazz and so are better and more refined than everyone else - but the list as a whole. But that's pop music, guys - that's what *most* people listen to and enjoy...

That's a good one! Someone better grab it...