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There are so many bands there that I've never heard of before, and yeah, the totality is overwhelming. But if you haven't already, check out Explosions in the Sky and (possibly, as I'm not sure if they're included) Godspeed, You Black Emperor.

The thing is, Garaj Mahal is actually a pretty cool band.

Wrong thread? Don't think that's emusic - unless maybe in Europe.

After haggling over the price of meat, an enraged butcher whips you to death with a large beef tongue.

Rumor has it that Cam Jazz is picking up distribution of Soul Note/Black Saint... which means those labels may end up on emusic as well

So what is the "too easy" test question anyway? An alternative would be to ask whether one likes Wynton Marsallis. If yes, out they go!

Very happy to hear this, Bruce! Best wishes for a full recovery.

It's back on eMusic again, but it's filed under "Andrew & Chico Hamilton Hill". With an extra track that wasn't there before.

A bunch more Timeless dropped today, including some Pullen/Adams

Just wanted to thank Bev for this recommendation. Never would have heard of this excellent group otherwise!

I thought this was a story of two pandas finally mating...

I'm curious - can you say the same about the industry you're in? Would it be ok to do the same thing with film? Good question. It's hard to make a perfect comparison between media, but without putting too much thought into it, I'd say "yes." Yes, I would object if a new release (say Dark Knight) were bootlegged and sold on street corners - much as i do object to whatever company it was who ripped off the Uptown Mingus. I'd object much less, though, if it were a 50+ year old catalog title that the legit owners were reluctant to release in the first place. In regards the "stealing" of mastering, if someone is going to "bootleg" an old, oop, and possibly PD film that was only released for a brief time in Japan and now fetches big dollars on the secondary market, then yes, I'd rather that a "bootleg" copy of it - if it were even made - came from a quality DVD source than from a shitty VHS copy source. I'm not necessarily condoning that such a practice be done in the first place, but if it is done - and it obviously is done, whether we like it or not - why should the artwork itself suffer from the spreading of inferior copies? Just thought of a film example: Disney's Song of the South. Disney refuses to officially release it (at least domestically; a LD was released in Japan and PAL VHS tapes in England), but if some less scrupulous company took it upon themselves to do so I'd rather they use/steal the best copy/mastering possible.

Yeah, already grabbed a few. That Nock is excellent, with some of Michael Brecker's best playing on it.

I actually don't have a problem with a company "stealing" another mastering provided they choose a good one, don't muck it up, and don't simply pirate it outright (like what was done to the Uptown Mingus set). If a company is going to release a comp of, say, Mildred Bailey, I'd prefer they took it from a well-crafted Mosaic than release more subpar needledrops on the public. If one puts the music ahead of the commerce, i'd rather the music be out there in the best form available than suffer just because the master tapes are withheld by some corporation that doesn't really give a shit anyway. And then there's the problem that Chuck and a few others complain about anytime a vinyl release or remaster is done: the overuse of the master tapes. One can't bitch about them not going back to the masters and then criticize them for using the masters too often.

Personally, anything cooked with bacon is tasty. Don't think I've ever tried bacon greaze, but I did cook up some sausage pancakes for my girls this weekend (breakfast sausage crumbled into the batter).

Indeed. I have this on LP (an early pressing) and it's one of the most beautiful, vivid covers in my collection.

Yes, Proper offends my sensibilities. I'm a lucky boy, I suppose. I have enough recordings that I'm not desparate to buy anything in particular. And I have enough money to buy what I feel I REALLY want...even if it costs four times what Proper asks. I do have one Proper set - purchased before I understood their reissue program, and retained because I'm a completist for the artist featured. I'm no great fan of Proper for several reasons (fidelity, in some cases, being one of them), but it seems to me that a lot of people seem to hate Proper not for what they are or are trying to do but for what they're not. It's not fair to compare Proper to, say, Mosaic, and claim that they issue incomplete sessions. The function of the boxes isn't to be complete but instead to offer an artist compilation that goes beyond a single disk. They're also a budget label, so expecting perfect sound, researched notes, and a detailed discography is foolish, imo, though I will add that I've been very impressed by the notes and discographical details on the few boxes that I've seen. I can't necessairly vouch for the accuracy of the notes, but overall I very much like the packaging and price of the boxes. Their Texas Tenors box is exceptional and contains tracks that I haven't seen elsewhere, so even if they "steal" some of their stuff they don't steal all of it. Obviously I can't condone what they did with the Mildred Bailey set (which I believe they ripped off from Mosaic), but at the same time I can see it as an affordable alternative for someone looking for some - but not all - of Bailey's recordings. Few casual jazz fans looking for an introduction to a specific artist's work is going to spring for a Mosaic box - that's not even Mosaic's intention - but for someone looking for more than just a single disc compilation I think Proper is an affordable alternative to get one's feet wet.

Thanks for the tip, Lon! Samples sound good and fun.

Not that I really doubt it in this case, but how do we actually know this? Not sure where the old Xanadu catalog stands now, but there have been legit reissues in the past, a number of albums have been abvailable legitimately on emusic for years (though many as needle drops from the original LPs), and who knows (perhaps Chuck?) if these Dex dates are/were actually owned or just licensed by Xanadu in the first place? We all acknowledge that facts about many of these "gray" labels are scarce, so why can't some of the business decisions behind them be obscure to us as well? Not saying that they are, just that they could be...

All I'll say is that, illegit, gray market or otherwise, and irregardless of their motives, I wish companies like Definitive had put out more of the obscure Decca recordings that now look like they were lost in the Universal fire. At least they seem to care.

Doesn't it first have to be considered "great" or at least "good" by someone for it to even be overrated?

Just curious, what part would he have played? I'm assuming he was too old to be cast as Clyde Barrow. As one of the two elderly Texas Rangers who helped "bring them to justice." Ideally it would have reunited him on screen with Redford.

Yes indeed, a fine actor and by all accounts a swell guy who will be deeply missed. Selfishly, I regret that we (and by "we" I mean Universal) weren't able to coax him out of retirement for a very fine Bonnie & Clyde film we were doing. He would have been perfect in it.

For pretty much any and all awards I'm sure we could all come up with someone we feel is more deserving.

It's a nice machine and you really need something like that to make great waffles. Round is preferred, of course, and don't expect to make more than one waffle at a time since you need (ideally) a great deal of current to hit the right temperature and keep it there. We have a Cuisinart that was only around $30-40 that does a pretty good job.