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Coming on the heels of stupid babies and Canadians, that post is one hell of a buzzkill!

I am really, really digging The 88.

Shoot me in the head, but I ordered Keith Jarrett's Carnegie Hall set. Couldn't resist at just over $6 shipped. That, plus the Essential Sly Stone comp for $8.

Agree a lot with what Hot Ptah said above. I came in a few years later ('79-80) and there was a very exploratory feel to it all. I was just getting out of high school and moving on to college, I had little money and mostly bought used and/or cutout LPs. I was very open to new things, but quickly realized what I didn't like at the time: the David Sandborn/Michael Brecker sort of "smooth jazz" guys (though they were nothing like who would come a few years later), Spyrogyra and Flim and the BBs (who a buddy really wanted me to like), the Crusaders (who were so confusingly different from the Jazz Crusaders), and more local acts like Fattburger. In retrospect, a lot of it had to do with the slick production that was so popular at the time, and for a long time it led to my bias against electric instruments in jazz; as a result, it was only much later that I grew to appreciate the funkier, electrified jazz of the earlier 70s.

"Poor selection?" Not for jazz! Best deal out there for legally downloading DRM-free mps. You prefer iTunes?

For those of you mp3 friendly, many (all?) of these are available on emusic.

I would pay good money to someone to yell "Freebird!" at one of his shows (er, "concerts") just to see Jarrett's reaction.

"Quartet of Doom?"

Then I take back every nice thing I've had to say about Concord and how they started out managing the Fantasy holdings. They seem to have decided to take the low road after all. We can "look forward" to the Keepnews Collection mindless regurgitations and the "... plays for Lovers" idiocy and that's it? Not a penny of mine will go towards any of that. I will, however, buy the Trane box as soon as it comes out. Man, we're fickle! On the one hand we complain that Concord is too fixed on the bottom line by cutting the chaff and re-releasing the same old money-making stuff; on the other we bitch that they may not be releasing one of the more commercial/profitable entries in their reissue series.

CHEWY SAYS GOOD NEWS - ECM ROCKS BADDER THAN GENESIS!

Welcome aboard, Von. Best of luck with your project. I think you'll find a few filmmakers and/or Hollywood types on the boards who might be able to offer help or advice - but it sounds like you know what you're doing.

When I asked that of my then-girlfriend and current wife... she punched me in the face.

He recently moved, but the guy a couple of houses down from me was a vibes player with a few CDs to his credit.

Lee-Way is my favorite.

I know some of the Xanadus are available on emusic.com. I'll see what I can do about a few others, though you might try a Google blog search to fill a few holes.

Agree on the trio dates - great stuff! The duet with Burton is very good as well. I used to like Voyage much more than I do now though.

Best trailer of all the summer flicks imo, but the movie itself is craptacular. Some of the action sequences are terrific, but when the action stops... yawn.

I've been gone all week - what'd I miss? Board looks great!

So I take it that Jarrett was a firstborn? -_-

I love Jarrett's playing - he's one of my top 5 pianists - and I've been a fan of his trio since their first album back in 1982 (iirc), but damn he's a pretentious jackass.

You mean they trimmed it down to a quintet?

Though you wouldn't know it from reading my posts here...

Yes, I am. And I'm in 100% agreement with that study!

Or try playing the discs in your computer. Those hardware drives wil play anything!

I am not referring to the cost, but to the quality, that usually has a cost, though since big corporations acquired the famous brands, like Harmann Kardon with Mark Levinson, the quality falls down. The point with cd players and, more with TT, is that they have more then PCB inside them. The most usurable parts are the moving ones. Like cd mechanics. Some serious brands improve existing mechanics in order to achieve better sound and durability. Other simply buy insertions in High End magazines. It's been my experience that while the quality of sound that a CD player produces may be proportional to its cost, the same cannot be said for its ability to read some (damaged?) discs, particularly when it comes to CDRs. I think some of the "high end" things they do to the more audiophile players - I dunno, more focused lasers or something - often come at the expense of tracking ability. My default player to check otherwise unplayable discs on is a cheap CD boombox - it plays what others can't.