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Meant to add, good call!

Great - can't wait to hear it!

Aw crap! And here I thought I checked each selection on Marty's BFT spreadsheet so that this sort of thing wouldn't happen. I guess this one slipped by me. No, no, scratch that. Great minds think alike. Yeah, that's a better excuse.

Agree complete, but in a way music should be the least of our concerns in regards the impermanency of information in the digital age. Heck, at least music is a living thing: artists perform every day and can make more of it. A bigger concern is the loss of history, knowledge, record keeping, etc.

Ah, you beat me to my hint. And here I thought you didn't really know... I didn't have any specific "theme" to either BFT disc (save the vinyl angle), but it occured to me that disc 2 in particular does have a semi-theme in that some of the tracks present artists in ways perhaps outside of their normal styles or typical environments. Or at least during the less well-known or memorable phases of their careers. Heck, as in the case of track 5, even during their preiods of outright suckiness. Perhaps it's due to a bias on my part, but more probably because my vinyl collection is weighed heavily in late 60's to 70's era jazz.

Well i just downloaded 40 tracks yesterday and today because i almost forgot my account turns over tomorrow!

Danielle, forget itunes for jazz and try out emusic.com instead. It's much cheaper (and legal!) and i think you can still try it out for free. Drop me a pm if you need more details. There's plenty of jazz on there that you'd like.

Jim, would you say that he sounds a bit different here than usual though? (I'm otherwise not very familiar with this period of his work). He does seem a bit gruffer and, I dunno, maybe more emotional here, something that I've always attributed to Monk's passing just a few days before.

Jeez, Larry, you're old! But what I wouldn't do to have been there with you.

An ethical quandry indeed. I suppose a 14-year girl can listen to a Wayne Shorter album in several ways. She can save up her allowance for several weeks and buy the disc new for $12 or so; if she's really lucky her public library might carry a jazz disc or three; she might have a teenage friend she can borrow the disc from (which might work for Beyonce but probably not for Wayne); or she can download some tracks "for free" and try out an artist. I would tend to think that hooking a young girl, possibly for life, on the dying art of jazz might be worth losing a few dollars in the short term. It's not quite how things worked when I was a kid, but not really that different either...

Does Randy's Donuts make the list?

Hey Danielle - since you asked, here's a compilation of stuff that I put together. Download, unzip, and tell us what you liked/hated over on Blindfold Test thread... Disc A: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K9P57M7E Disc B: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TCAJAR90

I do agree that 'Round Midnight is terribly overplayed, and while in my younger days I would consider its inclusion on an album a sign that said album might be up my alley, I now tend to shy away from RM covers. But this one, for me, is really special, recorded as it was less than a week after Monk's death.

This is a long-overdue box. I have much of it on LP, but would love to upgrade. Cirrus and Knucklebean are especially good, iirc; Waiting and View a bit less so. Overall, I think most of this stuff is better than Montara, which was released on CD.

Eureka - of course ! BFT #43 Disk 1 As soon as I saw this thread I was dreading it...

Bogus! I don't see Jessica Alba anywhere on that list.

Big talk from a guy who used to hang out with Yanni... -_-

What, you only have one ear? Do they sound mono or stereo?

Does it really matter? Let s/he be. Just because s/he doesn't share your (okay, our) musical tastes, no need to run a potential jazz fan off. this person is here to distract us for personal gratification. say g'nite gracie. potential, my ass. Very well could be. Simply put, there are two options. One, Danielle is exactly what she says she is: a 14-year old girl interested in jazz. And here we go - yet again - running a potential young jazz fan out of our "clubhouse." Conversely, she could be some old dude wasting his time and ours by posting on some jazz forum that s/he really cares nothing about. If you believe that, just ignore him/her. Frankly, I'd rather err on the side of having a few minutes of my time (humorously) wasted than gang up and chase someone off. It's the internet; I've been fooled before and I almost certainly will be again. It's no big deal...

My brotha' the car!

Does it really matter? Let s/he be. Just because s/he doesn't share your (okay, our) musical tastes, no need to run a potential jazz fan off.

No, the token European is on Disc 2. Very pleased that the guitarist on #9 seems to be to everyone's taste. He's criminally obscure, imo, despite having put out a number of fine albums over the last - heck, maybe 30 years now. Somewhere I have a cassette copy of a TV studio recording I made of him back in my college days when I ran a PBS station's audio board...