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I'm guessing the sampler is this thing they sent my radio station called "33 1/3 Microgroove". 4 tracks from the upcoming Rare Grooves, 1 from the new Soulive, 1 Madlib, 1 old MMW track, 1 from the new Erik Truffaz, 1 from the recent DJ Smash, and 1 from Moran's Modernistic. IMO the Bartz is underwhelming.

Never mind, got them from EMusic--they appear to be: 1. Medley: Love Is Just Around The Corner / Canadian Sunset / Lullaby Of Birdland / Misty / Satin Doll 2. Blue Moon 3. I Can't Get Started 4. Blues for Old "N's" 5. Black Coffee/I Wish You Love

Thanks Mike! I have the Limelights. Which tracks are on the Xanadu session?

Is the material on the Xanadu issue "Earl Hines and Roy Eldridge at the Village Vanguard" identical to that on the two Limelight LPs "Grand Reunion", Limelight LM 82020 and LS 86028? Thanks! Adam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2940355.stm Fire away. The possibilities for humor are endless.

I emailed them about that last summer and the email I got back (presumably from Michael?) was that they simply could not afford to charge any less, and that some online retailers "lose money" by doing so. Doesn't make much sense to me. I guess maybe they still have to deal with a distributor like anyone else, which appears pretty silly, but what do I know about the CD business?

For me the Wilkerson is not the kind of stuff I can sit down and listen closely to, picking out all the intracacies I haven't heard before. It's most pleasing if you're doing something else with it on, maybe having a barbecue or something...mmmm, think I may do just that if it ever stops snowing up here!

I for one am stunned that Prof. West was a Zappa fan. I knew he was into Curtis Mayfield and that stuff from his lectures on black music, but Zappa?

Ah, the magic of Google. I believe that restaurant is called Sofra, located at 341 Upper Street.

There is an excellent and inexpensive little Turkish/Greek restaurant in Islington, right near the Angel tube stop. If you're into that kind of food I can look up the name for you. They had this great special--a bottle of wine and a 3 course meal for under $20, if I remember.

It was something like "good thing she willed her body to Columbia University...now the scientists can find out how one person was so unswinging." Noj has it right. Whatever you think of the lady's playing (I think she swung well enough, though she was no Wynton Kelly), there's no need to spit on people's graves right after they pass.

What is a Purple Herman? I've never heard that term before.

I believe he is also the brother of one of the founders of a company that does the majority of radio promotion for Blue Note these days.

I have not heard much of her early work, but I really enjoyed her most recent on HighNote, "I Hear Music." Simply great songs sung well. IMO her voice is holding up pretty darn well.

It's funny--in my experience, there are quite a lot of saxophone players who tend to dismiss players like Getz or even Mobley out of hand when it comes to trying to shape their own sound. The norm these days seems to be to pursue the big sounds of a Rollins or Coltrane or Brecker. I had an obnoxious band director in high school who really discouraged kids from trying to sound like anything other than those thick-toned players.

As I mentioned on the old board just before it vanished into the ether, Eddie was the piano player at my bar mitzvah reception. I wish I had been more knowledgeable about jazz at that age. Saw him again in Miami at the aforementioned Van Dyke with the aforementioned Don Wilner over spring break a week and a half ago. He sounded wonderful, lines pouring out of him effortlessly. The only blemish was that there was a party of very loud drunk people sitting next to the stage who made it hard to hear sometimes and were also making some obnoxious requests (which Eddie and Don mostly graciously accepted--he does a hell of a boogie-woogie version of "St. Louis Blues!) Handling that kind of group must be a bit of a dilemma for a manager, since they made up about half the people in the small club and were spending quite a lot of cash on drinks.

Joe, you don't have Solid?? That stuff kills!

The Barth was recorded in the first week of August 2002. By the way, I interviewed Chris Potter yesterday and he told me he will have a live Vanguard record coming out later in the year. Pretty sure I remember him saying that the group would be basically the same as the one on Traveling Mercies (Kevin Hays, piano and Rhodes; Scott Colley, bass; Bill Stewart, drums).

I voted for Hank, but just to stir the pot, how about John Coltrane?

That one is brand new, so it was probably recorded sometime in 2002. I'll double-check when I get back into Boston tomorrow.

Kevin, was the store with the two for $10 rack a Camelot Music or a related store? I'm in Florida on spring break and just picked up two discs from the same deal at our local Camelot affiliate (Spec's Music): Booker Little and Friend and the Byrd/Adams Motor City Scene. They sound fine, but are there any in this series of Bethlehems that should be avoided? I was thinking of also grabbing Mal Waldron's "Left Alone" but thought better of it, but not because of audio concerns...I had just picked up nine Concord discs at the Barnes and Noble down the street!

When I was just starting to seriously play in my sophomore year of high school, a tenor playing friend called "Someday My Prince Will Come" on a gig. I dutifully looked up the tune in my fake book, not realizing that my book had it in F for some reason when it's played in B flat about 95% of the time. Oops. That was a train wreck to remember!

All I know is that it was released on Pacific Jazz in 1964. Who plays on this, and how good is the music? (And has it ever been on CD, Japan or otherwise?)

Thanks, Mike. When you say "same dates", do you mean that the material entirely overlaps with the tracks from other albums (e.g., Succotash vs. Inventions and Dimensions), or that there are different tracks from the same recording sessions? Looks like all but the best boots are out, then. More than 5 days or so is out of the question. (anyone kind enough to hook me up with CD-R's of boots will have my undying gratitude, and will be duly credited on-air at the end of the whole shebang.)

Obviously, the likes of me did not take part in the focus groups... B)