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But that doesn't count. Those were videos!

So far so good. Considering I picked up 50 discs since the week before Christmas, I really should be able to go without buying for a little while as I have some digesting to do. However, I have listened to all of them at least once, and most of them twice. And I succesfully ignored a Django's "Notify Me." That's progress! I'm going to try to make until the 3rd week of the month. And I don't think I'll go on a binge like I did last month for quite some time. Unless the Blue Note catalog is in danger, or Mosaic has a buy one get one free - you know, something like that!

What if one owns your album? Is there a free pass for not having all 10? er.... regarding your album. Is that on the way?

I have this one on now. Having gotten the Mosaic for Christmas, I can say this isn't the Hot Club! Fascinating to hear him with this line up playing electric. I'm so happy I put in a 2nd order, which will likely arrive tomorrow. Hmmm, is the sale still on? I so love the cover photography I think I'd buy these even if the music wasn't first rate. Luckily that's not the case. It's been a happy ear-opening experience.

I thought they should have run the story with the headline "Social Security Crisis Solved!"

Hey hey! Have a great day!

The Mosaic is a beauty, with 2 albums (Breakthrough & Song Everlasting) with the quartet with Adams and 2 trio albums (New Beginnings & Random Thoughts, the former with Tony Williams.) I'm not sure if they had to do it because of song length, but chosing to end the 3rd with "Silence = Death" (the rest of the album is on disc 2) works very well paired with the song that precedes it, "Ode to Life (For Maurice Quesnell.)" I'm very happy I picked this one up!

Sheeesh, I have no willpower. After seeing news about some of the Blue Note cutouts, I added just a wafer thin portion of Jazz in Paris selections to my order. This is 2 days after placing an order of just Jazz in Paris selections. I added Brownie's suggested overlooked gem - Clarinettes A Saint Germain Des Pres, and the Lucky Thompson With Dave Pochonet. Oh my, and one more, Bernard Peiffer's La Vie En Rose. OK, that's it for the year!

Got a reply from the trader, and he's agreed to do a trade for the 11/78 show some time early next year. Holidays and all. Perhaps tomorrow I'll find out if anyone else knows of any local recordings that exist. Regarding this, if I don't post a follow up just assume I didn't hear of anything. But I'll gently remind my friend mentioned earlier not to take too much time in investigating his lead.

If it makes you feel any better, or um, more confused, I spotted one used cutout copy of each of the titles from the past 2 batches of RVGs at a local store. It was too late for me to take advantage of that offer. So many of the Blue Notes, both the older issues and more recent RVG & Conns are available as cutouts at Dusty Groove that I think something else is going on rather than titles going OOP. At least I hope so!

I got a reply from the local who I thought might be the best shot. He had been wondering about Salgado & Cray recordings recently as well. His reply in part: "Curtis played front man for a band called The Nighthawks in the early 70's with Robert Cray on lead guitar and Richard Cousins on bass. They played Taylors, Duffy's, Murphy's and I seem to remember them playing the Black Forest (although those were some really heavy party days and my memories are pretty muddled). Salgado left the band with the name Nighthawks, and Cray formed the Robert Cray Band. Salgado stayed in Eugene while Cray moved to Portland. They occasionally played gigs together here in Eugene as The Crayhawks..." Several months ago he was talking with a friend about whether any early recordings existed, and it was suggested that he talk to someone in town who has a recording studio and was playing back then. He has yet to get in touch with this person however. I have 2 other possible leads. 1) There is a fellow who sometimes shows up at the trader meetings who played drums with a band that often shared the bill with Curtis. In fact I think he played with Curtis a few times. He has a such a large LP collection that he has to keep it in 3 different U-Storage facilities, and thus can't afford an apartment so he lives in one of his storage units. (This is normal behavior in Eugene.) There is a chance he may have something on tape, although the logistics of him showing up on Tuesday, and showing up sober, and then being able to find such tapes and then having someone else transfer them to CDR seems like about a 1000-1 shot. 2) I think I might be able to get a hold of the recording mentioned in my 1st post. One of the people who has it on etree is a local. I have stuff that seems up his alley, but I've never traded with him before. I'll shoot him an e-mail and see how busy he is 'round this holiday season. It may take a week or so (if he's willing) given the closeness to Christmas. If I do get a copy I'll let you know and send it your way. I'll let you know what happens either way.

Way to go & well deserved! And Happy New Year!

Along with myself there are at least 2 other Eugeneans on the O. I arrived in late '86 but the stories of Cray playing the smaller bars and Animal House tales were still being told. I don't know of anything circulating around town, and I've seen nothing of Cray's from this period being passed around at a weekly trader's gathering. There is a show listed on some etree trading lists from late November 1978. It's a FM broadcat with A to A- sound quality. This falls in the period when Curtis was in the band. People who have the show on etree link. Robert Cray Community Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR 11/??/78 FM Intro Hard Times Move On Back Darlin' Losing Hand Where Can A Man Go? Soothe Me In The Night Times Are Gettin Tougher Up & Jumping Time Early One Morning I'm Gonna Cry Don't Lose Your Cool I'll shoot an e-mail over to a local old-timer & trader and see if he knows of anything. I don't hold too much hope, but it's worth a shot.

File under great moments in stupidity, but I discovered last week that I had filed Braxton's For Alto between Air & Fred Anderson. I might need a breathalyzer near my shelves to see if I'm fit for filing duties, although sometimes this sort of thing happens when completely sober too.

An example that really isn't that difficult, but I've fun with in the past involves all of the Mulligan parings. For awhile when I owned no Mulligan I filed Monk Meets Mulligan under Mulligan, just so I'd have something there. Now it's back in the Monk section. The Konitz with Mulligan has always been in the K section, but I do file the Mulligan Meets Hodges release with Mulligan, since Gerry is meeting Johnny, not the other way around. I mainly brought up the above in that I always keep in mind the possibility that Mulligan might accidentally, or on purpose, be filed with anyone he ever met in his life. A bit of wine and anything can happen! Assorted Konitz & Marsh pairings also seem obvious enough, and as they are almost neighbors on the shelf it isn't worrisome. Movie soundtracks I tend to file under whoever I deem to be the star of the soundtrack. All of my current discs are obvious (such as Ascenseur pour lechafaud), but I do have the Jazz In Paris "Jazz Et Cinema Vol. 1" coming in the mail which may necessitate a "various" filing at the end of the shelf. Or maybe it will go with Wilen. As far as the eternal "is it jazz" question, for whatever reason I stuck my Sinatra in the "all other music that isn't jazz" section, so he's neighbors with Sly rather than hanging amongst the preponderance of RVG spines in Shorter, Silver & Smith land.

I was supposed to be taking a break from ordering. But seeing as I already had a text file full of recommendations about this series from a past thread, I had to pick up a few. Don Byas - En Ce Temps-la Don Byas - Laura Kenny Clarke - Plays Andre Hodeir Sonny Criss - Mr. Blues Pour Flirter Andre Hodeir - Jazz & Jazz Bobby Jaspar - Modern Jazz au Club Saint Germain Django Reinhardt - Nuits De St. Germain Pres Lucky Thompon - Modern Jazz Group Jazz Et Cinema Vol. 1 Twice before I have ordered the Django listed above only to have it cancelled, but this time it's shipping! I only own half a dozen as I've had a hard time finding them in stock and at a nice price. The ones I have include the Blakey, Getz, Wilen's Jazz Sur Seine, Lester Young and 2 other Django's. It was tough not order more but I've been a bit out of control of late. But I'm going to try not to buy anything until next year. Ugh, that's 12 days, I'm already starting to feel itchy.

No problems with Firefox 1.0 for Mac on AMG during the past couple of weeks. I can longer remember what's different about it from 0.9, but it was a quick download.

I got my order in today. That was the first one I put in. The title says it all. And my oh my, Charle Shavers on trumpet will blow your socks off. I never would have found this one on my own. Thanks.

I was going to let it pass as I already had most of it on boots, but I too became a 1st time shopper of music at Target. For $28 it's better than OK, and the sound has been improved upon on many of the circulating demos. The Ledbetter tracks are well worth hearing. If ever there was a case for iTunes, this may be it. As John notes the majority of the DVD won't be played much as the 1988 basement rehearsal is more interesting (& funny the 1st time) than good. I suppose if you haven't heard any of the rarities perhaps I'd rate it a bit higher, as they pluck most of the good ones, and several that hadn't circulated. But there is a fair amount that probably was better left on the scrap heap too. Thumbs up if you find for under $30, less enthusiastic if you pay more. (Hmm, I'm just repeating what John said. )

There was a thread here in October about how he either has Alzheimer's or dementia. Link to thread. Actually, the thread is as much about confining someone to a home, the rights of families and patients, dignity, and so on, but it does contain the mention of a condition.

Yikes, I've only bought 1 new release in all genres for 2004, Dave Douglas's The Infinite. Hmm. I have bought almost 50 reissues from 2004 though, never mind other new & used finds. I've probably bought more discs this year than ever (the hazard & benefit of hanging out here ), so I'll just stick with stuff that was reissued this year. Warne Marsh - All Music - I love hearing the different approaches to "I Have A Good One For You." And the cymbals sound especially terrific. Andrew Hill - Black Fire - I could just as easily list Dance With Death here, but now I've now found the title to introduce Andrew to friends with. Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! - I haven't played this in a few months, but I seem to recall thinking the horns reminded me of something from Miles electric period. Which given that this predates that, I guess something about that Miles album (perhaps in Bitches Brew) reminds me of this! Jackie McLean - Right Now! - Another album deserving of the exclamation point in the title! Sonny Rollins - Worktime - The K2 was the 1st time I've heard this. It sent me off on filling in some of the gaps in my Sonny collection. There really is no business like show business. Loved the Blakey RVGs and the Sam Rivers & Jack Wilson Conns too. Though no boxes are allowed, perhaps the most unexpectedly wonderful surprise of my year is all Lon's doing. After all of his posts about Teagarden, I decided to pick up the 3 disc set by Avid Father of Jazz Trombone. I don't typically seek out jazz vocals, but I absolutely love Tea's singing (playing too of course.) The set also includes 4 numbers with Venuti and Lang which is my 1st exposure to their music, so this discovery could be doublely (tripley?) dangerous in the Mosaic dept. Thanks Jazzbo, I see why you seek out all things Teagarden!

No reason why it wouldn't work and work well, as your taste buds have told you. Pumpkin always needs some sort of flavoring or spices, and can be just as easily curried, turned into ravioli as noted by Man with the Golden Arm, or into something sweet like pie. I've had soup before that had the nutmeg & cinnamon associated with the pie, along with onions which worked well. I doubt it had sugar or allspice though. But it appears you have an onion loving soulmate with a sweet tooth out there in cyberspace. And note sweet onions are used, just as you suggested. Pumpkin Onion Cookie Recipe 1/2 c Finely chopped sweet onions 1/4 c Orange juice 2 c Sifted unbleached flour 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Cinnamon 1/2 ts Nutmeg 1/4 ts Allspice 1/2 c Butter 1 c Brown sugar 1 Egg 1 c Stokleys canned pumpkin 1 ts Vanilla 1 c Chopped pecans Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small skillet, steam saute the onion in the orange juice until tender. Drain and set aside. Discard any remaining juice. Sift the flour with the soda and spices. Reserve. Cream the butter with the sugar and egg until light and fluffy. Add the pumpkin and vanilla. Mix well. Slowly add the dry ingredients. Stir in the onion and nuts until completely mixed. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until lightly browned around the edges. Cool on wire racks. Happy eating.

Yowsa! Some details at digitallyobsessed.com.

Glad to hear the praise for it. Chuck's 2 recommendations from earlier in the thread weren't available so I ordered this, in part because of Tommy Flanagan.

I know, part of me thought don't tell. But were it not for so many recommendations from this board I would be so much poorer. Um, musically that is. And I don't think it was that big of a secret. For what it's worth, 6 weeks ago they didn't have the Rene Thomas in stock, but supposedly they do this time around. (Crosses fingers.)