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The Atlantic Ray Charles box at Costco. I gone to get tires fro my wife's car and as soon as i saw the box I couldn't resist it.

Hey I was about start a thread on a similar topic: The integrityof original Lp issues. Eg I always loved that the solo version of Lotus Blossom ended "His Mother Called Him Bill". On the other hand I was happy to get the extra tracks when they wre released. But then they were put in chronological order and the solo version of Lotus Blossom was buried in the middle.

If remember correctly the original Mole also issued some good records.

Well now I amin Santa Barbara and they still talk about the burning of the BofA.

Didn't I read somewere (here?) that Fantasy is giving the 2 Miles Prestige marathon sessions the same treatment as they gave the Bill Evans Village Vanguard session? I can't seem to find reference to it anywhere. (And I did try the search function.) ActuallyI even remember some of the responses to the announcement. Am I hallucinating again?

I was born in '43 and have a vague memory of sex, drugs, rock & roll and politics for a decade or so. But as I remember it the saying goes: "If you remember the 60's you weren't really there." So maybae I wasn't really there. Actually, since I was in Canada at the time I wasn't realy there.

ooops. I forgot: I have Buell Neidlinger signed the booklet in my Tayler/Neidlinger Mosaic set. Actually he sold me the set too.

The only jazz autograph I have is on a cd booklet: Benny Carter- Further Definitions. I got it when a mutual friend invited us to lunch.

I've been trying to put together a chronology regarding Miles' influence in the 50's but though it's easy to find out when most of his recordings were made it's more difficult to find out when they were released to the public. Does anyone have any information about when his Prestige recordings were first released?

Has anyone compared this recording to the one made in '58? I like this one quite a bit better and not just because the sound is so much better. Also: What was the critical reaction to the concert when it took place? Did it miss the point as much as the reviews of the Bird/Diz concert do? (I don't have the booklet for the Trane /Monk becasue I bought it from iTunes-- couldn't wait for it to arrive in a local store or via mail. )

Both Monk discographies I have refer to Keepnews and say he's just plain wrong. They say that the recording took place sometimes in July '57.

I'm not very analytical about this record. I love it. Maybe more than any other Liberation Music record. And it reminds to ask: Is the Burton/ Bley Genuine Tong Funeral available on cd?

I think Pennebaker shot the film but it was for Dylan-Howard Alk's Eat That Document. I have a memory of Penebaker once saying that he had buried the negatives in his b ackyard, but then read a later interview where he said that he'd given the negatives to Dylan/Alk and they'd cut it all up. Glad to see it still existed.

My only complaint is the use of Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit as a way to introduce john Hammond. He hated the song and thought it ruined Lady Day. I wonder what the film lookd like to somone who wasn't already interested in Dylan. I guess they wouldn't watch it.

Straight up with an olive, please.

Am I nuts or have they changed the placement of the instruments in the stereo remix? I'm comparing it to the cd version with 10 cuts called "At the Village Vanguard" where the piano is in the center. In the 3 disc set the piano is on the right.

But in those two years they didn't play that many gigs. I'm under the impression (perhaps wrongly) that LaFaro played with Stan Getz almost as often as with Evans during the last year of his life. According to Keepnews liner notes LaFaro wasn't happy about Evan's drug addiction. Was Getz clean in those days?

depends on how much money you want to spend... there's TWO sets available here (one for you, one for me?) If you have the dough to spend, I am willing to take one off your hands (as a gift of course)... ← I went to this site and couldn't figure out how much they cost. How much is it? I already own this set and I don't plan to sell it but it's sort of like knowing the value of your house-- you may never plan to sell but it's comforting to know its value.

Me too. ButIm sure interested in the Tiny Parnham. Heard some on the radio a while ago and that band sounded really good!

Oedipus Rex and the Mother-fuckers.

20 2005, 08:33 PM] I've known a lot of white musicians and fans who view Evans' "emotions" as "rarified", and those of bebop as "common". I'm not saying that Evans didn't bring a special perspective to his music, especially in the days of this trio. But I refuse to say that his perspective and the emotions involved in its expression were somehow at a "less common" level than those of any great artist. ←

I just got this and have been listening to the first evening sets. The audience noise really bothers me. Reminds of why I don't like going to clubs. It's usually people who talk the most during the numbers who applaud the loudest at the end. Was the audience that loud on the original releases? I haven't compared them yet. I hope the late evening set is quieter. Haven 't played it yet.

Three!!! What's the third one?

Thanks for the notice. I just ordered them. Will turn them into cds if I can.

I agree. That was one of the problems I had with the film. Mol didn't have that amazing Betty page sex appeal for me-- though she got closer to it when she got the hair do and took her clothes off.