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I only recall seeing Jackpot once, and I snapped it up.

Both Enja volumes (the Wuppertal Townhall concert) are currently available, though for some reason only volume 2 is reasonably priced through amazon.com The reissue is a bit confusing because the CD I have was reissued in 1988 as Mingus in Europe, but it is actually Volume 2 of the LP set. Now it appears that both volumes are available with the same volume numbers as the original LP release.

Chico Hamilton Trio (Pacific Jazz)

The Salle Wagram concert was previously available from France's Concert, and was reissued by Sue Mingus on Revenge. The sound is acceptable mono, perhaps not quite as good as on the Theatre des Champs Elysses concert. Bremen appears to have been issued on in part on Ingo and Unique Jazz LPs. Haven't heard this one. Amsterdam was issued on LP and CD by Ulysse (not a bootleg as I recall but authorized by Sue Mingus). The sound as I recall again is a decently balanced mono recording; but not quite as good as the Theatre des Champs Elysses concert.

David Murray Octet--Home (Black Saint)

Thanks for posting that review. I'll probably pick up the new remaster eventually, but I'm in no hurry. I thought the Virgin CD sounded pretty bad (quite muddy), so the new issue is much needed. However, the vinyl copy I have has a lot of life to it. To my ears the LP is the classic sound, with the vibrancy and "grit" that most associate with those sessions. Great stuff all around, though. It is cool that they invited Taylor to do some overdubs. I have no idea how sound his chops are these days, but they can't be worse than Ron Wood's at this stage. I'm hoping they can do each other a favor and invite Taylor back into the band. I'd even buy an overpriced ticket to see those shows. Mick Taylor was supposed to play a concert in Dallas this week, but the concert was cancelled because he was hospitalized.

During the week, it's mostly the ipod in the car. I do more listening on the weekend--LPs and CDs on the big stereo, CDs on home computer, and ipod in the car.

What is described is not a "tax loophole"; it's fraud. If you invest $100 in an LP and lose the money, you get a $100 deduction (as long as the LP was made with the hope of making a profit), which gives a tax benefit equal to the applicable tax rate. There is a net economic loss (with a 35% tax rate, you have lost $65). It sounds like phony costs were created and allocated to Lps that were not really produced with the hope of making a profit. If you don't actually spend the money and claim a loss you can come out ahead (by offsetting the loss against other profits), but if the IRS catches you, jail is in your future. Alternatively, perhaps there were real costs associated with successful LPs that would have been deductible over time (the useful life of the successful LP), but instead some of the costs were allocated to the tax scam LPs and deducted sooner than they should have been (a timing benefit).

Feelin' the Spirit is wonderful. Goin' West? Not me.

You guys definitely like to hold onto a word or phrase, don't you? Btw, you wouldn't know where to find it. I wouldn't know where to find J&R? Isn't it still on Park Row? All prior attempts to find it have been successful.

Now I can't wait to go to J&R to buy some David Murray albums. The cognoscenti will be exchanging contemptuous glances...

A torrid pace!

Who cares? He's good as far as I'm concerned, based on seeing him live live a half dozen times and having a fair number of his recordings.

According to this discography, he released 84 albums as a leader or co-leader from 1976-2000. That equates to a new album every 15.5 weeks, not every two weeks. http://go54321.tripod.com/dm/davidmurray.html

Slowing down after 37 years of jazz buying? No, if anything, I'm accelerating over the last few years, plus I'm interested in more other genres of music as time goes by.

Richard Groove Holmes--Get Up and Get It (with Teddy Edwards, Pat Martino, Paul Chambers and Billy Higgins) (Prestige, blue label) Zoot Sims--The Modern Art of Jazz (Dawn)

There's also a nice version of this song on the One Night With Blue Note concert.

Trip Records was not a bootleg label (as far as I've ever heard). It was a cheapo reissue label that licensed many jazz reissues back in the 1970s. They were all over the place; poor pressings but great music.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago-- (Mercury, black label mono) Don Patterson--Satisfaction (Prestige, blue label)

Gene Ammons -- Funky (Prestige, yellow and black NJ) Elvin Jones--Coaltion (Blue Note, blue and white Liberty) Dizzy Gillespie--World Statesman (Norgran trumpet)

Listen more carefully. The record is true stereo. When Liberty issued stereo versions of titles from the Blue Note catalog that had previously only been vaialable in mono, they erroneously labelled many of them as "rechanneled" when they were in fact true stereo. A good rule of thumb - anything above 1562 is recorded in true stereo, and plays stereo regardless of the information on the jacket. That is very useful information. Thank you.

Yes, Flowers for Albert is dedicated to Albert Ayler, but it's a happy, not a sad song.

Lonnie Smith--Spiral (Palmetto) (now up for order on their website) Africavision volume 3, The Cinema of Manu Dibango

That's the one drawback of buying Prestige LPs--watch out for the fake stereo copies.

Billy Taylor featuring Candido (Prestige, W. 50th) Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet (Prestige, blue label)