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I don't get the interest, when there are so many talented singers in Portuguese and Spanish. She's unlistenable.

Where are you buying these? I'm buying them at a local store called Bull Moose Music for $18.88 each. They are listed all over the web at the usual places for around $20-22. Your local shop should carry them. Kevin There is no local shop anymore. Acoustic Sounds has them for $22. New Blue Note LPs or Dusty Groove has them for $18.99. Thanks.

Friday night, some dynamic blues with Lucky Peterson, and guest Zac Harmon.

Where are you buying these? I'm buying them at a local store called Bull Moose Music for $18.88 each. They are listed all over the web at the usual places for around $20-22. Your local shop should carry them. Kevin There is no local shop anymore.

That Preston Sturges box set is really great.

Where are you buying these?

Nat Pierce Orchestra with Buck Clayton--Big Band at the Savoy Ballroom (RCA Living Stereo) George Russell--The Jazz Workshop (RCA, 1962 reissue)

Jack McDuff and David Newman--Double Barrelled Soul (Atlantic, blue green label)

A 120 GB ipod. About 20 hours after plugging it into my computer, it has transferred 8642 out of 13,605 songs from my itunes library.

Thanks again... and oh, are you lucky, being so close to Mexico. I'm on the East Coast. Yes, it's only a two hour flight to Mexico City, whereas it's over three hours to New York. Flight time's one thing; cost is the other. (I bet that's true for you as well.) it's funny how Amtrak and the airlines seem to jack up prices in an arbitrary way. When I lived in D.C., a round-trip train ticket to NYC cost several hundred dollars. Now I live up in PA< and a round-trip ticket to NYC costs less than 100.00 bucks. (Though I'd have to change in Philly to get the Metroliner or Acela.) Basically, Amtrak ticket costs are far higher if you're *only* traveling on the NE corridor lines. Book a ticket from a bit further west, and it's so much cheaper, even though you're actually on a NE corridor train. Go figure! American Airlines has quite a few flights out of DFW to both places, so with a little planning relatively inexpensive fares are often available to both New York and Mexico City. It can be very arbitrary though--earlier this year I made two short notice business trips to New York, and the fare each time was $2000 for coach. Yet at about the same time I also booked a seminar trip in advance, and the fare was only $200.

Thanks again... and oh, are you lucky, being so close to Mexico. I'm on the East Coast. Yes, it's only a two hour flight to Mexico City, whereas it's over three hours to New York.

Those are really good collections--I especially like Antonio Bribiesca, he makes the guitar weep--he's just as expressive as a great blues guitarist. I like trova--in Tower Records in Mexico City, there is a Trova section!

Here are a couple of two CD collections featuring some great guitarists from Mexico (Antonio Bribiesca, Ramon Dona-Do, Gilberto Puente, and Claudio Estrada): http://www.amazon.com/Los-Grandes-Guitarri...4124&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Los-Grandes-Guitarri...4124&sr=1-3

Latin-American music to me means music from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, etc.. Guitars are everywhere. You must be listening to what they call Latin-American music in New York, which seems to mostly derive from Puerto Rico. In fact, the center of Latin American music is Mexico City, not Puerto Rico, New York or Miami.

Ahmad Jamal--Tranquility (impulse, black label) Vince Guaraldi--Alma-Ville (Warner) (The first side is sublime.)

Two Mosaic Selects -- Dexter Gordon and Bud Shank/Bob Cooper.

Charles Mngus--Mingus Moves (Atlantic)--Still sounds just as good as when I bought this album over 34 years ago.

Sonny Rollins--East Broadway Rundown (impulse, black and orange label)

There's also a Columbia album with a sleeping Woody Herman in a chair with a woman--Music For Tired Lovers, Love Songs Sung by Woody Herman with Erroll Garner. I haven't worked up the courage to listen to this one.

It seems I also have forgotten that I have Eddie Daniels, A Flower for All Seasons.

Slightly off-topic, but that whole Grapevine Mills is getting depressing. Not only is Virgin closing down, there were about 4 or 5 other big stores that were having close-out sales. I think it has something to do with a giant Ponzi scheme headed up by President Bush.

The sole remaining Virgin Megastore in the DFW area--located in an outlet mall in Grapevine near the airport, is currently having a liquidation and closing sale.

If I could, I would see that many. If I didn't travel and had to rely on Dallas options, I would probably see less than five a year. Work-related and personal trips to New York City are my live music savior.

Oh Yeah (also Mingus on piano throughout).

I re-listened to the Jimmy Giuffre this morning, and indeed the vinyl and the recording quality were first rate. Very nice sound.