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Someone's on Microsoft's payroll.

Yes, that's an excellent DVD.

I purchased this recently from bmg, it is wonderful! I find it intersting that some musicians are able to convey warmth and authenticity while others just sound cold. This album, to me at least, is very moving. Particularly 'Love is' A good record. I saw him leading a quartet a couple of years after this recording--it was quite good but he inexplicably only played for 40 minutes or so in each of his two sets. I wonder if he was unhappy with his fee.

Next, I recommend a mac.

I suggest the HPB on Northwest Highway in Dallas, but only if you stop at my house before going there. Actually, I suspect HPB pays among the lowest prices obtainable.

I was under the impression that places like Atomic Records in Burbank, and presumably our friends at Dusty Groves, still pay for collections. The Jazz Record Center and Academy in New York as well.

An organissimo forum member?

Grimes' wife sent out an email alerting fans to two upcoming gigs with the Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet (Dave Douglas w/ J.D. Allen, Henry Grimes, and Andrew Cyrille; and Roy Campbell, Jr. w/ Mixashawn, Hilliard Greene, and Hamid Drake) performing Aug. 24 in Saalfelden, Austria, and Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy,on Aug. 28. This group put on one of the best concerts I've seen in recent years (with William Parker on second bass being the only personnel difference). "Mixashawn" is Lee Rozie.

It was done by Fantasy on LP--The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy.

Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen--College Concert (impulse) Dick Katz--Piano and Pen (Atlantic, black label)

Sonny Rollins--The Bridge (German RCA, mono) Booker Ervin--The In Between (Blue Note, Tosiba)

Yes, I was happy to hear the stereo version for the first time (my LP is mono). Hopefully Debut in Blues is on the horizon.

I'm looking for a large number of Eric Alexander and Ray Brown CDs, but I can't find any anywhere.

My first opportunity to visit the Village Vanguard, circa 1984, George Coleman was playing. I believe they were recording, but I haven't run across the record, if it was ever issued.

Now also on the schedule at Fort Worth's Scat Jazz Lounge-- Fri, August 8 8:00 pm Curtis Fuller $ 15-28 cover A rare opportunity to see jazz legend Curtis Fuller up close and personal. Fuller has performed along side Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Clark, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie to name a few. He has recorded numerous records and played countless times on other's recordings. Two Great Nights with two shows a night 8PM and 10PM. This is a reserved seating show. This is a NON-SMOKING show. 21 & up. Scat continues the Summer Series with jazz legend Curtis Fuller. This will be a two night engagement with two shows a night as Adonis Rose presents Curtis Fuller. Tickets are on sale now exclusively through www.frontgatetickets.com frontgatetickets.com Sat, August 9 8:00 pm Curtis Fuller $ 15-28 cover Scat continues the Summer Series with jazz legend Curtis Fuller. This will be a two night engagement with two shows a night as Adonis Rose presents Curtis Fuller. Reserved tickets are on sale now exclusively through www.frontgatetickets.com These are non smoking, 21 & up shows. There is an 8PM Show and a 10PM show. frontgatetickets.com

If you elect the Two Jewel Boxes for Double the Price option when checking out.

I have collectible jewel boxes for sale ($20 each), money orders only. Each purchase comes with a free Bill Frisell CD.

This is the first one I've ordered. http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/post-no-bil...-gets-groovier/ Dusty Groove gets groovier by Peter Margasak on July 12th 2007 - 5:51 p.m. Already a great record shop and mail-order service, Dusty Groove in Wicker Park recently expanded its business even further, becoming something of a record label. In the last couple of months it’s released five out-of-print albums on CD, all of them licensed from Universal Music. If any retailer is in a position to start a label, it's Dusty Groove. The store sells tons of second-hand vinyl all over the world, so it has a pretty good idea how much demand there is for a particular item, and owner Rick Wojcik routinely tracks down releases from all over the planet—Brazil, France, South Korea—so he’s got a pretty good handle on what’s available. The first batch of releases, unsurprisingly, appeals to a very particular niche market, and Wojcik considers it as a test run to determine whether it's worth doing more in the future. An album like Seasons by keyboardist Pete Jolly (a jazz-fusion record marked by a wide array of electric piano, organs, and Wurlitzer) is the kind of music only a crate-digger could love, but titles like Funky Skull by Melvin Jackson (who plays an almost psychedelic, effects-heavy upright bass over taut, heavy grooves) and The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby (a trippy and funky jazz session inspired by the work of Omar Khayyam that features Ashby on untypical string instruments like harp and koto) deliver a broader, if still limited, appeal. To me the new label is already a success, if for no other reason than its reissue of Força Bruta, a brilliant 1970 album by Brazil's Jorge Ben and the first of his many collaborations with the funky soul group Trio Mocoto. Ben's ability to transplant samba tunes into deeply soulful, often funky settings was simply stunning. Gorgeous string arrangements swaddle many of the tunes, but it’s Ben’s characteristic acoustic-guitar riffs and Mocoto's jacked-up grooves that make the record tick. Ben never had the greatest set of pipes, but few musicians have turned an imperfect voice into such a valuable asset, reinforcing the rhythmic agility of his songs with pin-point phrasing, surprising intervallic leaps, and a plaintive kind of moan. I was asked to write some liner notes for the reissue, but I ended up passing on the offer, partly because information about Ben’s career and development is practically non-existent in the States, aside from thumbnail bios that only offer the slightest insight. It’s astonishing, really, that Ben—one of the most successful, deep, and influential musicians to emerge from Brazil in the last four decades—hasn't been the subject of more substantial analysis. Hell, a bunch of his classics from the late 60s and early 70s remain unavailable. I sure hope that if Dusty Groove continues its reissue program, more albums by Jorge Ben will see the light of day.

Dustgroove's own label has now reissued Break Through on CD. It's currently available. Here's their review. An amazing record -- bold, proud, and soulful -- a set that we'd easily trade for any classic early 60s session on Blue Note -- and for good reason too! This rare date is the debut as a leader for trumpeter Gene Shaw -- also known as Clarence Shaw in an earlier history of work with Charles Mingus -- and it's an incredible blend of hardbop grooving with sharper-edged modern jazz ideals -- an incredible blend that comes off beautifully on every track in the set! Shaw's probably best known for his late 50s work on the Charles Mingus albums Tijuana Moods, East Coasting, and Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music & Poetry -- but after a famous fight with Mingus, Clarence "hid out" in Chicago and worked under the name of Gene -- but soon made big waves on his own with tremendous work like this. (In the liner notes to the 1963 release of Tijuana Moods, in which Mingus says that he loved Shaw, but can't get in touch with him anymore!) Every aspect of the record is superb -- from the writing, to the rhythm section, to the incredibly well blown solos from trumpeter Shaw and tenorist Sherman Morrison -- who himself is another vastly-overlooked talent in jazz. The rest of the group features James Taylor on piano, Sidney Robinson on bass, and Bernard Martin on drums -- a totally crackling rhythm section who give most tunes a snapping sort of groove! Most tracks are originals, and titles include "Autum Walk", "Six Bits", "The Thing", "It's A Long Way", "AD's Blues", "Marj", and "Our Tune". © 1996-2008, Dusty Groove America, Inc.

Bird Dog by the Everley Brothers.

Totally agree ! Very fine 2LP set, will dig it out. This is one I don't have. I ordered it from Newbury, through amazon--it's only $6.99.

Dreadful title, surpassed only by Victor Feldman's Mallets Aforethought True, but it is a good record, with very fine sound (especially the vibraharp).

I found a used copy on CD recently. It sounds like a Johnny Hodges session that would fit well in the Mosaic Hodges box (a good thing, of course).

Duke Ellington--The Duke Plays Ellington (Capitol) Duke Ellington--Dance to the Duke (Capitol) Terry Gibbs--Mallets a Plenty (Emarcy)

Thanks for the recommendation. This had escaped my notice, and I like it.