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Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige, black and Yellow label, NJ).

I ordered Sun Ra, Sleeping Beauty and On Jupiter today from dustygroove.

The Time date is very good, I would say it is just a notch below the Candid and Bethleham dates in quality. It's a quartet date, with Scott LaFaro, Roy Haynes and Tommy Flanagan. The stereo mix on the CD is a bit extreme (two instruments in each channel), so I would love to find a mono LP some day. Booker sounds fabulous as the sole horn on this recording.

Congratulations. I love my 80 gb ipod (full) and am coveting a 160gb model.

That's a tough one--$149 for Forever, and $299 for Beyond Forever. But I would feel so inferior if I were only a Forever person.

I never bought any RTF albums and only have a vague negative memory of their music, so I might have gone and attended the concert anyway (due to a dearth of live jazz) but for excessive ticket prices, and receiving an invitation similar to this: The Beyond Forever Experience! Return to Forever is coming to the US, Canada and Europe and www.Return2Forever.com is your source for VIP packages that add to your Return to Forever concert experience. What are we offering? How about a meet and greet with the band, a tour of the stage area, a pre-show party, and some tour merchandise? Show off your new Return to Forever Tour T-shirt from your merchandise package. No matter what, you are sure to have the time of your life in San Francisco with RTF! PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO TICKET TO THE SHOW INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE - YOU MUST PURCHASE A TICKET FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. To buy tickets for this date from Ticketmaster, click HERE This package includes: 1.) A Meet and Greet with band member(s). Details on the Meet and Greet will be sent to you via email about 10 days before the show. 2.) A Tour of the Stage Area. This Tour is conducted by a Return2Forever.com representative who is knowledgeable about RTF, what it takes to put on a show, and other tour info. Fans will get to experience what goes on behind the scenes at a Return to Forever show and get a new kind of Return to Forever experience. 3.) Access to the pre-show party and the sound check. 4.) An EXCLUSIVE Return to Forever merchandise package that will be mailed to the customer separately. This package includes: an exclusive Return to Forever tour t-shirt, a $40 gift card to the online store, a lanyard and collectible Return to Forever laminate that should get you early access to the merchandise booth. Please be sure to choose your t-shirt size(s) when ordering your package(s). IMPORTANT NOTES, PLEASE READ! • The cost of this package is USD $299. • There is a non-refundable $15 processing and handling fee included in your cost through www.Return2Forever.com, if a show is cancelled and your merchandise has NOT shipped. If your merchandise is shipped at the time of cancellation, there is a non-refundable $69 fee ($59 for processing/merch and $10 shipping). • Packages are non-refundable and non-transferable. •Merchandise will be shipped directly to the address that you provide to us at the point of purchase. We will make every effort to deliver your merchandise prior to the date of the show. •You will receive an itinerary about 10 days before the show with all of the details. • Merchandise contents subject to change based on availability. Please email any special requests to customerservice@Return2Forever.com Please read the RTF Ticket Policies here.

In Search of Buddy Bolden--Donald Marquis.

Duke Ellington--Greatest Hits, Freshly Recorded Live (Reprise, mono) Sonny Stitt, Booker Ervin, Don Patterson--Soul People (Prestige, Blue label)

I saw Hakon Korstad live a couple of weeks ago--a pretty impressive tenor player, I must say. I've bought some time ago this double LP from him He was playing with this trio minus Dörner. In which setting did you seen him play? In a small bar in the lower East Side of New York--Eivind Opsvik was the bassist/leader, Craig Taborn on electric piano, plus drums (didn't catch the name, another Scandanavian). It was a very pleasant surprise on a slow Monday night, after seeing a dull concert at the loftier location of Dizzy's.

I saw Hakon Korstad live a couple of weeks ago--a pretty impressive tenor player, I must say.

Sonny Criss Orchestra--Sonny's Dream (Prestige, blue label)

I pulled a half dozen off the shelf and these six all have dark blue labels, with a white note on the upper right, below it says Blue Note a division of Liberty/United Records, Inc. On the back cover, at the top, there is a copyright (these examples range from 1979-1982), then it says Liberty/United Records, Inc. Some include an address of 6920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Others omit the street address and just say Los Angeles, California 90028. All of these were purchased new many years ago.

Bobby Previte's Coalition of the Willing--Anthem for Andrea.

If I recall correctly, that' the truth, the highest British marginal tax rate at the time actually was 95%.

There's an interesting documentary film about Theramin, the inventor of the Theramin. Here's a review. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey is a documentary about the creator of the Theremin musical instrument, Lev Sergeyvich Termen aka Leon Theremin. It is a story about a man with a passion for electronics and music, a man with an inventive and radical mind. It should come as no surprise that he had a profound influence on the development of electronic music as we know it. The Theremin works by moving one's hands (or any object) near a device with two antennae that manipulate pitch and volume (due to the capacitance changes resulting from the moving object). The Theremin was used to supplement the soundtrack in various movies, including Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and The Delicate Delinquent. It also profoundly influenced inventors like Robert Moog (who explains the role Theremin played in the discovery of the Moog synthesiser) and musicians like the Beach Boys (who used it a variant of it, the electro-theremin, in their classic 1966 song, Good Vibrations and a couple of other tunes) and Led Zeppelin (in fact, when Page and Plant reunited a couple of years ago, their live shows featured a Theremin). Throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s, Theremin enjoyed the advantages that came with the fame and success of his invention. But Theremin's life was more far exciting than that. Theremin was a Russian who had immigrated to the U.S. In the late 1930s, a decade or so after his instrument was featured in performances at Carnegie Hall, he mysteriously disappeared and was presumed dead. Given Theremin's contribution to electronic music, Steven M. Martin, a Theremin afficionado, decided to make a documentary about the instrument. During the course of his research, he discovered Theremin was alive in Russia. In the documentary, at the age of 94, we see Theremin recounting what had happened to him: he had been kidnapped by Russian agents for his technological expertise, and was put to work in various places in positions that would help the Russians in the Cold War (and was even awarded a medal by Stalin). As they say, fact is stranger than fiction. There are no special-effects or gimmicks here---this is a factual restatement of events as they happened; the excitement in the documentary is in its content. This is a must-see for any fan of electronic music and electronic noise. Watching this movie, I had the immediate impulse of wanting to reach out to Theremin who had obviously been through a lot but yet managed to keep a sense of childlike wonder about him. The character in the movie is far more charmismatic than most fictional characters. Theremin died in Russia in 1993, at age of 97, but his legacy lives on.

Don't these people sleep? Two days earlier I saw Feldman playing the last gig of a European tour with Sylvie Courvosier in Bath, England. The jet-set life-style of a left-field improvising musician. Or rehearse? The leader commented that they had just met Mark Feldman for the first time earlier in the day of the performance.

Duke Ellington--Paris Blues (United Artists)

George Wein (Shorty Baker, Tyree Glenn, Pee Wee Russell, Bill Crow)-Jazz at the Modern (Bethleham)

I recently found three RCA Living Stereo records (a Johnny Guarnieri led big band date and a couple of vocal dates), circa 1960, in near perfect condition, and they do sound fabulous. On the Archive label, the best I've come across so far is a Bach harpischord recording from 1958. It has very nice sound and, according to the enclosed receipt, was purchased by a Mr. Brooks, a member of the Army Band, on June 4, 1960, who was apparently stationed in Europe. The price seems rather high for the times, as he paid $5 as a deposit and completed the transaction by paying the balance due of $2.05.

Prestige--Groovy Goodies (blue label) Shelly Manne--Swingin' Sounds (Contemporary, yellow label mono)

Not the only one--my addiction to jazz vinyl has relatively recently spilled over into classical vinyl. I am much pickier with classical vinyl--I only buy if the record is in nearly perfect condition. It seems like this is not that uncommon (buying that classical record seemingly was a better idea in theory than was actually listening to it). In fact, I would be curious what labels others think have the best sound in the classical arena.

Excellent! The Horo Dannie Richmond is another good one.

Eddie Bonnamere--Orient-ed (Prestige, blue label) Jimmy Smith--Midnight Special (Blue Note, New York USA)

Charles Mingus--Mingus (Candid). A happy find from my visit to Academy Records.

I saw his trio last fall and had the same very positive reaction.