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A 57 inch Mitsubishi DLP. I am very happy with it.

Blues and Roots and Oh Yeah are well recorded. The Clown is better recorded than Pithecanthropus Erectus, but compare it to Tijuana Moods, featuring almost the same band, and the RCA recording is far superior sonically.

Duke Ellington--The Popular Ellington (RCA)

Just this evening, I found a nice clean copy of The Jazz Makers (a Columbia anthology) on LP, and the very first song, which I have heard before but maybe not really heard until this listen--Louis Armstrong, Savoy Blues, the Hot Five plus Lonnie Johnson--it sounds glorious.

I'm not sure that it's the mastering of that particular issue. It's a January 1956 Atlantic recording in mono. I don't have the original issue (or any pre-1970s LP issue), but every version of this I've ever heard (on LP and CD) make it sound like a sub-par engineering job. The music cuts through that concern, though--it's fantastic.

Or Dallas.

I ordered the new Chico Hamilton trio recording, It's About Time, on Joyous Shout, from dustygroove.

While Charlie Byrd is hardly comparable to Bola Sete or Baden Powell, he actually made some pretty nice records on Riverside, I've recently discovered. You might want to listen to At the Village Vanguard, At the Gate, or Solo Flight. These are fine recordings, in my opinion.

Perhaps indeed! I like the first track the best.

Duke Ellington Presents (Bethleham) Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing, volume 2 (Argo)

The Modern Jazz Quartet--European Concert, volume 2 (Atlantic, blue and green label)

Art Blakey--Drum Suite (Columbia six eyes) Coleman Hawkins--The Hawk Swings (Crown) Stan Kenton--Roadshow (Capitol)

Sun Ra reissues on the horizon (per Dustygroove) Sun Ra -- Beyond The Purple Star Zone (expanded 2CD edition) . . . CD Around December 15, 2008 Tremendous lost work from Sun Ra -- recorded live in Detroit at the start of the 80s, and only ever issued briefly on a limited Saturn Records pressing! Given the show's setting in the Detroit underground, the material has an especially hip sound to it -- a return to some of the more righteous mode ... Sun Ra -- Live In Rome 1980 . . . CD Around June 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Lost Reel Collection Vol 5 -- The Universe Sent Me . . . CD Early May, 2008 Sun Ra -- On Jupiter . . . CD Around August 15, 2008 Righteous Ra from the end of the 70s -- one of the most soulful albums ever by the Sun Ra Arkestra, and a lost treasure that's got some nice funky moments! The vibe here is very much in the Lanquidity/Disco 3000 mode -- an extrapolation of styles best known from the Space Is The Place era, tightene ... Sun Ra -- Sleeping Beauty . . . CD Around June 25, 2008 One of the most soulful Sun Ra albums ever -- very much on the Lanquidity tip, and done with a great mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation! The vibe here is really mellow, spiritual, and warm -- and the album actually feels a lot more like a session recorded for the Strata East label than it ... Sun Ra -- Stars That Shine Darkly (expanded 2CD edition) . . . CD Around October 15, 2008 Sun Ra All Stars -- Sun Ra All Stars -- Milan, Zurich, West Berlin, Paris 1983 (5CD box set) . . . CD Around May 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Sun Ra Live at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 12/11/74/1968 Pacifica Radio Interview (2CD set) . . . CD Around July 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Sun Ra Live At The Newport Jazz Festival 1969/Sun Ra Live At The Electric Circus 1968 . . . CD Around June 15, 2008

The Sound of Paul Horn (Columbia, six eyes).

Al! Say it ain't so! I suggest a few trips to New York City and/or Chicago, where you can actually hear live jazz. That should bring you back to your senses.

The one I found is a clean copy, a promo, perhaps unplayed--$10.

He's at Birdland in New York just before Memorial Day, leading a sextet.

Dave Brubeck--Jazz Goes to College (Columbia, six eyes, promo).

Duke Ellington--Hi Fi Ellington Uptown

Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Billy Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, Charles Bell, Willie the Lion Smith--The Jazz Piano--(RCA)--It says copyright 1966, and no one in 42 years cared to even open the record--but I sure enjoyed listening to it for the first time.

Duke Ellington--Ellington Uptown (Columbia six eyes) For Jazz Lovers (Emarcy anthology) The Jazz Piano (Ellington, Hines, Willie the Lion Smith, Mary Lou Williams, etc., recently reissued as a Mosaic single) (RCA--still sealed).

There's another solo Pullen recording on Horo, Five To Go.

That is a really good disc, my favorite post-70s comeback Rollins. Now this presents the dilemma of whether to pay $32 for one CD of additional material.

Actually, I go to about 5 or 6 of those HPBs. I try to make the circuit with some regularity. It keeps me out of trouble. Where is this magical record shop you're visiting, man? If it's the big HPB, I need to make a trip there SOON!

Jazz Omnibus (Columbia, six eyes) Paul Winter--Meets the Bossa Nova (Columbia six eyes)