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How is Prelude? There's a copy in one of my locals that is going for a reasonable price. The title track is fairly portentous, but I quite like it. The rest of the album swings very nicely. Not my favourite McDuff by a long chalk (but I have so many), but one I always listen to with great enjoyment. MG MG I was actually listening to this for the first time, as I recently found a nice copy. Put on a Happy Face made me chuckle. I liked the title cut best on the first side.

That happened to me (I ordered 10 and one was unavailable)--they still gave me one free.

Introducing the Duke Pearson Big Band (Blue Note, black and blue Liberty, Van Gelder) Brother Jack McDuff and the Benny Golson Orchestra, Prelude (Prestige Blue label)

Dizzy Gillespie--The New Continent (Limelight) Art Blakey--Soul Finger (Limelight)

John Patton--That Certain Feeling (Blue Note, black and blue Liberty label, with Van Gelder in wax).

I might be up for a trip to Chicago, especially if organissimo is going to play.

I saw Freddie 8 or 9 times over the years before his chops problems, and I do not recall ever seeing him play with a mute, or even have a mute with him. When he wanted a mellower sound, he would switch to his flugelhorn.

No.

I like singers. I do find that there are only a relatively small number of jazz singers that I like. But since I also like blues, Brazilian, Mexican, South American, and African music, there are lots of great singers in those fields to enjoy.

How is that album? Ever since I found out about that one, I've wanted to hear/buy it. I've never seen it in any format. Fabulous. Kirk with Golson's orchestra on side 1, just the quartet on side 2 (Harold Mabern on piano). One of Kirk's very best albums IMO and one of the better recorded ones too - and yes, it does seem to be somewhat scarce. I concur that it is very good. I also have the LP. As far as I know, it has only been available on CD in the Kirk Mercury box.

Jazzloft.com is another good source.

Chico Hamilton--The Further Adventures of El Chico (impulse)

You need to get the excellent Raw Materials (and I need to get Codebook).

Something New, Something Blue (Columbia six eyes) (compositions and arrangements for octet by Manny Album, Teo Macero, Teddy Chares, and Bill Russo) Erroll Garner--Plays for Dancers (Columbia six eyes)

I placed a second order yesterday morning and by the afternoon had an email confirming shipment. I suppose this in and of itself is a sad commentary on the state of the CD business, even during the two weeks preceding Christmas.

? So it's worth $299 because Wayne plays on one track? It's worth $299 because the seller is looking for a sucker who is a Wayne Shorter completist and doesn't need to know that he is only on one track until it's too late. I bought the CD years ago because I like Toninho Horta, but this is not one of his better recordings.

I have that CD, so it can't be SuperMegaRare. Wayne Shorter is only on one of the tracks.

Returning to Ellington, here's a suggestion--go to the Concord music website and buy whatever you don't have already. I ordered the two Carnegie Hall concert sets I was missing this morning--a great deal at $14.99 for 2 CD sets, less 10% coupon code, plus free shipping if you buy $50 or more.

If you don't have any of these, a no-brainer (Art Pepper).

The Poll Winners-Exploring the Scene (Contemporary)

Features the utterly fabulous and stupendous The Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches Over Her.

Young Men from Memphis (Booker Little, George Coleman, Frank Strozier, Phineas Newborn)--Down Home Reunion (United Artists)

Additional titles include "Small Herd", Red Norvo and Tristano. I forgot that I have the Tristano, but I'm missing the Small Herd and Red Norvo.

There's also one with Red Rodney--is the above plus the Red Rodney a complete list of the CDs?

3rd Mexican musician found dead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY -- A trumpet player was found dead with his hands and feet bound and a nylon bag over his head in southern Mexico, in what authorities said was apparently the country's third murder of a musician in less than a week. Jose Luis Aquino, 33, had been hit repeatedly on the head, said a spokesman for the Oaxaca state attorney general's office who could not be named according to departmental rules. He said authorities were still investigating possible motives but suspected a crime of passion. Aquino played for Los Conde, based in the southern resort of Puerto Escondido, according to its Web site. The band has recorded a half-dozen albums, and members appeared in the early-1990s film "Mafioso pero Gracioso," or "Funny Mobster." Los Conde singer and guitar player Francisco Conde said Aquino played for 14 years in the band, was married and had two children. "He was a good person and never fought with anyone," Conde said. "He didn't smoke or do drugs." A wave of organized crime violence has terrorized many parts of Mexico and the latest victims appear to be popular musicians. Most disquieting were the weekend slayings of two singers who had crooned only about love and loss, not drugs and guns like some "narcocorrido" celebrities killed in the past. The murders of Sergio Gomez, lead performer for the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, and Zayda Pena of the group Zayda and the Guilty Ones has mainstream singers worrying they may become targets by becoming identified with one or another of Mexico's warring drug gangs.