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Sir Roland Hanna--A Gift from the Magi (West 54)

By the way, the three out-of-print Blue Notes are available on CDBaby as a box set.

That's the best Phil Woods record I've ever heard.

Magic Sam--West Side Soul--Delmark Junior Mance Trio--Live at the Village Vanguard--Jazzland LP (original I think--kind of noisy surface but otherwise nice sound).

I've been required to use Dell laptops at my job the last eight years. I would never spend any money on one of their products.

Screw Dell and their crappy PCs.

The Fez is closed. The Mingus Big Band plays at the Iridium on Tuesday nights now.

I really like this one also.

I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I thought the Supreme Court resolved this issue already in the Sony Betamax case, concluding that it is not infringement to make a tape copy of a public broadcast for your private use. So that the even more favorable facts of copying a CD one has paid for should not be a real issue. The industry is stupid, greedy, and has a death wish, it appears.

Najee is on a Charles Earland recording, and it's a good record.

Johnny Hammond Smith--Here It 'Tis--Prestige (with Houston Person)

Brother Jack McDuff--I Got a Woman--Prestige LP, with Red Holloway, Pat Martino and George Benson (one side each).

Are these legitimate Horo CD issues from the master tapes, or bootleg LP transfers?

Here's one of them for sale. http://cgi.ebay.com/Sun-Ra-Other-voices-ot...1QQcmdZViewItem

The Horos are long out of print, hard to find, are on LP only, and sell on ebay very expensive (I haven't done a survey, but it seems like they usually go for over $100). I don't have any of the Horo Sun Ra's, but sure wish I did. Dou you know anywhere those are available? I haven't really seen them around! p.s. Michael Ray - nice player I think that ebay is your best bet for the Horo albums. The Horo quartet albums are great, and the Horo big band album contains some of Sun Ra's best swing-style recordings, on Fletcher Henderson songs. I have not been able to find the Horos anywhere except after long waits on ebay, putting them on my watch list there. Thanks - I'll take a look. No luck at DMG.

Seven or eight is a small group to me. I do like some of his orchestral music also, at least as long as he is playing guitar with the orchestra.

I like Rypdal alot, especially in a small group context. I'm definitely getting this one.

Dewey Redman Ornette Coleman (part-time Texas tenor) Billy Harper?

Among the organissimo crew, I would expect that the music collections of virtually everyone exceeds 60gb by a large margin. I don't see the ipod as the primary home source of music, for which I retain CDs and LPs. The Ipod is instead a great portable source of music--whether you are travelling by car, foot, airplane or train. The best approach is to be very selective in transferring music to the ipod--only pick the songs on a CD that appeal to you the most. In general, only in the case of rare classics would one transfer every cut on a CD to the ipod. That way, you can have a much greater diversity of music on your ipod. The only management I want to perform is to add songs, so having the biggest player possible is the best option for me.

I am extremely happy with my imac, and the ipod works wonderfully in conjunction with an imac. I would not even consider any other product in either case.

The Nano's hard drive is too small to be worth considering. Buy the 30gb or the 60 gb, preferably the latter. I made the mistake of buying a 20 gb first. As a consequence, I bought both a 20 gb and later a 60 gb, contributing more than was really necessary to Apple's profits.

Now you are sending me off to find this one.

I forgot to mention Charlie Burnham, another really good violinist I've had the good fortune to see in person. I'm never quite sure when I have such a negative reaction if I am at fault, but given that the Vanguard is my favorite place to listen to music, I'm pretty receptive to music there.

I saw her at the Village Vanguard a couple of years ago, and I was completely bored by her performance. There was no comparison to the short list of other jazz violinists I've seen live who I enjoyed immensely--Stephane Grapelli, Mark Feldman and John Blake. I would probably pass if I had the opportunity to see her again, as she really didn't sound to me like a true jazz player. In fairness, others present did appear to be enjoying her playing.

I didn't like Charlie Hunter too much when he first started recording, but I'm come to appreciate his playing, and he sounds like he has advanced quite a bit over the years. His Groundtruther recording with Bobby Previte and Greg Osby is the recent one that I really like. As for Sherik, if that is the fellow I'm thinking of (a saxophonist who employs many electronic effects?), I was fortunate to see Bobby Previte at the 55 Bar a year or so ago, with Jamie Saft on keyboards, Sherik on electric saxophone, and a Russian guitarist whose name escapes me, and that was some wild, stunning music and completely blew me away.