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There's an ebay seller in Argentina, musicshop780, who sells quite a few Oscar Aleman CDs. I've bought from this seller and they are a bit slow but always respond to email.

Sounds good. Thanks.

An easy choice for me--definitely Claudio Roditi and Kenny Drew Jr.

I've been wanting to visit Chicago and go to the Jazz Showcase for years, as my business trips to Chicago have been few in number and very brief. I'm also eager to hear blues guitarist Melvin Taylor live again, having caught him in New York a few years back. Anybody here ever heard him at Rosa's? Is it in a safe neighborhood?

I have an Nomad Jukebox which quite frankly is not as smart as an iPod. On Lester Young's birthday I hit shuffle and it played a Paul Quinichette selection. That may be even smarter, especially if it then moved on to Zoot Simms, Al Cohn and Stan Getz.

The set sounds like what would happen if you mixed together Pepper's classic 1950s Contemporary LPs with his classic 1970s-80s Galaxy recordings, the resulting being very pleasing to the ear.

Sometimes I wonder about whether that thing has a brain. The other day, on Ornette Coleman's birthday, I hit shuffle and the first song was an Ornette piece. Today, the anniversary of Bird's death, the third song was Now's the Time. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

It is really simple to download music from a CD to your computer, at least if you are an Apple itunes user. You just put the CD in the computer, itunes will open and show you the songs on the CD; keep the ones you want to download checked, and uncheck the others--then hit import. Plug your ipod into the computer and it will automatically add the new tunes you've imported onto your computer's harddrive. If you have a Windows computer, you might still want to try itunes for Windows.

I quite enjoy the Shuffle feature, especially in the car on a long drive.

Similarly, in Fort Worth, there was not a word spoken until over two hours into the concert. I vastly prefer the Cannonball Adderley approach to the Miles Davis approach which seems to dominate in jazz today.

I would love to hear the first set from the Carnegie Hall concert, but disagree with you--the jam session is great.

That review was not very well done, as the concert deserved more enthusiasm. There were of course occasional people leaving (though not that early), as this was a Bass Hall subscription concert, so there were a fair number of people in attendance who were not jazz fans. Roy played great, as did Herbie throughout. I don't care for Terri Lynne Carrington much; she was the weakest link. The best part was the long encore, when they really caught fire. I would love to see this group in a club.

I've found that the ones I wasn't as enthusiastic about early in my Mingus listening experience have grown on me over time--that is, Pre-Bird, Town Hall Concert (1962), and Mingus and Friends. The latter two grew in my estimation based on the expanded CD reissues. I haven't listened to it in quite awhile, but the one that might fill the bill is Charles Mingus and Orchestra, which was made in Japan with a mixture of Mingus and Japanese musicians. When I got it I thought it was not good, but now I find I can't really remember anymore, so maybe I better listen again.

I'm with you--I love my ipod. I'm at about 34 gigs of jazz and other favorite music, over 5100 tracks. I recently upgraded to a 60 gig model and then, one week later, Apple lowered the price 25%. To my amazement, Apple actually refunded the price difference.

Pardon my ignorance, but who are Elmer Snowden (sounds familiar) and Sam Wooding?

I haven't seen him live, but I have a couple of his records and like him. He's Nat King Cole's brother and there is definitely a strong family resemblance, but Freddie Cole's voice is gruffer/a bit rougher than Nat King Cole's voice. He mostly sings standards and also plays the piano. I would go see him if I had the chance.

The box doesn't contain anything like that. There are a few unrleased alternate takes from the Blues and Roots session, that's it.

Out there where? I don't recall there being any extra takes of the Clown (or any of the other selections from the 1957 recording dates) in the Atlantic box set.

If you like The Trance, note that he recorded another LP on the very same day, Settin' the Pace, with the same group plus Dexter Gordon.

I also dislike Johnny Meagen, who is a knave and a scoundrel. On the other hand, Barry Marlow is my favorite detective. I've been wondering what happened to my copy of the Dolphin.

Maybe this is fairly rare: John Mehegan, from Barrellhouse to Bop, with Charles Mingus bass, 10" on Perception.

I found this in a Denver Post article on the Mingus Big Band: "So she [sue Mingus] undertook the massive project of finding the proper musicians to play Mingus' compositions. She now oversees the Mingus- related projects, produces the CDs, (including the forthcoming 'I Am Three') and plans to release a series of previously unheard '60s performances. A visit to the website mingusmingusmingus.com details the ever-growing Mingus empire."

Oh. I think that was before my time here (or on the Blue Note Board).

Calling Uptown Records--how about a followup to the Mingus in California set--Birdland Broadcasts (please).

Are Blue Note 78s rare? I have a 12 inch 78, Meade Lux Lewis, the Blues, Parts 3 and 4. The label is blue, yellow and white, Blue Note Records, 235 7th Ave. N.Y.C. I've never played it, but it's pretty cool looking.