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I started buying Mingus in 1974, and those two Bethleham LPs were among the hardest to find. They were reissued on LP by Affinity in 1982-83; I was very happy to finally obtain copies. As for underappreciated, I would nominate the group with Charle McPherson, Bobby Jones, Eddie Preston, Jaki Byard and Dannie Richmond that recorded to 2LPs for the French America label (reissued as a twofer, Reincarnation of a Lovebird).

The April 19th concert on The Great Concert... is the better concert.

Perhaps not the equal to the Morgan/Shorter, Hubbard/Shorter, or Mobley/Byrd/Silver edition of the Jazz Messengers, but that edition of Blakey's group with Terence Blanchard as musical director was sure good. They sure took me to musical heights two nights when they played at the Caravan of Dreams.

Fortunately, the Bush/Cheney team, making the music world safe from Cat Stevens, stepped in and silenced the horror.

You must have seen him on a bad day. Every time I've seen him live (7 or 8 times, going back to with Art Blakey), he's been very good.

In addition, Gal Costa is very fine as well, though I don't know those recordings. She is I believe one of the "MPB" performers that came up in Brazil in the late 1960s/1970s, such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Benjor and others.

Tonino Horta was associated with Milton Nascimento early in Milton's career and performed on some of Milton's finest recordings. I actually saw Horta one time in New York City in a small club, performing mostly solo on accoustic guitar and vocals. It was a very enjoyable experience. Unless I am confused as to labels, I think Horta had a recording on Blue Note (jazz oriented of course) a few years back, and I seem to recall reading that he may have performed at the Village Vanguard at around that time.

The ipod itself creates directories for each artist and a subdirectory for each album of that artist. You can listen to the ipod through a cassette adapter in your car. (The only problem I have with this is that it sounds like a cassette. Maybe there's a better way?) I don't know about a PC. If you have a mac, you just plug the ipod into your computer and itunes automatically moves the music from your library in itunes to the ipod. It couldn't be easier.

I just bought a 20 gig ipod last weekend, and so far I'm liking it more than I would have ever imagined. I'm not sure it's the ipod itself so much, as it has provided the impetus to delve into my collection, go through lots of CDs, and pick out the tracks I like the best to transfer to the ipod. This has been great so far, rediscovering lots of favorite music, and I'm only at 1.2 gigs used.

I think its spelled James Cammack. He's been in Jamal's group for twenty years or more.

Interesting. I'm confused. The 'Mingus Presents' sides are in stereo on my Mosaic LP set. Are they in mono on the Mosaic CD set, but stereo on the Mosaic vinyl? In addition, I've never noticed the echo. It could be there, but I'm usually pretty bugged by unnatural sounding recordings. I'm even more confused, as I have the Mosaic LP set and thought the echo that always bothered me was there; also, I didn't know there was a CD Mosaic of this set. Maybe it's me that's echoing?

I came across another interesting Ron Burton recording in my collection--Blue Brass Connection, Cool Affairs. It also features George Adams, Graham Haynes, Paul Zauner, Cameron Brown, and Ronnie burrage. It's from 1991 on Amadeo.

On the quartet pieces, there is print-through echo at certain points--that is, you can hear a ghostly duplication of the horn soloist, slightly out of sync. I read this was because the tapes were not properly stored--that is, if they go too long without being rewound, the adjacent tape prints through to get the distracting echo effect. I assume early versions would not have this problem. The earliest version I have is a mid-1970s Barnaby reissue, which has the problem.

We are just trying to keep up with the ubiquitous debates on what CD versions are best and whether or not to upgrade to the latest and greatest. I have both Mosaics and the sound on both serves the music and my listening experience. I have always thought a couple of the Candid discs were pretty special sonically, but I won't go into details. You should pick them up. They can be had for around $100, at times, on EPAY. Mosaic bargains if there are any. The Classic Records 'TJ Moods' is a bit bright, but very good nonetheless. The Impulse reissue, from a few years ago, of Mingus Mingus....sucks. As Mingus is my favorite musician, I have every official Mingus release on LP and CD, sometimes more than one of each, but I don't think I have any "first pressings" prior to Mingus Moves, which was the first one I bought. I also have the two Mingus Mosaic sets, the Atlantic box, and the Debut box, not to mention most, though not all of the bootlegs. I would like to have the two Candids on LP, to avoid the dreaded "echo" on every version I have, but haven't been successful yet in picking one up (I'm not entirely sure what a first edition Candid label looks like.) The two worst CD issues of Mingus material are Mingus Plays Piano (very harsh and unlistenable, I think it was a "gold" CD as I recall; I think there is a subsequent version I haven't heard) and the only CD issue of the "Reincarnation of a LoveBird two-fer/French America release, which is pretty terrible sonically.

The Mingus recordings on Atlantic are so great, that issues as to which sound source is a bit better than another are not important.

The Best of Cannonball Adderley on Capital was my first jazz record. I listened to Work Song and others on this LP over and over again. He's one of my favorites, for sure.

Experience Hendrix has just released a third volume of this great series featuring blues giants on tour recorded for 1960s European television. Highlights of volume 3 include: 1. Big Mama Thornton, backed by Buddy Guy, performing Hound Dog. 2. Big Joe Turner, backed by Otis Rush. 3. Hound Dog Taylor, backed by Little Walter. 4. Earl Hooker performing one of his great guitar instrumentals. 5. Helen Humes backed by T Bone Walker. 6. Accoustic blues peformances by Skip James and Son House. 7. Two performances by Muddy Waters. Collectively, the three American Folk Blues volumes (with a possible fourth to come) are an unrivaled compilation of filmed performances by blues giants, most of whom are now gone.

Breakthrough and Song Everlasting are two great CDs, which I wouldn't sell ever.

Here are two with Ron/Rahn Burton that I have on LP and like alot: George Adams/Paradise Space Shuttle (Timeless) Jemeel Moondoc/Nostalgia in Times Square (Soul Note).

I ordered a Mu CD from Cadence years ago, and they sent me the next CD in the catalogue by mistake, Radius by Thomas Chapin. It's a terrific CD and led to his becoming one of my favorite artists of the 1990s, before his tragic early death.

I hate the crappy Windows mouse, which is designed for righthanded people, forcing a lefthanded person to have to figure out how to reverse the buttons. As usual, the single button mac mouse is highly effective and simpler to use. (My mac-expert friend looked at me in justified puzzlement when I first got my imac and asked how to change it from right to lefthanded.) And why wouldn't you go into Control Pannel -> Mouse and switch the buttons? You must be a Window user and/or righthanded. The point is that the Apple single click mouse performs, in simpler fashion, all the functions I need, so that there is no need to reverse the buttons.

Not me personally, but there's this guy running for president, the mediocre, former alcoholic son of a former president, who had the opportunity to attend one of the country's great universities, but lacked the intellectual capability to do better than a C average; got arrested for drunk driving; was set up in the oil business and failed; then became wealthy on taxpayer money as frontman for some Texas businessman who owned a baseball team--I'm not kidding, this guy has scammed around half of the country into believing that he is qualified to be president....

It's not that I wouldn't like to have this, but I would guess that Pullen was not fully formed at this stage, so wouldn't one rather have virtually all of his later work (which I do) before paying big bucks for this early work?

I hate the crappy Windows mouse, which is designed for righthanded people, forcing a lefthanded person to have to figure out how to reverse the buttons. As usual, the single button mac mouse is highly effective and simpler to use. (My mac-expert friend looked at me in justified puzzlement when I first got my imac and asked how to change it from right to lefthanded.)

Speaking of Melvin Sparks, has anyone heard his new record on Savant, It is What it Is? This one is exceedingly good.