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Don Ellis 'Essence' (PacificJazz, mono)

My copy of Cadet's 'The Peace-Maker' (side 2) has 'WARS-5127, also #17115, also LPS-813, also S-2 in the deadwax, all handwritten.

The Upper Manhattan Jazz Society 'Charlie Rouse Benny Bailey Al Dailey' (Enja)

Don't have the 'Duke Box' but presume the music there is the same that was used in the Storyville CD That CD had broadcasts from April 3 and 4, June 6, 1943!

The Mosaic Select is just fine. I'ld skip the vinyl with a so-so cover! Now spinning.. Tubby Hayes 'For Members Only' (Miles Music)

Obituary in The New York Times today.

Art Pepper 'Blues for the Fisherman', disc 1 (Widow's Taste)

A Great Find indeed All you need now is the mono version

THAT would be a first for an album by Gigi Gryce! Hope this CD will sell in huge numbers! One can always dream

Let's hope that the Museum will be a lively place and a befitting tribute to an American Music giant!

Sorrow now after he brought so much happiness!

More honors for Von Freeman... from The Chicago Tribune today!

Hampton Hawes 'Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes' (Contemporary, mono)

Ubu, the label on your LP should look like this one (commonly referred as Impulse orange label) to be an original:

Great story! Just to correct, JR is Monterose

Rahsaan Roland Kirk 'The Complete Mercury Recordings', discs 5 and 6

The Modern Jazz Quartet 'The Comedy' (Atlantic, stereo)

It was very nice to see Cadel Evans win the Tour. He used his brain as well as his legs, staying close to the lead in the overall standings for most of the Tour until the next to last stage when he won the timelap race. A victory that went unquestioned, a nice change for recent Tour winners. AP story on a cleaner Tour de France.

In the aftermath of the quake... Jazz bar to reopen