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Thanks Ray, that was very funny.

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Well, since I just got the message from Michael, my hopes are up! I'll take what I can get... so we're talking about 3 Different selects for the Three Sounds (total of 9CD's)? If so do we have an ETA???? No ETA. And no 100% firm commitment - but definitely a strong implication.

Well, I'm not so sure. Now they're saying that Schilling's injury is in fact related to his ankle surgery. Seems that he felt it on a pitch in his last start, and he thought that he might have broken up some scar tissue. Then they found the bruise on an X-Ray. They even told him that if he continued to pitch, there would be a real possibility of breaking the ankle and ending his season. What did Bill Simmons say about how long a team gets a "pass" after winning the World Series?

No one's saying it yet, but I have to wonder whether there can be any relationship to the completely new field that was installed at Fenway. Its supposed to be state of the art, modern drainage, etc., and the biggest change is, the infield is no longer 'crowned". Til now, if you were sitting in the third base dugout and looked out at the rightfielder, you couldn't see below his shins because of the crowning of the infield. So, the latest I heard about the field was that it had to 'settle' - so is it a remote possibility that the field has something to do with these injuries?

Well, since I just got the message from Michael, my hopes are up!

OK, now its time to go into full crisis mode.

The thing that really frosts me about your comment is that rap music gets a pass on all these things. No live musicians, just repititve electronic sound. And yet the masses are drooling all over the stuff. When elements of hip hop get incorporated into R&B or, heaven forbid jazz, then it becomes a bad thing. Y'all want to have it both ways. ROFLMAO. Sorry Rainy, but I don't want it both ways, and I don't drool over anything the masses drool over. And rap gets no pass from me under any circumstances.

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Thanks for posting the link, Hans. Missed it the first time cuz I usually don't wade through the different opinions of different remasterings.

Opinions should be judged on their individual merits. Its certainly plausible that if Stone were black (not touching the part about weight), she wouldn't have to deal with issues of "authenticity". And FWIW, I tend to agree with Jim S. on the difference between older and newer soul singers. And as for drum machines, Rainy, its a perfectly legitimate gripe, and it applies far too often nowadays. As a presumed supporter of real, live musicians, you'd think you wouldn't dismiss it quite so readily.

Anyone know what makes these new?

Yes, but the bottom line is, Michael is unconvinced of the sales potential of a full Mosaic box. Going with the smaller, less costly Select approach will minimize the risk of a full set that doesn't sell.

Brad, you missed my last message from Michael, which I relayed in another thread. He made it pretty clear to me that the three Select concept is going to be a go. This may have been asked and answered before , but why 3 selects instead of a single big box? Because there were so many of them (13 sessions if you include Babes Blues which was released in the late 80s), it would make for one big ass box that wouldn't exactly be cheap, especially since its almost a given that a full blown Mosaic box will include unissued tunes, making it even bigger. The Selects are a lower price point and I would assume that Michael expects more people to buy one or two of the Selects and not all three; better to give them the chance to sample than to ask them to pay $100+ for the whole shebang, especially when, and even the former GHF will admit this, there isn't a lot of variety to the recordings.

Brad, you missed my last message from Michael, which I relayed in another thread. He made it pretty clear to me that the three Select concept is going to be a go.

Enjoy your sleep, Harold, cuz when you wake up, Wright will still be on the DL and being replaced by a mediocre AAA pitcher and your team will still be under .500.

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OK, here's the deal, in a nutshell: Michael Cuscuna has gone back and forth on a Three Sounds Mosaic set. He's expressed an interest in doing one but has also found stumbling blocks, like the fact that their albums have a certain "interchangeability" and lack of variety. He's considered many different possibilities, and the very latest is that it is likely that he will try to issue the Three Sounds LPs that were recorded from 1958 to '62 for Blue Note (they're "classic" period) on a series of three Mosaic Selects. That was the gist of what he told me, the remaining question would be when this might happen.

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Well, its official Obviously bad news, but as I said above, Wade Miller is very close to being ready, so Halama probably won't have to start more than two games before he can return to the bullpen. And this will keep Arroyo in the rotation, and he's done nothing to deserve getting bounced, as he was going to be when Miller is activated. So: Schilling Clement Miller Wake Arroyo I'll have no trouble sleeping nights.

Here's a setlist I've heard: Wayne Shorter at the Village Vanguard 1965 1) Eye of the Hurricane 2) Just in Time 3) Oriental Folk Song 4) Infant Eyes 5) Fran Dance Shorter, tenor sax Herbie Hancock, piano Gary Peacock, bass Tony Williams, drums