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Listening to Safari from Horace Silver's first BN record now. Man, what a tune! Art Blakey is amazing on this one.

Thanks Pete. I may go for this one.

Did anyone happen to notice that there are a bunch of WM recordings coming out shortly. Scroll down a bit to find them. I'm familiar with the Wave recordings. The others have me curious, particulary the 4 CD set with Konitz. http://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=warne+marsh

Thanks Claude.

Any thoughts? Is this LP (180 gram) set a big improvement over the Columbia CD set? I'm a huge Monk fan, but even I have my limits. Thanks in advance.

I also love Billy Lester's stuff. If you like pianists from the Tristano "school," you gotta check out this guy. Just great. Here's a good one of his: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/8938372-billy-lester) Also Peter Madsen - his stuff with Mario Pavone is excellent (see http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Thomas-Mario-Pavone-Trio/dp/B00000K547/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1262725459&sr=1-4)and Bill Carrothers (http://www.amazon.com/Home-Row-Bill-Carrothers/dp/B001E6G170/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_12)

Not sure how obscure it is, but I love Eddie Costa's "House of Blue Lights."

I like this one: Joonas Kokkonen: Cello Concerto; Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XQ3BJI/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music

I like it, too. Now some pitching!!! Something else to consider is that Beltre and Figgins were offered arbitration by their teams which means if we had signed either of them we would have forfeited a first round draft pick. Polanco, even though he was a Type A free agent was not offered arbitration by Detroit so the Phillies do not have to surrender a draft pick. Sweet! Sweet is right!! I just hope he can really play third. I know he's really a second baseman, but perhaps his bat will more than make up for the loss in fielding ability.

I like it, too. Now some pitching!!!

There's an interesting discussion here... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=37806&hl=

I knew it!!!!! Very cool.

The beginning of Baba O'Reilly sounds a lot like Terry Riley's stuff. I'll just bet you there is an influence there.

Awesome! Didnt' know about this. Thanks!

Got 5. Damn! Somehow I knew that MG would smoke this test. I must be psychic.

Thanks so much for your recommendation, Jeff. I know I probably come across as a complete newb here, but I'd prefer recommendations from around 1980 (preferably even 1990) and up. I have some of the older recordings (Rubinstein, Lipatti, etc.) as rips (legit, by the way) but on my shelf I want more modern recordings. I know many of these might not measure up to the best from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, but I'm hoping there are some recommendations that come close. I was just listening to a recording of Chopin's Etudes by Vladimir Ashkenazy and thought it was excellent.

Sesquicentennial of his birth in 1860, centennial of his death in 1911. Thanks Ron. I knew I could count on you for the answer.

Mahler plays his 5th. Piano roll. Very cool

Thought you Mahler fans might enjoy this. http://www.universaledition.com/mahler/ Not sure why, but 2010-11 is supposed to be the Mahler Centenary Season. Perhaps celebrating his arrival in America?

Nice! Thanks man.

I will definitely be checking in regularly. Very nicely done.

Yes, I like the foam idea! But can we still beat up some Verve executives? Please?

Sound advice. But I still say we storm Verve headquarters!

I think we have the makings of a revolution here. I say we storm Verve headquarters, and kick the living shit out of all of those inconsiderate bastards. (Verve seems to be the biggest culprit.) Who's with me????? I'm warning you, however, that we are not taking any prisoners!!!!

I think you know what I'm talking about: Those little plastic things at the center of the CD box that hold the CDs in place and which always break -- especially the ones that come with the "deluxe" box sets. (For some stupid reason, these little monsters are glued with their trays to the deluxe CD packaging, and thus can't be replaced like the trays that come with regular CDs. Worse still is that are made of a harder and more brittle plastic in the deluxe packaging and are thus more prone to break.) I know this is all probably pretty stupid, but what do you do when you buy CDs that come with these broken things? Do you immediately return them? Live with the problem of the CDs flopping around inside the box? Fix them in some way (I'd be interested to know how you do that)? I'd say about 25% of the deluxe packaged sets I get come with these broken CD holders, so it's a bit of a hassle to always return them. Any Comments?