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Danny McManus retired today. He stayed a few years too long, but he was one of the greats. I'll never forget the 1994 Western Final in which he led BC to a last play win over Calgary. He's going to be an analyst for TSN. There are only eight teams in the league now, and he played for Winnipeg, BC, Edmonton, Hamilton and Calgary. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

EMI is Blue Note and most of the British Invasion. Now we'll have to see if they are willing to devote the resources to reissuing recordings not on CD.

My order arrived today. That was quick! I haven't seen these albums since they were LPs, and looking at them today in their shrunken state gives me the same feeling I had when CDs were just coming out twenty years ago.

The Kenny Rankin Album (Little David) 1977 Georgie Fame - History of British Pop Vol. 5 (Br. Columbia) Charlie Parker - The Cole Porter Songbook (Verve) 1985 compilation

Here's a link to an article about six current and former NFL players who invested in a hedge fund apparently operated by a fraud. The players claim that the NFL and NFLPA perform services advising the players regarding investments, and that they have retained companies which should have known that the hedge fund manager was a fraud. They say that collectively they lost $20 million. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Does anyone know for sure how to pronounce Lajoie?

Jan Shapiro has been the Chair of the Berklee voice department since 1997. (With 750 voice students, only the guitar department there is larger.) She has been a teacher there since 1985. Her students have included Tierney Sutton, Luciana Souza and Paula Cole. She has a new self-produced album out on her own label called Back To Basics which is available at CDBaby for $12.99. She also has two other albums there which were recorded in the mid-90s. Back To Basics has 8 songs, totalling only 31 minutes. Seven of the songs are standards, and the eighth is Horace Silver's jazz standard Sister Sadie. The standards include Change Partners, Squeeze Me, Our Love is Here to Stay, Beautiful Friendship and S'Wonderful. All four members of the quartet backing her are Berklee colleagues. I am familiar with only drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. Perhaps some of you know one or more of the others: Tim Ray on piano, John Baboian on guitar and John Repucci on bass. Their solos are token. This is Shapiro's album all the way. Shapiro has a baby doll voice, but shows remarkable similarity to Linda Purl. She is 57 years old, but still has perfect pitch. This is a great little album. Even at this late stage of her career, I can see a label signing her. I'll be playing this one often. Those of you with high speed internet service may want to look at her website at http://www.janshapiro.com My dial-up service can't handle it. 4 stars edit for typo

Thanks for that link, Mike. It looks like he is busy now with Creedence Clearwater Revival with all the unreleased indications, but maybe he hasn't done anything with them since the German albums came out.

Mike, I think that Media Mail rates are available only to US addresses. Did I read a couple of weeks ago here in that thread about remastering that Steve Hoffman owned a piece of DCC? That's what I recall, but I may be wrong. Isn't DCC closed down for good? What has Hoffman done lately?

dccblowout.com has been mentioned in a number of threads, so rather than start a new thread about it, I thought I would relate my experience here. I went there Monday the 26th and placed an order for five CDs. There is a minimum order of $25.00, excluding shipping. I picked four Skye/DCC albums (all of which I believe but I'm not sure were remastered by Steve Hoffman): Cal Tjader - Solar Heat Cal Tjader - Plugs In Cal Tjader - Sounds Out Burt Bacharach Gary McFarland - America the Beautiful I also picked a Charles Brown album called Since I Fell for You. The sub-total came to only $26.96. The website automatically set me at the least expensive shipping rate in its system, which was FedEx ground service for $11.98. However, reading the small print on a link they suggest you read if you are a first time customer, I found that they will send it Media Mail rate if you type in the words "Media Mail" in the comment box. They will manually reset the shipping charge for half the stated rate. The following day I received an email with an attached invoice stating that the order had been shipped, and that the shipping charge had been reduced to $5.00. Delivery was promised in 7 to 14 days. I'm not in a hurry for these, so that is fine, and I save $7.00 shipping. So the grand total came to $31.96 for 5 CDs, or $6.39 each.

Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club (Jap. Virgin) 1975 Shorty featuring Georgie Fame (Epic) 1969?

I received my Legrand and Tjader order today. I guess ten days isn't too bad. That's three days more than what my Your Music orders usually take. The Tjader has a b&w cover. Its tray card is also b&w. It appears to have been in their inventory since 1998. I would definitely prefer color, but at the price I can't complain. CD Universe has the album for six dollars more - $10.65 plus shipping. edit for typo

Happy Birthday jl!

Red Garland - Red in Bluesville (Prestige OJC) I like this much more than At the Prelude.

Thanks for your input ejp and Aggie. I've ordered quite a few CDs this month, and I don't know where I'll find the time to listen to them all! It's hard to pass up a good bargain.

The league named Mark Cohon its new Commissioner today. He has credentials, having worked for both the NBA and MLB. It was never clear to me what the owners didn't like about the last guy, so it will be interesting to see how long the honeymoon lasts. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...ory/GlobeSports

Walt "No Neck" Williams You mention Zoilo V. When he came up he was Zorro Versalles.

Does anyone have an opinion on the James Carter, Stefon Harris, Christian McBride or Jason Moran? I've already decided to get the Sonny Rollins.

Henry Mancini - Theme from "Z" and Other Film Music (RCA Victor) 1970 Sue Raney (with Bob Florence Trio) - Sings the Music of Johnny Mandel (Discovery) 1982 I had a headache, and needed something easy to listen to.

Thanks Aggie! Some of those look too good to pass up.

When I was a boy living in Seattle in 1961, the Coast League base stealing champion that year was a shortstop named Rac Slider.

Great to hear, Bruce. I visited Your Music today, and looked at my queue to see how it was doing. There was Trompeta Toccata right on top where I put it, waiting to go out early next month.

Thanks for posting that JL. For those of us who grew up in the 50s and the 60s, it doesn't surprise me (us) that junior high and high school kids prefer singles over albums. It's the college kids and the adults who can afford the albums. But the article mentions that country albums may be on the way out as well. Although I know plenty of kids who prefer country over teenage pop, I still think of country as an adult genre; so I'm a little surprised that their album sales are also sliding. And besides, I imagine that country fans would be among the last to adopt the model of downloading to get their music.

Thanks for those photos Jim!

I don't have the hair!