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I've owned this one a month now, and I still play it almost every day. I'm starting to like some of Stephen Scott's solos better too. Any second thoughts from those who have it?

Congrats Bill! I am under the impression that retail stores will hire just about anybody willing to work for the low wages. As a result, it is not uncommon to have employees who will do just enough work not to get fired. So I recommend that you be ready for employees with bad attitudes. Don't let it grind you down!

I met Vitous when Infinite Search was just out, and we chatted for ten minutes. He didn't seem egotistical at all to me. This was about 1969, and he was playing with Herbie Mann.

BFrank, I have ordered from DeepDiscount DVD a few times. They are reliable, but a little slow. Edit: The Danger Man and Saint Early Years sets look appealling.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the Miles Quintet with Coltrane live date that was packaged with the Round About Midnight Legacy Edition. Does anyone have this? How does it sound? Is the performance any good? Or is this just for completists only? I see on the Your Music thread that it is backordered there, so they must have sold quite a few. I wonder how many more they would have sold if they hadn't bundled it with the other album that most folks already have.

Noj, when my order in May didn't arrive, they made me wait four weeks before they would consider my request to look into it. When the four weeks passed, they admitted that they had received the CD back, and they sent me another one without hassle, which arrived in three days.

Great news that they're carrying new ECMs again! Thanks for that heads up.

Nice effort! I don't think I would have included Headhunters. In the jazz rock fusion category, I might have substituted one of the two mentioned in his recent obituary: Steve Marcus - Tomorrow Never Knows or Count's Rock Band.

Bertrand, I'm working from memory, so if you're sure that you're right I'll go along. It seems to me that the Mosaic catalogues from the 80s often included references to tracks previously unknown. Maybe that was just a little hype. I think I have a catalogue from that era somewhere, but I wouldn't know where to find it quickly.

Mosaic's first release, the Monk Blue Note box, included the first release of the song Skippy.

SS1, I got the 2-CD release a few years ago and listened to the first nine tracks, which were the first session. I was disappointed. Smith hadn't perfected his hip stops sound yet, and what he did there was still for me too much like a roller rink compared to what he developed into. Your posting this reminds me that I should listen to the next session on the disc, if I can find it somewhere. (That's the problem with not keeping my CDs in alphabetical order!)

Soul Stream, same here! Now I'll be waiting for YourMusic.

Congrats guys! I'm listening to This is the Place as I type.

Happy Birthday Marcoliv!

Happy Birthday Brad!

Wish I could have been there!

I went to CD Universe today, and I see that Monk/Trane at Carnegie Hall is not only their #1 best seller, but that it is backordered. They sold out of it!

Harold, I'm no expert, but since no one else has answered your question, I'll give it a try. I believe that you have to go to the store to become a customer, and they will give you a new number. But they will probably also give you a new phone for free, depending on your plan.

FFA, I thought about that! I don't have an opinion, so I wouldn't argue about it, but I think it would be fair to say that Slide would really have to be a completist for Rosolino to buy this album for the trombone solos. Maybe he is!

I have found my CD, and there is no listing of personnel other than arrangers Benny Carter, John T. Williams and Pete Carpenter, and conductor Stanley Wilson. Slide, how can you be sure that the solos are by Rosolino and not Pete Carpenter?

Aha! As suggested above in post #7, I posted this thread as Wynton's first recording. But with Spontooneous's correction, I changed the subcaption of the thread and a sentence of text in the first post. I now see in the liner notes: 1981 Golden Feather Award "...the recording debut of Wynton Marsalis...in superb form...this rates five stars." - Leonard Feather LA Times I knew I wasn't making it up! I still know that I'm losing my mind, but not in this case!

No Pendergraft is listed in the credits. The "Recording and Mix Engineer" for both dates was Phil Edwards.

No, I was home in New Orleans slaving away as a Mosquito Control Inspector each July!

Mike, I believe that was a different show. I don't believe that any vocalist made an appearance. I also don't recall any guitarist. I also believe that the show I saw was during the following school year, but I could be wrong about that.