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Thanks, Lon, but I wasn't holding my breath for this one anyway. I still have Mingus Ah Hum to open up, and I just put Mingus Mingus on my queue for the distant future.

I received this today: Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is no longer available and has been removed from your Music Queue.

John Coltrane - Prestige Profiles This album is available from Your Music here: http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/John...rane-66096.html This is a good but not great album.. There are eleven songs, from nine different albums, totalling 75 minutes of music. One song I particularly like; one I particularly don't like; and the rest I like, but not particularly. (Boys and girls, can you say "particularly" three times in one sentence? ) My first Coltrane LP was Atlantic's Best of. If the purpose of the purchase is to introduce Coltrane to the "jazz curious", I still think that that's the way to go. If you decide to pick up this album despite my lukewarm opinion, I absolutely recommend that you get the set with the sampler, which is Profiles Collector's Edition, Volume 9. I really like the sampler. It has a broad range of styles, including songs by Coltrane with the Miles Quintet, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Steve Lacy, Yusef Lateef on oboe, two by Eric Dolphy, and a Red Garland piano trio. edit for typos

In 1974 one of my roommates was a first year dental student. For Halloween he brought home a cadaver's skull that they used in school, and he put it out on the doorstep. Not a single kid blinked. I figure they all thought it was a fake. I thought it was pretty ghoulish! edit for typos

Don't forget - half-price candy tomorrow!

Doug Ramsey had some flattering words to say about The Ground last week at his Rifftides blog, so I added it to my queue at Your Music.

Thanks couw!

When I was a boy, Barbasol's advertising pitch was that it was for men with heavy beards. I guess they are returning to that.

Couw, there is no clock in the lower right corner of my screen.

I can't answer your question, except to say that BMG/RCA re-released one of their albums about 2001. Ward Swingle was in the Double Six before he founded the Swingle Singers. He has reformed the Swingle Singers as a group of six young people. They put out an album called Mood Swings on the A Cappella label in 2004. I reviewed it for AAJ. I enjoy it. Listened to it just the other day.

I have had Windows 2000 installed on my computer since we went onto daylight savings time. I am accustomed for the computer to automatically change the clock when the times change, but it didn't happen today. How do I change the clock to standard time???

Happy Birthday! I suggest you celebrate by going over to AAJ and giving them your views on a political topic!

Congrats guys! Now here's hoping the tape came out great.

My favorites are Joe Pass's Six String Santa and Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas. I also enjoy the Jimmy Smith and the Ramsey Lewis. I plan to pick up the Michael Franks CD that came out last year. I was hoping that Your Music would carry it this year, but I guess not.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Brownie!

Happy belated Birthday! Hope the day finished better than it started.

Minew, I'm glad to see that you are settled, and that your family is apparently in good shape. I apologize for the insensitive remarks I made about the people of New Orleans during your time of stress.

The Red Garland Quintets Featuring John Coltrane - Prestige Profiles This album is available from Your Music here: http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/The-...tets-61018.html If this CD were a normal OJC (the product of a single recording session, originally issued as is when the recordings were new), it would be considered a gem. Don't be fooled by the marketing emphasis on Coltrane. This album is piano with accompanying horns, not the other way around. The group of Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Garland, George Joyner and Art Taylor went to the studio twice - November 15 and December 13, 1957. From these two sessions four tracks have been selected. In 1961, Garland recorded once with four other musicians including Oliver Nelson, and from that session two tracks have been selected. So there are only six tracks, 54 minutes of music. Most are pretty laid back. The accompanying bonus disc is Profiles Collector's Edition Volume 2. Since Garland plays the piano, this disc focuses on pianists. Two tracks are by Garland (with Coleman Hawkins or Miles and Coltrane), and one each by Billy Taylor, Tommy Flanagan (with Coltrane and Burrell), Monk, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant and Cedar Walton's Ugetsu (a hidden track!). This bonus disc is as enjoyable as the Profiles disc, and well worth the extra couple of bucks it costs. I can recommend this set.

The game of LOVE, love, LOVE, love...

LOL!! Soul Stream, you started the thread on the Terry Gibbs CD! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=terry+gibbs

The three I wanted have arrived. I have a better idea now of what the situation is, now that I have them in hand. The Prestige Profiles CD is a single CD, merely a reissue of a Best of released late last year. Same CD, apparently same liner notes. The free bonus disc is called Profiles Collector's Edition Volumes 1-10. Each of these comes packaged in its own cardboard sleeve, and is then shrinkwrapped together with a Prestige Profile. The arrangement has the look of being temporary. There is nothing on the Prestige Profile to indicate the presence of the free bonus disc. All ten of the Best of discs now re-released as Prestige Profiles have been discontinued. However, all of the ones that I checked are still available at Your Music. Concord is referring to this series as being for the "jazz curious". So I suppose they should be judged in that light. Personally, I have my own criteria: The first is whether the Prestige Profile disc is something worth having, in which case I would spend the six bucks at Your Music. The second is whether the bonus disc is worth spending the extra couple of bucks for by buying the set from CD Universe. I usually like samplers, so long as they don't cost more than five bucks. I think that the purpose of a sampler should be to introduce the listener to artists and their albums, to generate further purchases. So I think charging real money for a sampler is something I'm not going to go along with. But if one of these Collector's Edition CDs is worth having in the house, it will be worth the couple of extra bucks CD Universe charges over the My Music price. I'll get back with a report on the music I have.

I was introduced to Stolen Moments by Herbie Mann's album Standing Ovation at Newport, with Chick Corea taking a nice solo. That was one of those $1.99 mono albums I got when mono was discontinued.

Congrats! Are their downloads available for one day only, or do they keep a backlog available?