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Thank you all for this! I can see this becoming my favorite thread.

Thanks Kevin. I too have signed up at Your Music for $4.99. First up will be a new semi-reissue of the Chet Baker Grey December CD. As I recall, Grey December was made up of tracks from two sessions. I believe that this CD is entirely of the first of those sessions. Next up will be EST. I've never heard them, but they get consistently good reviews from the Europeans over on AAJ, so I thought I would give them a try for five bucks.

Putting the entire session on one CD is exactly what I expect from Concord. I'm not optimitic about their keeping things in print, but I do see them taking sessions spread over more than one LP (and therefore OJC) and putting them onto a CD they can charge $18 for.

No way I could list twenty! My two favorite organ dates are Groove Holmes' first two albums for Prestige: Soul Message and Living Soul. A number of great tracks to choose from there, including Dahoud, Groove's Groove, Gemini and Living Soul. On the other hand, Misty is on there, and I wouldn't choose it. To each his own!

You guys slay me! Another New Year's Day tradition is starting a new column for the new year on my database, to denote those albums heard during the year. I do this so that I can see what I haven't heard for a year or two (or more) and pull it out. I oftentimes find that I hear new things when I listen to an album for the first time in a long time.

I have had a tradition for about ten years of opening up a Charlie Parker CD and a Julie London CD each year on January 1. This year it will be Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast and probably Disc 3 of the Parker Live Savoy box. Anybody else have something they will open up January 1, 2005?

My sister gave me a DVD player for Christmas. I knew that I would buy myself one eventually, so I have been slowly collecting DVD sets that looked interesting - Peter Gunn, Have Gun Will Travel, Dragnet, and a western I don't remember called Shotgun Slade, whose claim to fame seems to be that its music is akin to that of Peter Gunn's.

Sometime during the Benjamin Bratt years of L&O, maybe around '96, I read Jerry Orbach's obituary in the Atlanta Journal & Constitution! It was devoted almost entirely to The Fantastiks. No mention of Law & Order. I thought to myself, Isn't that the guy in Law & Order? I wasn't sure. I thought that maybe I was confusing two Jerrys. No telling why the mistaken publishing of the obit was made. I wonder if he knew!

My prayers go out for grey and his family.

Of the list provided, I voted for Chet Baker's Winter Wonderland, but I almost voted for Vince Guaraldi.

I gave my girlfriend the first season Rocky and Bullwinkle box for her birthday last month and she was not happy. She felt insulted. I tried to explain to her that it was a show for adults, but she wouldn't listen. Oh well!

Happy Birthday Phil! And congrats!

I can recommend these! My favorite is the first, with Richard Twardzik.

Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, with Joe Puma: Flute Souffle and Flute Fight. Nothing earth shattering, just real good music.

I'm surprised, because I thought that Mullligan would be leading in a landslide. The great ones make it look easy, and Mulligan had a smooth sound that I haven't heard from anyone else.

Cannonball's Bossa Nova is one of my desert island discs. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. I saw the group when the Country Preacher album was new. It was a lot of fun, and I recall it to be better than the music on the album.

Well, he's deceased now, so maybe he doesn't count. But I would listen to my Tony Williams Lifetime records more often if he didn't sing on them.

Toronto Argonauts 27 British Columbia Lions 19 Wolff wins the contest! Congratulations Wolff! Please pm me your address, and I'll get your smokes out to you.

Good luck Wolff! Thanks for playing!

Greenville, SC Tulsa, OK Clarksville, TN Jackson, MS Athens, GA Tuscaloosa, AL I was hoping for a site in Louisiana, but I suspect my thumbs down on humidity eliminated that! Two years ago I moved away from a town twenty miles from Athens, GA. Now that I live in North Carolina, I'm surprised to find that NC didn't have a site in my top 20. Lots of Texas, though.

Moose, Canadian league games seem to me bbto be higher scoring than NFL games, so if you chose zero as your total points pick, you'd probably lose!

That's the prize for this year's Grey Cup contest, which I've posted here: http://www.lalunacigars.com/aspboard/viewt...09537241&id=823 Good luck everybody!

I had three of his albums when I was in college. I like him! Maybe it's nostalgia.

My favorite of his is his Christmas album, Six String Santa. I just opened up his Pacific Jazz Best of last week to listen to on my new car CD player. It's a good album. I can also recommend his Pablo album I Remember Charlie Parker.

I attended a lecture given by Buddy DeFranco in Atlanta in '90 I think. He highly recommended the Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra. It's been on my mind to try something of theirs, but I haven't yet. I've seen a couple of releases available from Collector's Choice.