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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.

I highly recommend Mike Westbrook's Love Songs, even though to me Side 2 was distinctly inferior to Side 1. I still play it from time to time when I come across it.

I vote for Getz/Gilberto, recorded in '63 I'm pretty sure. And Cannonball's Bossa Nova, which I think was recorded in '62.

An Arista twofer, Paul Bley's Copenhagen and Haarlem. I pulled it out tonight because the two sets were recorded Nov. 5, 1965 and Nov. 4, 1966.

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, which is active in southern California. Two albums, two Grammy nominations. The first album was the first DVD audio.

I'm a consumer rather than a collector, and I enjoy listening to tapes and CDs of old radio shows from the 50s. Nowadays you can buy complete series on CDs recorded in mp3. I have quite a number, though nothing compared to the people who are serious collectors. When I've listened to them, I give them away to friends who would enjoy them.

I'm past buying any Beatles albums, but if it were up to me there would be no remastering - make them sound just like the originals did!

Thanks for posting that! Since a Walmart only carries 5,000 titles (a Borders carries many more), it appears to me that relatively speaking Walmart only carries the best sellers. I would think that a record company could make up in volume what it loses in margin with such best sellers. Where is it written that a label's most profitable sector has to be its best sellers? This might encourage labels to devote some budget to art, rather than mass market, and I would think that jazz would benefit.

Harold, I grew up in New Orleans, and Deacon John and the Ivories were regulars at our high school dances. Not my cup of tea, but I'm glad you enjoyed him. I have an album he made about '91, and if you'd like to trade for it I'm open to suggestions. PM me! I saw him at the '91 New Orleans Jazzfest, and the crowd loved him, although maybe the feelings were more sentimental than musical, but since you liked him too more than ten years later I guess he offers something to those in the market!