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I like Dena DeRose's first album for them, which I think was called Introducing... (I'll have to look it up!).

I have the Studio Quintet box and have listened to the first four CDs. So far, my favorite album is ESP. But what interests me the most is the Plugged Nickel sessions, which I haven't heard, because it is the quintet's interpretations of songs Miles recorded with other personnel.

Congratulations Jim!

I vote for Bobby Goldsboro's Summer the First Time. The melody is the one line repeated over and over, while the lyrics are gag-me-with-a-spoon.

I haven't heard The Trip, so I don't know how progressive it is. But I can recommend Art Pepper Today, which was his first Galaxy album. The Trip was recorded in 1976, and Today about 1979.

Moose hasn't reported back, so I enjoyed a La Luna rolled in Miami. Yum! Moose, let us know if you've got a budget left for music after this all-day exercise!

Benchley for me. I've never read any Perelman. Another thing I should add to my list of things to do!

Wasn't Allen Sherman Camp Grenada?

I saw most of these over thirty years ago when I was in college. Mongo Santamaria Roland Kirk Jimmy Smith Herbie Mann w/ Roy Ayers, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous, Steve Marcus Thelonious Monk Roy Haynes Art Blakey Horace Silver Miles Davis lost quintet twice, once with Keith Jarrett as a sixth member Sonny Rollins Herbie Hancock Weather Report - original lineup Cannonball Adderley w/ Nat and Joe Zawinul Charlie Byrd Stan Getz w/ Dave Holland! Larry Coryell w/ Steve Marcus Chick Corea w/ Return to Forever (maybe not a great one - I was bored) two jazz rock standouts: Manfred Mann Chapter III If and not jazz, but a cult memory... Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks!

My method is to listen to every CD I own before buying another. That can cause quite a delay!

Welcome!

Thanks for the heads up, Mule!

mostly 1955-1965

My promo copy of Joe Lovano's upcoming Blue Note album "I'm All For You" (due out May 4) is copy-protected. Great music, not so great fidelity. I have reviewed it for AAJ.

For something different, I recommend two experimental jazz rock albums Lloyd recorded in '71 and '72 for Kapp entitled Moonman and Warm Waters, the latter with The Beach Boys. I prefer Moonman, but they are both interesting attempts to meld the two forms of jazz and rock.

Maybe it's relevant that the F in "of" is pronounced like a V. I have a hunch that if the word were pronounced like "off" we wouldn't skip over the F's.

3 here!

I enjoy Perry Como, but I don't know why he's been nominated.

I learned my lesson when I was still pretty young and very poor. I discovered the rock group Manfred Mann when I was a senior in high school. I was aware of their singles and wasn't interested. Then I heard an album and was hooked. Over time I bought everything by three groups Manfred was in. About 1971 he started a new band, his fourth. I bought three albums by them, going into maybe '73 or '74. I never liked the fourth band, called the Earth Band, but I kept buying the records because I was a completist. At that point I finally realized that the party was over and regained control of my spending. Since then I have bought everything available by some Canterbury groups up to a point when their productivity ground to a halt and only tapes from the vault were being issued, but I have never again been a completist. So I agree with the above statement regarding diminishing marginal returns. When it stops being fun, count me out!

These were the outtakes of the Living Soul session. I think that Prestige selected the right songs to release in 1966. I got that album then, when I was in high school and just starting out with jazz. But Living Soul is paired on CD with an album I rate as mediocre called Spicy. I still like Soul Message the best of all Groove Holmes albums, but I'm glad I have On Basie's Bandstand.

Thanks for the heads up! Looks interesting.

I reviewed for AAJ last year a CD available from CDBaby called The Tim Collins Quartet Live! For five bucks I can highly recommend it. Tim Collins is a recent college graduate who plays the vibes. He's not ready to displace Bobby Hutcherson, but if he were based in the heartland instead of New York I think he'd be packing them in, with a steady gig.

Congrats and good luck, Conn! Let us know when you've spent all the extra money! And on which Mosaics!

Prior to '97, I had my record inventory under control. In that year, however, I joined the BMG record club and I started working for Borders, where they give employees promo copies of new CDs. There were a couple of times when I accidentally took home a promo of a CD I already had a promo of. I no longer work for Borders, and I haven't ordered a CD from BMG in a year. But the damage is done. I could go another five years without buying another CD, just opening the ones I already have. That's too many CDs!

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