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My copy arrived today! I put it on right away. My initial thoughts: 1) I think my favorite cut is Tenderly. It's much better than I expected. 2) Most people put their best cuts up front on the CD, but I think that yours are on the back half. Congrats!

Don't ask me how, but I once accidentally put both the Parker Complete Savoy Vol. 2 CD and the Stan Kenton Contemporary Concepts CD at the same time into the Parker jewel box. So one day I'm surprised to open the Kenton jewel box and find it empty. I figured that it must have accidentally gone out in the trash and that I would one day have to buy it again. Some months later, I took out the Parker CD to play it, and there was the Kenton too! There have been occasions when I couldn't find a CD. I keep mine using the LIFO method. But so far the ones that I knew were missing have shown up. They were on a shelf I usually overlooked.

Happy Birthday Lon!

I see that Doug Ramsey at the above link has some very nice things to say about Mike Fitzgerald, dated July 29. Does this maybe change your mind about blogs, Mike?

Last night I finished Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. I enjoyed it, but recommend a collection of shorts stories called The Most of P.G. Wodehouse to anyone who hasn't tried him yet.

I can see from the lack of response that nobody is interested in my two recommendations of Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar - Flute Souffle and Flute Flight. People, it's great music! You're missing out if you don't pick these up cheap! And let me recommend another that falls into the category of great music but not earth shattering: Charlie Byrd and Cal Tjader - Tambu. This was a jam session in '74 as I recall, playing jazz standards like Black Narcissus, Tereza My Love and My Cherie Amour. Great to relax by.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Conrad. I believe that the suffering she endured will enable her to enjoy heaven that much more.

Saddened to hear it. I saw him twice - in '68 with Brasil '66 and in '71 with Weather Report.

Mike beat me to it. I was going to say that 52nd St. Theme would have been my guess for the first recording without Monk present (excepting I suppose Cootie Williams' recording of Round Midnight).

Prayer sent!

Sad. Couw sent me a couple of his albums in a trade.

I have a few albums that I bought an LP of, and later the CD. Richard "Groove" Holmes - Soul Message Richard "Groove" Holmes - Living Soul Mike Nock - In Out & Around Miles Davis - The Birth of the Cool Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (if you count getting the Miles/Coltrane box) Happy the Man - self titled Soft Machine - Third Soft Machine - self titled Soft Machine - Volume Two Manfred Mann Chapter Three - self titled Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Volume Two The Beach Boys - Christmas Album The Kingston Trio - The Last Month of the Year The Four Freshmen - Voices in Love The Four Freshmen - And Five Trombones The Kingston Trio - At Large The Kingston Trio - Here We Go Again Manfred Mann - The Manfred Mann Album Manfred Mann - The Five Faces of Manfred Mann Manfred Mann - My Little Red Book of Winners Manfred Mann - As Is Hey, that's more than I realized!

Sad to hear it. Don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll!

I'm so out of touch, I was thinking of Christina Applegate, who is now on Broadway.

Yes, he is/was blind. I saw him in Boston with Larry Coryell's group Foreplay which featured Steve Marcus in August of '72.

I too enjoy this CD. I found it cheap at Borders in '99, and still listen to it once every couple of months.

My favorite is Perfectly Frank. I saw him in the mid-90s in Atlanta, and I loved the show. He did the same bit of singing a song without amplification.

Oh yeah, I have the Gunns also... forgot about them! Don't know why... I blew through most of those shows when I first got the sets for Christmas. Wish JOHNNY STACCATO would come out too. ← The episodes that I've seen have been much more film noir than I expected. I think I would like and recommend them even if they didn't have the famous music.

I think that GMT is five hours ahead of Eastern, so that would make it 3 am. But we are on daylight savings time. Are you too there in England? If not, that would make it 2 am I think! Somebody help me out!

About ten years ago my neighborhood Burger King in Tucker, GA, played jazz over the intercom. I remember well hearing Horace Silver's Song For My Father while I was having my morning coffee.

That's interesting about the traffic guy! Sounds like a lot of work.

Congratulations! What's a Traffic Coordinator?

Thanks again for your suggestions. I decided to go with Time's Mirror. I'm listening to it now. I enjoy modern big band from time to time, and I'm glad I picked this up.

Thanks, RonS! Do you recommend it?

Happy Birthday Randy!