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How Do You Do It? by Gerry & the Pacemakers The Game of Love by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders Incense & Peppermint by Strawberry Alarm Clock

I received in the mail yesterday two from Concord which go on sale today. Both are compilations. One is called Cha Cha Soul, which I haven't listened to yet. All songs are latin. The other is called Mood Indigo, and is one of the Jazz Moods series. All the songs are either bluesy or melancholy. Half are vocals. A good safe gift to give to an adult whose musical tastes you aren't quite sure of.

Archie Manning wasted his career playing for the ineptly managed Saints, and I think he wanted to ensure that his sons don't waste their careers the same way. Most players don't have the guts to tell some teams that they would prefer not to play for them. If Eli is in a position where he can get away with it, congratulations I say.

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 voted for American Grafitti, but it looks like my vote didn't tally. Not that my life was anything like any of these movies!

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.

I'm sorry to learn of your loss, Ghost. My prayers go out for your family.

Including box sets, I'm pretty sure it's Miles. Not including box sets, my guess is Mark Murphy.

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!