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Thanks guys! I see that the BMG Record Club is now offering Jackie's Bag, so I might pick that one up as well.

I remember the Mosaic box, but I've never heard a Tina Brooks album. Is there one considered better than the others?

I'm jealous!

Tonight it's Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman and Rosolino, Disc 1. Great West Coast arrangements.

Well, some of these have already been mentioned, but I'll vote for them again. Stan Getz - Sweet Rain Miroslav Vitous - Infinite Search Chet Baker - Comin' On Dave Pike - The Doors of Perception Steve Marcus - Tomorrow Never Knows Steve Marcus - Count's Rock Band Mose Allison - I've Been Doin' Some Thinking Attila Zoller - Gypsy Cry Cal Tjader - Plugs In Mark Murphy - Bridging a Gap And although this is bossa nova pop, high marks go to Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's second album, Equinox. edit: I want to add some jazz rock that was important to me at the time. These bands were marketed as rock bands, but there was a lot of jazz there. Manfred Mann Chapter III Manfred Mann Chapter III Volume 2 If (with Dick Morrissey) If2 If3 If4 (also known as Waterfall) Dreams (with the Brecker Brothers, John Abercrombie and Billy Cobham)

I have a Rhino collection of his Las Vegas 50s stuff called Zooma, Zooma which I enjoy from time to time. But there is a sameness to the music on it, and I've never been tempted to buy more. But I'm glad I have what I have.

My favorite box is the Paul Desmond Mosaic, so I guess Paul Desmond is my favorite. My favorite vocalists are Mark Murphy and Mose Allison. Don't really feel strongly about an instrumentalist.

Bud Shank, last disc.

Soul Message by Richard "Groove" Holmes. It's a combination of the music itself and the nostalgia.

Thanks John. I think you're right.

Was he the Gatemouth who performed in a cowboy outfit, or am I thinking of another Gatemouth?

Happy Birthday!

Congrats! Any other services as well?

Miscellaneous Music - 26% 1.2 posts per day. I rarely start a thread. I don't use the forums, just the View New Posts list.

I've never tried the alphabet approach, but each January 1 I start listening to my CDs over again. The goal is to listen to every one within the year, but it's been a few years since I've completed the list. I mark the CDs I haven't listened to at the end of the year (just an index card at the end of the row), so I can see at a glance what I have not listened to since, for example, 2001. Occasionally I'll put on one of those CDs I haven't heard since before 1/1/03, and it's invariably a disappointment - something to be gotten rid of. With the warm weather I am now playing some summer rock and roll like the Beach Boys that I haven't heard since last summer.

I wonder how many issues were published of that mag! Even for the fifties, that sounds like an article written by a group of men enjoying martinis over lunch!

I have only one CD that is bronzed, a Caravan album. It was purchased in Canada about ten years ago, and manufactured in the EU. So far it still sounds fine. I started buying CDs in '88, and my discs from then all sound good as new. I am under the impression from discussions with friends that those old enough to have grown up with LPs treat their CDs with the same care; and those too young to have purchased many LPs have treated their CDs more roughly, not concerned about scratches. Perhaps there is something to the argument about storage and handling.

I voted for Cannonball's Bossa Nova. Sergio Mendes brought his working band from Brazil to the US in '62, just a few months after Jazz Samba was recorded. So you have Cannonball Adderley sitting in with a Brazillian bossa nova band. And it's great! I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. I prefer the bossa nova from the sixties because the music lost some of its lightness as time went on and younger musicians took up the form, from what I've heard.

Congrats! Old enough to vote!

Skinny Lemon Lee. Well, it's easy to spell.

I'm sorry to learn of your loss, Randy. My best wishes go out to you and your family.

Just want to add that when you set off the beeper, which you did, the suspicion is not that you didn't pay for what is in your bag. The suspicion is that you have in your pocket something else you didn't pay for. That's why the procedure calls for you to reenter the store and allow your purchased items to be scanned again. If you set off the beeper the second time you try to leave, something is up! These false positives have happened to everybody. It's my opinion that the purpose of the beeper machine is to discourage kids and casual shoplifters. Without that discouragement, a store couldn't stay in business.

Gotta disagree with Brownie! I have a couple of Mariachi Brass albums, and like them for what they are - a knock off of the Tijuana Brass. Strictly pop music, fun not serious. My biggest disappointment was an Yngve Malmsteen record. I had read that he was a terrific guitarist, so I sprung for his latest album and it was pretty stupid. I gave it away.

I don't think any of Cobblestone has been released on CD.

In 1982 I went to see Mark Murphy at the One Step Down club in DC, and he signed personalized cards for two of the women in my office. It's always good to keep the secretaries happy! Thelonious Monk signed a (clean) napkin at the Village Vanguard for me in '68. I guess that's my favorite autograph.