GregK

Thanks for this thread, Mr Moose. I've used some of these recommendations-today I picked up Archie Shepp 4 for Trane, and Poem for Malcolm and two more Art Ensemble discs-Message to our Folks and Reese and the Small Ones (both are very fine!!). I need to find the ECM discs now

James, you were involved in the organization of that Ann Arbor Jazz fest in July 2003, weren't you? Sorry, I can't remember the exact name of the get-together, but you know what I mean. The one that brought Chris Albertson to speak at the Crowne Plaza. I'm still sorry I missed that.

Well, I went back to Borders, and they were having one of those buy 3 get a 4th CD free sales, so I got both Art Ensemble discs, plus an Archie Shepp limited edition Actuel (Poem for Malcom) and 4 for Trane, all for $51!! And so far, Message to our Folks is fantastic!!

As proof of this, I've posted many times and can't seem to remember anything significant that I've said (except maybe a happy birthday here and there)

I know, this has gotta be the 4th or 5th thread on Art Ensemble recommendations, but I've already started my collection, so now I need some direction. Thanks to all who have pointed me in the right direction by starting with Chuck's box set. I've now discovered my local Borders has two limited edition Art Ensemble CDs on Actuel from 1969-Message to our Folks and Reese and the Smooth Ones. I need someone to recommend to me which one I should buy (assuming I'll buy only one......you never know, I may suddenly decide to just get them both!). Also, around the corner at a used shop I found a 2-disc set that came out on Fuel last year; one disc is Don Cherry and the other the Art Ensemble (both of their tracks are titled Reese). What does anyone know about that set?

why exactly do you need a thread welcoming you, so desperately? Just start posting and be done with it. People will treat you as you treat them, I've found.

Just got back from the dowtown Ann Arbor Borders-they have 2 Art Ensemble limited edition (says 1500 copies on the back) CDs on Actuel from 1969, Message to Our Folks and Reese and the Smooth Ones. I'll be heading back there tonight to pick them up!

That sounds like the booklet from the 30th ann. edition that I have. I believe all of the 30th anniversary editions have a similar booklet relevant to the original release year. I wish they had done the lavish packaging treatment to their 2 recent releases, just to be consistent

I can't walk into a Borders here in A2 without leaving with something from the jazz section. Just in the last month I was able to find Art Ensemble live in Paris 1969 and an Anthony Braxton 4-disc set, for good prices. So I'm not complaining

Hair bands. How awful. I actually work with some guys who love that stuff, go to the reunion concerts, play the CDs at work, debate who the better "guitarist" from these bands was-it's disgusting.

I don't know how much of an improvement over the 30th anniversary edition this is. I have that version (in the mini-LP sleeve, very nice packaging by the way), and the recent compilation box set which used the recently found master tapes for the debut album material, and I can't tell any difference in sound quality between the two

King Crimson, every incarnation

I don't understand these "suggestions"-the game isn't the problem; there is no need to internationalize the game and remove the red line, increase the rink, etc. The game is exciting as it is. We don't need lots of scoring-it's not basketball. Good hockey is defensive, hard-fought scoring chances, not a shootout. The problem is the boneheaded commissioner and the ridiculous expansion. Contract some of these southern teams, leave the game's rules, etc, alone

I just ordered Braxton's Quartet (Dortmund) through the new system. I hope it went through ok!

The Seven Steps box is a good choice. Nothing too out there, and the '64 concert is in there with those great ballads

Thread topic question was "good or bad?" Bad. Very, very bad. Or maybe more accurately, boring. Very boring

I think this is one of the highlights of their studio output, partly because of the length!! I never want it to end!

as long as they don't marry.........

That Blue Note box is one of the best collections of music that I've ever heard. Strong from beginning to end. It was very revealing to me when I bought it, having only known Herbie's work from the 80s electric stuff (ick!) and the Miles quintet. Hearing the Blue Note years, with his sideman work and his own tunes, was eye-opening to me

takes a lot of guts to go out in front of millions and do what she did last night, no matter what your opinion of her is

and terrible at both

sorry, the ladies of Desperate Housewives are on.........I gotta watch that!

I disagree with this. His last two records were two of his very best-Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft rank up there beside anything he did in the 60s or 70s. To me his voice now sounds more and more like any of the best blues singers.

very hard to predict what dylan is up to. you may hear what seem like new songs that turn out to be radically reworked versions of his own standards. I've noticed that he's been doing some Neil Young songs in his recent tours (from last spring, at least)

I've noticed this too. It's like I'm talking to myself sometimes. I make a comment and it gets completely ignored, as if it never happened. Sometimes I think that maybe my post shows up only on my own computer and not on anyone else's! It's usually around that time that I feel it necessary to wander into the political threads to shake things up a bit