Tom 1960

You could leave a note on the package for your carrier or better yet write on the package DID NOT ORDER, RETURN TO SENDER!. That said, I don't know your neighborhood and maybe it might not be a good idea to leave the package out in the open? The other alternative would be to call your local PO and have them pick the item up. Tom the Postman

Disc 1 A great set of music with a healthy dose of Harold Land and you can't go wrong.

Good for you Ron. Two more today from the same outfit @ 9.99 each.

I can't believe this was available from Amazon Marketplace/Newbury Comics for less than $11 including shipping. I had to jump on it.

Sorry to read some of the negative comments concerning the upcoming book. I was looking to purchase this in the next month or so. Looks like my money might be best served elsewhere. I do appreciate the input.

Funny to run across this thread. I was playing the Living Stereo release this morning and it never fails to amaze me. While I don't own a huge classical music collection, this surely ranks near the top of the list as my all time favs. I could be in the middle of something and when the second movement begins, I'll drop everything that I'm doing. A spectacular work and recording. So glad to own it.

I enjoy these performances recorded I believe around 1959? Not a Bernstein Century release, but a very nice collection of Haydn's Paris Symphonies.

I just placed an order tonight and the 20% off sale continues at least for now. Bought: Jimmy Heath - On The Trail Phineas Newborn - The Newborn Touch Junior Mance - Happy Time Booker Ervin - Groovin' High Roy Haynes and Booker Ervin - Cracklin' Kenny Dorham - Blue Spring Mal Waldron - Mal 2 Total $54.77 with free shipping.

I had to log onto the forum tonight for some reason. Good thing my computer remembered my password. I didn't have a clue.

Today has been a pretty shitty day for me. Without going into the details, this clip at least got me laughing. I hope it brightens your day as well. Enjoy! Rodney Dangerfield from "Easy Money".

I just purchased this a few moments ago via Newbury Comics for just over $13 including shipping.

People are cruel.

Got a good feeling that this set is no longer available? But I purchased from Berkshire Record Outlet at least 5 yrs. ago the George Szell/Cleveland Symphony Brahms cycle on SONY. I believe the 3 disc set set me back $15? Again, it may prove a difficult find. Well worth seeking out though.

Sounds like exciting news, Zen. Definitely something to look forward to. My favorite is the Natick Newbury Comics store. Made alot of purchases there last spring.

Disc 4 Contains the music from the albums "In Pursuit Of Blackness" and "Joe Henderson In Japan".

Happy birthday, Free!

I'm usually up no later than 4:45 am weekdays. I then fix myself breakfast and coffee before I head off to the gym just past 5:30. Weekends, somewhat later. Maybe 7 am if I'm lucky on a Sunday morning. I have dogs too.(3) When they hear the paper girls car driving up the street, all hell breaks loose.

Johnny Hodges - Disc 3

Alot of rain here today. Pouring at times with a brief outburst of thunder and lightning. There's alot of water running down the street. On a positive note, a good amount of snow has melted. I just can't wait till spring!

Thanks Jim for giving us such a great outlet. I'm glad to be a member here.

Listening to the April 5 and August 14, 1958 sessions of Johnny Hodges Mosaic, disc 2. Great music.

Just found this sad news in my inbox : Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto. He was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura and Linda. Funeral and memorial arrangements are pending. Robbed of his sight as a baby due to a rare form of cancer, retino blastoma, and he started to play guitar when he was three, holding the instrument unconventionally across his lap. He formed his first band at 17, but soon formed a trio which was named the Jeff Healey Band. After his appearance in the movie Road House, he was signed to Arista records, and in 1988 released the Grammy-nominated album See the Light, which included a major hit single, Angel Eyes. He earned a Juno Award in 1990 as Entertainer of the Year. Two more albums emerged on Arista, with lessening success as the ’90s passed. Various “best-of” and live packages were released, and he recorded two more rock albums, before turning to his real love, classic American jazz from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. By then, however, Healey was an internationally-known star who had played with dozens of musicians, including B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and recorded with George Harrison. Mark Knopfler and the late blues legend, Jimmy Rogers. A family man with a three-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter he preferred to stay close to home. “I’ve traveled widely before — been there and done that,” he told friends, determined to avoid the lengthy, exhausting tours that marked his life in his twenties and early thirties. A long-running CBC Radio series saw him in the role of disc jockey — My Kinda Jazz was a staple for a while, but in recent years he had hosted a programme with a similar name on Jazz-FM in Toronto. A highlight of his broadcasts was always the use of rare — and rarely heard — music from his 30,000-plus collection of 78-rpm records. As his rock career wound down as the millennium came, he recorded a series of three album of early jazz, playing trumpet as well as acoustic guitar in a band he called Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards. The most recent was It’s Tight Like That, recorded live at Hugh’s Room in Toronto in 2005, with British jazz legend Chris Barber as guest star. At the time of his death he was about to see the release of his first rock/blues album in eight years, Mess of Blues, which is being released in Europe on March 20, and in Canada and the U.S. on April 22. The album was the result of a joint agreement between the German label, Ruf Records, and Stony Plain, the independent Edmonton-based label that has released his three jazz CDs. Mess of Blues was recorded in studios in Toronto, with two cuts recorded at the Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse in Toronto and two at a concert in London England. The backup group on the upcoming CD — the Healey’s House Band — played with him regularly at the downtown Roadhouse, and at a previous club bearing his name in the Queen-Bathurst area. Early last year, Healey underwent surgery to remove cancerous tissue from his legs, and later from both lungs; aggressive radiation treatments and chemotherapy, however, failed to halt the spread of the disease. Despite his battle with cancer, he undertook frequent tours across Canada with both his blues-based band and his jazz group; he was set for a major tour in Germany and the U.K. and was to be a guest on the BBC’s famed Jools Holland Show in April. Remembered by his musicians — and his audiences — for his wry sense of humour as well as his musical playfulness, Healey was a unique musician who bridged different genres with ease and assurance.

Johnny Hodges - Disc 1

Happy birthday, Al!

Ordered the Hodges set on Thursday and arrived on my doorstep Friday morning. I hope to get the opportunity to listen to some of this later today. Based on the many glowing reviews here, this should be a great listen.