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My wife's first labor was tough on her, but REALLY tough on my ears. Talk about a garbage mouth. But well worth all 15 hours of it. Best Johnny boy, Sensitive Dan

The Senns sound fine to my ears, I can't fly without them. I have the old model with the battery pack and switch along the cord, and that's a bit of a pain. Will the new Senns cover the ears?

Big Jim checked out a little after The Doors peaked, a little rust and a paunch, so what? They were a force for change for a few important minutes in '66 and '67, and so they get to keep all due props in my book. How ironic that they were used by FM radio programmers in suits starting about '75 to ignite the toxic sludge of nostalgic "classic rock". (Isn't that when that album w/ poetry came out?) I don't think Jim cared to look back, and he didn't see the next lurch forward, and I guess it got to him. To the extent the 60s were about getting laid more easily and freely as much as anything else in white America, what could really match The Doors influence?

Sets to avoid, let's see... How about the Complete Bob Seger on Epic Collection, certainly that Crosby Stills and Nash 90s Anthology (including rare outtakes and the live acoustic benefit from the Berkeley Alzheimer's Clinic) was nothing to write home about.

damn, I gotta hear more Andrew Hill, thanks for the reminder

Get the fabulous Ornette Coleman trio discs At the Golden Circle Stockholm, vol 1 & 2, awesome bass playing too. Among my favorite BNs: the great Blakey titles incl in the Mosaic set and Indestructible and Free for All, Blue Train, Joe Henderson titles, and (Paul) Chambers' Music. And get into Impulse!, too much great Mingus and Coltrane to ignore!

Oh we have the slightest idea, and more. Once we pay, we are done, we have satisfied our obligation. We want the positive feedback for the fast payment. That a seller might withhold feedback because his customer might "go gonzo" is pathetic, and exactly the problem. Too f*cking bad, maybe the seller didn't meet his end of the deal, like shipping verrrry slowllly a beat up Jackie McLean two-fer that he said was NM. You might want to know everything is OK, that is honorable, but don't withhold feedback until you see a little something for you posted by the buyer. It's commonplace now, and it's dishonorable. Don't give positive feedback to sellers who want more than your prompt payment, who demand to see your feedback.

Buyers, don't leave feedback for sellers until they leave it for you. Buyers, by paying you have normally completed your obligations in the initial transaction first, before the seller has done so. There should be nothing more for the buyer to perform to get initial feedback. If you don't get feedback, don't leave positive feedback for the seller, unless you are feeling magnanimous. More frequently, I see messages from sellers urging me to leave feedback, and then they will. That's BS. Don't fall for that. The seller is essentially saying, "if you're a good customer as evidenced by making us look good, we'll recognize you as a good customer." Once I pay, particularly on time, I am a good customer and due feedback, and any other "arrangement" potentially inhibits what I can say about your experience. (I just noticed a recent new member here on the board is possibly a guy who ripped me off on Ebay about two years ago. I think Ebay is enormously biased to sellers' advantages, and buyers need support.)

thanks, too many work hassles to deal with remotely though, still praying for more snow, enough to entice the kids to take their kineticism outside. I have a Lucky Thompson disc, that's all I know from that JiP set, it must be fantastic with a multidisc player, yes?

I apologize to all still waiting! I left for vacation, forgot the discs in my ofc. I had a scheme to get them sent by my colleague at work, but.... I will be back on Sat/Sun, they will go out right away, w/ $2 rebate per title. My very bad, sorry guys. Dan

Art Pepper stands pretty tall among any and all alto players.

For great deals and opportunities to buy 5-6 excellent condition LPs for maybe $10-15 each, I recommend Groove Yard in Oakland and Academy LPs in NYC. (For an hour of browsing every 6 weeks, that's what I seem to come up with...) Amoeba in SF and Berkeley are also great, but they tend to overprice by about 15-25%, or more. On the other hand, they ain't makin' this stuff anymore, so when you see IT, you generally have to buy IT, because it may be 3-4 years til IT comes around again. I won't bother with a rant against the new vinyl reissues, but I haven't heard the magic yet. (A Mosaic set is another story, you should definitely get the Miles Columbia 60s quintet on vinyl from Mosaic, its my reference standard anyway.) Japanese vinyl up to the mid-80s is satisfying, but expensive and requires patience. I would also recommend just one splurge for something vintage, maybe a Contemporary title (Art Pepper or Sonny Rollins?), just so you'll know how wonderful this all can sound. I see you are upstate, I have wanted to visit the Bop Shop in Rochester, they are really nice on the phone. Burlington must have some good stores too. Anybody from Vermont on the board?

I have noticed a steady pace of people selling their rare japanese copies of Sweet Earth Flying and Geetchee Recollections recently on Ebay. I have been trying to get these two for about 3-4 years. It seems to me that people often dump expensive OOP discs on Ebay when they get word of a pending new reissue, could this be the case w/ these two? Has anybody seen Vista recently? Mine went down in a basement flood last summer. Thanks

and clem to your earlier question: I have no good or even mild knowledge of the JGB output before '79, I really only know the old keystone Lp. I wish I knew the tapes better, too. On the live side, Jerry was impressive to me as a band leader, and the range of styles in a given set was huge, I thought going to a JGB show in a small venue was as good as it could get. I need to get the Broadway discs, though having listened to the Warner Theatre DC tape from 77 for years, I guess I should try that first Pure Jerry. The Almost Acoustic is an old favorite too.

You may know that Don's Music fled Amity & Court for L.A. at the end of the summer, said the landlord tripled the rent on that 12'x12' room. Nice guy Don. Dick landlord.

Now that you mention this, I noticed last night how great a certain kind of box is, and maybe this would work for you. I keep the Ornette Beauty/Atlantic box on a book case with other CDs, and it's cool because if the red side is showing, and the ribbon is left protruding, I just pull it out the interior box and the exterior shell box just stays put on the bookcase, a stationary placeholder, nothing else touched or disturbed. I was thinking I need double boxes, w/ the exterior box open on one side, exactly like that for CDRs. I was thinking awhile back that the record companies, while they are crying over the alleged impact of CDR trading, should be selling us artwork and gear such as this for the ad-hoc portion of our collection.

I'll check mine out, maybe do this or just sell it to ya cheap. I picked it up at that Holy Cow used LP store in Park Slope just before they checked out. DC

Sorry to be such a crank Alan, I know you are a great resource to all of us. I just hate giving up a subliminal edge to my counterpart in a sale, always have. Cheers, Dan

"Nine-ninety-nine? I must be some kind of neanderfuck!!" And just an old fart.

that 95 and 49 cent shit is really condescending. So if I buy twenty discs I'll save a buck? Great! How about round numbers and saying what you mean, like a $4.95 disc goes for five bucks. This isn't the home shopping network.

In honor of Al's generosity, let's all spin some Joe P with tonight's beer after work. I'll be getting it on w/ For Django. Thanks Al for the good spirit.

I can't imagine anyone comes close to Blakey, very high consistency, LOTS of GREAT albums, rises well above the blandness of most hardbop (which has kept me at arm's length from Horace Silver's music). Second place to Joe Henderson, awesome quality, but low quantity.

Folks, I have an extra copy of this great Lyons disc, one of my favorite discs, period. I would like to work a trade for a hard-to-find Braxton on Hat. (I only have the live Willisau and Santa Cruz). Prefer the classic quartet w/ Crispell and Hemingway, but I'd be interested in your pitch, regardless. Thanks, if I can't do this deal, then certainly I will discuss something else for Jump Up. Thanks, Dan

I'll make a color copy for you, but I won't have it done for a week or more, it's up in northern CT. I love that disc, and they had a few copies left at Norman's on 3rd Ave last I looked.

Ok so everybody is going to order the classic Miles and Coltrane on Prestige, Art Pepper and Sonny Rollins on Contemporary, Rollins on Prestige, Monk and Evans on Riverside, um, hey wait a minute, the sum total of OJCs kind of makes BN and any other label look... not as good. I was into this stuff long before I started buying BN titles beyond those first Monks, Navarro and the Blakeys. THIS WOULD BE TRAGIC, and I will write to my senator and congressman if this happens and this vault goes into lockdown.