AmirBagachelles

Garden was issued on CD 21 years ago. Volume 1 is as rare as hens' teeth. I can find just about anything, I have shopped the web aggressively and in NY, LA and San Francisco for years. Maybe 2-3 copies seen on Ebay in the past ten years. You are correct, it was done, but how about another go for us foolish mortals?

Several by Moers label, including LPs by John Carter, Phillip Wilson, Leo Smith, and Roscoe Mitchell. I would like to see a full "reissue" of Ornette's Town Hall concert, with David Izenzon's composition for bass. And if there is unissued material (e.g. rehearsals) from Monk's 2nd big orchestra date on Columbia, I'll take some of that. And I can hardly wait for Cecil Taylor's Garden. Any year now.

Those old tuners and the metering are just fine, flywheel heaven.

Got it on my way home tonight. I was drawn to it by Lester Bowie and Cecil McBee, and there is not enough great Arthur Blythe on easily available CD, and so this is a treat. Great recording too. I see it can be had on amazon and half.com, you better hurry. It's fantastic.

Chuck - Have the two great AEC Nessa titles ever been re-mastered for digital release from original sources? The 2002 EMI two-fer is an affront. I swapped an old stack of CDs this week for the 2010 FreeFactory "reissue" of Chi-Congo and Go Home, and the sound is decent, a cut above the usual needle drop. Do you think the master owners and estates involved will someday reissue this material as encrypted, hi-resolution downloads?

Milestones Monk In Stockholm, Solo Monk Dolphy, Iron Man and Conversations Marion Brown, s/t Coltrane, Ascension Mode For Joe, Joe Henderson Stolen Moments, Oliver Nelson A La Mode, Blakey and J/M Something Else, The Kinks The Other Side of This Life, Jefferson Airplane, live version Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun and Live Dead and dozens of 1968-9 dates

ok great, how about PM rush hour tomorrow? (I work in midtown) when I get home I will contact you via PM thanks

I will go for it. I can't send a PM though until I get to a PC with a Chrome browser. Thanks, Dan

I used to stop by once or twice a year, and last year I concluded their used prices were too ridiculous ($40+) in some cases. When I pointed out an example or two, using Amazon Marketplace as a reference, they were not interested and insisted that the conversation be over. Overall, a well-scrubbed, creepy merchant vibe. They won't miss me.

I agree w/ R/T, Aurora is amazing, and an expanded release of that band would be dandy. I too don't thrill to the RCAs, I wouldn't go crazy hunting for those if you don't have them. Plenty of excellent small group Sam has come out since.

Get cheap, used Bird At The Roost The Savoy Sessions discs, all four. Don't pay up for packaging or sound enhancement. And I would certainly hunt for Bebop's Heartbeat.

So much product. And so little store credit now for last year's model. I like vintage, quiet Japanese vinyl for this stuff.

I like my Etymotic ER-4, they are neutral in mid and upper range, though bass is weak without a tight seal. So I am getting custom plugs made, and we'll see. Bass is really quite good with Etymotic's fat yellow XXL sponge tips, but those look SO ridiculous and become a big soiled mess in no time. I also like my cheap Audio Technica buds with a benign noise cancellation circuit (Quietpoint ANC3), these are my subway/flying buds. They sound just fine with the NC too. I think I paid $75 for these.

I will check this eve and post you. A great electric guitar record, par for RR in that era. And this one is still easily available.

I think it's great that Mosaic could negotiate for this material and have a financial winner here. This is not jazz muzak and it will sell. This project will probably be a lot more meaningful to the franchise (and thus to us fans and serial customers) than getting Sam Rivers' Rivbea tapes out there pronto.

Dave Holland and Arild Anderson - these guys are on some fantastic free records

I think MC is mistaken about RVG's treatment of drums. Much too hot and often distorted. Blakey's drums, particularly the pedal, clip quite a bit. The guys at Contemporary were making better recordings in the 50s, I believe.

Rhino is a joke, and very slimey. More than a few music industry people do very well selling their Rhino comp booty, it's no secret. (IRS, are you listening?) The website fiasco this morning is just the latest wonder. As for the music, this tour is the apex of all rock, imnsho.

I always assumed that the SNL music segments were good and authentic because the producers wanted something akin to Rock Concert. I remember the bit that Shaffer did about DK, really funny.

Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert

The CD I purchased was "Tanbou nan Lakou Brooklyn". Do not hesitate, it's sweet and a really dynamic recording.

CB (and the Magic Band) produced unique, powerful art. The rock context seems incidental to me.

I wish I had not waited until 2010 to go hunting for this (and no reference to price paid). Timeless music, a great Mosaic presentation.

I have a VICJ-K2 CD reissue from Japan, with the white and yellow cover.

These university teams should go back to playing a ten or twelve game schedule, and the best twenty or so should get to play in bowls from Dec 26-Jan 1, and then back to class. We don't need a playoff, we need more schoolin'. Hats off to heroic efforts by true student-athletes over the course of the real/regular season. I attended a small Division I school, and many of the football players were amazing, driven student athletes. At a program level, I know there are exceptions, but what we see today in the bowls is not really college football.