AndrewHill

Coleman Hawkins:

Of the ones you mention, I bought the remastered Grimes, Wright and Lowe. The Grimes, to these ears, sounds great with Grimes up front and sounding very prominent. I bought the Lowe because of the extra material, so I disregarded earlier editions for that reason alone. Again, sound is very good to these ears and its interesting to hear William Parker early in his career. I also found the Wright sounding really good, but my only gripe is that they didn't reissue this material with the original artwork. The album cover for 'Your Prayer' is absolutely badazz. Overall, I've been pretty pleased with the new reissue program, I just really don't like it when they don't reissue the original cover art, as they redesigned the Murray, Burton, Wright and Ayler's Spirits Rejoice for instance. The original ESP artwork is some of the coolest around and shouldn't be messed with, IMO.

SWEET! Thanks for the heads up. One of the Borders in the area has a copy of the new Braxton in their bins. Will have to go tonight to see if its still there. which Braxton, the moscow set on leo or the trio disc? The trio disk, but I called them tonight and apparently someone beat me to it

We got his with a "surprise" lake-effect snow storm today which dumped about 4 inches of snow in some regions. Temps are still hovering in the 20's

Just updating old vinyl. Actually cheaper than buying the two I needed. Does the WR set include "Live in Tokyo"?

SWEET! Thanks for the heads up. One of the Borders in the area has a copy of the new Braxton in their bins. Will have to go tonight to see if its still there.

Nice used cd haul at my local Exchange: Elvin Jones-Puttin' it Together-BN Sun Ra-Other Planes of There-Evidence Chet Baker & Art Pepper-The Playboys-Pacific Jazz (have Picture of Heath, but always liked the album cover art on this one) Thelonious Monk-Solo-Vogue/BMG

Thanks for the list Late. Man, there's a lot of titles I don't have!

I'm sorry to hear about your loss; losing a pet is never easy.

One of my favorite Hill's!

Great cover there. The man on the right almost catches Charlie's "serial killer" look!

Its been in rotation in my house since it arrived in the mail about two weeks ago!

Nice lineup of music there!

Another vote for Mingus Moves. I personally consider it some of his best 70's work, along with Changes I & II. Really good stuff.

Second that. Not familiar w/ Turner but hope he reovers fast.

Happy Birthday Paul!

Same here, kind of a shock considering that he wasn't that old. RIP.

One of Booker's Best!

HB GA from HG!