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The Borders in Brentwood (St Louis County) MO closed down right after New Years due to a water main break and still hasn't re-opened more than 60 days later, which is a pain for me as the nearest Borders is now 20 minutes or so away versus 5-10. I buy mostly books there and hadn't noticed the jazz section shrinking. There's a Barnes and Noble closer but I don't go there out of sheer habit, knowing that the CD selection and pricing is pure crap. Here's hoping that they re-open soon.

13 unreleased Pres tracks make this set indispenseble for me. Peace, Blue Trane

Tricky Sam Nanton Samuel Peyps (sp?) Juan Samuel

My method is really not complicated-whatever moves me at the moment, especially a new purchase. For recycling, I pull at random until I hit something I haven't heard for at least a year or something mentioned on the BBF or Organissimo that falls in the same category. This week I'll be focussed on the BMG boxsets I picked up earlier this month-Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and the classical box sets-Bruckner & Mozart Symphonies, Schubert piano music, Jacqueline Du Pre; in other words, I'll get to the end of Spring break without having exhausted all of the "new" material. So maybe it's time to take a break from buying? I'll let you know how that works out... Peace, Blue Trane

KCSM-a listening pleasure for straight-a-head jazz in the 4:00 AM CDT hour. I only wish I could get it over the air. Peace, Jeff T aka Blue Trane

Charlie Parker: The Complete Verve Master Takes, Disc 1. Thanks for the inspiration, King Ubu. Peace, Blue Trane

Mike "Moon Man" Shannon Shannon Elizabeth Elizabeth Rex

My favorite Brahms Symphony Editions are Furtwangler and Kurt Sanderling w/ Staatskapelle Dresden. Both sets are relatively inexpensive and masterful interpretations,IMO.

I ordered the Baby Face Willette-thanks for the tip on BMG. I'm looking forward to hearing Paul Bley for the first time on Solo in Mondsee and renewing acquaintance with Wes Montgomery's more pop material in the Millennium Collection. Joe Williams' small group Everyday I Have The Blues featuring Thad Jones and Snooky Young looks to be a real treat. I also went crazy this last weekend over that BMG Box Set sale, ordering Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Coltrane's Quartet and Village Vanguard Sessions, the two Sinatra boxes, Ray Charles' Atlantic Soul Sessions. In Rock I ordered the Complete Led Zeplin and Citizen Steely Dan sets. For Classical I pulled the trigger on Bruckner, Martha Argerich & Friends, Mozart Symphonies, Jacqueline DuPre, Mitsuko Uchida's Schubert. Now where I'll get the time to listen to it all... Peace, Blue Trane

St Louis. Yesterday-upper 70s. As we speak-snowing with 5"-9" possible before it all ends on Tuesday. I'm hoping for at least 1 day off from school. I teach and snow days are mental health days. Peace, Blue Trane.

Charlatan by Brock Pope. This is one of the most hilarious and interesting reads I've had in quite awhile. It's the story of the great medical quack "Dr" John Brinkley, who "restored" faded male virility by surgically transplanting goat glands during the 1920s and 30s.(Who would have thought that this could be big business?). He revolutionized modern politics when he ran for Governor of Kansas and was an early pioneer of radio who started a million watt pirate radio station at the Mexican border (he was then headquartered in Del Rio, TX) peddling his quack nostrums. For entertainment, Dr Brinkley offered a steady diet of country music including The Carter Family and even preached sermons on Sunday. Henry Fielding wrote Jonathan Wild in order to prove that "greatness and goodness have no part in each other". He would have loved Charlatan.

The sale was listed as Unlimited 2/3 off CDs.

I hit BMG Music Service to find that their Box Sets are reduced by 2/3 with S&H @ 0$ once you've ordered 5 discs-not sets-discs. I figure they've either lost their minds or want to unload their Box Sets. Thus-the Complete Coltrane Quartets @ $12.33, Complete Charlie Parker Master Takes on Verve $9.33, BHoliday Verve Studio Master Takes $9.33, Coltrane Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, Jimmy Smith-Retrospective-$8 etc, etc. If you belong to BMG I'd hurry over there. Peace, Blue Trane

McCoy Tyner: Jazz Roots. Basically McCoy plays compositions associated with some great pianists and the results are delightful. I found Don't Get Around Much Anymore(Duke) and My Foolish Heart-dedicated to Bill Evans- especially effective and moving. Personally, I could listen to McCoy play solo piano all day long.

The Quota: Jimmy Heath. This completes my JH on Riverside as a leader. I'll get to see Jimmy in March at St Louis' Jazz At The Bistro-listed in USA Today as one of the Ten Best listening rooms in the country. I'm hoping to get his autograph as he has been a long time favorite. Peace, Blue Trane PS This is a solid four stars all the way, IMO.

John Coltrane Quartet: Ballads. From The Impulse Albums, Volume 1. This set always sends chills and raises the hairs on my neck. Nice remastering job.

Sonny Rollins: The Freelance Years/ The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings. I'm now listening to Disc 3 where Sonny conducts a master class in unaccompanied tenor on "It Could Happen To You" from The Sound of Sonny. Basically, this box set is top flight Sonny Rollins at one of his creative peaks. Who could ask for anything more? Peace, Blue Trane

My favorite Milestone recordings are Enlightenment-Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit is incendiary!- Super Trios (the title is accurate)- Song of the New World and it's hard to be objective about this body of work. Peace, Blue Trane

McCoy Tyner: Expansions. An outstanding McCoy release. The Mosaic Select box is well worth the money, IMO. Wayne Shorter's late 60s Blue Note Releases Peace, Blue Trane

Clifford Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings, Discs 3 & 4. These are the Art Blakey: A Night At Birdland performances and they sound as beautiful as always.

Miles Davis Quintet Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival. UM, Um, UM..... Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil. Also for Christmas: Sarah Vaughan Live At the Monterey Jazz Festival 1971. Via Ebay-McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select which hopefully will arrive in the next week or so. Peace, Jeff T aka Blue Trane

Today's list Martha Argerich: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 Igor Stravinsky Conducts Le Sacre du Printemps Mitsuko Uchido: Mozart Piano Concertos Trevor Pinnock: Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks Bruno walter: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony

On e of my favorite late Ellington recordings is "And His Mother Called Him Bill" -beautiful renditions of some of Strayhorn's masterpieces. Blue Trane

The Autobiographies of: Alexander Dumas, Igor Stravinsky, Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Mozart, Jorge Luis Borges Fiction: The Duke Ellington Murder Mystery, SciFi by Edgar Allen Poe, A Journal of El Dorado, Gabriel Garcia Marquez on anything, a "lost" MS from Charles Dickens, George Elliot, John Cheever, sequels to Crime and Punishment, etc Poetry: a cache of undiscovered poems by Wallace Stevens , Pablo Neruda, William Shakespeare

My second genre is Western art music-most often called classical. I was exposed early on to "classical" music by my mother, but the first piece that opened a door in my mind was Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. That's the source of many of my tastes. The other artists I learned from at around the same age (11) were Ahmad Jamal-I know every note of Jamal at the Pershing- and Sonny Rollins-Sonny Meets Hawk! My father was actually the jazz lover and his collection formed the foundations of my sensibilities. For me, genre is a shorthand, useful for quick, albeit superficial conversations. I 'd have to say that music with depth and integrity, inventiveness-all spiritual qualities- are what I keep coming back for. Peace, Jeff T