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How interesting that AlovinJ has a copy of this album before its release date. How interesting that AlovinJ is putting up identical posts about it on other Web sites too. Boy, I love street teams.

My work shift ends after midnight. On the way home, the cops in my little suburb have pulled me over at least three times this year, on some made-up premise ("You didn't signal that turn" -- yes, I did). All for the sin of being a different-looking person out after midnight in my little whitebread community. No tickets yet.

Hey. these rules are made to be broken. Perkins did a great job with Mingus. Me, I'm partial to Roy Brooks.

What they said. Be advised that "Me Myself"/"Something Like a Bird" is a late-in-life recording on which the ailing Mingus didn't play. My rule of thumb for Mingus records is to be wary of those on which Dannie Richmond isn't the drummer.

The depths are usually there in Dexter's playing. But the glimpses of them can be fleeting, sometime just a part of a phrase. But what a phrase! Remember what Larry Kart wrote about multiple points of perspective in a Rollins solo? I hear some of that in the best Dexter too.

It's tough for me to listen to Dexter's playing from after about '74 or so, as the physical decline was becoming so apparent. Before that, he's one of my giants.

Hey, I LIKE that "More Than You Know" record.

Phil's tape is at www.phillesh.net. Looks like there's three of them. After a few days of listening to '72 and '73 shows, I'm just now hearing the vaunted Cornell '77 for the first time. I'm having the same "Is that all?" reaction that I had to Veneta. And why does Mickey Hart have to make "One More Saturday Night" stop swinging?

Ohh, I'm late to the party on this one. Sorry, guys, I REALLY dislike the Guarneri Quartet set. I got rid of it...and I hardly ever get rid of anything. Quartetto Italiano is interesting but over-romanticized and soupy in places, especially in the later quartets. The Emerson Quartet set is a HUGE disappointment. I get tired of all their pausing as if to say, "OK, dumbass, listen up, something important is about to happen." A set I really like: The Talich Quartet on Calliope. It's out in a budget-priced box, I think. Low-pressure, charming, warm performances, with wonderfully in-tune playing, unlike the vaunted Vegh. I still haven't heard the Takacs. Gotta do something about that. Shoot me, but I like the Alban Berg in most of the late quartets. But only in the late quartets.

I'm sorry I signed your name on that piece of paper. But the recruiter was so insistent. And you've always wanted to see the world, right?

Nessa hasn't found them yet. But he will. (Love your new avatar, Hardbopjazz. I know it expresses my cat's innermost feelings.)

Quincy, can you get into the GDL site at all? I haven't been able to since Thursday. I've tried on three different machines.

Two things on my mind today: 1. Anybody know what's going on with the GDL site?? 2. Big recommendation for Dick's Picks 36. I've never been a Morning Dew fan, but the Dark Star > Dew on this one makes me crumple.

What Rosco said. Ted Kendall's British, isn't he? So the British copyright claim on his work might give you some traction against these thieving MFs.

It happened in my family too. Grandpa was never the same after the war. I remember him showing me the scars he got from that Bechstein.

He's saying "Hodaddy." This was Mingus in his surfer phase.

Glad to see y'all mention my friend Jerry Hahn, alive and well in Wichita and still playing stuff that can spin your head around. But on to my real query of the day: My local used-disc dive has an inexpensive copy of the GD "Downhill From Here" DVD. Opinions on this one?

Hmm... They didn't have problems finding the masters for Hawkins, Strayhorn and Buddy Tate for CD issues in the 1980s. Have I mistaken Universal's incompetence for evil, or its evil for incompetence?

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Nice jackets are the very soul of jazz. I just got a promo copy of the fine new Jazz at Lincoln Center production, with a prominent Brooks Brothers logo right on the front.

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A bunch of copies of Andrew Hill's "But Not Farewell" on Blue Note were actually some hair-metal album. This is turning into the "EMI's Crappy Quality Control" thread, isn't it?

I've rescued some discs with a product called Novus #2 Plastic Polish. (There are three grades, #3 is too coarse, #1 is too fine.) Takes a lot of rubbing, but it works.

Not many Adolfs since the '20s. But Elvis is on the rise.