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Wayne Shorter - Super Nova - BN, UA.

Jimmy Smith - Cool Blues - BN

Love the solo of Johnny Weissmuller in the title track: solo

Actually Hiroshi is one of the sweetest, honest and meticolous seller in the business. Bought some vinyls from him, beyond expectations.

Cactus? It wouldn't last 5 minutes outside here. Maybe in the kitchen, perhaps ! The problem with most cactus in winter is not the cold, supposed it doesn't go too much below 0 C, it's rain, since they 'sleep' in this season the water in the pot is not feeding the plant, and the roots rottens. And this winter we had a 'english' season in Rome.

One week ago I moved out my cactus from the small greenhouse I have on the flat roof, hope I'll do some gardening the upcoming weekends. I have a lower terrace too and a very tiny garden around the house. So most of the plants are in pot or small box. I have a couple of lemon trees, an olive tree, a common laburnum, a pomegranate, four Eugenia myrtifolia and several climbing plants: bouganvillea, jasmine, Pandorea jasminoides, Solanum capsicastrum, ivy, Trachelospermum jasminoides, (fake jasmine?), and wisteria. Actually we are very proud of it, that's typical of town mice.

You are right! Most of the early recordings on New Jazz and Prestige were reissued in stereo in Milestone's twoofer, at least in Italy it was a bargain series called 'Jazz è bello' (Jazz Is Beautiful ), that was my first exposure to Dolphy, Rollins, Monk and many more. The series included also the Riverside's recordings. Now spinnin: Gil Evans - Svengali - Atlantic

Lee Morgan - Infinity - BN.

As I'm sure you've experienced, a lot of jazz sessions for a couple of years were taped in stereo but originally came out on mono LPs. The stereo versions, for better or worse, began to show up on later LP pressings and/or CDs. True, actually it's interesting to listen to these later pressings... and deduce that the monos are better!

Bill Evans Trio - Time Remembered - Milestone twofer with the dates at Shelly Manne Hole with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker.

The Latin Jazz Quartet/Eric Dolphy - Caribe - Prestige, japanese pressing. A bit puzzled, it sounds stereo, but I believed it was a mono recording, at least I never saw a stereo New Jazz (or later Prestige) pressing

Bennie Green - Soul Stirrin' - BN, 47 west mono.

Kenny Burrell - Swinging - BN, King.

Maybe the easiest way is to buy a japanese King pressing, they come with the reprodution of the booklet. They goes for 30/40 $.

15 years ago

I would say that reading the forum had push me to listen to more music, totally unknown for me. So it's hard to name specific members or artists, considering that I was, and still am, an illiterate, musically speaking. For sure all the fuss about 'organ' lead me to jazz organists, a category I never considered before. From 'organ' to soul jazz and beyond, I explored something new. Threads like 'what vinyl are...' or 'what classical music...' for me are the starting points of my musical travels. So thanks to everybody. And yes, you guys have cost me a lot of money, like John said above.

I got a copy of the above LP, missing the liner notes, is there anybody here that could scan them, or photocopy or...?

Jimmy Smith - House Party - BN, NY mono.

Clifford Brown/Max Roach - A Study In Brown - Mercury

Roland Kirk - Kirk's Work - Prestige, yellow label.

Grant Green - Nigeria - BN

Miles Davis - Tutu - WB, Japan.

Donald Byrd - Bird Jazz - Transition 5, Japan reissue.

Exactly my situation and my thought.

A serious question: did you already use progressive lenses?