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Although electric will never shave as close as an acoustic blade, I'm thinking of giving a new SACD razor a try.

Next three Columbia Ellington titles are due out on 7/13: Duke Ellington - Blues In Orbit (Columbia/Legacy) July 13 -- recorded in 1958-59; with eight bonus tracks Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground (Columbia/Legacy) July 13 -- 1961 trio session with Aaron Bell on bass & Sam Woodyard on drums -- plus 1957 bonus trio session from 1957 with Jimmy Woode on bass & Woodyward (six tracks) & one bonus track from '61 session Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background (Columbia/Legacy) July 13 -- from 1961; with five bonus tracks, including a previously unissued version of "Harlem Air Shaft" from 1961 -- all three discs will include new liner notes by Patricia Willard jazzmatazz.home.att.net/releases/

The Feb. RVG titles will be out on March 9th! (February 38th?) They've added another Byrd title and a Rivers and moved the Jimmy Smith to the next batch. Here's what I have: Donald Byrd - At The Half Note Cafe Vols. 1& 2 - 2 CDs (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 Donald Byrd - Free Form (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 Grant Green - Goin' West (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 Jackie McLean - Right Now (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9 NEW Sam Rivers - Fucshia Swing Song (Blue Note RVG Edition) Mar 9

If you want to help support Jazzmatazz, you could always order through CD Universe.

...Packaged in a mini-LP sleeve ...with OBI...

So, NoJo is really RaSha's daughter. But, seriously, I just realized that the use JLo-style nicknames is a thousand years old. See, for example, Rashi, Rambam, etc...

I live in Philly, maybe I should posting on one of the alternate reality sites 12 hours away from my time-space continuum.

Evidence Records has reissued several batches of Sun Ra's Saturn titles over the last decade or so. I think that Strata-East is still around. They have a web site. (And I have a few of extras of some of their titles, by the way {see my web site}.) ...

Palo Alto is now owned by (or has been licensed to) Quicksilver. The reissued a bunch of titles in 2003. Artists House was revived as a new label in 2003, but they're not reissuing any titles from their previous incarnation. I believe that the rights to the older titles may have reverted to the artists.

It's a nice one, IIRC. (I can't give it a spin right now because my turntable isn't currently hooked up. {Speaking of vinyl, if you see a copy of "Film Noir" and don't already have it, grab it!})

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything

You should leave from Philly. That way you could see Wayne at the Kimmel Center on the 16th!

Now we're down to six copies...

2nd edition of Cuscuna & Ruppli lists Hancock on celeste on "True Colors," Hosea Taylor on alto sax on "The Melting Pot" and bassoon on "True Colors."

...and I get the pager...

Bet it's late... Nah, it was delivered on time, but they left it under a snow drift. The box got soggy from yesterday's rain and burst open. The coal was stolen.

And then there's the slide trumpet!!

My older daughter likes the show a lot. I watched the last two episodes and thought it was fairly good.

Does anyone know what this is all about? Although the full title is not given, it appears to be the Complete Verve Studio Sessions. Does this overlap the Mosaic set? The number of media is listed as "1", obviously an error in view of the set price. My guess is this is an import of the European version of the set, which is being sold by Verve there. Is there any difference in the set itself? If not, CD Universe's price of $91.11 is a nice saving from Mosaic's price of $119...

Santa's sending me a lump of coal in an airborne express box.

The Lankin Collection

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Rodin Museum

The Barnes Foundation