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Happy birthday!

4.99 is good, but is there anything left of interest?

If I had to choose, I'd pick the pony.

I found one here:

Happy birthday!

Hoegaarden

Donald E. Westlake - Two Much!

Belated birthday wishes! Sounds like you had some good listening...

George Lewis (clarinet) & George Lewis (trombone) Michael Moore (bass) & Michael Moore (sax & clarinet) [& Michael Moore (filmmaker)]

Jazzy, great harmonies and some crazy arrangements.

I'm wondering why people do things the hard way.

That's where I first encountered him too. That was quite a horn section: Young, Howard Johnson, Earl McIntyre, J.D. Parran and Joe Farrell. Oh, yeah, I loved that album. Baby, don't do it, don't you break my heart.

This isn't jazz, but might be of interest to some: A Morton Feldman Festival: Bowerbird is proud to present AMERICAN SUBLIME, the first major festival in Philadelphia devoted to the singular music of Morton Feldman (1926-87), Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, June 12. The festival is includes seven concerts at venues throughout the city, with performances by some of the leading Feldman interpreters of our time. AMERICAN SUBLIME focuses on music from the last years of Feldman's life, all of it heard for the first time in Philadelphia. The centerpiece is an extremely rare performance of his monumental, six-hour String Quartet No. 2, which concludes the festival at the Philadelphia Cathedral on June 12. Music critic Kyle Gann remarks that "in the current Babel of musical styles, Feldman is almost the only composer whose music appeals across stylistic boundaries, among minimalists, postserialists, 12-tone holdouts, electronic composers, academics, Downtowners, MAX programmers, DJ artists, and other miscellaneous wastrels." Feldman's utterly unique musical language, abstract yet deeply personal, leaves an indelible impression. AMERICAN SUBLIME takes its name from the title of an essay by critic/author Alex Ross on Feldman's music, capturing two essential qualities of Feldman's music: the vital place it occupies in the American experimental tradition, and the numinous, otherworldly quality of the music itself, akin to the paintings of the composer's close friend, Mark Rothko. More information is available at: http://www.americansublime.org Tickets are now on sale: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/1129087673

There's certainly no shortage of mixed nuts here.

Series Two of "Foyle's War." We've gotten hooked!

I always liked Carla Bley's "Dinner Music", which had Stuff for the rhythm section.

Hank Mobley Disc 3 "Hank Mobley Quintet" (BLP 1550)

I also gave a nudge to the "helpful" reviews...

In doing some more looking, it is possible to see images of all the auction items here: http://www.skinnerinc.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=D&t=7074253&shopper=&shop_highlight=&

You can download the PDF catalog, but unfortunately it isn't illustrated although there's five photos on their web site.

Unfortunately, Amazon removed from sale the above cheap Brilliant Classics sets.

It was too late even then.

According to the Times obit, he was a musician in the navy in WWII and he played drums in the Thornhill band.

Ah, I somehow missed that one. Then there's good ol' nukolar.