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The Complete Columbia J.J. Johnson Small Group Sessions - disc 5

It's a real classic for sure! And remarkably prescient about the advertisement industry culture!

Or Bear Family?

Happy 65th birthday!

grooves-inc.com had the site for a good price.

Michael, fabulous photo of the lake. Bev, thanks!

That's some dope bike.

"get 1 FREE when you buy 3!" through June 1st. Code = YMB3G1.

Life is complicated, but I'm hanging on.

Agreed. I enjoyed hearing the marimba on some of the tracks.

Donald Byrd -- title track to "Free Form" on Blue Note, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins.

Hot. Humid.

Re-watching season one of The Wire with my wife. She's never seen it and I've only seen the first two seasons. Hard to top it.

I enjoy it.

Maybe it comes down to demographics. Fans who listened to the jazz avant-garde in the 1970s are probably now 50 years old and older and likely to have some money available for a box set. How old are the prime Bing Crosby fans? Maybe Cuscuna wants to issue this material by Braxton, Threadgill and Rivers before the window of opportunity closes.

Got a batch of OJCs and Concord Family sale items at Newbury Comics when I was in Cambridge, Mass last Sunday, including: -- 20bit K2s of The Kenny Drew Trio, Red Garland w/ John Coltrane - All Mornin' Long, & Jackie McLean 4, 5 and 6 ($4@), Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot ($6) -- OJC limited edition series -- Elmo Hope - Homecoming!, The Other Side of Benny Golson and Gil Melle's Gil's Guests ($4@) and Jimmy Woods' Conflict (with Andrew Hill!) ($6) -- live at Maybeck Concord's by John Hicks, Marian McPartland and Hank Jones for $6 -- Keepnews Collection -- Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Relaxes (RVG) and The Hawk Flies High for $6 -- and some other things at $4 each -- Jacky Byard - On the Spot!, Don Friedman Trio - Circle Waltz, Hampton Hawes - I'm All Smiles, Eric Dolphy in Europe, Vol.2, Lucky Thompson - Happy Days and Cedar Walton - Spectrum

Good trombone player. Nice person.

Art Pepper - The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (Contemeporary), nine CDs for $19.95 plus tax at FYE.

A lot of fond memories of his artwork.

The CDs contain the same material as the LPs. I don't remember how the sound compares.

Send that one to Eicher! Bev -- thanks! Here's a jazz one: Bassist Joe Fonda.

"Klezmer Meets Swing" with CB Calloway and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x998202817/CB-Calloway-and-the-Klezmer-Conservatory-Band http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/newsnow/x1394812335/Swing-The-unlikely-offspring-of-jazz-and-klezmer