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Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one.

The Verve / Phillips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions - disc 6 - "Something Old, Something New"

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.

One of his important books was Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Published over fifty years ago and still relevant!

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.