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Snap.

Crap! Anyone got a spare copy of this one sitting around?

A new low, I think.

This thread's ended up being funny despite Aric's starting it. Good work fella!

Sly & the Family Stone: "Everybody is a Star". Donald Byrd's "Lover Come Back to Me" from Off to the Races. And I can't not smile when Mogie's solo starts during Blue Train's "Locomotion"

The "I Dream of Jeannie" theme. Looping endlessly. Gonna be a long night.

Just about any Stevie Wonder from '72-76. Joy commited to wax.

Horace Silver's "The Natives are Restless Tonight".

Chet Baker: Prince of Cool is also MIA.

The Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly Wow".

And next I got "Rock Me Amadeus". I am now very unhappy.

Oh thanks. Never would've come up with "White Wedding" on my own

Mine, all morning long: Blue Magic's "Sideshow" alternating with "All the Things You Are"...

Concord Records, Inc. has announced (12/1) its acquisition of Fantasy; the two companies have been merged into a new entity called the Concord Music Group, Inc. During the lengthy negotiations this summer and fall, longtime Fantasy president Ralph Kaffel has noted, "we got to know the principals and key employees of Concord quite well, which reaffirmed the correctness of our initial judgment that Concord is the proper home for our catalogs. Having spent fifty years in the record business, 33 of them at Fantasy building up the catalogs, my primary concern--as well as that of the other principals--was that the acquiring entity should have the proper understanding and respect for the treasure that we are turning over to them, and be willing to perpetuate the historical legacy these catalogs represent. With Norman Lear, Hal Gaba, Glen Barros, and all the other talented people now at the helm of the Concord Music Group, my colleagues and I are convinced the Fantasy catalog is in very good hands." Crap. We're screwed. Edit: read more, including the post this was copied and pasted from, here.

The world became a stranger place a couple years back when the TV tried to sell me an SUV using the Buzzcocks "What Do I Get".

Q-Tip: "Back in the day when I was a teenager/before I had status and before I had a pager/you could find the Abstract listening to hip-hop/My pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop/I said now daddy don't you know that things go in cycles?..." Indeed they do.

No alternate takes, though...

It's all true. Thanks for the tip! I downloaded it at emusic months ago. Never bothered playing it!

My Conception You really do need this Clark if you don't have it. IMO, anyway. Mobley, Byrd, Chambers, Blakey. Burrell, LaRoca. Nice price at Amazon, steeper at Half.com.

Big Beat's probably up later in 2005, from what I've heard. Blues Walk is worth going ahead and buying, as is Cornbread- I bet they sell so well now that it's a not-broke-don't-fix thing. Peckin' time is sweet too, as is Leapin' and Lopin'. I'd be on those 4 like white on rice if I were you...

Well, you might want to hold out a month or two if you can. Not a dud in the batch, any many are essential: February 2005 RVGS Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul 07243 864472 2 7 Tina Brooks - True Blue 07243 864473 2 6 Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia 07243 864474 2 5 Johnny Coles - Little Johnny C 07243 864475 2 4 Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage 07243 864476 2 3 Pete La Roca - Basra 07243 864477 2 2 March 2005 RVGs Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer 07243 864467 2 5 Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child 07243 864468 2 4 Sonny Clark - Dial S For Sonny 07243 864469 2 3 Art Blakey - Like Someone In Love 07243 864470 2 9 Grant Green - Feelin' The Spirit 07243 864471 2 8 Horace Silver - And The Jazz Messengers 07243 864478 2 1

Y'know, nearly every weekday morning at 10:00 eastern I check offering/looking for a Grey post. I'll continue to do it unconciously for awhile, I'm sure, before my coffee kicks in. Goodbye, Grey. There's more good music in my house thanks to you. Take care.

Answering my own question and now I feel bad about saying their site sucks: catalogdivision@vervemusicgroup.com

Exactly. I think they should be complimented for doing it AND encouraged to keep it up. Eventually every lick of jazz that's oop should be available this way. Kicks the shit out of unavailability, the way I see it. I could never have found Mo-roc for $8 or whatever I paid for it otherwise. Verve's website does sort of suck, though. Anybody got a Verve Vault Guy email address I can send fan mail to?