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Agree with this. What I don't quite understand is why we keep going round and round on this on nearly everyone one of these threads. It's a discussion going nowhere. However, I will admit that I appreciate it when someone points out a more legit* avenue for a PD reissue, since I don't always know all the alternatives. * particularly for Americans.

Sorry can't help you. The same thing happened to me with a Rem Koolhaus book on Shanghai where it was available for pre-order forever then finally cancelled. A year later someone claimed to be selling it on the internet, but then they wouldn't respond when I asked them what they were really selling.

I got the 5 CD version. I had the High and Mighty Hawk in some other format -- it probably is the best of the bunch. I'm enjoying the Rex Stewart, but it is kind of old-timey even when it was recorded. Still Willie the Lion Smith is on 3 of the cuts. I wasn't as taken with the Cozy Cole or Earl Hines (as much as I had hoped anyway). I am going to listen to the Budd Johnson and Strayhorn (Hodges) in the next day or two. I do have reasonably high hopes for them.

Right, this was discussed on the other thread. I'd rather have the compact box, esp. as most of these albums are right at the 40 minute mark. Sound quality is probably about the same for both

I can't speak about these ones specifically, though most of the time the Avid releases try not to split albums across CDs. On the other hand, the Felsted Mainstream collection box set (9 albums on 5 CDs) has several of these splits, so I'm going to have to do some ripping and reprogramming.

Ok, I want this: Africa at 78 rpm 4 CDs of African music rescued from 78s and put on CD for the first time. Price is a little steep (around $50), but not completely outrageous. Currently listening to a podcast with a few of the cuts to see just how revelatory this actually is -- and whether I can hold off for a while. Ok, having listened to 4 out of 100 of the tracks, this is really quite important from a musicological perspective, but probably wouldn't be something I would listen to for pleasure often (unlike the massive Africa 50 years of music boxset). So I am definitely going to hold off for a while and see if the price drops.

There are a couple of sites like this. I had a theatre company that used IndyGoGo. I think you want one (like IndyGoGo) that even if you don't make the campaign target amount, you still get the proceeds. At least a few of these sites, if you don't hit the target, you get nada.

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I believe it is 4. They have a few other 8 album sets and they were all 4 CDs. No idea about sound quality, but it is hard to beat that price for the Gryce!

Fred Mertz has his own Wikipedia entry (lol), which states: "Eventually, Fred and Ethel retired and bought a brownstone apartment in New York City. In 1942, Lucy and Ricky moved into the brownstone apartment building where Fred, Ethel, Lucy, and Ricky quickly became friends. Fred's best friend, Ricky Ricardo, and Ricky's wife, Lucy, live in the apartment house." Here the link: Fred I'm not disputing they owned the place, I simply don't remember it but I'm sure I never saw all the episodes. I think Fred was business manager for Ricky's band, in addition to having had an earlier vaudeville career, or something like that. Yeah, I love how sometimes TV episodes (Chuckles) not just the shows themselves get their own wiki page. Well, wiki certainly has its finger on the pulse of what matters.

Seriously, these are historic concerts, and you prefer not to see footage of these legends playing? A CD won't sound better than a DVD (except if your DVD player is sub-par). Well, I agree with Brad. I am simply never going to sit down and watch this even if I had it on DVD. If I had it on CD, I would listen to it.

Just finished both of these. The Hungry Tide is really a solid novel. What makes it quite special is that he shows people coming from a number of different viewpoints sympathetically -- scientists/ecologists, managers working within the system, simple fishermen, villagers striving to better themselves -- and showing (at least implicitly) the positives and negatives of these different ways of life. It's a fairly non-judgemental work, though there are a couple of nasty personalities that come into play. I'd say Ghosh hits his stride (for me) about 50 pages in. By contrast, The Studhorse Man is pretty hilarious from page 1. I really don't know why this isn't better known, as it is one of the really great Canadian novels (I guess there's your trouble). The novel is another riff on the Ulysses story (as the scholarly intro to the latest edition points out at length -- I would probably just skip this), with plenty of inversions. It's actually probably a riff of Joyce riffing on Homer, if you get my drift. But that doesn't take away from the fun.

I thought I would enjoy and watch these DVDs far more than I actually do. It turns out that I just don't have that much interest in watching jazz on the telly. I got Jazz Icons 1-3 and the shrinkwrap is still on most of them. I only got 2 single DVDs from the 4th set, and it turns out I don't miss the others. The only one here I would actually buy and then watch is the Griffin* -- I'm sure the others are great, but I'm sick of (and a little ashamed of) buying stuff I don't actually use. So I think this is no longer the set/series for me. * And indeed, if this concert has been released on CD, then that would be my preferred format.

I don't recall that (that he owned the place) but I do remember he is generally portrayed as a bit of a miser, though he usually goes along with the crazy scheme of the day.

Blimey, can't help but compare Allen's opening salvo with the overwhelming content of subsequent posts. I don't see much rock and roll being discussed here. True, but he also explicitly stated that he was coming here more for the jazz-side of things and implied he was going elsewhere for rock and roll opinions.

All I know is if anybody starts booting any boots in this boot-free forum, he's gonna feel Larry's boot in the back of his bootin' head when he gets back. Just sayin'

I did get the Ebo Taylor listed upthread and the Sorry Bamba CD. Towards the end of summer, I managed to see Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal play together in Chicago (took my son also). That was a great experience. They have recorded a CD of their duets called Chamber Music (I think I just dl'ed this one). Finally, I guess DG was promoting this recently, but I got it as an Amazon dl -- Contreband Mentality by les Frères Smith. Definitely worth checking out. If I understand their back story, they are a bit of an African music collective based in Paris.

I'd agree with Riley, but also John Cage Steve Reich For the later 60s Love Sly and the Family Stone

I think ensemble comedy has evolved way beyond 'I Love Lucy' in the last several decades! See 'All in the Family', 'The Odd Couple', 'M*A*S*H', and 'Frasier' as some of the more shining examples. Well, it's all about taste, but as far as ensemble chemistry, I would take Lucy over All in the Family any day. Now Dick van Dyke Show vs. I Love Lucy -- that's a much closer call. To each his own, I guess! Carroll O'Connor was brilliant. Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke were just goofy, IMNSHO. For me, despite knowing where the show was coming from and the "growth" demonstrated by the Archie character by the end of the series, I still find myself turned off by the bellowing, blow-hard Archie is in so many of the episodes. Cruel put-downs of his son-in-law and berating his daughter and even his wife at times? Just not feeling it. My guess is I won't ever watch another rerun of All in the Family in this life at least whereas I frequently catch the I Love Lucy Show.

I think ensemble comedy has evolved way beyond 'I Love Lucy' in the last several decades! See 'All in the Family', 'The Odd Couple', 'M*A*S*H', and 'Frasier' as some of the more shining examples. Well, it's all about taste, but as far as ensemble chemistry, I would take Lucy over All in the Family any day. Now Dick van Dyke Show vs. I Love Lucy -- that's a much closer call.

Speaking of Kleinzahler, who has come up a couple of times on this forum, I've been kind of impressed by the Poetry Foundation website, which is a pretty interesting resource. Here's their page on Kleinzahler: Poetry Foundation. Sadly many of the audio tracks of poets reading their own works are not available outside the U.S., but most folks here can still listen in.

So I reread Simic's Master of Disguises and decided I liked the 4th section a bit more the second time around -- it actually had some of the surreal touches of his earlier collections. I find it interesting that we dwell on some of the same imagery -- keys to lost locks, broken bottles, etc. -- though these are not that unique in poetry of course. Then I checked out That Little Something, which was published a few years prior to Master of Disguises. Not as good -- I only connected with a few of the poems. I think in general his collections from the 1990s are the best: Hotel Insomnia, A Wedding in Hell, Walking the Black Cat, maybe even Night Picnic from 2001. Maybe there is too much of a sameness to his recent work, but when he tries to depart too much from his earlier style that doesn't work as well and people keep asking him for more poems like the earlier ones. I think it is a real problem for artists who kick around for long enough (another reason why it is better -- from a legacy perspective -- to only be on the scene for a relatively short while -- Rimbaud or Jackson Pollack). One equivalent from the art world might be Giorgio de Chirico who tried to make a major shift in his painting style but was roundly attacked for it. One odd thing at the library today. I have been reading Robert Kroetsch's late poetry. The Snowbird Poems -- not too bad. The Hornbooks of Rita K. -- kind of a long and tedious metawork where the author is commenting on short poems by a poet (Rita K.) who has vanished. For completists only. Anyway, it turns out that one of the fairly recent Galway Kinnell books has been catalogued in the midst of the Kunitz's books (so even if someone like me filed it properly, eventually it would be reshelved into its proper, i.e. wrong location). The librarian just sort of threw up his hands and said that sometimes the Dewey decimal system was off. Frankly, that strikes me as unlikely. I think it is more likely that when the book came through, someone on staff put the wrong sticker on it -- and maybe they have a Kunitz book shelved with Kinnell. It's awfully annoying when librarians act as if they are completely helpless to fix errors (and this isn't the first time). When I worked at a library (many, many long years ago), we wouldn't have been quite so quick to admit defeat.

While I don't know the ins and outs, I can't imagine that it would be worth pressing 300 or 500 LPs. That strikes me as real money. Personally, I am 60% CDs, 40% mp3s, but that is mostly because in many cases, you can get used CDs for next to nothing. Since you aren't gigging and selling CDs, you probably shouldn't press many this time around. I wouldn't have any problem just with MP3s.

Yeah. I'm finding that out. I think it was already problematic, and now that the postal workers union was basically broken by the PM (shades of Reagan and the air traffic controllers), service is even worse.

What do you base your assumption on that "99% of the people here own the material in various forms"? ... I think 99% of the people on the forum have some of it (like "Body and Soul") but to have all of it? 10-20% maybe. Even if you have the Affinity box, the Mosaic appears to cover more material. Anyway, I think it is a great looking set, and I will pick it up, despite some overlap. Might be my last Mosaic for some time actually. My U.S. mailing address is going away in early Jan. I guess it isn't that much more to ship to Canada, but it's still a disincentive. Well, nothing lasts forever.