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Thanks. I'll definitely get it this summer then. I'd say my favorite Tyner on Blue Note is The Real McCoy, but perhaps this will change my mind.

That sounds like the right set. I also imported it from Amazon.fr, but be warned, it took well over a month to arrive (I think it was six weeks). I had given up hope and was seriously debating hashing it out with my credit card company as lost property when it finally arrived. There are some great CDs there though, which made it all worth it. I thought the Byas (78), Cootie Williams (101) and Jazz and Cinema 4 (98) were particularly noteworthy.

I believe I have seen Night of the Cookers surfacing as a Spanish BN (with the blue cover) and that was one CD. Of course if it is RVG, then there may be extra tracks to push it to two CDs. I have most of this music already so probably will not upgrade, though maybe Black Fire would be worth it, but I don't have Tyner's Tender Moments. Any thoughts on this one? I do like the song Man From Tanganyika, which is on various compilations.

I like the album too. I thought Grand Unification Theory was admirably ambitious, but Harris himself sometimes got lost in the mix. He is featured more on Evolution. I liked the fact that there was a range of styles and tempos in the pieces. I haven't seen him lead a group live, though I've seen him in supporting roles. I may have to drive to Kalamazoo, since the tour is skipping Chicago!

I think it is perfectly reasonable for Hancock and Shorter to want to do something new and not the classics. I do think they should have played pieces that were shorter and somewhat more uptempo. On the way out, a number of people commented that they had simply fallen asleep. But yes, you could barely hear the saxophones. And Thomas really was a major come-down. For a long stretch during the Dolphin Dance Suite Shorter and Thomas were playing off each other - I think as short as one bar solo stretches - but Thomas was just so boring that this did not work at all. More traditional four bars back and forth might have allowed Shorter more room to do something interesting. I'm going to go read the Tribune review now and see if we were even at the same concert.

I just saw Herbie Hancock with Wayne Shorter here at the CSO. I see a few people either saw the show or saw a previous show by the touring group. I would be curious as to reactions. My expectations were high, and I was very disappointed. I thought Herbie played well, but really didn't think the interactions between the rest of the group were memorable at all. A number of people left during the very, very extended Dolphin Dance Suite (can't say I blamed them). And then even more left when it became apparent that the Hancock/Shorter duet was another slow piece. I was completely underwhelmed by the interplay between Shorter and Gary Thomas, which just didn't seem to go anywhere. In general, I felt Thomas was just noodling around and not making any interesting statements. The only piece that really caught fire was the final piece (before the encore) which was a Headhunters piece that led into Footprints. Of course, not everyone will agree. Still, I would classify this as one of the ten worst live shows I have ever seen. And another worst at the CSO was the Ornette Coleman show last year. I will probably pass on seeing jazz at the CSO from now on, since there is just not enough "fire" and/or interaction with the audience compared to the Chicago JazzFest or the club scene.

I think I will make the show, though I will have my attention divided between the concert and working on/thinking about an academic paper. I'll be wearing black slacks and a purple shirt if you want to say Hi. Eric

Just thought I would put in a good word for Hal. I ordered 11 items, mostly loose CDs as well as the Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald Complete Cote D'Azur concerts. The CDs are all in excellent shape, and the shipping was very fast. This really was quite a collection. Eric

I don't know if these are the same DVDs from the Village Vanguard, but they probably are. Perhaps waiting until the end of the month would be worth the much lower price at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...876958?v=glance

Found the Chambers and Moncur sets used so I snatched those up. The last full box set was Horace Parlan. Will probably get Elvin Jones in the spring/summer.

An advance copy turned up at a local record store, so I picked it up. This actually was not an easy decision, since I already had Time Out, Time Further Out and Time In on CD, and Time Changes on LP. In terms of bonus material, Time Out has no extra tracks. Time Further Out has Slow and Easy (3:29) and It's a Raggy Waltz (live) (6:37). This is identical to the existing remastered CD. Countdown has one extra track: Fatha (3:47) Time Changes has one extra track: Theme from Elementals (3:06) Time In has three bonus tracks which were not on my imported CD Rude Old Man (2:22) Who Said That (3:32) Watusi Drums (2:23)

I agree; there are many OOP albums (already released on CD) I would like to own. Mostly BN artists such as Hill, Hutcherson and Moncur come to mind. While it is more acceptable to chase these down on Ebay, than, saying trading MP3s, buying used CDs doesn't send any money to the labels or the artists.

I recall seeing a used copy at Jazz Record Mart in Chicago. That would have been a couple of weeks ago, so it might not be there any longer. You probably can order from them directly, though in a pinch I could help out. Eric

I thought I would also ask if anyone has found a distributor in the U.S. for the 25 CD box set. I emailed Dusty Groove, and they said they wanted to carry it but were having with the foreign distributor. (I have been having much trouble receiving items from Europe in the last two months, so will probably pass on ordering from amazon.fr.) I did, however, order the 75 CD box set from BestBuy and am picking that up today. Some of the other sites mentioned in the post now say the item is sold out or unavailable. Towerrecords.com was having a sale the last time I checked, but I had already placed the BestBuy order.