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This afternoon: Blue Mitchell: Step Lightly (BN/King Japan) My favorite BN Blue Mitchell - even if it wasn't released for almost 20 years.

Just got Lester Leaps In (Steeplechase). On first listen, I'd put it close to the Nessas. I'll have to give it a couple more listens before I'm sure about that.

Came home this afternoon and found that UPS had left: Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser: Airwalkers (Clean Feed) and John Lindberg Trio (w. George Lewis & Barry Altschul): Give and Take (Black Saint)

I've got a serious Big O jones - must have checked 8-10 times during the day to see if the Board was back. So I got some extra work around the house done, and did more reading and listening than I usually do. Perhaps I should learn something from that, but I probably won't.

Can't match what Lon sent but Happy Birthday (belatedly) anyway.

Yesterday, the mail carrier brought: Von Freeman Quartet: Lester Leaps In (Steeplechase) and Artur Schnabel Trio & Duo - Brahms: Chamber Music with Szigeti & Fournier (Arbiter)

Bennie Moten: Band Box Shuffle 1929-1932 (Hep) Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 - Tintner/Royal Scottish Nat'l. Orch.

I look forward to hearing the AEC/Fred Anderson set. Guest artists with working bands don't always come off, but I hope that this one does.

Thanks to Mark for writing the obit/appreciation, and to Robert for posting the link.

Sorry - Looks like you have to be an academic to qualify.

Steve and MG are right. Unless there's material on the P-Vine from the Roy Milton/Miltone or Hamp-Tone labels, you can get a great deal of his Specialty and Juke Box recordings from Concord - at least for the present - and forget the P-Vine.

You amaze me, as ever, Chuck. I had no idea Americans understood this kind of English (the English kind). MG Hey - Chuck can speak English, as well as American.

Johnny Coles: Little Johnny C (BN/King Japan)

Richard Bausch's Thanksgiving Night - A novel with a plot that touches on trust, understanding and acceptance, forgiveness, family, and faith, and with characters I found myself identifying with because I found a part of myself in almost every one of them.

Roots & Rhythm is a very good mail order + internet source, but it's located in the U.S. - not so useful for European buyers.

Sounds like there should be an R&B Guide. If the Blues Guide included all the r&b that's out there, it would truly be unwieldly.

Red Lick is evidently inactive. When you go to their website, there's a message - "Red Lick Records is currently not trading and the order system is offline."

Some Cajun with a touch (sometimes more than that) of country: D.L Menard: Cajun Saturday Night (Rounder) and D.L Menard: No Matter Where You At, There You Are (Rounder)

:party: The happiest of birthday wishes to you. :party:

Welcome. Make yourself at home and feel free to join the discussion.

Lightnin' Hopkins: Lightnin' (Tomato) - 1969 recordings recorded by Arhoolie's Chris Strachwitz and leased to the Poppy and later to the Tomato labels. The best of these are some great duets between Lightnin' and Frances Clay, from the Muddy Waters band.

Duke Ellington/Ray Brown: This One's for Blanton (Pablo)

Hang in. It's worth the effort.

I've seen it and I highly recommend it very highly to anyone with an interest in blues. Russell and Smith know their stuff and make excellent judgments - by that I suppose I mean that I agree with them at least 95% of the time . Anyone who wants to get started collecting blues recordings can use this as a reference to get started, even though it may seem a bit overwhelming at first, and anyone who has a blues collection can use it to add to that collection. It's a much better reference than the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings.

that's an awfully confident statement and an odd number to make it about, curious what makes you so sure. the low dollar certainly will help, but 3700+ copies of a $110+ set is a lot. the 5 CD Art Ensemble box Chuck Nessa put out in 1993 was available until pretty recently, that was an edition of 2500 copies. I was thinking the same thing. It wouldn't surprise me if this were a 2500 limitation set - tho I can't remember if Mosaic has limited sets to 2500 in the past - and still didn't sell out for a good while.