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It's so cool how everyone loves different stuff. The Farlow would not be in my love category, nor would the O'Day. The Shank and the Elvin would be, as well as the Hodges (on TOP, either one!) and the Mobley.

I very much agree! (Second home?) Second home: an extended stay hotel/apartment place in Medical Center area, Houston. Been here most of the time since early April caretaking my wife through cancer treatment.

That recent release is a rehash of several former old releases. . . but I like it too. (I kept the second version I bought, not this one, came out before this one).

I'm beginning to agree with you about Lost. The first season was great. The second season had it's moments but it became almost a parody of the mediocre elements of the first season and they killed off Michelle Rodriguez. Which bites. This new season is boring me and going off on tangents I don't care about. But Evangeline the naughty bunny is still on the show. . . . http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/cel...nny-001128#more

Lon: I assume that you are referring to the official Download series that is available at the Grateful Dead Store. Right? What is the sound quality like on that series? John Yeah, that's what I meant. I have downloaded these using the iTunes files, which are not any of the three types available on the Dead Store, but those probably sound as good and the FLAC better. Really excellent sound, and reallly excellent shows (all the ones I've bought which are all those through 1977). Bill, yeah, I got the green screen then did a google search and found the right link. Just finished patching holes in 1966~!

Right, the Matrix thing. .. I hate to call it "David and the Dorks"! Thanks for the heads up on the speedingarrow. And yeah, that's a good cover site, but this one is a really cool resource: http://www.gdcdcovers.com/annex.html

Just played the Candid Mingus tracks with Roy and it made me wish I were able to reach across the miles home and dig out this Eldridge Mosaic!

Many more happy ones!

www.worldsrecords.com doesn't yet show it, but I bet they get it (they stock the Vocalion series), usually get them before other US stores. You could call Ren Brown and see. . . .

Sound is fine on the US cd of this one. I don't agree with Yanow (I don't read critics anymore, they're welcome to their opinions, I don't always know how to evaluate them and I just don't waste time). Not unispired. MAYBE a little "another good night". . . Not groundbreaking. But glad to have it. LOVE Cannon.

Hope you're feeling better! Celebrate a bit when you do! Many happy returns!

Jim, you and I are nearly the same age within months, and I had a similar experience. I came to On the Corner after digesting Filles, In A Silent, Miles at Fillmore and Bitches in an eleventh grade frenzy after returning from Swaziland and being totally totally weirded out by antyhing that was on the radio or in the cars and livingrooms of the Ohio town I had been jammed squarepeg into round hole. The Africanness you mention before was the thing that drew me deep in. I kept playing this over and over and over and the onion layers came out and cleansed my senses. Hell, I don't understand it per se still but I learned stuff about this recording. When I picked up an electric guitar a few years later and drums a bit after that I kept trying to get the rythmic layers in there to sort of osmosate into me. It influenced me in a number of ways. I do feel it had a behind the scenes influence on some of the more popular (than OTC and most jazz) music of the eighties and nineties, I dont really hear/didn't really hear any earlier. Eno has said that GUWI (esp "He Loved Him Madly") was an important influence on his work from '81 on, so I bet OTC was in the mix, YOU KNOW he would have checked it out. Regardless of whether OTC or later recorded and unrecorded 'lectric Miles this stuff had an impact. A bass player named King Wilson I worked with briefly at the close of the eighties was into this, he was looking for Al Foster and Mtume to form his less complex darkgroove stuff he though he wanted to do in '88. I had fun listening and talking to him about this Miles stuff because I didn't see many people into it. Anyway, my life is richer for OTC and GUWI, I've never quite been the same since I found them in high school then college.

Brownie is probably enjoying his lp and hasn't touched the cd!

OTC and GUWI are da schitte. I remember hearing resonances of these lps in music percolating here and there in the eighties and nineties. Your ears prick up and recognize bits of what you love. They totally stand the test of time for me. I've lived with these since they came out! I can't imagine life without them! Here's one more prayer along with Jim's for an OTC box set eventually.

I think I read that it was Prince who vetoed the Warners box and Warners didn't want to do a box without the stuff on which The Artist Formerly Known As played. Four cd version WAS released promotionally and didn't have any Prince material thereon. Too bad it didn't happen in the marketplace, but we didn't miss TOO much as the contents weren't that thrilling (imo). It would have been interesting to hear the Prince stuff, I'm sure that is out there in bootlegland.

This is DEFINTELY the one I would get (would love to, might in a year or so): http://www.decware.com/newsite/CSP2.htm Reviews of this on the Decware forum are very positive. My whole main system is from Decware and I love the stuff. . . .

John, I finally have all the Dick's Picks AND Downloads from the years I'm interested in (from the beginning til when Brent walked in and changed stuff imo). Just an amazing series of recordings. We're so lucky that the Dead were archiving themselves, let alone all the great fan recordings. Anyone wanting to warm up for the new David Crosby remaster will find a great live version of "Cowboy Movie," "Triad," and five other tunes including a KILLER "Deep Ellem Blue" by David with Jerry, Phil and Mickey here: http://www.gdlive.com/xtras/Crosby-Garcia-...-Lesh-12.15.70/

West 42nd Street is also available on eMusic. Too bad that There Goes the Neighborhood is not. I think I prefer Neighborhood myself. . . man those Dameron cuts rule.

Not my favorite Norvo. My favorite Norvo cover! I really found the Bailey Mosaic to have some exceptional Red Norvo band sides!

Late, the live session (J) are the same 16 bit transfers that were used for the individual cds, the rest of the set is 24 bit McMaster. Here's what the production notes in the set say: Remix engineers: Rudy Van Gelder (G-I), Malcolm Addey (J) and Peter Doell (K-M) Mastered using 24-bit analog-to-digital resolution by Ron McMaster, except session J mastered from 16-bit digital mixes. Theoretically McMaster did the mastering of those tracks, but the transfers are Addey and they basically sound the same to me as the individual cds.

Four Miles equals six Trane. Secret formula of the jazz illuminati.

I really like the Family cds. Transformer I find fascinating, following one tune through development as a solo piece and then several live quartet versions. The Stockholm and Paris have very good performances and quite good sound. The NY has inferior sound to the others but a great performance. I bought all these when they first appeared (in fact I preordered them) and I'm glad I did.

Get "Wizard of the Vibes," the Milt Jackson RVG on Blue Note. For me the Blue Note recordings are the ursource. . . I'm always finding treasure deep within. You should have them all to qualify as a Monk nut. Also the side of the Savoy lp under Gigi Gryce's name with Monk on piano, reissued on by Savoy as "Nica's Dream" is an intriguing one to have.

I know it's been fixed because at one point there was an address to send in for replacement, I did, I have the replacement disc. I don't think there is any way to tell . . . if you can find out when a store received a disc they're selling that would be telling. . . .

I have a pair of Bose "Companion IIs" that I think sound amazingly good. They will crank for dvds, etc. And have a rich sound. Yeah Bose, I know. They do make some good models, and I honestly have gotten 100 bucks worth of enjoyment out of these, don't think they're overpiced. Bought a Monster Cable connector between laptop and speakers which was also a significant purchase.