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Wow. . . black gold!

I no longer have a copy of the guidelines they sent me. I don't have any problem with not talking about "me" but it seemed that everytime I proposed talking about an emotional response to the music it was "nono'd" . . . I knew I was breaking the rules but it just did not make sense to ME to write the way they wanted me to about the cds. The reviews they recommended I "emulate" I found. . . oh so boring. So I stopped. I really didn't have my heart in it anyway. The interesting thing is that the one reviewer I've really been impressed with in online reviews emailed me out of the blue telling me how much he really enjoyed one of my reviews. That was nice! PS: this just says of me that I don't like guidelines and editing much, and I also didn't really feel all warm and fuzzy about the powers that be at aaj at that time; my attempting this came after a long email exchange about why I preferred org to aaj and how aaj could do "better" . . . I just don't feel about aaj as I do about org.

Lon, that calls for a bit of an explanation, if you feel like it , of course. I really dislike their guidelines for writing reviews, how impersonal they demand the writing to be, and I quit after two reviews.

I'm a big fan of the Mulligan/Baker recordings (and throw in Konitz with them and I'm happy). You're going to love the Mosaic Mulligan!

Congrats! I hope you have a much more fulfilling experience than I did!

I'm with ya Tony. Wish that Winterland set were coming out!

Try THAT Roland Kirk!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

'Salright.

I've been in Houston for most of the time since April caretaking my wife through lymphoma treatment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. May finally be at the end of her treatment and going home in about a month. . . .

Hmmm. . . never saw that Mort Herbert. . . as a cd or lp. YES, almost all of these jewel case ones made in Japan were also made in the USA as domestic versions in the early to mid-nineties, though all the paper sleeve lp facmilie higher bit versions were Japan only I believe. I have nearly all of the jewel case ones and many of the lp facimile paper sleeve. . . one of my very favorite reissue series..

Okay. And like you, I wish he'd gone to Cleveland.

I don't know. . . more than any musician or music at any other time in my life, when 17 year old me came back from Waterford Kamhlaba school (M'Babane Swaziland) to Berkshire High School (Burton, Ohio) and found that he did not relate ta lot of the music he found all his peers getting all into, and discovered Miles discovering "new directions in music" I almost felt that the music was being tailor made for me. I just responded in a way that I haven't really since to music. It was one of those things. It led me to Duke and Pops and Trane and Ornette and all kinds of musical adventures. And it still is music that is language in my head. Guess that's where I stand.

Yes. Especially since you already have part of the Farmer/Golson material I'd bet.

John, with the internet connections I'm using it takes me on average about 30 minutes to download about an hour. . . .I've had no trouble loading them into iTunes at all though. So go ahead!

I would if I could! I'm not a dime member and I can only really download MP3s with the setup I have now. Bill, there goes my MONTH! But then again, that's a good thing. I can download and prepare art for a half a dozen shows a day here in the hospital room, and then prepare the backup cd, cut the artwork and assemble at night in the hotel room. It's keeping me out of trouble. I'm reading about the Dead too. I'm DREAMING about the Dead.

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. . . .