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Must be two versions out there. . . since it is a compilation album in large part I guess that is not surprising. Here's a page about the two disc version: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005A1G...v=glance&n=5174

There are SO MANY .. . really Hodges in any Ellington situation was remarkably consistently great. Favorites of mine are the Columbia labels and the RCA small group sides. Killer stuff for all concerned. And I really like the use of Hodges in "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Such Suite Thunder." Great writing that is wonderfully executed by Der Rabbit.

I've got quite a bit of her output, and these releasess are consistently good. I don't really have a favorite!

it's good that you bring her up - she must already feel like Dewey Redman with her daughter being discussed here all the time... (Monday Michiru is her (and Mariano's) daughter, or am I making this up (?)) You got that right. .. but I kindof doubt she's reading our discussions here!

Okay the J5 stuff is going to start kicking my ass. I'm enjoying it. I'll be spinning it more this week. First time through Helen and I sat around and then sort of twitched around listening and we BOTH dug it. Some cool stuff going on there! (And Monday too!)

Whew!

On another subject, anyone else checked out the Joe Gallant stuff? I find I really like the "Terrapin" studio effort and the live at the Knitting Factory "Blues for Allah."

8-6-71 is one of the great live recordings of the Dead easily available (on archive). Downloading and converting to wav files is quite easy and there are tutorials available. you need to grab a few free tools. check etree.org for instructions. there are lots of free dead sbs for download at various internet sites. I know it's "easy" for a lot of people. But I just don't find this stuff "easy," tutorials or not, and I don't find that many of these things work well with Macs and burners controlled by iTunes even if they say they do! So I'm saving myself frustration and staying away from it . . . . I know I'm missing a lot, really I do. I'm buying the official products though.

Thanks Ron! Now call Kirk Felton up and ask him. . . . NAH, just kidding.

Yes, but as far as I can tell no one has really answered the mastering/straight copy question!

I certainly second this motion. Unfortunately his wife died about two years ago. I met her once at one of Ken Poston's west coast weekends, and she was a charming, and well-informed lady. (She was there when the music from the PJ album "The Immortal Clifford Brown" was very effectively recreated by Jack Montrose, also sadly no longer with us, with Carl Saunders doing the trumpet solos ). Clifford's son, Clifford Brown, Jr. does a regular afternoon stint on KCSM-FM .. a wonderful jazz radio station .... and he does a fine job. KCSM is available on the net and worth keeping on your desktop. Thanks Garth, I couldn't remember if she was still with us or not. . . .Sorry to hear she is not. . .

I have the DCC reissue. Great disc!

I'm curious too. Would seem likely, though it's not entirely straight as the Japanese set had three cds, one set per cd. They are combined here on two cds. Exellent music!

Clifford had an amazing musical mind. And a beautiful sound. Undoubtedly a wonderful person. I'd love to see someone get authorization from his wife and estate and put together the best possible sounding set of the unofficial material that is circulating, with a detailed booklet. This could be six or seven cds or more and be a real boon to collectors and musicians!

I saw the Quartet version a year and a half back or so. . . (I think, timeframes are becoming fuzzy for me) and it was stupendous, probably the best jazz show I've seen in ten years.

gosh. . . I've just been avoiding the archive. I hate to stream things and not have them when I want them on cd, and I don't have the savvy to do the stream to wav thang, nor do I think I can pull it off on a Mac. So. . . I avoid it. Maybe they'll put it out. I'm pledged to give they guys my dollars eventually on any of the stuff they put out over the years I dig.

I know. I dig that one a lot too. But "EL CHICO." And the damned cape. It just slays me!

Yeah, I mean Goldilocks. Sheesh. Can't even get a fairy tale right. I'm here in the Medical area, near Reliant Center, close to M. D. Anderson by shuttle. I may have some time in a few weeks. . . let's work on that!

My favorite Chico cover. . . this one makes me howl in laughter in its 12" glossy glory!

I bet he wasn't in charge of the art director!

Sad news. Pancreatic cancer too. . . never an easy way to go. Rest in Peace!

Yeah, I can do the math and know that booster packing isn't a good fiscal habit. But this is a period of time I have a lot of time on my hands in waiting rooms and infusion rooms and at the little work desk here in my "studio" apartment. So if it costs me a little more, that's okay. It's still cheaper than my forays out of boredom into half.com etc. are! And it gives me something to do downloading, searching for covers, designing trays etc. Really it's therapeutic for me right now.

Well, I've seen this done to dozens and dozens of meritorious employees. I think it's awful. But I don't think in this day and time it's "unusual." I wish it were.

What more do you need to know about my employers? Over the past five years they have halved the size of our agency by "reduction in force." If ninety percent of these people were given three days advance notice they'd been shocked! Most are told to clean out their desk immediately and handed a few boxes. A lot of these were employees with a long history within the agency. The first whack was more than half the middle management of the agency. Suddenly a large amount of agency specific knowledge and history was just out the door. And suddenly people in power were doing things that simply were not done in the past, shady and suspect things among a few innovations. The irony is that this is obstensibly done "to save the state money." But instead eventually the services some of these employees performed are farmed out to private contractors, many of which just happen to be "connected" to people with the ability to choose contracts. The same money doesn't somehow buy the same quality or quantity of services from contractors. And a lot of the services to other agencies and the public are just let fall by the wayside; those who are left behind try their best but can only do so much. I've heard similar horror stories from other agencies in my state, from state agency employees of other states, and from some private companies. But somehow Texas seems to have the most grisly and gritty stories. . . . It's a shame what happened to Terri.