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Hmmm. . . Dusty Groove used to have it in stock. It's a fairly recent Japanese cd release so it may still be available through Early Records, or hmv.japan

Some live boot material from second half of seventies, Atlantic cd released not too long ago, other material I've heard but not able to identify for you as I didn't own it or finger it long, it was playing and I was around.

The jury is still out ultimately. I'm enjoying the listening so far. I know I like this better than the later stuff I've heard . . . so far. That stuff really turned me away.

Well I should have ordered from Chuck. Mine came from Tower today with a broken four banger case and it nearly didn't get here, it was misadressed (wasn't my fault, I checked what I gave them just now) and if it weren't for the on the ball USPS person that handles this complex and the fact that the gorgeous gal Tara at the desk here knows I live for my mail and is always on the lookout for mail for Helen and I this would have gone to the other end of town and probably not ever come back. Listened to disc A so far. Have to say I love the way this was recorded, just the kind of sound I like. And I like this better than later AEC material I've heard in the past, by a long stretch. This is a good way to get started with this band.

Well, I've decided I really DO like the "Terrapin" cd by Joe Gallant and the Illuminati; I've listened to it a half a dozen times now. Sort of insane. In a great way. I've picked up and listened to "Blues for Allah" which is a live recording from the Knitting Factory. It's good. So far it seems less insane to me. It needs hearing again and again.

(Prettier than Bill Murray)

Plus they own a boatload of Francis Wolf images that works for a number of their sets. . . why license other images or the use of original covers when they have that cache? It allows them to use a number of images not to be found elsewhere, giving the sets uniqueness.

June Christy/Peggy Lee, Peggy Lee sides

If I met her it'd be more like Barney Fife than anything. . . .

I can see it now: Jim gets to meet Monday. He breaks into song. . . "God bless YOU. . . You make me feel BRAND NEW!"

Alright! One of my favorites of his. . . very . . . mellow and uplifting. Purely beautiful.

The code of the jungle seems to be "we want the good looking ones and we're going to take them!" Weird plot where mother nature had a laugh by putting all the good looking women in one village with rather ordinary looking men, and all the good looking men in another village at the other end of the land with rather ordinary looking women. Once the grass on the other side of the fence is spotted, all's fair in war!

Sorry, yes, Solid State. I got it confused with another.

DRG is releasing this month (tomorrow maybe? maybe already out?) one of the greatest of the Jobims, never before released except briefly in Brazil, now called "The Unknown Antonio Carlos Jobim." http://www.drgrecords.com/details.asp?PID=31611 Fantastic stuff from that band with Paulo and Ana Jobim, the Morelenbaums, Maucha Adnet, Danilo Caymmi, etc. Now available on iTunes.

I watched a weird "B" movie on a really cheap dvd (two moves on one dvd for ONE dollar!) and at the end the credits said one of the actresses was Adrianne Barbeau. . . must have been one of her first movies. Total "guy" stupid entertainment movie with camp-ometer on 11. Oddly enough it had a pretty cool soundtrack in parts reminiscent of fifties Sun Ra.

Hey, glad you had fun. I wish I liked Bill Frisell. Try as I might I just don't enjoy his playing! I wouldn't have been able to say "hi" anyway. . . I've been in Houston on and off since March and nonstop since May 1 and probably nonstop through the middle of August.

My biggest one was a long time ago. . . at one point the Quebec and Green and McLean and a few others were all going into "Running Low" and they sent out a little booklet of "endangered sets" and I think I ordered all of them at once. It cleaned out my then meager bank account and my wife wasn't happy when she discovered it but she got over it. That "getting over it" paved the way for my eventual fiscal insanity in the next decade. . . .

I think what keeps me coming back to her is the laughter, the happiness I hear in her music. Man oh man. Anxiety and gloom suck. Take that from me. "With hope I just want to live." "In life I just want to give." (from "Play it by Ear", version on Recollections). Right now I HAVE to echo those feelings. If not my present situation would crush me. I'm learning to play it by ear. Thanks Monday. As she says, "Peace."

Well, I must say that I DO find things to enjoy on repeated listening, elements and details that didn't jump out at me at first. I love the fact that it's not this or that entirely. . . it's something else from this and that. . . .That's how it hits me. Listening to "Jazz Brat" right now. Really like the bossa nova elements of "Scat Attack."

Well there you go!

I think that Chuck was speaking of the sales pitch hype in the announcement. . . . And/or the "plan."

Oh yeah! (I haven't gotten the new versions yet, have old ones). Both are great, but . . . Cannon puts that one over the edge for me. More and I more I love that guy.

I paid varying prices for these volumes over the years. I love these sets. Some more than others of course, but. . . man. . .what a singer!

Good one Jim!

Man, I wish I had those Phil Napolean sides here right now. . . they would be perfect mood bolsterers. Hey, If I find I don't like these earlier sides more than I like later AEC, I'll probably give the set to one of my single friends so he can use it to play for all those hot young babes that just love AEC!