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Where I start to lose interest is "Is that all There Is?" and beyond. . . I still like to spin one of the later albums now and then, but I LOVE the other stuff. The sound of that voice! You know, it's really wild how much my mom resembled the fifties/sixties Lee in a brunette way. Sometims I see pictures (for example the cover of Things are Swingin') and do a double take. And my dad strongly resembed Jimmy Giuffre during this time period as well (and my dad used to play clarinet occaisionally as I was growing up as well, played it during his school years). I've got good jazz image genes I guess.

The Classics just keep getting better and better. I still prefer some other applicable series where I can find them such as the Henry Red Allens on Collectors Classics, the Christians on Masters of Jazz, those awesome Mckinney's Cotton Pickers on Frog, etc. but the Collectors discs keep sounding better and serve a very valuable service.

Baron Von Toolbooth and the Chrome Nun isn't that old an issue and sounds pretty darned good! I've got to get the Crosby soon. . . . My vinyl is CACA.

Yourmusic told me they wouldn't be able to provide it to me. I bought a copy from half.com. . a little pricier, not too much. I always liked the lp and the cd sounds pretty damned good.

I've been listening to the Nance cd. Wow. It's so nice to have this on cd. And as rare as it is this cd sounds better than the lp. The 24 bit remastering by Mantis Evans and the transfers by Kevin Bartley are very nice!

That's what I wrote. He's got long romantic commutes ahead of him.

Hmmm. . . it might have been in the "Babes" thread. . . . A picture already says a thousand words!

I own some Bear Family sets. . . it's a great service they do for artists like Nellie Lutcher and Ella Mae Morse who I love but whose catalogs are neglected by the owners. I'd buy this set if I was rich, just to have all that Nat stuff; I suspect I would like some of those novelty songs more than Jim. . . . But I'm not rich enough to get this one! I'd probably buy that Nashville r and b box before this one. . . .

Do I remember the 5000 post. YES. Just don't remember what it was!

I guess I just love Ellington so and the Hinesian take, even conservatively, on the numbers just so pleases me. And there are moments where it is just somethin' else I must say. I was going to dig out all my "late Hines solo" stuff and listen and see if I could contribute more, but I discovered that the late stuff that I have is predominantly NOT solo! Holes to plug. . .over time. (My purchases are going to be spare this year, so will be some time!)

Well, a friend of mine has started dating the distributor rep in Dallas. . . .She's into the r and b side and not so much jazz, definitely nothing that is not mainstream jazz. He heard about this Charles coming out, but he never hears about jazz from her. I'll ask but there's not much hope or chance to be honest.

No, I have not bought any of the new TOCJ 24 bit cds. I'm funny in that I prefer RVGs to the nonRVG TOCJ series in almost every instance. I'm not spending the import dollars now unless there are titles that aren't available domestically.

You know, Description Later is a pretty good name for a jazz outfit!

Hmmm. . . to my ears on my system the RVG sounds the best of the lot . . .and still doesn't sound really good.

I see this one a lot like Sidewinder here does. I've got the new RVG and dig the sound!

I only have ever been to Oahu, and had a luxury experience there (I'm unaccustomed to luxury which made it very nice indeed). My advice: leave some time for just relaxing and breathing in the air and feeling the trade winds and just doing nothing. Schedule in some time to just do whatever appeals to you. There is so much to do that you need to make this a priority.

I wish I weren't correct!

Many more happy ones!

On the contrary, I've heard that they HAVE edited down a bit of a track to fit material on cd (Woody Shaw?)

This music has been released on the Mythic Sounds box sets (lp and cd) and a few bits may have been on a Xanadu cd/lp (I haven't directly crossreferenced these). Most of the material I think has not been on cd before outside of the Mythic Sounds releases. To my ears they sound better on these cds than the Mythic Sounds releases. Fidelity is not the best. . . but you have lived with much worse sounding stuff.

Rick Laird used to play one of those Dan Armstrong basses.

I needed a break from reality really really badly (reality ain't what it used to be) and when a friend asked me if I wanted to see this with him today I jumped. Wow. This is the best Milla Jovovich vehicle I've ever seen. . .. she must have done a lot of training as she is so fluid in comparson to previous "action" films she's been in. It pays off and delivers what it promises in my opinion. It lives up to what you would expect it to be. The direction was right on target. . . .About half of this movie you can't blink. BAM! Sure you have to suspend belief, but this is a fantasy, totallly. If you are a fan of the beauteous Milla I think there's much to enjoy. . . .

It's a good cd indeed! It took me a while to really appreciate Kermit, but over the last few years I have. And the Rebirth I appreciate right away, swinging party vibe.

Oh I'm a lot of fun! But I didn't want to necessarily wear that reputation. I hear that's Berigan's area of connoisseurship though!

It's going to have an all English booklet! Go figure!