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Interesting article.

It's not as easy as it looks. . . Hubbard et al battled the government for years about the status of the "methodology" as a "religion" and as far as I know they may still be doing so.

She shore looks purdy.

I'm not sure you can make that extrapolation over a few days of response or nonresponse on one small board on the 'net. And I do suspect that this set may have a lot of "non web user" appeal. I'd be MORE excited about it if I didn't have the sneaky suspicion I had a good portion of this already!

Nobody really needs one. . . Nobody really needs this "Best Blue Note Album in the World!" And if you did, in my opinion to make it "real" and valid, it would need to have some of the stuff from the first 15 years!

It will probably include the date where Buddy SINGS. . . .

I'd add "Summertime" by Bechet. And something by the Three Sounds should be on there.

Many more happy ones!

Alright! I'll mark my calendar!

Hope yourmusic.com gets these by fall. . . -_-

"Accept no Substitute!"

It's a fantastic cd. . . . I would have bought it indeed if I did not have it. . . . Paid about 26 dollars for it when it was freshly released!

I don't have an iPod, but I listen to box sets often enough. But not to this one often enough. . . . I need to revisit it. I sort of overdosed on Atlantic Trane about nine or ten years ago, and have only revisited it infrequently since then. I have the box set, I listened to it several times after buying it all the way through, and have mined only a few of the discs every since. It's an excellent box set in cd incarnation, and I actually prefer this material chronologically for some reason. You're going to have a lot of fun with it Mike!

Here's a quote from a Coltrane list subsciber that was forwarded to me, which verifies what I was told a few months ago to keep under my hat by someone who had talked to a member of the Monk family enterprise: In January the Library of Congress made a momentous musical find: a tape of the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 29, 1957, a rarity by a little-recorded and short-lived band that had major historical significance. That tape - containing nearly an hour of music - will be released by Blue Note on Sept. 27, under the title "Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall," the record label announced.

Bowfinger, yes, quite an insightful little Scientologist parody. I lived with Scientologists in a large house that was rented out room by room for a few years. I know more than I want to about Scientology. I've seen it mess with some friends. I've even had some stuff, like a Wurlitzer electric piano and a few instrument amps, ripped off by Scientologists that spend so much time at the "org" that they could not afford to live honestly, there's not enough hours in the day to earn an income. And when you get right down to it, it's as mentioned above a paramilitary outfit that protects a select few, and their "religion" is gnostic stuff as old as the hills dressed up in pseudo-science fiction trappings. Just don't let them take over China as I think they want to!

I want to buy some Elis Regina cds. . . I'll probably pluck a few from Dusty Groove I've got the upcoming Sammy Davis Jr./Carmen McRae "Porgy and Bess" on preorder. . . for the McRae, not the Davis

Welcome naos! Pleast post plenty!

I think Marty has answered this excellently! (No surprise there!)

I guess I would say it's Sid on 51st St Theme. I'm hesitant because most of the bass drum work there sounded like Max, especially initially, but the hihat and rides sound like Sid and so do the bulk of the snare snaps. . . .

I'm a fan of Lovano's, I don't connect with all his work, but I love his willingness to tackle odd or tough projects, and I actually like most his most surface-seemingly "retro" projects such as the Dameron composititons and the quartet with Hank Jones (I think he and Jones are a fantastic pairing). I've met Joe here in Austin, totally informally and out of the blue, and I want to say that I have never ever met anyone with any sort of vestige of "fame" who was more open, friendly, and just plain warm. I'll never forget how nice and easy it was to just stand and talk to him for a few minutes! Perhaps the most exciting playing I've heard from him was a large ensemble project that Danny D'Imperio did that featured him. My favorite all around is "All for You."

Yes, iTunes is very compatible; been burning cdrs and playing them everywhere.

I got this last night, listened to it several times at work and then listened to it on my main system straight through. . . . Well worth the long wait. I was thrilled to hear the great Sid Catlett performance; Sid is among THE men for me on drums, and this was a well recorded example of why! Ted Kendall did a wonderful job overall. Bird and Diz were both really "ON." Kudoes to EVERYONE INVOLVED. May it win grammys!

Start here http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/series.aspx...ob=bf&src=vault or it may be safer/cheaper to start here http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.asp...c=srs&pid=11209 You'll have to download iTunes I believe, unless you have it. . . . That's something I've never done because my iMac and my iBook both come equipted with iTunes.

A driver tube like that has two sections/halves, so it can serve as a stereo device, one channel using one part, the other the other part.