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Well, Vonzell Solomon is still in the running at least til tonight. . . . I really think there's a big chance she'll go home tonight which is a shame because I favor her over the other two. Carrie has never done anything for me and Bo is just boring for me.

Classmates.com is in the employ of all our spouses, making sure we CANNOT so EASILY contact old girlfriend/boyfriends. They make a lot of money in volume!

Interesting album up on the site now: http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm

I haven't made a count. About a cd's worth is my guess.

I've read nearly every Thompson piece. . . . That guy amazes me; excellent writer. (Oddball, but that's part of the appeal).

Bruce H, talk about movies that followed the book, how about "The Grifters." Man much of that was word for word!

Sure, they are, so many are (Muldar and Scully being most recent famous imitations) but. . . Reading the Falcon through about six years ago for the third time or so gave me this suspicion.

Selections not otherwise in the series on separate cds are not in any way flagged or higlighted. . .

I would share Allen's concerns as well. None-the-less it is interesting to see a book and I would like to take a look at this in a bookstore. Which transfers are 'best" is a very subjective thing. I prefer the most recent Columbia cd transfers to the JSP set myself, not dramatcially. I still have both; the JSPs are at the office, the Columbia gets played on the main system at home. The transfers that Chronogical Classics and King Jazz use that I have heard sound pretty damned good too. I haven't heard the JSP Christian material. I have all nine volumes of the Masters of Jazz series (which I think sound wonderful) and I have the Columbia box set (which has transfers that are wonderful if a tad too bright) and I didn't see any reason to buy the JSP.

"Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy"--I'd keep my SACD. This would be the one Pops cd (I have so many!) I would keep. It has great sentimental value --- finding this lp really excited me and I listened to it over and over and learned a lot from it; I made a few great rest of my life long friends in concert with this recording; and this album helped me to spend some quality time with a beautiful woman wnen I was fresh to college and really needed to. But beyond that I think it represents the best of Pops. It is pure entertainment, Pops the charmer and disarmer. It is pure artistry--classic songs reinvented and executed with elan and verve and gravity. And it's a showcase for stupendous trumpeting (yes, I really think so) and singing from a man at a high point, ambassador of jazz to the world, wise man of jazz and pop who had something to say and was saying it. On top of that I feel it is a spectacular recording from an engineering standpoint. Vivid, real, deep sound that fits the material like a glove. Trummy is scary real at times! I love this work. No one could take it away from me.

This really is a great two cd set; I'm going to have to spin my Europe 1 version again soon. There were apparently a few or more broadcasts from this band that should be out there somewhere, though I've never seen or heard one. . . more's the pity.

He wore some mf pants too on the bus! (Or so Monk tghought!)

Yeah, that's probably smart. But even so, I would have placed that order on Sunday, the end of the week!

I'm waiting too. And to think, I had placed an order with Dusty on Sunday for Vogue cds, had I known I would have included Brown Sugar too.

Okay. . . well. . . they screwed up. Plain and simple. They've done that before. Some of us waited a long time for DETS Volume 10!

I think it's a matter of cduniverse not anticipating demand from organissimoites.

Yes, Mike, that album gets panned here but I really like it too, and something we won't see again. Long live Water!

I hear you Clinton. Luckily I have two more shipments in the mail, a big box of Chopin recordings, and the "Last Waltz" box set.

I actually have to admit that I am one of those weird guys that likes the most recent two compared to the earlier three. I never got excited about those, but I was a movie snob then; if it was popular I convinced myself I didn't like them. Really haven't revisited them either. I like the sort of "kindler, gentler, less epic" feel of the last two, bad acting and scripting aside (the first three had bad scripting really, just better acting probably). And the look of the movies is much nicer. Looking forward to this new one to just be over with the damned series! What little marketing side line stuff I've seen has churned my stomach too; I avoid seeing this stuff as much as possible.

Fascinating Elis, thanks for posting!

I'll bet the only extra material on the Shaw will be the material that was on the other studio lp. . . . I feel THAT in my bones from Columbia!

And on top of tha! I've had both the VJC two cd set and the newish Storyville two cd set. . . which sounds best yet.

Yes really, about time. I love the Jamal stuff and am glad it is out outside of Mosaic and Japanese cds, and I think many here will enjoy the Blakey and the Silver. . . I've never heard the Brookmeyer or Getz or Gordon.

Marvin Gaye, the Detroit mix of What's Goin' On, was in the mix this morning. As well as a lot of Stan Getz. And Miles at the Keystone Korner 1975.