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Hmmmh. . . in a way with those earliest recordings, with the Taylor piece, with the interviews and all the tremendous info in the book, this IS the way to get started on Ayler. Greg, I think you're in for a real journey that I'm betting you'll enjoy.

Too flat to be those damned cylinders at last!

Brad, I have one on offer on the thread already.

Used cd stores here are full of Miles Davis and Duke Ellington product too. Fact of the matter is I had just finished listening to Jackie McLean sing Wynton's praises on a live performance, introducing him on to join in on a number or two, he doesn't seem to think Wynton deserved to be kicked around like a dead horse or Leslie Gourse's corpse (obviously another sore spot with me). I apologize, you're entitled to your opinion, I just get tired of the most outrageous ones (this and the Norah "talentless hack" one just make me steam). I'm sorry, back on track with Al selling books (I've bought two I hope).

Yeah yeah yeah, very fuckin' funny Bertrand. Allen, I'll email you re the Chicago book. Like I need another book. . . .

The new McDuff is much more New Orleansy than Moon! It's a juicy bluesy romp thanks to Ray Draper and some funky arrangements. Me likey.

I agree that Wille the Lion is great!

Great score Evan!

I'm with Chuck solidly on this one (save I haven't yet had the pleasure of working with him). I'm one hundred and one percent a Weston fan, I've been tracking down anything he does, and this Select has some of the very best of his first decade of work within it. LOVE it!

YES

The Baby Huey is very interesting to me, a lot of the bands I saw in Chicago in the period of '73 to '76 had the sound one way or another that Baby Huey and the Baby Sitters came up with. It's a blend of the sort of sounds that James Brown and Buddy Miles Express and Howlin' Wolf and many another band (including a bit of Santana) had at the time. . . well, it's black music and it's very powerful and trippy. I'm enjoying it a lot; the jazzy bits, and the dramatic bits that Huey injects. . . he was a great singer, it's a tight band, it's fun music.

It was fun to read too Marty!

Please don't! I'm not into pictures of kids (sorry).

I believe these have absolutely no relation to the original Tung-Sols, they're just new tubes branded with the old label which was purchased, as was Mullard, etc. by an unscrupulous business hack who makes no effort to recreate original design, just labels inferior tubes with a time-honored name or two. New old stock is the way to go. I've had decent experience with POWER tubes from JJ Electronics and SED (formerly Svetlana, but not the NEW Svetlana which is part of this bogus new name on inferior tubes megabusiness) but I've had no real success comparing input tubes of new production to NOS tubes; NOS tubes win hands down every time. Admittedly, I'm not using them in Leslie cabinets, and I don't know how crucial that position in the circuit is on a Leslie amp, but in my audio amps I've given up trying to use new production input/driver tubes.

Yes I have noticed. Interesting. Next thing you know Mosaics of EMI material will! Just been listening to and really really enjoying the Baby Huey Water. WOW!

Me either. If this is Sims' idea/notion/action I don't understand it. I'm glad the company WANTED to reissue it. . . .

I prefer the Orgies to the Skins as well. Hmmmm . . . . Orgies. .. Skins. . . Holiday. . . !

Hmmmm. . . I have these. . . I really don't listen too often. . . sort of boring to me. But then again, I'm not getting rid of them!

Wow, there are so MANY. Here are a few of my favorites: Miles at Fillmore Miles at Blackhawk Ellington at Newport (you name it!) Basie airchecks with Pres Cannonball Adderley at the Jazz Workshop Thelonious Monk at the Jazz Workshop

To clarify Brownie, I guess I should have said "cd sets" because I have heard very few of the LP reissues, and none of those two lp sets. . . . What I was referring to were those that Ron and I posted images of.

Well, they do both have one thing in common: both have been BERRY BERRY GOOD TO ME!

From the Adderley website I read this: "The Masquerade Is Over was a 1938 hit by Herb Magidson and Allie Wrubel." (May be in the liners to the Cannon with strings lp, I haven't read those in some time, though I've spun the music recently; it's killer stuff).

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OUCH. Sorry to hear that. Or not. It will be sweet to hear when you return!

Classics is one good way to go, you'll get overlap though of the material you now have. . . . But you haven't bought the Victor material yet, so it may be the best way to get the Columbia and Victor material (and MORE) sans alternates (which are available from Neatwork). That said, I really like the Columbia sets out. . . sound could be a little better but is not at all bad, and the way the music is grouped is cool and the music is out of this world great. Then there are also those European releases from Definitive et al. . .