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Volume 4 is good too. Except for some great soloing by some members that was fun to hear from the start, this band seemed to get better as it went along. I just realized I now have all the Jazz Oracles. Sheesh that was an expensive collecting. . . but a collection well worth having.

I didn't feel the Rudd was really bad. . . just not really good. And the two others I've listened to so far, the Shepp and the Wright, have quite good sound (the Shepp sounds really really good to my ears!)

That's two words. There were some other good players in this band as well, as you know. . . .

??? I know that there was a cd "The Shoe's of the Fisherman's Wife are some Jive Ass Slippers" that had items from "Dynasty" and "Ah Um" and some alternate material; nothing that hasn't been out before or since actually. . . .

I like Volume 5 a lot as well. I have all of the volumes, including the Whooppee Makers ones, but that is not the full band. . . . I'd agree: try Volume 5 with some Jack vocals.

Please don't hold it for me Tony. . . I'm way over extended at the moment. Flurin, thanks for weighing in re: the Shepp defect. Guess it's just my copy!

Hi Elis. Must have been great to see Sphere at that time! Actually, Paul Jeffrey replaced Rouse as the regular saxophonist in the final years of Monk's career. . . but I bet Rouse wasn't too far away . . . . I am not sure that any of Jeffrey's work with Monk has made it to cd, though recently it was reported that he turned in over 20 hours of tapes to the Monk family of his participation with Monk, so perhaps one day soon! He brought a different feel to the music. . . he did well in Rouse's chair!

My monthly choice, the Mendes, has shipped!

I bought that one the minute I read, on this board, that yourmusic had it! What a great reissue (for five bucks!) I also have a twofer European copy that has Seashells on it. . . but I wanted to have this remastered version; both sound really good but it is nice to have as a single. I love the original session; the second session is very good but the first session KILLS.

The "Rat" is a thread here on the board that was begun as a thread about the album "The Funny Rat" and has become an avant garde music thread that keeps going and going and going.

I agree, terrific sound, great sound stage and presence of the instruments. I like the disc a LOT.

Thanks for reporting that. In the last few minutes of the disc mine stops and then starts and then stops and then starts then won't play through to the end. A manufacturing defect I suppose. I have to play it on all my burners and players and see if it works on any. I so far have only played it on my Decware modified (tubed output stage added taken off the DAC chip) Sony 685 player; this machine however usually plays everything.

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The bulk of these are drawn from the "Jazz in Paris" series of cds from Gitanes (Universal), arranged around a theme for the sets. There is reported to be a few, A FEW, tracks that did not appear in the "Jazz in Paris" series, but I for one don't know what those tracks are. There is going to be predominantly studio but some live tracks here from an assortment of musicians both French, from other European countries, and Americans.

I don't know what section Tarantino guest directed either. .. . If I could guess I would guess the sequence with Dwight and a dead Jack Rafferty on the way to the Tar Pits and maybe into the Tar Pits? Just a guess!

No, mine is definitely defective. It stops and then starts and then stops and then starts. A manufacturing defect. I'll send it back after I've determined it does this on all my machines. (So far I've only tried it in my Sony universal player that is modified to have a tubed output; this machine generally plays everything so it probably behaves the same way in my other players, but I haven't verified that.) I totally dig this disc otherwise! Thanks for weighing in!

Wow! I couldn't have had a more different reaction. . . well yes, I could. I didn't LOVE the movie, I just thought it was fascinating; the technical reproduction of the comic book world was amazing. I saw it again this weekend with another friend who talked me into going. I reveled in the scenes with Rosario Dawson (Gail). She's a stunning woman!

Maigret eh? I can't imagine watching a British version of Maigret, but the Simenon novels are wonderful (actually, ALL Simenon is worth reading in my opinion, or rather all that I've read, I'm trying to read it all!)

I watched "Rush Hour 2" again (first time was in the theater) this weekend as part of my Ziyi Zhang kick! It was a lot of fun.

Anybody else have problems with the final cut on "Black Gypsy"? Mine is defective. Guess I'll send it back. .. .

"Oh Yeah" is one of the two Epic lps. That and half the other is collected on the Columbia cd "Unsung Hero". . . . I recommend this cd! I also like his work as coleader of Les Jazz Modes, though it's a bit different!

His Epic stuff is wonderful. I'm a fan. I love the It Club recordings. . .they're pretty solid representations of his work with Monk and something to be proud of!

Lennon the Limey is one of my favorite Bugs. I hate the walrus.

Looks like a terrorist to me! Blue alert!