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Well, you don't have to flip sides or change speeds. Sounds really really good though. . . better than the vinyl I think (from comparisons to a tape of the vinyl).

Jazztones are cool. I think that my favorites of what I've heard on this list are the CBBB and the Ray Charles which is AMAZING.

No, this week it's the Lang and Venuti.

Totally cool stuff! Will make you want to hear more Dash! And some excellent Hawkins. Those are just highlights of a very top notch box! My favorite of the in print sets may be. . . the Berigan. . . this week.

I'm still not sure if the math on the old "you can fool some of the people" works out right or not! I do know you CAN fool some people at least ONCE.

I wouldn't call myself a Riddle-r, a fan. I woulds say that the MPS cds will sound great; I have the new Clarke Boland Big Band MPS cds and they sound fantastic.

Okay, I think I lived at 1685 Somerset. . . so the Rooster would have been in that block. But I'm not positive; I can rememer the phone number exactly, but have less confidence in the street address. People on our street used to either sell parking spaces for ballgames, or block off with cones their own spaces so they weren't taken by visitors to the stadium. When I was there it was not a nice neighborhood. Haven't been back since a drive through about 1972.

The only Hatology I own, and a damned good concert.

I've gotten nearly every one of mine from cduniverse at sale/preorder price of about 21 dollars per volume. . . . That's hard to beat. The cduniverse regular price should be good as well.

So far I've listened to the fist disc four times, haven't moved on to the second one yet! Sound on the Treasury Show itself is very good; the sound on the following "filler" show is less good (the source is not as great quality) but acceptable. Remastering by Jack Towers, which is always a good thing. . .

"Jeep is Jumping" . . . is that a referrence to the Army vehicles or not? Announcer on Volume 11 seemed to be saying it IS.

Well, a matter of blocks away from the site of the old Connie Mack Stadium. It was on (I am not sure I am spelling this right; I was eleven when I left there in 1966) Sommerset St. or Ave.

I love the material on Commodore. . . . Have never heard the Arcadia; only lps of theirs I've ever seen is the Jimmy's Joys . . . (another Texas band). I wish there were more Peck Kelly; he seemed an amazing musician that I'd love to hear more of! Would be great to have some "Bad Boys" recordings!

I've got an overwhelming urge for a big slice of strawberry rhubarb pie!

Elis, another fantastic avatar!

Chris, no, the Red Rooster I knew was in Philly. . . .

It's my guess that Chuck himself will have copies for sale when the time comes. . . .

Hey, I reportedly used to try to go into the bar on one corner of the block, The Red Rooster (still wonder if this is the place that apparently Tyner and Coltrane both appeared at) when I was very young. . . . And would be turned away. I know it must have had one big ass jukebox. . . you could hear it a few houses away when the doors were all closed! Was good stuff.

Jim, IF you find writing reviews as frustrating and spiritually draining (when the editorial guidelines go against your grain) as I do then An extra one for the perserverance and grunts.

I found it exciting to listen to these. Thanks for all the work Dan, and Jim!

My grandfather playing banjo and piano, my grandmother playing piano and organ, my dad's collection of Gershwin and swing lps and also corny stuff he had from HIS dad like the Hoosier Hot Shot 78s. . . . And then Philly soul on the radio when I was about nine to eleven.

I own a car and a motorcycle, both of which are just resting, unregistered. I love motorcycles; fifteen years ago my wife (then fiancee) pretty much told me she wouldnt' be around if I continued to ride my cycles; I sold my BMW R65 and kept my then retired BMW R90 in the garage where it still resides. For about a decade before that I had only had a cycle and never needed a car until I started playing in bands when I picked up a 1966 Belair wagon (straight six, three on the tree!) to haul drums and band members around. My wife and I used that for about seven years until we bought a house and both the car and the house began to need a lot of attention, and we decided to see if we could retire the car and save up for a new one. Well, we kept saving, we kept doing house repairs etc. We found we could get by quite well without a car, and so began to make extra payments to the mortgage instead of car payments. We bus to and from work, walk to the grocery store, etc. and take the occasional cab; lots cheaper than car payment, insurance, etc. And we're reducing the length of our mortgage by about oene half. PLUS my wife is the very worst driver imaginable; anytime she would drive off I would get this sinking feeling that I would never see her again. Having a car for a long time that she hated to drive, and then having no car at all, is a more relaxing situation! I admit I was never into cars after I couldn't keep my 1964 Alfa Romeo Spyder 1600 going way back in the mid-seventies, and started riding motorcycles. . . . Honestly I don't miss cars and traffic and wrenching and paying insurance and garage repair bills and parking fees. . . . And after so many years when I see SUVs flying along with drivers gabbing into cellphones or applying makeup I just think how silly they are and try my very best to stay out of their way. I'm happier not having to deal with traffic; I read a book and have a nice rejuvenating walk instead. We're well situated for public transport and neighborhood shopping and entertainment and make the most of it. Now if they just hadn't built 500,000 homes right across the street from us!

The French lps of the RCA Hawkins Orchestra are really cool; I've got those in the Jazz Tribune series.. . . this was a fun band. I don't QUITE see those more contemporary referrences, but that doesn't matter; stands well on its own. Those guys seemed to have FUN.

Great stuff! I have the two Fantasy cds and need to blow the dust off them and spin them again soon!