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  1. I don't know, I have two lp burns of The Flip, one from Bill and one from Shawn, and I think I prefer them to the McMastered Conn!
  2. Only Kevin's dibs count! Me I'd like to see maybe Silver 'n Brass or Silver 'n Percussion.
  3. Way to go Mike!
  4. And why does it matter that we know since we're going to buy it anyway?
  5. Mutually this has been going on a long time and here's hoping it doesn't stop! B-)
  6. Yeah. He was very deep. I have to thank you for making me listen to his stuff again and mining new veins. I listen sometimes to the offiical version, sometimes to your custom version, most often to that one truth be told!
  7. You've got the session with Brownie, right? In some ways I view the CENTER of her work to be the albums with Dick Katz that Gitanes reissued in the last four or five years. . . try to find Chasin' the Bird, A Shade of Difference or The Feeling is Mutual. . . .
  8. I have to thank Jim Sangrey for getting me to listen to this one. . . it has slowly woven a spell from my cd player. Released way way too long after it was conceived, this is a deeply emotional presentation of romantic hindsight or something like that. . . . The arrangements and playing are just right, Gaye's singing is just so on target and his extra special personal harmonizations with himself so right, and the tone just smack there where it should be; this is just a masterwork. I get the sense of a lonely evening of soul searching (probably with a bottle. . . I mean I never have a bottle around, and I didn't when I've gone through dark nights like this in the past, but I am sure that were this to hit me now and in the future, if my Helen were ever to leave me, there WOULD BE A BOTTLE and many dark long nights). The ebb and flow of the arrangements and the songs and the sentiments all lead up to an awareness in the end of "Why did I Choose You" and then a resignation. . . . Yeah. Thanks Jim.
  9. Listened this week to a private recording of Keizer playing someone's Wellington in their living room. Awesome. Also listened to a local Austin/San Antonio player named Robert Winters who had a band that combed this territory (played with the Caceres brothers, etc.) recorded clandestinely by his son Mel who is in fact an even better pianist and less of a mean drunk! I'd say Mel Winters as an overlooked pianist but he's so overlooked he doesn't exist (and that's just his own fault).
  10. Yes I've become a tremendous fan of Helen's. . . one real problem is that a lot of her very best works are just so hard to get! But I invite you to explore her work Brad, she's a unique talent . . . her interpretations of songs are both beautiful and deep. I have three Helen's I really love to hear in my life: my first love who became my wife, Helen Elizabeth Haggerty, Helen Folesade Adu, and Helen Merrill. Two of them can really sing!
  11. Yeah I couldn't disagree more either. Like you I got Get Up With It as soon as I could and I really have grooved to this double disc ever since. It really has in a way CORRUPTED me. I actually have two cd reissues from Japan, one lp facimile released just prior to the DSD version, and a jewelcase version of the DSD remaster. The nonDSD sounds a lot like the lps do, maybe a little brighter and more clarity. I spin that one the most.
  12. This was one of my favorite purchases of last year.
  13. This is a good lp.
  14. Must say my copy DOES have The Man I Love paired with Things are Swingin' but it appears to be a homemade pairing! As I have the recent Capitol cd of Swingin' I always just listen to The Man I Love on that one.
  15. The cds are cool.
  16. Sidney Bechet/Wild Bill Davison/Art Hodes, Running Wild
  17. Yeah it's a good one. I like his live recordings a bit better; the three volumes of the Complete At the Prelude have some great Red.
  18. Charles Mingus, Oh Yeah
  19. Mary Lou Williams, Zoning
  20. Thelonious Monk, Criss Cross
  21. Smokestack
  22. Inventions and Dimensions
  23. Earl Hines plays Cole Porter
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