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John:

"Outfitted like Jean Harlow herself, soprano Eilana Lappalainen turns heads in 'Lulu.'"

Yeah cut that out! It's even tempting me to order the Moncur! Nah, not really! But a few others, yes. I haven't bought a number of these because I have the material elsewhere; don't have the Chambers Select.

John:

Yes, it was "Chiles'" and for a large period part-owned by Max Roach. (All the time?)

I can't choose! And if I could, I might have chosen an "other"! I'm in love with Monk's music.

Yes Jim, it was a trading site that represented a coterie of Miles completist nuts who put out trees of material linked by a theme. . . A date or a particular band or a particular place, etc.

Well, Reid was cool and all, but he's not the be all and end all for ME. I like what deus and John are doing a LOT. A LOT. They don't have to ask what anyone is doing, their following their muse!

A tiny bit of news: I talked with one of the two heavies in the miles-tree org and he says that fallout from some flaming wars on miles-list (whatever dat is) were going in directions that the two partners felt were calling undue attention to the site and possibly exposing them to fiscal and legal danger. Bottom line was they wanted to do this as long as it was indeed fun, and the fun had fizzled out. I wouldn't expect to see a return of the site in the near future.

Just ordered three BYG cds. . . one from Silva, one from Redman, one from Murray (Sunny). . . .

Well, those sessions DID have commercial potential . . . for alienated white loners who were turned on by electric Miles and looking for whatever we could find in that vein. . . All 22 of us. . . . Hmmmm. . . .yeah, no commercial potential really. But good productions!

Oh artsy fartsy! That explains a LOT!

what's not satisfying John? Looks wonderful to ME!

I like that one a lot! Very vintage Verve lookin'!

Not likely that the mono is a fold-down of the two stereo tracks; Van Gelder most often (apparently) ran a mono tape on 7-1/2 ips for producer and/or musicians to take out of the studio, and this would be engineered separately from the stereo I believe on a different deck. I don't have the SACD, but I'm sitting here wondering why!

Personally I consider "Violin Session" essential, but I WOULD bieng a Ray Nance and a Sven Asmussen fan!

Keep Jim supplied with stimulants and he'll never be bested!

Jimmy McPartland on repeat mode? PRICELESS!

I've never heard the lp, but the Koch cd Bill mentions doesn't sound THAT bad. Probably a rare case of the cd bettering an lp!

This is a wonderful collection of great music, with excellent sound from the late Davies, and killer liner notes. I preordered it when it was coming out. . . !

I'm with you Ray.

Cary, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Me. . . I'm not the biggest Wayne fan these days, the "forensic" nature of his playing and concept just gets colder and colder for me. There are some great passages in these discs, and some that don't move me at all. Herbie plays wonderfullly at times, for me he's the star here. Overall it's great stuff, but perhaps for ME overkill. BUT I think YOU and quite a few others here will really dig them!