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Nick and the Glimmung (written 1966, published 1988) Haven't read it. You know it has to be . . . odd.

I think I have those Ethiopique items that you mention you intend to get! I really like them. I hope to eventually get them all. . . seeing as I lived in Ethiopia a few of the very best years of my life. . . .

Yes, there was a special RVG series in Japan that included Cannonball Adderley's "Mercy, Mercy" (sensation JRVG!), Mal Waldron's "Left Alone" (haven't heard it), the Taylor-Trane, and there have been Toshiba SuperBit cds that have had RVG remasterings such as "Atomic Basie" and "Byrd's Eye View" and a few others. However I don't think that because this volume is going out of print that RVGs are scheduled, but that's just guesswork!

Tony, you love this sextet, it's your favorite Blakey unit, right? The sound is fine, it's not MudMaster. will sound more than fine on your new system. GET VOLUME TWO! Bertrand, I wouldn't be surprised if that list you mention CAME from Michael! I can understand being frustrated with the policies of giant corporations, but they have different concerns than the jazz collector.

I really like the Lang and Venuti as well. . . .

Grant Green and Sonny Clark!

Getz and Raney!

Man I now am hoping that the franchise lasts long enough to have Kraven in one of the films, my gut tells me that would be a great one!

Yes, it's so much better than the version they included!

Yes, Frank does wonderful work on this cd (no surprise!) I listened to the second half of the cd again this morning before heading off to work. It sounded so beautiful! This is my favorite of hers so far. I'm hoping that this new venture is a success. I mean I hope it doesn't hurt her that you can't go to cduniverse.com and order one of these, that those interested have to make an extra step or two, and have to find out about it beforehand. . . .

Yes, I think I've read everything of his save the books of letters (haven't justified the expenditure yet---they are EXPENSIVE!) and his lone children's book, and nearly every book written about him. . . . I've been reading Dick since I found a copy of "The Zap Gun" in Gianopolis' book store in Addis Ababa in 1967!

I'm about half way through this book. If you're a PKD fan it's a fun book: it's sort of an odd novel showing slices of the day to day of PKD over the years, totally imaginary. I do think that his imagined bits of PKD reality seem pretty on target to how I MYSELF imagine PKD might have thought and felt and said and did. . . . And it's fun to read and analyze and wonder. . . I think PKD would have liked this one!

I agree, one of my favorite Impulses by Shepp. . . seems to me that it is sort of an updated answer to Ellington's "My People"--hard to know though if that is me reading into it or an intention of Shepp's. . . either way I enjoy both works in similar ways and levels!

Many more happy ones!

Kraven! That would be a good one for the next one, Kraven the Hunter! These movies make me feel about 8 or 9 years old again, hiding my collection from my Dad!

This is an EXCELLENT cd. Timed it so that I could listen to it in its entirety while I sat and had coffee and read this morning before going off to work. I think more than any other this one seems to be HER music, to have transcended Brookmeyer and Evans influences and become that fusion that is her own. And I view this as fusion music, fusion of jazz and European and South American music especially, it's a wonderfully cohesive blend that has her signature within it. Beautiful stuff, well recorded, excellently executed. . . I particularly enjoyed the first and second of the three romances, they just transported me. . . . I'm so glad I ordered this and I'm going to look forward to many more listenings.

And Joe Lee. . . and Woody. . . there are a lot of good reasons to enjoy this one! COME ON VERVE!

I'm in the camp that LOVES it (though I like a few other Impulses a bit more). Has that famous Coltrane tune "Un Croque Monsieur"!

So who does one think the next villain will be for Spiderman 3: The Lizard? The Goblin? Jamieson? OR Jamieson as Man Wolf: Some unholy combination of two or three of these badasses? I personally would rather see Electro, the Shocker, Mysterio, Sandman. . . !

Ah! "Hoot-naan!" Plain? (Big Al: naan is a hearth baked bread from India. . . delicious!)

Okay. . . .

Hey I had a coworker who always called his cows "Flossie!" Dog ask me! Could call them "Bridget" for all I care.

No dispute from me, how about mentioning a one or a two?

I sit corrected! I bought a few copies off ebay of just the cd. . . luckily. . . didn't want the wine!

That Lewis recording IS an important early "third stream" recording that should be listened to and talked about more! I especially like Getz's involvement which pushes it into something special for me. Here's a suggetion of another lp that I believe should be more listened to and talked about, Charles Mingus' "East Coasting," recorded in August 1957. I keep coming back to this work because of it seems a focused effort showcasing a working front line that really listens and sparks each other, guided by a bass and drum team that could mc a circus or NASA launching event. AND has Bill Evans sitting in on the piano chair. The compositions are solid, the overall conception and arrangements stellar. And the material seems "state of the art of jazz 1957"---seems to have a toe in every camp going on and be an "open letter" offering some suggestions for new directions. I always dig listening to it!