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I have to admit I love this place. . . but. . . I do miss the ole Blue Note board before the boom fell and Greg was swimming around telling everyone not to let the door hit them in the ass! There was an addictive quality to the sheer speed and volume of that board. This one comes close, but doesn't yet have the huge membership that one did, international, intergenerational, and just huge! The way it moved was dizzying sometimes!

I may go see Troy. . . again. I loved the visual spectacle of this, and being a longtime Homer fan I thought I would see this in the theater one more time. It's quite an interesting adaptation and some good acting. . . . My wife is really tired and stressed and says we're not going to do anything big at all. If I'm lucky an old tube stereo system that I have inherited from her late aunt will arrive tomorrow and I'll be able to set that system up and play around with it. . . . Me love tubes.

Well, congrats to Fantasia. She's not my choice, I honestly think that Jennifer is a less cliche ridden (yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah for example) singer and more innovative, but I've always been as step removed from US pop. But I STILL didn't like either version of Summertime. . . Fantasia's stuff seems fabricated rather than real to me. But that's cool. More power to her. May she have lots of success. I hope Jennifer gets a chance to record as well.

Well, was anyone else as unimpressed by both singers last night as I was? Neither floored me even once, and I didn't vote for either. My wife voted for Fantasia based on her final performance, that of the Tamyra Gray song. . . . Two hours tonight! Long wait to learn the winner.

Yes, under Howard McGhee's name, "The Connection" has been out on Boplicity, and it is a short and sweet cd!

Yes, Catest, this is one beautiful woman!

Worth watching that dumb Hunter show for. . . .

Ah well. . . two threads about this devoted jazz fan and excellent engineer-musician is NOT a bad thing!

Me too. Such a beautiful sound! Such a great sense of melody and structure! Such a shame he left us so young so long ago!

Welcome folk! Join the discussions and enrich the joint!

It's double sad news with two threads! J. R. really helped the early jazz speak to many of us and I will always have his work in my collection. Chris, you CAN delete this. Look at the bottom of the page you'll see "Moderation Options." As the creator of the thread you should be able to delete it following those options.

Thanks Chris!

Sad news indeed.

The Columbia has extensive (and imo very nice) notes. The Columbia has really magnificent sound from the original parts or test pressings for most sides. The two sets also have different non Hot Fives and Sevens material from each other. The JSP has good sound, and some may even prefer the sound, but I think the Columbia wins out for me and my ears and my system. Plus it's a more stately (and expensive) presentation.

Yeah, I would love to see "Say it Loud" or "Cosmos"!

She shore is purdy.

I was incredibly happy the first years of my teenage years, in Ethiopia and Swaziland (especially my time at the boarding school, Waterford Kamhlaba, in M'Babane). Then I was incredibly crushed and down the middle portion when we returned to the States to a very small Ohio town where I was "Rev. Armstrong's son, COMMA, Lon." Comma Lon was not a happy camper. Then things picked up for me when I went to the University of Chicago for the first year or so and met intellectuals and beat misfits and fell in love (then unrequited, but still thriling) with my wife, Helen.