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The sound on this set is in my opinion. . . fantastic, about the very best of their earlier jazz sets. Warm and detailed. There is a great variety of material within the set as well, from hot little ensembles with Lang and Tram and others, to uniquely voiced large orchestras with a swing and feel all its own, to various groups and arrangements of a differing nature in between. I like this set a LOT. I'm going to have to dig it out and dig it again soon!

The failing of the LPR series is. . . well for example, there were TWO Alexandria ps on one cd in the first Impulse cd of her work. . . here we have . . . ONE. Still a really nice series, but. . . short playing times on some and combinations would have been welcome.

What BOSSA NOVA is not a category of its own? I find that I can't really fit the music that I listen to outside of jazz into a category like that. . . except blues artists, and Hendrix and the Dead (I confess I'm listening more and more to the Dead) . . . I mean where do Ed Motta and Sade fit in? To call either "pop" really doesn't seem right to me.

And dare I add that one should look at the material that WAS offered at: www.miles-trees.org

". . .and the list goes on and on." IT SURE DOES!

Congrats on your new machine! I too have a misbehaving cd player to replace. For me it was no contest, I've been waiting for an excuse and funding to do this: I just ordered the Decware 685 modified Sony SACD player (plays dvds as well) with a tubed output stage coming directly off the DAC. Can't wait for it to arrive!

Again, with the Jamal there are licensing problems. I have read that Verve released one without asking him and he has taken them to court, and is denying them the release of any others.

Many more happy ones!

Hope you had a wonderful day!

Well on Pacific Jazz there's: the Jim Hall "Guitar Player" lp that could be a good fullish cd. the "Chico Hamilton Trio" date isn't there that features Hall? That's a half a cd. . . (short). . . . the Modest Jazz Trio lp with Red Mitchell, that would fill up the second cd I can see a two cd set as a possiblity at least! Anyone see more possibles?

Clora Bryant's "The Courtesan"?

Volume 8 (the final of the series) on Frog came out this Tuesday in the US (been out in Europe for a spell)! Buy the bio and collect the series!

Many more happy ones (without rubber gloves!)

Thank you FATS for all the joy you bring to my life!

Bill, WELCOME and thanks for the information!

Have a fantastic day David!

Well, I have had the US disc, the Blue Moon and the Mosaic. Each sounded better than the other. Not sure that I remember a specific distortion on the drums, but it may have been there on the US and the Blue Moon and still be on the Mosaic. . . I may have to visit that Mosaic soon and that session. . . .

You know sometimes I think the generation gap is really interesting because what one generation doesn't get about the previous one sometimes the one after that or the one after THAT really gets it and there is a revival or relaunch of essential aspects. . . . And sometimes you can read someone who seems to really be speaking for YOU to YOU about YOU at YOU etc. . . . I get that effect reading Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac or Philip K. Dick. Hell, I'm not a part of their generations, but they seem to be in my head or writing about my head or they at least have serious relevance for my life, my inner core. . . . I read recently some Egyptian writings from way back when, possible 3500 years ago, the entreaties of a government official to Horus to help him to not be like the bad people that do dishonest things with the money that comes their way as part of their government work. . . it's freaky sometimes how nothing is any different really in the human condition from age to age.

It's about Melville and Mahler, isn't it?

Hard to say. . . Keren Allen seems to already have at least two successful cds out.

Here may now be the only Blue Note board "in town": http://www.bluenoteeurope.com/mb/

Keren Ann. . . well she sounds not unlike a Euro Norah from what I can hear. Might be interesting. . .

Yeah Gary, welcome! Yes, all props to the net! I can fondly remember the time I got an email out of the blue from Tony Sparbaro (Spargo)'s grandson!