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Andrea is quite accomplished, and I think this will be a nice cd, will definitely let you know how it is when in hand. . . .!

Word! Anyone heard this one: Just plucked a reasonably priced copy from half.com . . . .

It's domestic, part of a FANTASTIC series of reissues on Water Records out of San Francisco. Their previous reissues of the two Eddie Gale Blue Notes and a Byard Lancaster on Vortex are among the best sounding and most well produced reissues of the last few years.

As I remember. . . neither. Sort of. ..hardbop.

I've got an lp burn of this somewhere, from an American lp, and this is kindof. . . hardbop!

Camille Velasco. She was so unnerved by the whole process of the show that she ruined every one of her performances. . . . Poor woman. I really think she was a great singer in waiting. . . . She may prove to be a great pop idol yet, but her time is not now!

You may want to attempt to make a cdr with volume adjustments. . .some burners and software, both pc and audio type, can accomplish this; I have recently gotten an HBH that does a nice job with level changes in both analog and digital domains. . . . I can conceive of you making a cdr that had the balance of both types of tracks just how you want it, and then you could just play that cdr rather than the cd itself.

I paid a big dollar, about two and a half, about two years ago for a Samsung that I have had going with no problems whatsoever. I enjoy having it because now with my previous vcr that stills plays back well but doesn't record, I can make copies of jazz vidoes. . .

And I think that is all guesswork!

Nah. Can't blame the Germans for that. Individualizing language is something Americans are born with the ability to do. (Whether it is strangling it or altering it for the worse is in the eye of the beholder).

It's an Indian name I believe. Though there are plenty of crazy Germans there!

Huntington National is the way to go. Ohioans. . . numerically challenged? Perhaps. But good people!

I went with the Morgan Shorter. Just by a hair.

It's just how Helen defines "her favorite". . . her favorite is the one that gives the best performance . . . .that worked for her, her favorites were changing week by week. It's not how I would have voted if I voted; I would have voted for Lea LaBelle and Jennifer Hudson til one or the other was bumped and then voted for the survivor til there was no more voting for that survivor. But Helen had hte phone!

My wife votes. . .but she's just a kid! (A 48 year young kid!) She votes for the two whose performances she likes most each week. . .She's quite good about that, doesn't always vote for the same people week by week. Last week she voted for La Toya and Fantasia. . .

Hmmm. . . I entertain no such hope. . . I really doubt that they will!

I'm sure there are influences back and forth between these two. I'm not an AEC fan, somehow, I've never been able to really appreciate them, maybe one day. I'm crazy about Ra. I think it's the centrality of the vision of Ra's music that is one major difference between them: sort of the difference between a composer and his orchestra (Ra) and a collective group of creative musicians doing THEIR music (AEC). . . . This has shaped their work differently at the core I think.

A trumpeter friend of mine says he sometimes thinks that Jobim was some sort of sachem/seer that pulled melodies out of the air from ancient civilizations that resonated with human racial memory in the minds of listeners. . . . Sometimes when I listen to Jobim, especially really early in the morning when most of the rest of the city is comatose (us old farts find sleep difficult often) . . . I really do know what he means!

Well, my favorites are always gone by this point in the competition. I do think that La Toya was becoming a bit. . . boring. There I said it. She's a great singer. . . she belongs singing musicals on the screen or something. . . she'll do fine. But to keep Jasmine over her? It sure seems weird. Then again, to boot Jennifer Hudson and leave John Stephens in the lineup was whack. It seems a bit more whacky than usual this year. . . and that may be the thing that keeps me watching from this point on. . . . (That and my wife!)

The Complete Redheads on Jazz Oracle The new Mary Lou Williams on Chronogical Classics The new Valaida Snow on Chronogical Classics

I have the Moody on lp, and it's well worth hearing! I just got a few of the last batch. . . I really like the Zoot Sims with Joe Castro a lot!

I don't see any influence. The AEC is from Jupiter, and Sun Ra from Saturn. WORLDS APART.

Miscellaneous Music, 24% I account for 2.96% of ALL posts. SCARY!

Finally have the new cd of this. Additional tracks are all trio tracks, with Percy Heath on bass and Tim Kennedy on drums. The sound is okay. . . not a great improvement over the lp itself. . . it may even be an lp transfer that has been cleaned thoroughly. Great music!

Wonderful news Tom! Thanks for sharing!