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The sound on all of these is pretty darned decent really, with the exception being the first one; that has a worn source, but great music. I really don't remember them as specific volumes standing out. . . . I really can honestly say I like them all, and some may be better than others because of a favorite player being on board or so. . . . Back about three or so years ago Barnes and Nobles had these mispriced as 13.99 each, not seeming to notice that they were two cd sets. . . I took advantage of that!

I don't really understand why Helen's material isn't more widely available. What ever one can find is pretty wonderful stuff, and I've introduced her to persons who never heard of her or heard her and they like her. There is a strong possibility that in this case this is Japan only stuff, and either no one has licensed it or been given a license for this Victor material. I guess that could change, but who does one lobby to change it?

On one site I saw that "Lilaac Wine" is due out in the States next month. .. hope so. Also on ebay right now someone in Japan is selling more than a half a dozen Japan-only cds, mostly of her work when she was living in Japan. Man, I'd love to hear this stuff, but those discs are going to go way out of my price league. What do you think are the odds we'll see domestic cds of those in the next few years. . . . I'd say pretty slim, unfortunately!

I couldn't resist. I love this stuff and I need two of those lps, and the price is great.

No kidding! Whatever you do, don't look at the price for the Brubeck box!

No, my father was with the Peace Corps during that time. When LBJ became President he started up an advisory committee called "The Whitehouse Fellowhip" I believe. His goal was to have a panel of Americans from different walks of life to bounce issues off and help develop policy. His staff came up with a list of two thousand candidates for this panel, and my father was one of these. I'm not sure why his name came up. He'd been an innnercity white minister in a black neighborhood in Philly and was in his way involved in civil rights issues, he had had some articles on American history published, he had been a national forsenics champion in his college years, he did have a lot going for him that LBJ's staff might value. In a series of interviews the 2000 candidates were whittled down to 45. . . and my father was in that group. These 45 and their spouses if they had them were flown to D.C. for a dinner at the White House and to meet with the President. I was 10 and I can still remember how my parents looked when they left, all in their finest clothes . . . My father did not make the final 15 for the panel, and he didn't want to but he did enjoy being selected to be in the final 45 and meeting LBJ, being in the White House, etc. However a few days after my parents had returned the phone rang and it was the Peace Corps offering my father an associate director's position in Ethiopia. He felt that this was God calling him to serve overseas in a roundabout way, and he accepted. He was an associate director in Ethiopia for two years beginning in September 1966, and we all moved to Addis Ababa, which I loved dearly; my dad had 85 volunteers he oversaw and acted as a liaison for between the governements, etc. After two years, he was offered the position of Director of the Peace Corps program in Swaziland, the first Director there, as we (after a two months break back in America, in Ohio, staying sequentially with both sets of grandparents) arrived in M'Babane two weeks before they received their independence from Britain. We were there for three years, perhaps my happiest three years, as I loved being at the very competitive and very wonderful multi-racial school known as Waterford/Kamhlaba (they even have their own webpage now!) where I was the only American enrolled the years I attended. So at 16 I was dragged back to the US very very reluctantly. My father finally found a church in a small Ohio town near the town my parents grew up in, and I was bummed out and bored. I discovered Miles in the public library there, a copy of Filles De Kilamanjaro made me run out to the record store in Cleveland and buy Miles at Fillmore and In A Silent Way. . . well. . . the rest is my music-listening history.

Hopefully they can get a better actress to star as Lena. Is the controversy now officially ended, and there's possibly time now for news about the huge deficit and other real problems?

Damn! I looked, saw it was still on preorder price and somehow managed to order it! Broke again.

That's interesting. I can similarly say that I didn't have any antecedants at home to lead me to digging Miles. I got into the electric Miles stuff immediately; I had just come from five years plus in Africa and it sounded so RIGHT to me, it sounded like the African stuff and the British blues band stuff I heard on the air in Swaziland. Miles had that African sound of the band and that wah wah trumpet was almost pure Africa sound to my then young and weirded out by being back in America ears.

And "It Ain't Necessarily So" (which I think was a melodic influence on "So What") is how I feel about some of the comments in this thread!

I'm trying a new drug, and it seems to be helping. . . .

These are fantastic releases, I haven't been keeping up with all their output but they're a really quality reissue program, among the best, those and Jazz Oracle are probably my favorites because the notes are so comprehensive and entertaining. As for the OJDB. . . I love the OJDB and have sought out their entire recordings. I'll never tire of hearing the best of them. It's only rock and roll but I like it!

I'm operating from memory, but I think there is very little overlap, that the Hep takes up where the Frogs leave off (and there is an excellent Signet cd that has the Okeh sides that were recorded BEFORE those on the Frog cds in R. T. Davies remastering, so it is possible to get all the material in Davies transfers with liner notes, sounding considerably better than the Chronogical Classics cds and including alternates.)

"Miles Davis owes me ten bucks!"

I agree wholeh-heartedly, an excellent label in every way! I just revisited the three New York Volumes. . .fantastic stuff.

Yeah, I could spend a cool grand on about six or seven huge box sets of complete blocks of recodings of Veloso, Bethania, and others. . . .Their Brazilain section is da bomba.

The Adderley - Andrews is cool; I haven't spun it in a while, but it's worth investigating if you like the Brothers A.

You're welcome. I figured this thread would be crowded by now! I'll leave some space for others. . . I could suggest about a dozen more. Lots of good stuff at the groove!

Yes, I imagine it was amazing to see the Lost Quintet there, and would have been something else to be at the Cellar Door that one night of the four when McGlaughlin was there. Though the Sextet material without him is cooking too! This Cellar Door material is going to make one heckuva set of two cd sets or box set, whatever, when it comes out!

I'm pretty sure mine are Ks; got them with high hats of the same nature with a beat old set of Ludwigs that came from the sixties, my firs set. The drums were not worth keeping; I replaced them at first with a Simmons kit because I was playing in blues-rock bands at the time and they were JUST the ticket, then a Sonor Performer set which I still have. I kept the cymbals though; I have them in storage and can't look at them at the moment. I've got two 22" rides, one drilled for rivets, one not. They sound like Tony Williams' cymbals did in 1964. I also have a modern flat top ride bought in about 1988, a 20". That would be an "A" then. Yeah, those would be hard to find these days I guess. Thanks for the explanation. Good luck!

That's an interesting quote, thanks for sharing it.

Didn't know what one was. . . all but one of my Zildjans are ancient and not marked with a series . . . . Anyway, I don't know of any for sale. Is this one? This is on ebay right now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=41446

Hey, it's the best price I've seen on this one, and this is a very cool cd:

Fiery. . . has Mobley and Philly Joe on one track. . . pretty interesting stuff.

I'd consider this one, Barne with Jacky Terrason; it's nearly half the price it was a few months ago, it's got mellow stuff on it but adventurous too in its way. . . It's a great cd I keep coming back to.