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Yes, like Jeff my first thought was towards some of those early horn-recorded masterpieces. . . . Damned if I could pick ONE. Can I say the "Early Ellington" Decca/GRP three cd set? Barring that. . . Ellington Indigoes. I want a Mobile Fidelity SACD of THAT!

Hey, it seems to all be here: http://www.jerry.digisle.tv/room.html

Exactly. It was really an ad, with Jerry and Superman (who was an animated character) sort of wandering around NYC on a weekend afternoon like Jerry and George may have done. . . .

Yes, I'm still collecting select Dick's Picks! I figured you would be into this series Jeff. . . . Bruce, they ran it last week during some two hour repeat of Friends repeats. . . ugh. They stuck it in between a few Friends episodes; I taped the whole mess and then fastforwarded to this. I believe that a similar bit is now available at americanexpress.com

Hmmmm. . . never occurred to me! Did you see that ten minute thing with Jerry and "Superman"? Had its moments.

The Mule reminded me of this coming up and I went and preordered it. . . because it has my favorite Jerry Garcia band lineup on it. . . . Anyone else looking forward to seeing these releases? http://www.jerrygarcia.com/purejerry.html

Wow! Juan, thanks for becoming a member!

Hey Pete! Welcome!

Very good points. I agree that one sad thing about this is that it may make it more difficult for a better book to appear on the subject. I wish Michael Cuscuna would find the time some day to write one. From an interview with him for about fifty minutes I got a lot of fascinating information out of him on Alfred Lion and the label's history, two parts of which Cook couldn't find elsewhere and used in his book. I would rather read Cuscuna's book about his friends Lion and Wolff and their labors of love. . . .

Yes, I too heard a lot of these sides as a kid and was influenced by that hard swinging sound. There are WORSE things to have pounded into you as a child!

"Going to be"?

Alright! I'm glad you got it cheap, and I'm even more glad that you like it so much!

Hmmm. . . I guess I can understand that and I can respect it for sure. But it was Velma and Louis that got me STARTED on Louis, so I'm not sure that I could ever dissassociate myself from the forties and fifties material with Velma in the band, and there really are some SLAMMING sides from the All Stars, the big band with Dexter in it, etc. . . . I've learned to love all things Armstrong and these Columbia fifties dates led me to so many other great sides and musicians. . . I'll never sell mine!

As you can read in the other thread I have the set (and a pair of Birkenstok "Chicago" shoes which are broken in quite well now). I like this set more than I thought I would. I find the recordings fantastic sonicswise. And even though I really don't like the studio albums from the eighties that much, these live performances bring out aspects missing in the studio recordings and are actually quite exciting at times. Sure, it's overkill. BUT I can pull one disc out every month or so for the next decade or so before getting really tired of this set! And for the record: there was one seventies date at the festival, and it spans the first two cds of this set.

A Jamal/Crosby/Fournier box would be a godsend!

Clearly for me the choice was the funky "Goat"

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!