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I have and like this set. IF you like New Orleans Style jazz, this has a treasure trove of good stuff in it. IF you're not too crazy about the style, it may be too much of a good thing. . . . Sound is very good and lots of good playing here. The sound and the playing is more polished here for the most part than in the New Orelans set. The singing may take some getting used to. . . I reall love it but then I'm weird! But this band worked and worked and that shows in all the good ways. And there is a fun spirit throughout the set that these musicians brought to the studio and stage with them. I'm not sure how much longer this will be around, a year or two more I would say.

Albert Ayler and Sunny Murray Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines Bix and Tram!

No idea---I would never have picked him for the top twelve! I was happy to see Jennifer Hudson get some solid praise from the judges last night. She's awesome in my opinion, and she's been given a short end of the stick in criticism from judges and been in the bottom three for two or three weeks. . . . I hope she's not in the bottom three tonight. Man. . . Fantasia's getting pretty cocky eh? I wouldn't want to wrangle with HER!

Everything is normal on my cd of the Half Note. The back cover says EIGHT tracks including introduction; the sixth is the Theme (Pure de Funk) and the eighth is Chant, just as the back cover indicates. . . .

Nice to know that a second volume may be out there; would be good for someone to reprint them together. . . what are the odds? Grain of salt? Necessary with any Babs Gonzales!

No, it's NOT a different experience altogether, but I do like it better than the domestic cd.

Get rid of that turkey and get a better model!

There is a JAPANESE RVG of Unit Structures.

Hey B, I didn't notice; I spun both of those discs while working around the house and flat didn't notice. . . I'll try and check tonight.

I agree. I really like Latoya London too, she's a very seasoned performer and she is BEAUTIFUL. She could well be a showstopper and a winner.

Anyone watching American Idol? I got hooked a long time ago by my wife and I'm watching this season too. . . . I'll even have to suffer through another Elton John night (tonight). Right away one of my favorites was booted, Leah (Vladowsky) Labelle. She had something jazzy and special in her voice, reminded me of Helen Merrill, and yet she had this Bulgarian accent that snuck in and I think got her booted. . . . There are several really good singers still in the competition! I guess one of my favorites is Camille Velasco, again, a gal with a smallish voice that I find very expressive and appealing. She probably won't last too long. . . But who knows, I'm wishing her success. Then there is Chicagoan Jennifer Hudson--I love her singing! She has the church all up in dere but she uses it with a verve of her own. She's been in the lowest three the last two weeks and I wish she weren't; she's a really strong performer and in a way the jazziest of the lot left. . . . Fantasia Barrino is another big fan favorite, and man can she SING. Still, she's not one of my three top favorites, mainly because. . . not sure why. Attitude? Maybe, she's got plenty! Also, she has lots of the gospel licks and liberally applies them all over. . . not sure I always want her to. Then there's George Huff of New Orleans. George, well he steps out there and I'm already happy. I think he's got the combination of character and charm and a huge voice with real experience behind it to be a big contender for the title. I really have enjoyed each of his performances. Go George! And there is one contestant I really disliked from the start, and I can't wait for this half-trick pony to be given the boot: Jonathon Stevens: I think his performances have been excrutiatingly BAD! Surely he can't last. (But I know better. . . .) Forgive me, I think Idol is pretty good "wash the dirt of the day away" entertainment. Especially now that those verdamnt judges don't count. Okay, who are YOUR favorites!

Piano/keyboards.

Try www.am-dig.com, if you want to spend over forty dollars altogether to avoid their charge for orders lower than that. (Not at all hard for ME to do there!) You can buy the cases without the centers there at a good price.

About two dozen tunes kicked off by Johnny Hodges! And "Remember" by Hank Mobley on Soul Station.

Hey all Bix fans wish there were more solos, longer solos, more real jazz work, it's a desire we have to hear more of that golden sound. Also I personally wish there were more piano recordings because I think his piano pieces were special compositionally and performance wise. . . . Glad you're enjoying him!

Yes, I played with a guitar player prone to this. He thought he led the band so he could do this. After a while he'd be 'zoned' and going on but repeating himself. I was playing a Simmons electronic drumkit at the time and would either goose the volume on my GK or my Sunn amp or change the snare sound. That was an agreed upon signal from me to prod him into realizing he might want to wrap that solo up . . . .

Yes, audio on video tape sounds quite good, I haven't experimented with high speed, but it sounds very good. . .

Believe me, I'm grateful.

Yes, I understand, and I think if I were buying fewer cds and were rebuying classic rock albums I was very familiar with I would be feeling very much the same way. The Miles and Ellington stuff I have on cd a lot of it I had on lp and I had to adapt. . . and did. . . had to adjust my expectations (my whole experience in Texas for 24 years has been one of adjusting my expectations!) and did. . . . So I'm not really arguing with you I guess. In about 1980 I moved away from lps as a main source and to cassette tapes, and then to cds, so my lp experience with a lot that I listen to on cd is limited and not bothering me too much that it is different. Personally I'd rather have all the master tapes and one of the reel to reels from the Englewoods Cliff studio, one that was put away about 1966 or so for storage. To hell with the Lion sound, I want the sound recorded from the studio, I'll mix it myself. . . .

Okay! I can't say that my copy sounds that way.

I'll start off with Nat Cole and Stan Getz.

I voted yes because: a) there is room for all sorts of definitions of jazz, and Chuck's lps of the time were closer to it than some of what gets the tag today. B) I have some recordings done live in NYC in 1986 at the Blue Note that have Chuck and Gap Mangione with Sal Nistico and Danny D'Imperio that are burnin' and smokin' jazz as any one of us here would recognize it. . . so . . . hellyeah that is jazz and good stuff at that.

Okay, one point: a better comparison to do would be with the Taylor, with which you've lived on lp for some time. You haven't had the Verdean one before right? The RVG might sound closer to the lp than you THINK it does. I've noticed that RVG/Lion had a different sort of sound for Silver than say Mobley or Green or Patton. To me this RVG shares characteristics to the Silver Blue Note sound on lps that I have heard. And from my limited experience, the RVGs sound closer to mono Blue Note lps than stereo ones. . . just what my senses tell me when I've been able to hear mono lps like Rough and Ready and Hubcap. Another point: digital and lps are two different animals. Hell, I don't think that lp burns of lps sound exactly like the lp. To me it's the material I need, I've been buying digital for so long because it is the available source for me, I've grown accustomed to the fact that Columbia cds of Miles don't sound like the lps did, and the Sony cds don't sound like the Columbia cds, and the Verve cds don't sound like the lps, and the Muse cds don't sound like the lps, and. . . well, I don't listen to lps a lot or nearly at all any longer, and I've made my ears hear the sound as it is on cd. . . . And I think that most all the RVGs, and many of the Japanese RVGs, sound really good for cds. Better than some other options for the same material. So. . . You're right. I'm right. Jazzhound may be right. Hey, and several of us may be left of center.

Marty, I'm sorry, I got confusing: I meant the Riviera Dizzy, which I have on lp; I think that is a great one; I have never heard the Greatest Trumpet.

I believe that is on "Three Men with Beards" . . . (did I get that right?) . . . not sure that they are affiliated with Water.