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Pre-ordered the Jazz Oracle three cd "Complete Red Heads" and the Jerry Garcia box set from cduniverse. Lotsa dollars out of my mad money budget to come!

Mixed bag or NOT, I sure wish someone would get around to reissuing that Earl Hines!

Finally got the RVG of this one this weekend. I think RVG really nailed the sound in this batch; this RVG sounds GREAT. I really enjoyed listening to this session again; I purposedly avoided listening to it for the last few months waiting for the reissue; it was worth the wait. Larry Willis really came on strong on his recording debut! For me he makes the title track happen, ably abetted by some mighty fine drumming by Mr. Jarvis! I really like the sound of the piano on this cd!

I bought a copy of the Lewis Mosaic from Mosaic shortly after Charles Lourie died; it was apparently an extra promo copy that he had in his collection. . . paid the 45 dollar face value for the set. Was so happy to do so!

Listened to this one yesterday, with great joy! I think the remastering is great, an improvement over the previous domestic cd, and I have great love for the music!

Finally got all the March RVGs in and listened to this this weekend. Wow, in my opinion it sounds REALLY GOOD (well, my stereo is blessing everything with great sound lately, but I think this last dozen RVGs sound extra good). I really like the way that Cecil's piano sound is so markedly different from say Horace's of the same time, and the remastering displays this. Quite a nice session. . . this is right on the edge of where Cecil Taylor's music escapes me for now. . . . After this it gets harder for me to enjoy at all, BUT I know that there will come a time. . . . I do listen to later Taylor and I know I'll find a way towards enjoyment.

When I tried last week there were about five that WERE in stock, but would not show up as part of the five dollar sale and would not ring up at five dollars even if you had three or so other five dollars in your basket. Hopefully that won't be the case when these others are back in stock. . . I may or may not order more. . . I'm way over budget with a huge family thing to pay for coming up . . . !

Yeah AB, it looks really good!

According to my searching last week, only about five of these show up for five dollar purchasing right now. . . . "The Best of Teo Macero" does, I THINK, include complete sessions of the material it compiles. VERY GOOD CD. (I have the Stash version).

I was considering the Malo. . . then I learned about the Garcia six cd box coming out and I'm shooting for that instead. . . .

I really love his playing too! He is very different from but reminds me somewhat of Frankie Dunlop, just a little bit in the way he creates melody from his toms. And he fits very well in that Silver band, playing the role that drummers such as Hayes and Brooks did so well for Silver too.

Guess I acquired the Goldie taste. I like him fine. Agreed that the Ewells are well worth exploring, I love his playing. The Good Time Jazz are great.

Went to the Record Convention here in Austin today and got: Blowin' Gold--John Klemmer--Chess two lp that also has tracks from Eruptions and All the Children Cried, unplayed 3 bucks Joe Sullivan Piano--Folkways (solos, also two quartets with Bechet, one accompanying Stella Brooks and one with a Yank Lawson unit); beautiful release, five bucks Capitol jazz Classics, Volume Six--Metronome All Stars 12/21/47, International Jazzmen 3/30/45, Metronome All Stars 1/23/51, Louis Bellson Just Jazz All Stars 2/52, three bucks Dixieland Now and Then: Jimmy McPartland's Chicago Rompers (with Dichenson, Freeman and Morello!) and Paul Barbarin's New Orleans Stompers (with Humphrey and Barker!) ---Jazztone, three bucks

Where you been? Glad you're digging them! Seemed a few less vendors this year and it was easier to get around. I really had fun looking at the 10"s at Euclid's stalls. I love that old packaging, and saw some covers that I had never seen before of material I've listened to for ages. . . .

Hmmm. . . I enjoy his playing. Maybe I'm a stiff.

Haul, all vinyl, all unplayed, one five dollars, the rest three: Blowin' Gold--John Klemmer--Chess two lp that also has tracks from Eruptions and All the Children Cried, unplayed Joe Sullivan Piano--Folkways (solos, also two quartets with Bechet, one accompanying Stella Brooks and one with a Yank Lawson unit); this was the five buck one, beautiful release Capitol jazz Classics, Volume Six--Metronome All Stars 12/21/47, International Jazzmen 3/30/45, Metronome All Stars 1/23/51, Louis Bellson Just Jazz All Stars 2/52 Dixieland Now and Then: Jimmy McPartland's Chicago Rompers (with Dichenson, Freeman and Morello!) and Paul Barbarin's New Orleans Stompers (with Humphrey and Barker!) ---Jazztone

I too have had more than whims in the direction of the Malo set!

I've read that story Alejo just served up. It sort of resonates with me as being very possible knowing the little that I know about the Ayler brothers. But no one really seems to be certain other than Maria Parks. . . .

John, really yes, the sound is considerably improved. The only caveat would be for those who may have owned the original vinyl for years and years: they have remixed almost all sessions from the original three track masters and this contributes to the better sound, but it IS disorienting if you have the original mix burned in your brain. But they really DID improve the sound; on a thread about these sets from early today Dr. J says that he was surprised at the improvement cuz he thought the Blue Moons sounded good; so was I when I got my set.

In his capacity as a comedian on "You Bet Your Life" Groucho Marx interviewed many of the show's participants. He once met a certain Mrs. Story, who claimed to have given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband." Mrs. Story said by way of explanation. "I like my cigar, too," Groucho replied, "but I take it out once in a while!"

Another: One day while Groucho Marx was working in his garden (dressed in well-worn gardening attire), a wealthy woman pulled up in a Cadillac and endeavored to persuade the "gardener" to come and work for her. "How much does the lady of the house pay you?" she asked. "Oh, I don't get paid in dollars." Groucho replied, glancing up. "The lady of the house just a lets me sleep with her."

I mean. . . what CAN be beyond Dr. Funkenstien? When maren makes it to 5000, will she become. . . well you know what I was going to ask!

Here's one. . . . Love the stories of Vaudville days: Once we were on the bill with Fanny Brice. I'm sure a lot of you remember Fanny Brice. She was quite a performer, and on the bill, too, was an act called Swayne's Rats and Cats, and you wouldn't believe that, but that was the name of the act. And they had a miniature race track on the stage, and the rats were dressed as jockeys and the cats were horses. It was an incredible act, imagine teaching these...these rats and cats to learn all this, and they wore the uniforms, too. And one day while they were doing the act, there was a scream came from Fanny's dressingroom, and Swayne ran in there. And he had a turkish towel with him, I don't know what he gonna... Fanny Brice was standing on a chair, frightened a bit, got her clothes a-way up. Swayne grabs this rat - it wasn't one of the rats from his act. This was a sewer rat that had gotten into the theater. Swayne captures this sewer rat, and the next year we played on the bill with Swayne again, and this rat was now the star of the show.

I wish they would leave it alone! It is so beautiful right now when I wait at the bus stop and walk to and from the bus stop in the mornings now! Just after dawn, so fresh, that early morning light is the best stuff! And now next week it's back to predawn bleariness. . . . It's even worse when one falls back. My cat who never fails to faithfully awaken me at 4:50 a.m. all of a sudden, and for a long time, starts waking me at 3:50 a. m.!

Yes. Mine has a promo no-number.