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Both the Japan and NYC Impressions have been out for some time, the Japan being a recent reissue. . . .

Duly noted!

I like this one a lot, though it doesn't knock Time Further Out or Bossa Nova USA off their pinnacles for me, though those reside there rooted with sentimental weight. . . . I really dig this quartet and its evolvement and output and am looking forward to more on cd soon. (I think!) Cool stuff, this one. . . .Recommended by me too.

And yes, Fisherman.com has been something I've looked to see a decent price on and so far haven't---been wanting to check out the Cosey performances!

Thanks for the information so far. I really am looking forward to grabbing "Zion Roots" ---I should have mentioned that one is on my radar. And I think I'll pursue the Table Beat Science releases because I think that I will like them. I've heard some Material items and they weren't really something I would spend much time with. I didn't previously think I would like the "ambient" works and yet I LOVE the Gigi "ambient" cd, so I'm going to investigate a few more. . . . Appreciate all the information!

Okay. lately I've been revisiting some projects produced by Bill Laswell, and one of his cds that I own, Points of Interest. I really am beginning to like this cat, and he's got a good gig: helping to support a growing cadre of artists, following some of his interests over multiple projects, producing (in two or three senses of the word) some good music. On order I have Hear No Evil and Jazzonia, and I'm thinking of grabbing Book of Exits and Transaxiom, as both include Gigi (whose album I really dig, and the "ambient dub remix" album---Illuminated Gigi---I may dig even a little more). Any reason I should steer clear? Any others out there that anyone thinkz I would enjoy?

To my ears there are not a lot of sonic differences between the earlier and later US cds . . . the later are a little smoother sounding perhaps. The Japanese cds are better sounding---and there are many more of them! Too bad they're as expensive to get as they are and have to basically be ordered from Japan.

"Blues in Chicago 1955" would make a great reissue!

Nicely called: I'm not really into MMW at all, but I like this one. . . .

I'm always on the lookout for spiritual intervention. . . wish it would happen before the Elections!

I've never heard it. . . but I'd have been sorely tempted to snag it!

Yeah it is, goofy cover and all!

Ah, yes they were Serengeti Minstrel, and Infinity Is.

Somewhere in my room I think I have TWO Atlantics, one has Serengeti Plains in the title. . . .

These are very nice; you have a real talent for these! Thanks for sharing!

The Tribute to Stan apparently (if I remember the notes properly) is the only surviving track of a "lost session" that is not properly documented. A nice track indeed. . . wish there were more! I think the sound is fine on the box set. A bit darker, thicker than the Verve Master Edition copies when I've done a comparison to the two that I have. But in some systems that is in fact a PLUS.

All Music lists the personnel and seems to jibe with what I remember listed in the box set: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A7m8n1va8zzma Also, I think the Getz/Gilberto #2 may contain Gilberto tunes that do not include Getz. . . and would not be in the box set.

Also I think Getz A Go Go had a nonbossa side, which is not included in the box.

I haven't compared the single releases to the box, there may be a few omissions, or rather a few discovered after the box was released, possibly. I am quite far from my collection at the moment and unable to look into the personnel listeing but I believe the piano was by Steve Kuhn. . . .

For this country Martin Luther King was perhaps the most important man of the century for the benefit of the country. What many hoped to accomplish, he was a part of the accomplishment. His work (and not his alone but he was a catalyst, a heartbeat, a backbone) has transformed the culture for so many. His work and his words actually have made this country move closer to the kind of country we and our fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and great-great-great-grea-great grandfathers/mothers have wanted it to be. What a lot of politicians talk, he walked. I'm honoring him today by thinking of his legacy, thinking of the improvements I have seen in my life that he was a part of, and by daydreaming of my own hopes.

"You've Got a Date With the Blues" is not contained within the box set; it was a Verve not an Emarcy or Mercury date. I'm quite happy that I was able to find the Japanese cd!

Yes, I'm familiar with the book as far as size etc. I have fun reading Melville though, but then I'm different. . . .

Whew! I better never pick it up then! I'm rereading Moby Dick.

I've bought some Siemens vacuum tubes pretty darned cheap with little bidding competition off ebay, probably because Siemens was not spelled correctly . . . got them for about a third of the normal "reasonable" price, and five of them at that. So that was a nice steal!

I've bought about three McPhees, and enjoy them. . . but I haven't been driven to get more. They seem to be enough for me!