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They sound improved to me. I like them. These are great releases.

Thanks for weighing in Justine! I've gotten great customer service from cybermusicsurplus.com over the years and usually in the form of an email from Justine. This is a great place to do business with and I'm darned glad they're about. It can take a bit of time to hear about an order so a little patience is sometimes needed. . . and usually rewarded well.

I think Wild Bill would recommend grabbing as much womenflesh as you can!

No shit. When I hear Lateef "on" on the tenor, there's for me hardly anyone I'd rather hear. He just for me has it all.

Haven't bought any of these new ones yet. . . but this is a great session, I just love Lateef on tenor. Okay, I admit it, I love him on flute, oboe and all those instruments he blows into!

Hmmm. . . . I really haven't found a CHEAP source for the Classics cds. When Allegro lost the distributorship, I bought dozens from cybermusicsurplus; now City Hall has the distributorship and I haven't found any cheap sources for them. . . . The best deal may be cheap-cds or cduniverse, especially in pre-order mode.

Reading the Santoro Mingus bio. Like it.

That's how I took it Hans when I realized that was what it was! I just hadn't thought of it as a joke at the time I read it, but rather that my wording was a bit confusing, a worse offense!

Paul, also, outside of the Chronogical (sic) Classics and the Qualiton series, there are no labels that are really reissuing Basie and Pres distributed by the Allegro group other than a few bargain cutrate ones such as Prism, Hallmark, River City, etc.

Hey Paul: THEY SOLD OUT OF THOSE FIRST! Those type of cds just don't end up in cutoutland! -_-

Yeah, I guess I misspelled it, in a hurry to get a post off before I went off to lunch. I'm lenient about spelling, mine and others; we've been down this road!

Oh, I meant that I have placed a NUMBER of orders to this outfit, and this has happened to me several times, well maybe five times. I guess I had that worded a little weirdly!

This happens with cybermusicsurplus: they may have one copy of the item in stock, someone orders it, and the database is not updated until after the order has been shipped and in the meantime several others may have ordered. Overall this is a great place to do business with although there is this phenomenum which has happened to me several times.

Well, possibly so, but there are a lot of reasons for that which also don't mean that electronics will be the torch that lights the way. . . . I mean smooth jazz. . . Miles' 80s band could be seen as the harbinger for a lot of that, and there may be those who will say "see, this is a new direction for jazz, the evolutionary next step. . . " ---though I suspect that would not be you and me! Fusion itself was a new direction right? The whole recording industry has changed. . .new directions in jazz may have had no real chance to rise to the fore. It could be happening somewhere right now and never get watered and allowed to grow. . . I guess the above is a whole 'nother animal!

Nice material B!

Personally also I'm hoping that the future doesn't depend on electronic instruments as they are the least interesting to me in jazz. I imagine that after Louis in 1930 and Bird in 1950 people were saying "how much more can we do with the trumpet/sax" and yet look how much more was done! There is something about these instruments (and other reeds and brass) that are integral to jazz development from the gitgo and I think will be an important part of any development it has to come. Just the way it seems to me according to my personal divination and my personal definition of jazz.

I don't quite buy that; for me there are artists out there with a unique sound that is not tied to starting new traditions, or being involved in a group of artists in newer forms. Case in point a trumpeter very easily identifiable by my ears: Wynton Marsalis. And there are quite a few others.

That was not MY description of Lee's ears, it's from someone else. I'm so young I would have to come up with a tele-tubby referrence. :rsly:

I don't think that is a ludicrous question at all, it occurred to me that it was an athletic headband as well. . . . Or a prostethic device for the elimination of "howdy doddy" ears?

hey, that trick of us all spelling badly worked!

Yeah, it's interesting isn't it. I find that I can identify a few other guitarists that way, Jimi, B. B. . . . It's got to do with they way the set up their electrics but also just the way their fingers use the strings and fretboard identify them. Producing music is an amazing thing.

Will do!

Hey Soul, thanks for posting this. I let a few people know about it that hadn't heard, so maybe that will help (one is in a position to get the word "out" and will.) Not sure if I'm going to get to go but I might!

I bought five Siemens 6922 input tubes from ebay for a total of 75 dollars a year ago. THAT was a great deal. Excellent tubes too, NOS in the box. I also bought a totally fried EICO amplifier as a parts amp to the EICO that I have that needs some work, and it came with quite lively yet Mullard EL84s and some Sylvania and Mullard 12AU7 and 12AX7s. Paid fifty dollars for the amp and tubes together. Another good deal, that I'll appreciate whenever I have one of these overhauled. If you look around, you should find some bargains. I honestly think that tube choices are as significant as wiring and footer etc. concerns, and clean power. Even in my EICO when it was up and running, which is far from the minimalist circuit and single-ended design of my Decware Select amp, and not too dissimilar in topology from your amp, rolling tubes made significant differences. And I'd invite you to consider rectifiers in the rolling as they always surprise in the differences they make.

All three offered there are great choices, I enjoy them all. I think I reach out for Marchel's Mode just a hair more. . . some great Cedar Walton there.