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yeah, one pair of shoes was my philosophy til I got married. Now I have three: a dress pair, and I searched til I found a comfortable pair of Rockports, for suits, which unfortunately I have to have as well; a pair of Birkenstock Chicagos for work and evening wear, and my old pair of Rockport Prowalkers--my former everyday/evening pair--for mowing the lawn and yard and garage work, etc! Marriage sure does change ya!

Maybe I should go to AAJ and put my response there on this thread? Bix was a great player. I don't idolize him, but I really enjoy his music, and every time I hear someone playing in an attempted Bixian manner I realize how influential his sound and his work and the mystique has been for decades! I have all his known recorded appearances. Looking forward to the Sunbeam/Bix Records "sounds like" release. . . .

How do you "zeroes" get out of the house in the morning without something to curb your cowlicks and keep your wild hairs in a National Socialist civilized format?

Well, I have a lot of Prima and enjoy the forties and fifties material for what it is, entertaining music, and love the thirties material---it is hot jazz of high order in my opinion, with the sides wtih Pee Wee Russell being a big highpoint for me (I'm a huge Russell nut.) Prima called Russell somtinghinlike "the finest musical mind" he ever met. Their music together is wonderful to hear in my opinion.

Andreas Meyer did the transfers from acetates and metal parts, and Mark Wilder and Seth Foster have done the tape transfers. So far I have only really heard the transfers from acetates and metal parts and they sound very very good, typical of Meyer's work. There's depth to the sound, and Pres and the trumpets sound great! I think they did a good job selecting and assembling this set. Once you know ahead of time it isn't complete, then the usual incomplete nature of Keepnews' productions aren't an issue. I haven't been able to really read too much of the booklet yet, but it seems solid.

Mont, I think you'll really enjoy the Mel Powells!

YES, G and Ls are among my favorite guitars; one of my favorite guitarists (Deborah Holeman) has one of the Strat types and I loved to play it when I could. I've got an Ovation Breadwinner now, which is a totally different animal. . . I love it's (rosewood fingerboard? sure isn't maple!) neck---it is one fine neck!

I got two. . . one was for rereading an old classic. . . well that was the only thing that sort of fit, I'm actually reading Velikovsky's "Earth In Turmoil"--never got very far into that one years ago, and I've reread all his other published (and some unpublished too!) lately, not really an old classic, but not one of the other options. I'm relieved to find that even ESPN (I spend absolutely no time on sports watching or following in any way) knows how manly a man I am! B)

Well, Jimi Plays Berkeley has been out on both cd and dvd for a week or more. . . . I picked up copies this weekend. The dvd is very nice, it contains the 67 minute long movie that drew from both shows, AND the complete second show as well, audio only. Which surprisingly enough is what the cd consists of, the complete second show. So for those who use a dvd player as their main cd source as well (I'm not one of those, my main listening system does not include a dvd or any type of video player) then you don't have any reason to buy the cd. Jimi was on that night. Collectors have tapes of an afternoon soundcheck, the complete first show and the complete second show. Sure would have been nice if all of this had been released on a three cd set, but I can understand why it wasn't. . . . .

Well, only one copy made it to my local Tower and I had it held for me, and so glad I did! So far I'm enjoying this a lot, I'm just listening at work and I've had all this music before but I suspect it will be better sounding here, and the booklet looks pretty nice. . . .!

I assume they are talking about the fingerboard? I do know that in the case of some electric guitars, it really can make a difference to the "feel" and the way the guitar "plays" to the guitarist. For example Hendrix used a rosewood (or ebony?) fingerboard Stratocaster for some time, and then changed to the maple fingerboard, viewing this as an improvement for his style (my impression from reading.) I've only ever had I believe ebony wood fingerboards on guitars that I have owned; I can IMAGINE that a slick maple finished fingerboard would make a difference, or a mahogony figerboard. . . .

Very few of the takes on the Collector's disc, if any, have been released before in any other format.

I picked up the Planet Waves cd. It was great to sit and listen to this music again, I really love his collaborations with the Band, and I have bought no Dylan cds before, so this was a nostalgic joy. . . . Still, I expected the sound to be better. I still remember the lp warmth and how it sounds on a cassette tape I have. It's not there on the cd which sounds very good but not completely satisfying to me (I have nothing to playback the SACD layer now or for the forseeable near future). . . Ah well. I'll get over that slight disappointment in the sound and enjoy the music again and again I believe.

Barak, are you seriously asking about Lester "Shad" Collins? Shad was a coworker of Vic's in the Basie band, Lester Young's band, and was also a player in Lester and Lee Young's band and other groups of the forties and fifties. A great player who should have had a handful of leader dates or more. . . .

I'm late on this one as well. Thanks to Tony, I can contribute. This is excellent material. (The entire Vanguard Showcase series I believe is superb, all those that I have heard share a recording excellence and a musical vision that pleases me very much). Vic plays so darned well here. It's almost as if he has the history of jazz trombone in the bell of his horn and places notes from that history right where they should be. His sound and phrasing are ironically all his own however, and there is a large sense of "personality" in his playing that really comes through to me --- I'm one of those who feels that master musicians reveal their personality in their music, that has been a controversial concept on this board before, but I'm on this side of that debate. I really like Ed Hall's work on these sessions and also Braff and Collins. And the rhythm section. . . well it is almost as if the classic Basie "Rheno Club" swinging rhythm sound is the "gold standard" for this entire series: no matter who is really in the section, that Basie quartet swing sound is the reference point, and each time it is well and convincingly done. (Sir Charles Thompson really pulls off the the Basie hat with ease!) Swing, swing, swing. Walter Page is probably very responsible reprising his role, but on the other releases this Basiesque beat and feel are equally successfully invoked. Just great music that gets into your mind and heart and makes you feel good. This is a prime example of a type of jazz that makes me a jazz fanatic. I want (and I guess NEED) the warmth and hope that I get from hearing jazz like this. Thanks Vic! (And thanks Tony! Great choice!)

Okay, I have to confess, I made a point of having my local Tower order each of these for me and I have them all. . ..

Amen Pfunk and y'all others. I'm a JATP FAN!

My guess is NO Bert, the corresponding RVGs released here are not, and I asked my friend Dave, Tower jazz buyer here in Austin, and he had not heard any mention of planned copy protection here in the US by EMI.

Yeah, I didn't cut out the doll. . . I DO have the Mosiac, and I have a Capitol anthology, and the Goodman collection, and a Decca anthology, and two Capitol releases. . . . I'll probably try to get the complete first run at Capitol and the complete Decca sides over time. Yes, the Singles Collection sounds great, it sounds like SINGLES, which I think is appropriate! She was a wonderful musician, yes she was a wonderful MUSICIAN! I really have to say I like the (many) sides with her then husband Dave Barbour probably the best. . . .

I can't help it, I'm falling in love with Peggy Lee's singing. . . . I have recently bought "The Singles Collection" and it has fueled my ardor. She just has that timing, that power of interpreting and getting across a message, but most of all that beautiful warm, rich, moving voice. . . .

I picked up a new cd out by the Hendrix estate as a part of the Scorcese bit, and it's great. Twenty minutes of unreleased material is included. I have about fifty or more boots, but not the two tracks of unreleased matereial here. That was an ecouraging surprise. Sounds like a million bucks too, audio wise.

I really don't like Christmas music at all. But this is one hip album!

Sure wish I could help!

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Here's a few: Paul Horn Bill Evans Randy Weston Each in different ways. . . .