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I have an earlier cd version of this from Japan, and I agree it's a nice album indeed. McFarand is an interesting arranger and writer and performer, he always had a thoughtful and original slant for an album it seems. . . .

Powell and Diz and Bud and Max (not really Mingus, sorry Charlie) SHOULD be considered fathers just because of the severe influence they had on the musicians that were putting out the first "hardbop" stuff (no matter who we agree those are practically!) . . . . and Bud and later (in my opinion) Diz were on the hardbop bandwagon too, as that became something to talk about and get a gig based on. . . . Not sure that I myself would call the music at Massey Hall "hardbop". . . . This labeling thing is hard to define and communicate. . . it was more like "fully-flowered bebop by badasses"!

Amen.

Yup, definitely a slip of some sort. . .

yeah, but lately bedixie has my hard!

Joking. I think. . . though some of those live dates from Pres in the first half of the fifties sure are some rockin' good hard swingbop.

Pres started it all. He started it ALL. End of story. -_-

Happy birthday! Glad it was a great one!

I agree with Jim that some of those LT covers are really great, I like Thinking of Home and Dance with Death quite a bit for instance. This new cover just seems an odd choice to me, but then I'm neither the Art Director nor that big on cover art on Blue Notes the way others are here. . . . Anyone who has seen any of MY covers knows I am no Reid Miles (nor do I have the same philosophy of cover art) so I shouldn't be pointing any fingers. . . .

Dan, many more happy ones my friend! You deserve a great day of celebration and attention and I bet you got it!

I'm getting excited about the box. Jack Johnson is NOT one of my favorite lps, but the other material that is here that I have heard I do like, so I'm looking forward to it. "Live/Evil" I like better than Agharta and Pangea and Dark Magus. . . . I like some boots better than the official releases as well. (Save "Live/Evil"---that is boss; I'm looking forward to the Cellar Door dates!)

I think whenever any American record company says "previously unreleased" it has one of two meanings: * OUR company has never released this before here in America * this has never been released on cd in America

By the way, that cover doesn't do much for me!

That's what I thought it meant as well. If I'm not mistaken the C3 is smaller. . . but the organists here would have the skinny. My personal experience is with a friend's B3. . . loading it in and out of a van a half a dozen times. . . and with some seventies model compact Hammond that my grandfather had and played songs on after he retired (he used to play banjo in the twenties! and taught himself the organ when he retired.) That little model was cool, but no C3 or B3!

I guess I should have said "THIS Masakela" as I've heard plenty, but not this one. Queer Eye. . .I still find them pretty annoying (I've only seen the episodes that NBC broadcast; still don't have cable or plan to). . .but my wife loves them. I'll grant they are entertaining. . .but annoying. I'd hate to be in the same room with them for long!

If only she got more MTV and VH1 play. . . .

I only have a burn of the original release, and I find the sound perfectly acceptable, and dig the performance. . . . I like Ms. Hipp!

I've noticed that Sony cdrs can present reading problems in some players that otherwise accept cdrs easily. This is curious stuff, the whole biz!

GA, I highly recommend the new version of "Underground" on Columbia cd; restored solos and all this is one fine reissue.

I've always felt that to be the case that Duke used vocalists as instrumental colors as much as obligatory additions to a working band. I dig Hibbler, probably easily acquired the taste. . . . I don't know, he's just rich and deep and bold sounding. Like Harry Carney crossed with Hodges' tricks more than anything. Bird dug him as a person! Joya Sherrill was the one I thought that was most a real vocalist (after Ivie and Jeffries), and still served as the instrument for Duke. (And what a BABE!) And Alice too; I really want to get stuff by Alice outside of Duke and there are a few Ducal things with Alice I want still.

Jim, as you may remember, I have similar problems with my Philips burner. I don't believe that the HK guy really knows what he is talking about. One reason is that I sincerely believe that in my burner color DOES make a difference. Blue died cds simply don't work any longer. Period. Silver (well really GREEN) such as Mitsui and Fuji can. . .but the only ones that consistently (okay about 80% of the time) work are Mitsui and KLONE (made by Mitsui) and even then I get spindles of these that won't consistently finalize. Really I ought to toss the thing in the trash hamper. I bought another older cheaper Philips single well cd burner off ebay that worked fine. . .until a label on a cdr came off and gummed it up . . . removing the label removed a white clamplike thang that I can't get back in. Sheesh. I don't know the answer. I bought an Alera Technologies standalone PC burner that usually performs flawlessly, but I can't do analog transfers on it. . . . .So for the meantime I go through the iffy chancy frustrating Philips process for those. Seems like your burner is about as frustrating as sending you an email is! I've almost given up on that lately as my last messages haven't made it I think!

Man when John is scattin' and hummin' and verbalizin' away while bass solos goes on. . . it's magical!

Well, I'm a big Hibbler fan. Go figure!

I like music too doq, and like it to sound as good as possible.

My dad's copy of Uptown was an adolescent discovery, and I've had all this material on cd for some time thanks to the Columbia cd and the French 1947 to 1952 five cd set that I spent all my amd money on a logn time ago and I am so glad I did. . . . B u t the stuff has never sounded like this. I think the sound on this is phenomenal.