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Cool. I'm not much for downloading. I have problems with this with my computer skills and hardware. I bid on a cd of "Ace" on ebay. Don't outbid me now!

Grabbed a tape copy of Wake of the Flood (flawed tape, but listenable. . . though I'm going to have to replace it with a cd) and have to say that this will always be one of my favorite Dead sessions. It's just special, I don't know what else to say. Have a copy on the way of a cd of Blues for Allah (cd only, no art!) that I plucked off half.com cheaply . . . I know I'll enjoy hearing that too soon. Darn this thread!

And Jim, thanks for bringing up that quote from Sonny. I'd forgotten about that one. THIS analysis of yours THIS time around of THIS session is as good as THE OTHER ONES!

These are great recordings. . . . I've gone over this before elsewhere, so I'll just say I prefer Bean's playing to Newk's on this (both play amazingly), and I love the rhythm section; wish this section did a lot of albums! A classic!

Randissimo: check this out: Andy and his sisters, on cd: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/bey_a_cat.html

As much as I delight in Joe's insight, I don't see that comparison as apt. But anyway. . . Rooster, you really don't know who Paul Whiteman is? Do some googling. I'm not a Whiteman detractor myself, I like quite a bit of his music.

Clunky, the rest of the Weston set is different from the cd you have. . . smaller groups, less overtly "African." I think you would dig it. Just my hunch. Also, if you like the Green that you have, you'll like the remainding material. The work is consistently of a high level, and though the Quebec session is a mite different, it's not different in quality, just more conventionally a contemporaneous Blue Note recording. . . .

Weiz, the sound on the Teddy Charles is decent. Get it. Also, get the second volume of the Cookers. Why just get one? I think you'll like 'em.

Yeah, I know a little of Donato, and like what I know! I'll try to pursue further. I bet Ed is as warm and nice a man as I think he is from his music.

I think that all that material is on the Mosaic Columbia Piano Moods set Jim. A good chunk, if not all, is there. Great stuff! Yeah, I'm sure that the vinyl is out there. I do also find though that his work really benefits from very quiet pressings/very clean copies, and all the ones that I've found have been pretty PLAYED. That is why a digital batch from the masters would really be something I'd jump on!

That's right, Phil learned from the pioneer, Vincent. . . .

I know there are hundreds of "crying shames" in the world of jazz and jazz collecting. . . . One recent one I am coming up against is the fact that legal matters or something is keeping Ahmad Jamal Argo and Cadet recordings from being reissued in toto. (Do I have that right?) What vinyl I have been able to find of these is just exhiliratingly beautiful. Jamal at this time had a rare version of virtuosity. He had technique spilling all out of him, but he had an editing mode on 100% and I guess I might be bold enough to say he had a genius for structure, conception, and swing. . . . I'm even afraid to find out what I don't yet have the way the reissues just aren't coming. Here's hoping one day, in the next decade or so, they'll see the light. . . .

Dang it Stefan! Between your sound endorsement and Kevin's revelation that the stereo version of On the Scene is used, I'll have to get this set sometime in the next few months. Here I was thinking I'd just ignore this one as I did the Moncur (for different reasons as well as the same reasons.)

Is this a trick question?

I love this too, and have been eager for #7. And since I'll get paid about that time as well, it's a nice synergy!

Well, my favorites aren't on this list. After a lot of listens, I've come to really like Blood on the Fields for its book and execution. And I really enjoy The Marciac Suite.

Since you're askin' I'd say get the Roost box set. I think it's da bomb. You'll get all the stuff with Horace, and you'll get some other great stuff as well.

I've got one of the first dozen or so sold of the PS300. Never have gone for the "multi-wave" upgrade.

Hmm. . . that could be it. Need to consider that one myself!

There are many claims to that queenly crown. Could this have been Hadda Brooks?

Sissies! Well, I do what I do. The sonic difference is quite noticeable to me, and worth it. My PS Audio Power Plant (ridiculously expensive machine that I love) shuts everything down at the slightest fluctuation of voltage, so I feel fine as far as that goes. And I have not really seen an appreciable difference in my electric bills either way. (I have considerably low electrical cost at home; I'm lucky that way!)

No inside scientific skinniness. . . . My technical support at work tells me it's best to leave the computer on, monitor off, they cite the same reason for leaving the computer on that you have heard. I kindof do half and half with my audio system. I really feel that the components DEFINITELY sound better if left on for a long time. And I leave my PS Audio Power Plant on constantly, and my cdplayer on constantly, but I don't leave my tube amplifier on constantly. I leave it on from Friday evening through Sunday evening. . . and boy does it sound good by Sunday evening. BUT as I don't get a chance to listen much during the week I turn it on and off in the morning and maybe on and off in the evening. The power tubes wear when on so if I left it on constantly I would be only using them for music for about 20 to 30 percent of their life on a good year! (That would be if I were single, which I'm not.) My cdplayer has tubes as well, but they are signal tubes only, and they really don't wear much with use in comparison to power tubes, so I just leave them on 24/7. I have not found a cd player that does NOT sound better if left on continuously. Same to my ears for solid state power amplifiers and preamplifiers, and I can really see no reason not to leave them on continuously. (Unless you are breaking them in; I've read that you are supposed to alternate having a component on and off in four to six hour stints when breaking in---more audio voodoo science, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.) My two cents.

It's my fault. I quit buying just every reissue that comes along; I'm not buying all the new remasterings that I could!

Yeah, I can hear that affinity. Thanks Jim. Check your mailbox at home. . .