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Dexter Gordon "Our Man in Paris" Blue Note Japan "24 Bit by RVG" cd For a bit more than a month I've neglected to refile this one in the shelves and have been spinning it. It has the mojo, great to have Bud and Klook with Dex.

Hubert Laws "Carnegie Hall" CTI/BGO Records

Bob Dylan "Test Pressing" (Blood on the tracks original pre-release) Columbia Records RSD pressing

Hubert Laws "In the Beginning" CTI via BGO Records cd. George Benson/Hubert Laws "In Concert-Carnegie Hall" CTI via BGO Records cd Tubby Hayes "Tubby in Town" from the Fontana Records box set

Bob Dylan "Bringing it all Back Home" Mobile Fidelity mono SACD Followed by Miles Davis "Milestones" Mobile Fidelity mono SACD

Hubert Laws "Afro-Centric." CTI (on BGP cd). Hubert and his brother Ronnie are two exceptionally gifted technical and expressive players, but with different interests and goals. I have neglected Hubert's CTI output for a long time and am revisiting it. There's some amazing music on these. This one and the second side of its predecessor, "The Crying Game," really give a 'seventies psychedelic fusion journey with a melding of classical, progressive sounding rock, and jazz. Smart arrangements and the pioneering electronic effects and their use by Laws and engineering really make for special soundscapes.

I have that with a different (earlier?) cover. I like it. Interesting interpretations and performances.

Miles Davis "The Lost Quintet" cd.

"Bill Evans Trio Live" Verve (from the Complete Verve Recordings box set, disc 7)--previously unissued material with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker at the Trident Club. Wally Heider recording engineer. Followed on the same disc by the album with Monica Zetterlund. Monica Zetterlund/Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby"

Tubby Hayes "Tubbs" Fontana cd from the new box set of his complete Fontana recordings. Again. Haven't moved further into the box set. . . Will do later but wanted to hear this first disc again.

Yes, good points.

"The Real Ambassadors" Columbia mono LP. Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, LH&R, Carmen McRae et al. An always relevant jazz album.

Hank Mobley "Hi Voltage" from the new Hank Mobley box set on Mosaic Records. I've been playing this session on and off the last few months. . . it's sort of gotten stuck under my skin. . . . . Sounds as good here as the Analogue Productions SACD to me.

Congrats Tom! I retired nearly 12 years ago from an increasingly difficult and stressful state employment experience and it's just so good to be free of the negative aspects of the working life. I do miss the positive ones at times, a lot. But there is so much to fill the time, and having a wonderful wife again is a big plus. I'm sure you will really be enjoying yourself.

Yusef Lateef "Gong" Savoy 2 LP Followed by Duke Ellington "Jazz at the Plaza, Vol. II" Columbia LP

Nucleus & Ian Carr "Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings" disc 1 Really nice stuff, I've only heard bits and pieces before. Great sound.

The latter. In recent years I've only seen the "fat boy" cases used when there are enough discs in the set that one or more has to have 3 or 4 discs in it to have four spaces in the box itself.

Almost every Japanese Mini-lp cd I have has a printed spine. My set arrived today. Quite a handsome edition! Sound so far is excellent.

Different mastering. Different booklet. Right now. . . . Tubby Hayes "Tubbs" Fontana cd from the new box set of his complete Fontana recordings. Blistering opening track. . . thought I had put in a Johnny Griffin cd by mistake!

I wouldn't read too much into those numbers. I received mine over a week ago and it was in the 800s.

Sonny Rollins "A Night at the Village Vanguard -- Complete" TOCJ Japan Blue Note "24 bit by RVG" 2 cd set, disc 1.

"Bill Evans Trio Live" Verve (from the Complete Verve Recordings box set, disc 6)--previously unissued material with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker at the Trident Club. Wally Heider recording engineer.

I totally disagree that all of the Evans material was watered down at Verve. Some one could say that about I guess. But much of it is NOT. Especially if you consider the nearly seventy unreleased trio recordings finally presented in the Complete set.

Played around with tubes in my main system today. The change that stuck is I put a six pack of Sylvania 6922 in the ZTPRE and a pair of orange labeled Amperex 7308 in the Monoblocks. Nice speedy but rich sound. Listened to "Bill Evans Trio Live" Verve (from the Complete Verve Recordings box set, disc 5) Miles Davis "Workin'" JVC XRCD Japan (in LP facsimile packaging) "Coltrane '58 the Prestige Recordings" cd box set, disc 1 Maucha Adnet "The Jobim Songbook"

Reach Out has sold, thanks Bart. Still available: The following Blue Note cds are NM and if Japanese include OBI. Price includes media mail postage within the US. US sales only please. If interested PM here. Thanks and Merry Christmas! Hank Mobley "Straight No Filter" Blue Note US Connoisseur cd, 7243 5 27549 2 2 (saw cut) 10 dollars Kenny Dorham "Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol 1" plus 4 bonus tracks, EMI Japan cd, TYCJ-81038 13 dollars Stanley Turrentine "Up at Minton's Vol. 1" Universal Japan cd, UCCQ-9529 13 dollars Sonny Rollins, "A Night at the Village Vanguard" (Complete) 2 cds, Blue Note US RVG Edition cd 11 dollars Thelonious Monk "Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2" 24 Bit by RVG Japanese TOCJ mini-lp cd, 16 dollars.