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Antonio Carlos Jobim "Stone Flower" CTI-RVG series cd reissue, HQCD.

I have never listened to this set and it's time it found a home where it will be appreciated. 65 dollars including media mail postage within the continental USA. USA sales only please. Stock photo: If interested please PM me here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com. Thanks!

I have never listened to this set and it's time it found a home where it will be appreciated. 85 dollars including media mail postage within the continental USA. USA sales only please. Stock photo: If interested please PM here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com. Thanks!

Jimmy Smith "A Date with Jimmy Smith" (Vols. 1 and 2 on one cd), Fresh Sounds Records cd

Freddie Hubbard "Open Sesame" Blue Note Japan RVG LP facsimile cd. Freddie here always has looked to me as if he was drawn by comic book artist George Tuska. It's the pose and the angle. I have a number of copies of this (Platinum SHM-CD which is a mono transfer, XRCD24 and this one) and they all sound very good. Tina Brooks! Taken from us way too soon.

I'm not sure that's fair to say, there were a number of batches this year up through August. Worked for me.

Another Japanese RVG, Jackie McLean "New Soil"

Just finished listening to this magic recording. The recording captures the mood of the music so well. It's very dry as far as it is close miked and little room sound and certainly no reverb added, and yet the piano's soundboard is resonant and the contrabass violin is presented as if you were very near to it (I have one, love these instruments). And Chet's vocals and microphone technique may be an acquired taste but I acquired it some time ago. And his trumpet playing seems so pure and direct here. My hat is off to the engineering, and the K2HD mastering really helps here I believe. I find it very interesting how many brass players that sing seem to have a singular "voice" on both instruments. I'm thinking of Chet, and Louis, and Jack Teagarden and Ray Nance, these four in particular. Their singing seems to mirror aspect of their playing, in very good ways. I love all four of these singers. Listening now to the Japanese Blue Note RVG lp facsimile release of Ike Quebec "Heavy Soul." A swinging album! No digital image online that I can find really captures the beautiful aquamarin-ish color of the disc sleeve I have. This one is closer than some.

This Betty Carter again. I have missed playing her music, and this one is very well produced and recorded. She was really something! The AMAZING Betty Carter "Look What I Got!" Verve cd http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/880/MI0001880931.jpg?partner=allrovi.com[/img]

A facebook post from Ricky Riccardi today seems to indicate the set is still in production: Well, this is interesting: my most loved photo of 2014 was the cover of "Satch Plays Fats"! And how have I spent my weekend? Writing liner notes for the next Mosaic Records set that will include an avalanche of alternate takes from both "Satch Plays Fats" and "Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy"! (Heading to the studio this week....watch this space for updates.)

The AMAZING Betty Carter "Look What I Got!" Verve cd

Dave's Pick 27 has sold. Still available: For sale, NM condition, the following, price includes media mail postage within the continental USA. Dave's Picks, Volume 27. BSU Pavillion, Boise State U, September 2, 1983. SEALED. 35 dollars. If interested PM here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com . Thanks!

I did til this last one. My wife bought a Nissan Juke and I fell in love with it. When I was in the market for a new car I looked at the closest US equivalent, a Buick Encore, Found out it was designed by Opel and built in South Korea, so not much of a genuine US car there. I test drove one and it was okay but no Juke. So I ended up buying a Juke NISMO, a remainder from the year before just as the new models were coming out, got a great deal and love it.

Still available. . .. For sale, NM condition, the following, price includes media mail postage within the continental USA. Dave's Picks, Volume 20, CU Event Cener, University of Colorado, December 9, 1981. 30 dollars. Dave's Picks, Volume 27. BSU Pavillion, Boise State U, September 2, 1983. SEALED. 35 dollars. If interested PM here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com . Thanks!

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Donald Byrd "Royal Flush" Japanese Blue Note RVG LP facsimile cd.

I'm aware. Still mono, one channel through two speakers. Sounds great.

Kenny Burrell "Midnight Blue" Platinum SHM-CD from Blue Note Japan (mono). Followed by Miles Davis "Miles Smiles" Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD

Shoot. . . outdated technology . . .if I could I'd rather buy a 'sixties Alfa Romeo than a new car.

Now on to Horace Silver Quintet "The Tokyo Blues"--another Japanese Blue Note RVG LP facsimile cd reissue.

Yes, that's a real drag. I'm glad my Juke NISMO has a decent CD player and sound system, and I hope to keep this car for a long time. . . .

A "Jackie & Jackie" album might have been interesting. The Jackie Paris documentary is a fascinating watch., recommended. Yesterday I spent the day with my Dad, taking him in for some tests, having a leisurely lunch, looking around futilely for some no-sodium or really low-sodium bread he can eat, and then on to a dermatology appointment. (He loves this doctor, but in six years I've taken him about fifteen times and not once were they ever "on time"--the closest they have ever been is seeing the doctor thirty minutes after his appointment time, yesterday it was one hour and twenty five minutes after his appointment time the doctor walked into the room--something is seriously wrong in the way that office is run!) On the way there and back I listened to two albums that keep popping up on a listening thread on a music forum I haunt: Ron Miles "I AM A MAN" and "Jack Wilkins" on Mainstream. As he has before, Ron's playing reminds me of a more abstract Wynton, and his composing as well. A nice album; I could do without the concluding Frisell Freak Out. The Wilkins is very good. The third track doesn't thrill me but the others are excellent. Great guitar sound he gets. Today I have listened to the Ron Miles again, sound so much better on the main system. I've also listened to the Verve cd "Coleman Hawkins and his All Stars at Newport," which is a nicely recorded and tight Newport set for the ages, and Duke Jordan's "Flight to Jordan," Blue Note Japan RVG LP facsimile edition. I always enjoy this one, his only leader date for Blue Note--Dizzy Reece and Stanley Turrentine have made great music together when they are recorded as a front line. They "blend" so well.

Ian Anderson sang: Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting Let us close our eyes, outside their lives go on much faster Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Oh no, no, we won't give in, let's go living in the past Read more: Jethro Tull - Living In The Past Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Another Japanese RVG, Kenny Dorham "Whistle Stop" Quite an interesting session, and KD and Mobley always sound good together, with a long history of playing side by side. Followed by Joe Henderson "Mode for Joe" Blue Note, US RVG cd this time.

Now on to Tina Brooks "True Blue" Blue Note Japan RVG LP facsimile cd. A superb session.