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I also have always been disappointed with the sound. Oh well.

I wasn't trying to be clever.

Me too.

It's actually under their True Music banner, and on that part of their website, which makes me wonder if it's a Mosaic exclusive and perhaps they just have a leg up on other distributors at this time. Mosaic does send out email messages, but obviously does not have a heavy advertising budget. . . they've managed without one for a long time, but it may be that jazz words of mouth are not as vocal as in the past.

We'll see. I ordered this and the Webster. (Have the Armstrong and the excellent Bushkin).

Duke Ellington "Second Sacred Concert" Fantasy Records 2 cd set Followed by Barney Wilen, Phillip Catherine, Palle Danielson "Sancturary" IDA Records cd

The free disc is nice. So far I really enjoy this 2 cd release but think the original release is still the pinnacle.

My experiences have been slightly mixed, enough that I won't use them to save a few dollars only. And the amazon price may be even lower by the time it's released, and I'll get it on release day. Works for me.

Go ahead. I'll stick with mine.

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More like it belongs on an album called Pimpin' . . . .

Thirded. Great music.

Also coming out on Elemental as a 2 cd set; I've preordered. Disc: 1 1. INVITATION 2. SEVENTH AVENUE 3. IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY 4. STEPPING STONE Disc: 2 1. LOVE DANCE 2. 'ROUND MIDNIGHT 3. TEOTIHUACAN 4. THEME FOR MAXINE 5. WE'LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN

Those four Daggers are among the best things the family have put out. I bought each as they were released, top notch.

Yes, I know that cover as well. I don['t mind the Catalyst one myself. But I'd buy the Japanese if I saw it at a good price.

"Helen Sings, Teddy Swings" Helen Merrill with Teddy Wilson, Coalition LP

Jerry Garcia Band "Electric on the Eel" box set, disc 3 ('89 concert, set 2)

I haven't heard these, but as an Elvin Jones fan and a former drummer I might find them more interesting than others do. . . .

Right now Charlie Parker "The Charlie Parker Story" Savoy/Denon 20 bit LP facsimile cd.

Believe me, family crises will unleash unrealized emotions and it's a natural thing. It's so hard to be far away from one's family when there is a crisis, and there are all sorts of prods of grief, shame, guilt, fear, wonder and pain that can surface (or not really surface, work on one seemingly unrealized.) When I realized how my father was struggling to get through day to day with my Mom while deteriorating himself I really wanted my brothers, who lived fifteen minutes away, to step up and help. They're both lawyers and busy and they thought coming over to watch a game on Sunday afternoon was good enough. I struggled with my own fears of leaving my friends and a lover and selling my home and leaving my world 1400 miles away to step into a very unknown situation to help. It was almost all or nothing, so little I could do from Austin, and so much I could do in Ohio. I was in a position, widower and retired, that I found I could not excuse myself and turn a blind eye. I stuffed my fears aside, spent months packing up and clearing out, and moved. . . sold my house. . . changed my whole life. That's where those emotions pushed me, but I did not have a job, a wife--ten years earlier I don't know what I would have done, but it's unlikely I would have done the same thing. You're doing the right thing seeking advice and looking at possibilities and in the process, especially if you can calm for a spell and let it all sink in and assimilate inside you, you'll decide what to do and "git her done." You're a good man, a good son, and that's the skill set needed. You'll get this.

I've some experience along the lines of caring for parents. . . not long distance, but from half a mile away--when I realized how badly off my parents were I relocated to be that close to them. My father was falling too, in his case due to orthostatic hypotension, which may or may not (the neurologists have been waffling on this) be related to MSA (multiple systems atrophy, a degenerative condition similar to Parkinson's, but without cognitive decline). They now think he may not have MSA as it has a decline arc that doesn't fit him, but the fact that he exercise now 11 hours a week may be halting its progress. Anyway, that wasn't the worst of my problems, my most trying problem was my mother was wasting away from dementia and I got to care for her her final two years. Even with me working for free 15 hour days mostly 7 days a week I needed to hire help so that I could have a semblance of a life outside their care. I found that help was easy to find, good dependable help, through an agency that was well-run and very responsible. I honestly think in your father's case that if you were to hire someone to spend part of the day with him and do some household tasks as well he may be quite fine for a while, depending on his physical condition. This type of assistance is not cheap, but then again it's quite less expensive than relocation and assisted living trust me--it may be the matter of a couple thousand a month to five or six thousand a month in assisted living, or more. It's worth looking into.

Awesome! Enjoy.

Cool. Sounds pretty much like the previous US version to me. . . and not as good as I had hoped it might.

Some May, though I have not bought any that I also have in the SHM-CD series that I can compare. Some definitely are NOT. For example the Hutcherson and McLean seem to use older US masterings.

Sure. That's how it works. I pre-order mostly.