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If there were a "Like" function I'd like this post lipi.

For me the top recordings are Beethoven. The compositions for piano and cello, the piano trios, the piano sonatas, the symphonies. . . if these were the only classical recordings I could own and listen to, I'd be pretty darned happy with them.

Kamasi Washington "Harmony of Difference"

Marcos Amorim "Sea of Tranquility" Adventure Music, Brazil

Art Farmer "Homecoming" Mainstream Records/Solid Records This one won't win any prices for sound quality BUT it's a hot session with Art, Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins and Mtume.

Good for them. I'm out of the going to concerts thang.

Thanks for weighing in Page. I too realize that this sort of thing can take years (and sometimes decades) to be comfortable enough with to discuss and allow to be public. And I agree that the length of time should not be an issue.

This one took a while to get a hold on me, but since it has it has not relented. I really like it and feel it deserves better than "cut-out and obscure" status. https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/209/MI0001209401.jpg?partner=allrovi.com[/img] http://www.popmatters.com/review/various-secretellington/

Harold Land "Choma/Burn" Mainstream Records/Boplicity Records CD

Great to read. Yes, I returned to Ohio in Spring '13 after 32 years in Texas. Came back to take care of my parents, lived a half a mile from them. . . spent 12 hours a day 7 days a week with them for over two years. Lost my Mom to dementia but was able to keep her into her home. Managed to find a GREAT assisted-living place for my Dad and get to spend a lot of time with him. In May of '14 I reconnected with a gal who was the girlfriend of a coworker of mine in Ohio '77 to '80, and we fell in love and were married in February '16. She's a wonderful woman who I love spending my time with, a kind and loving person. She has eight living siblings so I have a big family to get to know now. I now live in a sparsely housed wooded neighborhood right across the road from a state nature preserve and a half a mile from a small man-made lake. It's beautiful, peaceful, and though our 99 year old house is a very small expanded cottage, I love it and though I have to have a lot of things in storage a planned garage/storage space addition should take care of my only real problem (space for my collections). My stereo system has become a wonderful monster and I have the time to really enjoy it. Have been buying all the official pre-Brent Dead releases. . . though I don't listen to the Dead that much lately, comes and goes in phases. The period with Blue Ron is still my favorite!

Hello old friend! That's news to me! Seems I have one of those. . . . LOL. Things are okay with me, how are things with you?

I'm not sure it was my roommates, they were working inside the building, but yeah, at times those sidewalks were not easy to navigate in between these Scientologists and the various flavors of spare change artists.

More, improved contact within the control is my guess. Don't look the gift horse in the mouth. Good diagnosis Kevin, and nice follow up Larry. Glad you're back in business better than before.

The Blue Note All Stars "Blue Spirit" . . . I didn't expect this one to be this good to be honest. Like it a lot.

I know far too much about Scientology, at least the Austin org of the 'eighties. I spent about three years as the only non-scientologist renting a garage apartment of a house that had a revolving door of tenants that were Scientologists working at the org there, and spent longer than that working as a drummer with a guitarist who was a Scientologist. Most of these were good people caught up in a financial and emotional trap. . . a few really believed they were in the process of saving the world, a few were clinging to the only real community they'd known, and a few were just in transit between this and other waking nightmares. Ms Remini is doing a good job of exposing the awful goings on. More power to her, I hope she keeps at it.

If I were feeling bold I'd ask him if he'd ever been roughed up or cussed out by David Miscavige.

Thanks for the headsup Laton, there were a few I missed that are coming out again.

I predict it's going to be a long game. . . and Indians will become Windians, just barely. We'll see if I'm right.

You got me there. . . .

Right now, the SHM-SACD of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"

Trump can tend my lawn. I might even tip him if he does a good job. But that's about it.

Hank Jones and Charlie Haden "Come Sunday"--I wanted to hear some hymns.

My guess is this will be the same Wilder/Trania mastering and mixes as the previous releases. No need for this if you've been a fan and collector of the clan for some time.