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I like all the Paul M. Van Buren books I've read. Now reading this one.

It's never been released. I doubt we'll see it.

Multidirection was released as bonus tracks to the "Introducing Kenny Cox" cd from 2007. Separate CD copies of "That Healin' Feelin'" and "Total Response" can be found on amazon.com US. I'm not certain "All" has had a cd issue on its own. All three were on cd in a two cd set from Blue Note USA, 2004 "United States of Mind"--also available via amazon.com US.

High Frequency was part of the Mosaic Jackie McLean Complete Blue Note '64 to '66. .. would be great if it were in print as a stand alone cd.

Yes, both are significant releases Japan only.

I'm not sure of which date you are referring to; if it's unissued officially it has not been out anywhere.

That's correct that they have been out in Japan.

It's unreleased officially everywhere, Japan, Europe, USA. Likely to remain so.

There are some that have only come out in Japan. . . .

Mosaic owns those Wolff photos, so it makes sense to use them, they don't have to pay for the use of the photos. The alternates as placed don't bother me, I like to listen to bebop takes one after the other.

I had to cut down on coffee too when I quit smoking twenty-six plus years ago. .. and I still only drink one big mug a day in the morning, usually, though I sometimes drink it out if the coffee is really good. It's no longer attached to cigarettes in my mind. It took twenty years or so but I don't even dream that I am smoking any longer.

Yes, there's a world of Strats out there, and MIM Fenders can be very high quality these days. Sounds like this one suits your needs. I have an American one that was a Guitar Center exclusive that has all but the split coil switch (it has S-1 for all pickups that is not a split coil) and has a mahogany body, a really nice dark sounding Strat. Personally I wish all my Strats were hard tail and not whammy bar bridges!

Thinking of Home was recorded after The Flip. A year and three weeks later.

Brooks, don't envy me. I collected WHEN I had space and no longer have it, I now have a storage space for books, instruments, stereo equipment and discs that costs me money I can't afford each month and despite a motivation to please my wife and divest myself of all these I find it very hard and very frustrating. Better to have the space for three and enjoy those three (and those are a nice three to have though I'd HAVE to have a Strat in place of the Tele. . . I'm just not a Tele man, definitely a Strat man.)

I think the fact that the recording was in Paris and it was produced by Francis Wolff gives The Flip a different vibe that I like. Philly Joe may not be at his best, but he's still Philly Joe and there's something he brings to any session that I like to hear.

Those are great guitars, I've always admired the guitars you've shared. I don't own any vintage guitars except an Ovation Breadwinner, an early one with single-ended pickups. Otherwise my guitars and basses are from this century. I do have two guitars I'm proud of that I had made for me by a luthier Troy Post, both are inspired by Doug Irwin's "Wolf," one with the same Garcia chosen pickups and a Fender scale, and one a Gibson scale with jazzy humbucker pickups. I really like them, and they are the only two guitars I've named, "Lobo" and "Loco." And I have two Strats I love, one a Custom Shop Classic Strat and one a Warmoth Strat with a black limba body and a wenge neck, two Cool Rails and a Hot Rail, and no tone controls, just three volume controls with switching allowing coil-tapping on each pickup. Fantastic tone machine. I concentrated on solid body guitars and Fender scale for my first decade of collecting. The Fender TV Bassman Fifteen I didn't expect to like as it's a hybrid tube/digital amp but it's the most versatile amp I have giving me great sound for my guitars AND my basses. I too have a '59 Bassman reissue, great amp but since I got the FIfteen it's not gotten much use and has been in storage a year and a half. . . . I have too many amps, I guess that's not really a problem! I do want another arch top though in time. . .I'd like to investigate a Guild with a floating pickup.

Good things come to an end.

I collect guitars, though I'm not really a guitar player. I just love the wood, the interaction of the mechanical elements, the sounds. This year I picked up my first arch top, an Epiphone ES-125 Premium, at half price (only way I could justify it) and really enjoy the sound and feel. It has real Gibson pickups in it, which made the guitar "premium" and a real deal at half price, and these work perfectly with my two most often used amps, a Fender Jazzmaster Ultra-light SE prototype and my Fender Bassman TV Fifteen. So it's the one non music (well, not recordings or stereo hardware) purchase I'm most excited about.

Nashville was okay. Rhiannon Giddens is joining the cast.

Listening to "Homage to the Duke." Nothing to compare it to but it sounds fine. Nice playing.

Yup.

I don't do digital files so not sure, but you'll be pleased. You know how audiophiles are, they are skeptical of talk of "master tapes" being used, and many believe that the recent Grundman transfers of the tapes are used for various releases now, hi-res, SHM-CD, US cds, audiophile LPs etc.

I want to go back to another future.

Moving on to season 3 of X-Files on Blu-ray (had to after that cliff-hanger!) I really never saw all these episodes of X-Files and it was about season 4 where I had to stop watching broadcasts as my wife's clinical paranoia made it something best not to have played back. . . . But man they did a fantastic job with these transfers, the show looks astonishingly good.

Sparkling. They don't sell flat Pelegrino in these parts, nor any flat mineral water in any of my local stores. I'd buy it on occasion if they did, but I enjoy the sparkle.