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Correct Alex. I don't know why I put "Hello! Louis" in that post, I did mean the tenth disc in the "Satchmo: Ambassador of Jazz" box set. I'll correct the earlier post.

Da Vinci's Demons, Season 2 on Blu-ray. Love this show, it's such a hoot. Especialy this season with the trip to the New World.

I think Flurin was referring to this one on Hip-O Select:

It's Louis singing in front of a big band, not HIS big band. I like it, but it's not essential Armstrong for me.

don't know that one, which is it? I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars 2 cd on Verve.

I like that Blu-Spec 2 of the Handy. . .but sure don't prefer it to the SACD layer of the SACD.

Not this time. Verve reissue wtih the alternates (Hermeto!)

Yes, sorry, posted it in the wrong thread, should be in the "What are you listening to now" thread!

There's a whole disc of alternates with OP as the final disc of the "Satchmo: Ambassador of Jazz" box set from four or five years ago.Available separately on ITunes I think. . . . Edited as Alex noticed the erroneous box set title.

There's going to be some great listening going on in lovely old Athens this weekend!

Just when you thought you were out. . . we reel you back in.

Another good one

Hmmm. . . no. I must be thinking of earlier separate releases and lumping them together. . . what I'm thinking of was released earlier.

I saw "EXPERIENCE" then "INTELLIGENCE."

It'll do in a pinch. But it's no Sony Japan reissue.

Jay, though I've only heard the reissue of "Tilt" I can't imagine you wouldn't like the others. (And "Tilt" is awesome).

Step into the 'Seventies and get the solo piano of Earl Hines playing Duke Ellington (four lps on Master Jazz I think, three cd volumes released several ways on New World Records) and playing Cole Porter. Desert island material for me.

Those are good titles; of these I've pre-ordered the Byrd, and a half a dozen others. Just a few more weeks to go! (AND I may be getting a few rare, much needed days off around the time these ship, so I may get to listen to them right away, looking forward to that!) The others I ordered were Inventions and Dimensions, Andrew!!!, Compulsion, Dialog, Night Dreamer, A New Perspective, I'm Tryin' to Get Home, and Spring.

Good, will probably come out eventually.

Cool, good news.

I know this one. . . . http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-village-gate-mw0000205653

Revisited "Shadows in the Night" yesterday. There are two reasons why this album speaks to me so. One is the songs. I don't know these from Sinatra at all, but I know these songs and they've spoken to me just as I know they've spoken to Bob. He has stripped them down to basics and given his version of them, and what he sings is not exactly what I would (if I could sing!) but it is clear to me how his feelings are generating the singing. I'm an emotional person and emotions well-communicated reach me. I've also spent the last few years with my guitars doing the same thing to the best of my own ability with other songs as far as stripping them down to what I feel is their heartbeat and playing around with the melodic heart with countermelodies and rhythmic bits and I find that the process brings out the emotions in me in reaction to the song and sound. So I get the process and I feel the results. Also. . . the mood, that mood of looking back and melancholia. I'm just coming out of that sort of a phase now, so that mood, that aura, is very "visible" to me and familiar and I can inhabit it. Having lost my wife, now mother, having left behind my adult home and my friends, having said goodbye to a woman I adored and loved deeply just because we had responsibilities that kept us across the country from each other. . . I swam, I lived in that mood for too long. And the mood and the feelings themselves have shaped my life. It's moved me further away from the hip and the pop, from the new and the raw. Makes my obessions over sound and collections of recordings shrink in importance. Having the right people in your life is far more nourishing and important than a treated room or the perfect reproduction of high res material or the hottest act in the performance venues. These songs have communicated this to me via Bob. . . and this album invokes that melancholy and nostalgia and climb to hope for the new. And I think it will have real staying power for me in the way that Blood on the tracks does in Dylan albums. And it's also comfortable for me to listen to this NOW as I've been able to release myself from the control of the mood and I've found the next phase of my life through the blessed intervention of Lucy and our love together. I can let Bob inform me of the feelings and mood and relate to them and not have to turn around and inhabit them again right now. THAT is also an appeal to this recording, being touched and moved. . . and able to walk away. So really this is an album that has fascinated me in a way that many others the last few years haven't. And I bet it has staying power in my library.

Did you have a good one?

Hope you had a great day!