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I really like the earliest ones best, though there's some later on that are timeless as well. I'd recommend "Fer de Lance," "The League of Frightened Men" and "The Red Box." The three with the enigmatic Zeck are good as well, especially "In the Best Families" when Wolfe sort of runs and hides . . . . Zeck is a peripheral nemesis also in the earlier "And Be a Villain" and "The Second Confession." The Wolfe books are so entertaining. I love how Archie goads Wolfe into action. My youngest brother got me started on Stout because he said that Archie Goodwin reminded him of me and there were a number of similarities: we're both born in Canton, Ohio, we both would prefer to drink a tall glass of cold milk if given a choice, and (according to my brother) we both know how to talk to and charm the ladies.

I'll throw some titles out of names I'd mentioned. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson. (Both of these were mentioned before, for good reason). The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain Simenon is harder. . . there are many good ones and they're consistently good. I'd say The Blue Room, or Maigret and the Killers. . .or the three "African" novels. . . there are many good ones.

I'm a big Rex Stout fan! I've read all the Nero Wolfe, all the Tecumseh Fox, the Doll Bonner. . . and others. And yeah. . . Simenon. A master!

I heard from Shawn that he arrived safely. A hot and sweaty ride I'm sure. He does have a place to stay. Hopefully he'll update us here.

Lots of choices. For me it is either a Chandler, Cain or Thompson novel.

Tudors, season four.

Many happy returns Peter!

I have this and it's as Mike says. There's info on the board about this somewhere, I remember a half dozen opinions.

Shawn is on the road, leaving central Austin at 6:00 a.m. Let's all think positive thoughts that he's in L.A. with no problems by the end of the weekend.

When I read the True Blue email. . . it occurred to me that this may have been a Mocaic/True Blue reissue run? Sounds odd but that was my initial thinking. I don't see anything on the Concord pages.

Congrats!

Good to see you posting Brandon.

Many happy happy returns!

Many many happy returns!

I like it. One of the Hawkins tracks fades out. . . but as far as I can tell it always has. The sound is great. I like the tracks with Clark Terry a lot. It's not essential, and I wouldn't pay a lot for it, but it's a good reissue.

Enjoy it, and many happy returns!

I'm still using cd players and only have had one give me problems with skipping.. . I put it away as a spare before it got really bad. I've spent more for them, buying a more expensive one, because the build quality seems to make a difference in longevity and also in the quest for a great sound. I'm very very happy with the Sony SCD-XA5400ES that I bought a few years ago. I really found that dvd players that don't actually have a cd laser in them give a smoother sound to cd playback. Many really like it. I don't really.

I have several versions of this and am not going to rebuy it on SACD. The Blue Note and Impulse SACDs I've bought from AP haven't knocked my socks way off. They're good, but so are other versions I have. Great album! I love the soulfulness of both Ike and Grant, they both have these deep lines that just reach out and grab you. And everyone else is there to make it so possible. A classic. I've a strong relationship with Blue Note, very few I don't like. I especially like the first fifteen years or so, not much talked about but real labor of love music from all concerned, timeless.

Wow! Many more happy returns young man!

Didn't know about the Jazz Loft thing. I paid a good bit for mine, but glad to have it. You're right. . . the notes are nothing much, and this music is for the most part not analyzed much or talked about in print that much. Lord knows I don't know what to say about it. I just. . . dig it. Sometimes I think I understand it, sometimes I know I don't. But I've really enjoyed it all my adult life.

We were lucky it came out at all, it very nearly didn't. And I don't think they pressed that many. And it went out of print about the time that they announced the Genius trumpet case, so they likely held back the final thousand for that. You can get used and new copies on amazon from market place sellers, and the prices are slipping a little. (This was never a reasonably priced set even on release). And amazon itself is selling a Japanese version supposedly in stock, for quite a bit of money, 215 dollars.

Doesn't seem hard to find. Just not cheap. Perhaps there will be more used copies out there soon and the price of those may come down. There were a lot of the Genius boxes sold when Pop Market had them for between 4 and 5 hundred. . . a lot of those people are going to have duplicate box sets to sell via amazon marketplace etc.

Getting near the end of Castle Second Season. Some pretty funny stuff.

Many many happy returns!

Interesting. Recordings include those done at 15 and 17 years of age. Hans, you might want to correct your link description to reflect that it's a three cd set.