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Yes. . . Band of Brothers is fantastic on Blu-Ray, on the strength of that alone I'd consider getting the Blu-Rays.

This last year, when listening to the Milestones and Kind of Blue albums I've been fascinated with Paul Chambers' work on these recordings. I wouldn't be surprised if the live appearances by the sextet and then quintet of this period hadn't slowly introduced and featured some of these steps towards modal jazz. . . and opened curiosity among other musicians. By which I guess I'm saying it's not just the album Kind of Blue. Listened to "Two Bass Hit" this morning after reading this thread and seeing Larry's Milestones mention. Wow. What a performance.

I'll watch it on Blu-Ray---I don't have HBO. "Band of Brothers" was pretty darned good, I expect this to be similarly good. Maybe better.

Mine either.

Amen.

Hope it was a great one; many happy happy returns! Lon (from Ohio)

Huh. Point of Departure is the one I don't listen to or like! I'm very keen on the others.

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Chet Baker & Art Pepper - The Route $12.98 The first studio encounter by Chet and Art Pepper, this session was frustratingly scattered over half a dozen different Pacific Jazz albums until all 11 tunes were gathered on this CD. With Richie Kamuca, Pete Jolly, Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey. Chet Baker And Crew $12.98 This Crew, a quintet with Phil Urso and Bobby Timmons, was one of Chet's hardest-swinging groups, with great tunes by Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn, Miles Davis and others. Six bonus tracks have been added to the original LP's eight selections. Chet Baker Sextet $12.98 This September 1954 date features Bob Brookmeyer and Bud Shank playing baritone sax with arrangements by Jack Montrose, Johnny Mandel and Bill Holman Completing this CD is a remarkable 1957 session composed and arranged by Bob Zieff and previously only available in a Baker box set. Chet Baker Sings And Plays $12.98 Baker's second vocal album was done in 1955. The crown jewels of this album however are "This Is Always", "Someone To Watch Over Me", "I Wish I Knew" and "Grey December" with a cello quartet and artful arrangements which clearly inspire Chet to dig deep for some of his finest vocals on record. The Fabulous Sidney Bechet $15.98 Bechet's two final sessions for Blue Note in 1951 and '53 feature Sidney De Paris and Jonah Jones and focus on the great New Orleans jazz classics. Both sessions were originally recorded on tape and have been remastered using 24-bit super bit mapping for superb fidelity. Includes five alternate takes Kenny Burrell At The Five Spot Café $12.98 A 1959 live date at the legendary club, with Art Blakey driving a band that includes Tina Brooks and alternating pianists, Bobby Timmons and Roland Hanna. Includes three bonus tracks. Donald Byrd - Free Form (RVG Remaster) $12.98 From the soulful "Pentacostal Feelin'" to the beautiful Hancock ballad "Night Flower" to the tricky title tune, this quintet album Hancock and Wayne Shorter stands out of one of Donald Byrd's finest in his five-decade career. Donald Byrd - Fuego (RVG Remaster) $12.98 This 1959 quintet session with Jackie McLean, Duke Pearson, Doug Watkins and Lex Humphries features great tunes and great playing. Byrd uses a pocket trumpet for this album, giving him a brighter, more distinctive sound. Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge $12.98 This is his finest album, recorded in 1956 with Sonny Clark, Leroy Vinnegar and Philly Joe Jones. The bonus track "How About You" completes the session. Paul Chambers - Whims Of Chambers $12.98 The 1956 debut album with by this astonishing bassist features John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Horace Silver (piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). Nat King Cole - Best of The Trio (Vocal 1942-46) $15.98 The trio's greatest success came from its inventive arrangements of vocal classics. This CD captures the first edition of the trio with Oscar Moore and Johnny Miller and classics like "Straighten Up And Fly Right," "Sweet Lorraine" and "Route 66." Onrette Coleman - At The Golden Circle, Stockholm, Vol 2 (RVG Remaster) $12.98 On Ornette first European tour, producer Francis Wolff met this trio in Stockholm and recorded them for two nights at the Golden Circle performing eight new compositions. Rudy Van Gelder has returned to the original tapes to remaster these gems. In the process, three previously unissued alternate takes have been added to Volume Two. Eric Dolphy - Illinois Concert $12.98 The hitherto unknown performance by Eric Dolphy's quartet with Herbie Hancock is a major find. Recorded live at the University of Illinois on March 10, 1963, Dolphy is in peak form, especially on the beautiful bass clarinet tour-de-force "God Bless The Child" and his searing alto sax on "Iron Man". Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata (RVG Remaster) $12.98 Tompeta Toccatta, made in September 1964 would be the final recorded collaboration by Dorham and Hoe Henderson. This one features soulful, but challenging originals and brilliant solo work from all. "Night Watch" is a bluesy, lyrical masterpiece. Art Farmer - Modern Art $12.98 This 1958 sextet date is one of Farmer's best with Benny Golson (tenor saxophone), Bill Evans (piano). Addison Farmer (bass), Dave Bailey (drums). Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (RVG Remaster) $12.98 This quartet date with Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers and Kenny Dennis is a relaxed mature affair that ranges from the gospely title tune to a beautiful "I'm Glad There Is You" and an uptempo "It's You Or No One." Added to the original album is "I Remember "You," a bonus track from the session. Herbie Hancock - My Point Of View (RVG Remaster) $12.98 This album, which features Blue Note stalwarts Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley and Grant Green, also introduced Tony Williams to the jazz world. The compositions show the range and depth of this young pianist-composer who was just weeks away from joining Miles Davis's quintet. Andrew Hill - Smokestack (RVG Remaster) $12.98 "Smoke Stack" was the second of four masterpieces that composer/pianist Andrew Hill made during his first months with Blue Note. Unique in his discography, this December 13, 1963 session features bassists Richard Davis and Eddie Khan and drummer Roy Haynes. Includes four alternate takes. Andrew Hill - Passing Ships (Connoisseur Series) $14.98 This amazing 1969 nonet session, released here for the first time, features spectacular writing by Hill. The instrumentation is one reed (doubling on tenor, soprano, alto flute and English horn), two trumpets, trombone, French horn, tuba (doubling on bass clarinet), piano, bass and drums. Joe Farrell, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Reece, Julian Priester and Hill are the principal soloists, and the compositions are varied and inventive. A real find Andrew Hill - Pax (Connoisseur Series) $14.98 This February 1965 date with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and Joe Chambers finds Hill during his first peak era, but the results did not surface until five tunes were issued on a 1975 double album entitled "One For One." Andrew Hill - Change (Connoisseur Series) $14.98 Andrew Hill's only recording in 1966 was his working band with Sam Rivers, Walter Booker and J.C. Moses is featured. The music is powerful and adventurous. Two very different alternate takes have been added to the original album. Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker (Connoisseur Series) $14.98 Hutcherson's previously unissued first session, recorded on December 29, 1963 with the same band that made Grant Green's "Idle Moments". This set features the first versions of Joe Henderson's "The Kicker" and "Step Lightly", Joe Chambers's "Mirrors" and Duke Pearson's "Bedouin". Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Live At The Village Vanguard $12.98 TJones almost single-handedly brought the big band into the modern age with this organization. Swung hard by Mel Lewis's drums, the band sailed through the complex charts of Jones and Bob Brookmeyer with panache. Soloists include Brookmeyer, Jones, Richard Williams, Jerome Richardson and Joe Farrell. Thad Jones - Detroit-New York Junction (RVG Remaster) $12.98 Thad Jones leads an excellent sextet on his March 13, 1956 Blue Note debut with Billy Mitchell, Kenny Burrell and Tommy Flanagan representing his hometown of Detroit and Oscar Pettiford and Shadow Wilson representing New York. Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (RVG Remaster) $12.98 In terms of composition, leadership and playing, this is probably Jackie McLean's greatest album, culled from two different sessions, separated by 20 months. Three bonus tracks complete the sextet session with Tina Brooks and Blue Mitchell. Hank Mobley - The Turnaround (RVG Remaster) $12.98 Mobley and Freddie Hubbard team up on four tunes including "Straight Ahead" and "Pat 'N Chat" while Donald Byrd and Herbie Hancock appear on "The Good Life" and "East Of The Village". Wes Montgomery - Finger Pickin' $12.98 Wes's first album session, with brothers Buddy and Monk and Freddie Hubbard (his first too) on CD for the first time, with bonus tracks from The Mastersounds "Kismet" session featuring Wes. Ike Quebec - It Might As Well Be Spring (RVG Remaster) $12.98 Quebec with Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton and Al Harewood, made this album immediately after "Heavy Soul" and it is every bit the classic the first album proved to be. 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Stanley Turrentine - A Bluish Bag (Connoisseur Series) $14.98 Duke Pearson arranged the two sessions that appear in full on this CD. The material ranges from blues to standards to sambas and Turrentine as the prime soloist is superb throughout. The first session was issued piecemeal years later, but the second session is previously unreleased. Donald Byrd, Kenny Barron and McCoy get solo space as well. . MULTI- DISC SETS - DELETED TITLES; LIMITED STOCK! TWO-DISC SETS Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Great Summitt Complete Sessions This newly remixed 2 CD set contains all 17 master takes on one disc and almost an hour of previously unissued alternate takes, rehearsals and fascinating conversations between Louis and Duke. An absolute historical must with better sound than ever! This April 1961 encounter brought together the two most influential men in jazz. Chet Baker & Stan Getz - West Coast Live $24.98 These two CDs contain all of the material recorded by Chet and Stan at the Haig in 1953, where Getz briefly subbed for Gerry Mulligan in the pianoless quartet. Also included are three extended performances taped a year later with Russ Freeman on piano and Shelly Manne on drums. Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights Vols. 1 & 2 $24.98 Kenny Burrell's classic Blue Note jam session with the tenors of Tina Brooks and Junior Cook, trumpeter Louis Smith and Art Blakey, complete in stereo on CD for the first time. Added to the two original LPs is the bonus track "I Never Knew." Introducing Kenny Burrell (Connoisseur Series) $26.98 The first two complete sessions on this set are from 1956 and comprise "Introducing" and "Vol. 2", his first albums. Sidemen include Frank Foster, Tommy Flanagan and Oscar Pettiford. The third session, a year later, includes Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. Only one 45 came out in the U.S., but an album of the date was briefly issued in Japan. Donald Byrd At The Half Note Café Vols. 1 & 2 (RVG Remaster) $26.98 The two live albums that Byrd and Pepper Adams made at The Half Note Café in 1961 were their crowning achievement artistically and commercially. Four lengthy selections have been added to the original albums on this 2-CD set. Joe Henderson - The State Of The Tenor $22.98 Possibly the greatest recording by this inventive tenor saxophone master. Accompanied only by Ron Carter and Al Foster, Joe explores standards, originals and jazz tunes by Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver and others. A masterpiece! BOX SETS The Complete Capitol Transcription Session Of The King Cole Trio (3 CDs) $38.98 All 71 studio performances by the trio with Oscar Moore (CD 1 & 2) and Irving Ashby (CD 3) recorded between 1946 and '50. The 31 instrumentals include Basie tunes ("Lester Leaps In", "Rock-a-Bye Basie", "Swingin' The Blues" and "One O'Clock Jump") and Tiny Grimes' "Tiny's Exercise". There are also alternate versions of hits like "Route 66" and "Baby, Baby, All The Time". Superb music. Jimmy Smith - Retrospective (4 CDs) $59.98 From 1956 to '63, the father of the modern jazz organ was one of the most prolific artists on Blue Note. This set captures 38 classic highlights of those years through his trio sessions, quartets with Lou Donaldson and Stanley Turrentine and all-star sextets with Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Tina Brooks, Ike Quebec, Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey and others. An amazing body of work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Please note do not reply to this email. 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Freddie Hubbard. I've lots of his appearances on disc, and I want to like him. Perhaps my favorite by him as a leader is the latest on Blue Note, the live recording. . . and that may be more due to Roland Hanna than Freddie. But I do like his playing on this one.

I haven't heard the samples and won't, but these boxes sound far from awful. I think they sound darned good.

I'll just say that Big Beat Steve (not surprisingly) makes good points regarding not changing the way that forum is at the moment. I don't see anything wrong with the way it has worked and even the way that it worked this week. I understand Evan's feelings and also why Hans made the moderation he did. To me it indicates that the setup works as is. Clarifying in the written rules that discussion about "high prices" is not allowed and that publicly displaying PMs is not allowed is really the "fix" I see that should be initiated. Just my thoughts. I've used the for sale and trade forum to good effect for years, just the way it is.

Many happy returns.

Wow. Not cheap. Maybe this will save Mosaic.

Leverage Season Two, one of the "non-Uncle Jack" episodes, one with Jeri ryan.

Hey Mark, I like the show as well, and I am glad that you felt his "timing" was good, as I did too, but he's my "Unk" and I felt he was acting his usual self, he's an entertaining guy. I think he could do well if he has more acting jobs.

I like both the Hermans. I don't enjoy either more or feel either is more essential to my collection as the Young. But you won't do wrong getting one of the Hermans.

Watching my uncle in his first acting role, as a "special guest artist" on the episode "The Top Hat Job" on the "Leverage: Season Two" DVD set. He plays the CEO of a company, Willam Taylor Price who becomes an unwitting pawn in the "con" that Hutton and his time are involved in. I am of course BIASED AS HELL, he's my uncle, one of my favorite family members (he's my dad's younger brother, and only twelve years older than I, so he was always somehow "easier to relate to" for we nieces and nephews.) I believe Jack decided to try out for a part as a Congressman in large part because years and years ago he ran for Congress and lost, and I'm sure he thought, "this would be cool to do, be a Congressman for a day or two". . . He read for the part, and then they called him back and asked him if he would be interested in reading for a part in another episode, which he apparently nailed. Jack has been a CEO in his past and he so naturally acts someone that MIGHT be himself. .. . His comedic timing and his comfort in the the role really seem to shine through. He says it was a gas. He denies this, but I'm pretty sure he also got a change made into the script. The big bad really rotten villain in the episode shares (though not spelled exactly the same way) the name of my brother-in-law (who anyone who knows him knows he's one of the nicest persons in the world). It's hilarious to keep hearing his name, and they even make a big deal of saying that someone with his name as spelled is VERY EVIL. Quite a wonderful experience for my uncle, and already he is now involved in a short independent film. He has a Radio and Television degree from Oberlin, though he didn't use it much for nearly forty years til he retired when he started doing voice overs in advertising and now acting.

Okay and what do you think of the Armstrong? I've listened through the Shaw twice, and I've had a lot of that material on lp and cd. . . and I enjoy it but I'm not really crazy about it right now. The Young and Basie. . . wow, love this music, have for a few decades.

I'm laughing myself. I don't know if I ever "hated" Sinatra. Years on this board have shown me what an impact he had. Years of practice have led me to be able to more easily separate my personal feelings from art and artists when necessary. I just don't really enjoy Sinatra. In this poll I'd go for swingers.

Louis Armstrong Decca.

Hey, it says "no hating."

Many many happy happy returns!

Many many happy happy returns!

A Cornell Woolrich novel (written under one of his pseudonyms).

And he must have also procured for her that furniture store advertisement gig she's had ever since! Good work George.