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McMaster has or did via proxy, but I'm not sure Addey has.

Actually, last night's episode reassured me that Lost is going to speed to a conclusion in an action movie sort of way, and we've seen all the hokey mythology we're going to see. As a fan of ancient history I'd sure like to see some mention of the Egyptian statue, temple and writing, and even Jacob's Egyptian tapestry he was working on but don't expect to. Still, the mythology doesn't bother me, it's just another allegory of the age-old telling and retelling of things, what I've always watched Lost for was the unveiling of the lives and nature and temperament of the characters and the innovative story-telling methods, which I think have been more successful than not. I'm glad that it appears that the finale will have a brisk pace and I think there's going to be a memorable and definitive conclusion.

I've never been a fan of this one or of "Goin' West" or "Feelin' The Spirit". All feel gimmicky to me, like product. Feeling the Spirit was my first Grant Green and I loved his soloing and tone on that album so much I became a fanatic so it will always have a place for me. In my opinion "Feelin' the Spirit" makes me really feel that they were feelin' it and it may be my FAVORITE Green title. Hancock kills on this one, and the tambourine is a perfect addition to the mood and the feel.

Wow. Go Peggy! I'm a big fan.

The eighties and nineties OJC lps I have and have heard sure sound like analog transfers to me.

Updated. Thanks Manuel, Ian and Joe.

Replied to sir! Thanks.

Updated. Thanks Ed!

David has his by now I hope. Those listed in the initial post are still available. Thanks.

Hope it was a great one, and many many more happy returns!

I'm moving away from mad collecting. Slowly.

Well, I don't know what you heard but there's always work to match speakers and amp etc. If you love your speakers and none of those tube amps did it for you okay. But there's likely a tube amp out there that would. But yeah, people hear things differently. But I won't let your statements go unchallenged re: too much warmth and not everything coming out that goes in. This happens in solid state as well as tube. I have tube amps that have no added warmth at all and have such a simple circuit (just a resistor and a capacitor in the signal path, hand wired, star grounded, nearly the only wire in the amp is the lead wire on the parts themselves) and there's no loss of detail. I've heard solid state amps like this, but they cost about three times as much. Glad you have something that you are very happy with. I do too, and it's tubes. The system I have now reproduce tapes I recorded in my garage apartment of the eighties with two bands I have recorded with more realism and accuracy than any other system I've had. This is music that I performed in and recorded in my very own room. I know what it sounded like, and I get no additional warmth or reduction of detail. I'm very happy. Until I win the lotto, I'm set.

I don't know about you, but I've had my problems with "accepting" better-sounding systems in comparison to my my old stuff because my ears had gotten so accustomed to the sound I was hearing (both from speakers AND headphones, the latter having always been the more difficult to replace). The only problems I've had with "accepting" a better-sounding system has been financial! I've heard lots of great systems I'd love to have. But all the system I could afford for a few decades were modest solid state systems with multi-driver speakers that just don't have the type of fidelity that a zero negative feedback class A tube amplification and a single-driver or simpler designed speaker system can provide. It's not that I couldn't accept their sound, it's just that their sound wasn't what works for my brain and ears as well as the sound of tube amplification in general. Or so I think, I don't THINK that my ears were so accustomed to that seminal sound. There were many sounds in between. (The same applies for guitar and bass amplification, the clear winner for me is tube amplification). Discovering that sound got me close to the type of sound my Dad's stereo system had (better, but similar) and I relaxed into music in a way that hadn't since then. It's what makes redbook sound blossom for me. There are many sensational audio systems out there, and one man's meat another's poison etc. I'm glad I found what works really well for me.

I want to forget the first stereo I bought myself, it was from Radio Shack, a Lafayette receiver with some small shitty speakeres. I ended up making my own speakers out of some wooden boxes and some coaxial speakers for car audio that were better. I had a real cheap Garard turntable that at least didn't damage my records, many of which I still have today and don't sound too bad. But i'm not at all nostalgic for that system. I was never really happy with that setup as my Dad had a Dynaco system that an electrical engineer friend of his had built right before he was transferred to a European job for GE. That Dynaco preamp, tuner, amp and AR turntable was a gold standard of sound for me for a long time. It took me a long time to get the sort of fidelity that I remembered in that system, I got a different sort of fidelity when I got a Proton preamp and very nice dueal mono amp with one hellacious power supply section. But I really got the sort of sound my Dad always had first by getting a 1959 EICO integrated tbe amplifier coupled with a set of Bose 10.2 speakers (both amp and speakers bought separately very cheap) and then when I started my Decware ownership with the 27th amp Steve Deckert built. The final defining items for me were the Radial speakers Deckert and Zeigler design. . . they make feel as if all the systems I've had before were just marking time til I got the real deal. I can still picture myself in my basement bedroom with that crappy little system. I was so unhappy in those years, returned from Swaziland to live in a small Ohio town out in the country where my Dad had was the minister of the church on the town square. So glad that I eventually rerouted my life.

I saw him around that time frame, with a local quartet. SoulStream was there too. A night I'll never forget.

Thanks for the headsup! This is one of the most interesting presentations of an announcement from Mosaic yet!

This one reminded me of a 32 Jazz cover when I first saw it. . . .

Heroes and FlashForward have been canceled. V however goes on. Ah well.

Maybe, or maybe not. . . . Oddly enough, the author of FlashForward's name is Sawyer.

The colider experiment is straight from the novel, and one of the few plot elements not tampered with heavily for TV. I actually liked this show a lot better before it's break and reorganization than after the return. Oh well. I'll watch to the end.

Yes, me too, ultimately. Sigh. Three and a half more "hours" to go.

The Maynard also had a disc worth of unreleased Birdland material. There have been quite a few (non-totally relesed sets) sets with unreleased material, though the Jamal may have the most. Exciting!

VERY Cool.

Replied to. THANKS.

The following are for sale. Price includes shipping to a US address. I'll ship elsewhere for a bit more. All are in excellent condition; Rollins is new but sawcut. If interested please EMAIL lonjazz@yahoo.com Cds 6 dollars including postage to a US address. Aretha Franklin 2 cd set, 9 dollars including postage to a US address. Count Basie, "At Newport," Verve (jewel box edition, not VME), 5 dollars including postage to a US address. Duke Ellington, "Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1944, two cd set, Prestige OJC, 9 dollars including postage to a US address. Sonny Rollins, "Don't Ask, Milestone OJC, sealed, saw-cut, 5 dollars including postage to a US address. "Tin Machine," the first recording, quartet featuring David Bowie, EMI, 5 dollars including postage to a US address. Charlie Parker, "Young Bird, Vol. 6, 1947" Masters of Jazz, Media 7, 7 dollars including postage to a US address. Nat King Cole, "Hit That Jive Jack!" Decca, 5 dollars including postage to a US address. Bud Powell, "At the Golden Circle, Vol. 2", Steeplechase, 7 dollars including postage to a US address. Nat Adderley, "Work Song," Riverside/OJC, 5 dollars including postage to a US address. Sun Ra, Nothing Is, ESP-DISK (USA), 6 dollars including postage to a US address. Sun Ra, Concert for the Comet Kohoutek, ESP-DISK (XYZ), 5 dollars including postage to a US address.