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Many many happy returns!

Many many happy returns!

Great deals! I already have all these, and really enjoy them.

Yeah that's a great album. A duplicate from enthusiastic ordering from Oldies OJC sale. I responded to your PM Alex. Thanks.

I finished the book yesterday. A very interesting experience, rotating through the recordings as well as i read along. Truly the best book about Monk yet. I learned a lot that I did not know, especially about the final, sad years. And there are a few recordings (unofficial) mentioned I'd like to hear!

Comments are on the Christmas Album thread Donald: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=54443 Alexander and I like it. Others enjoy making fun of it.

I did get the big box years ago and really enjoy it. Listening to disc 3 right now. I finished the Monk biography and I had to have some music to lift me out of the sadness reading of the final years brought to me. These Billie sides, as always, do that. "Sunflowers" right now. Just some of the best music ever recorded.

I got this when it came out and agree, it's great!

Added a title. Probably going to take the K2 Tranes off the list soon if no one is interested.

Added a title. Probably going to take the K2 Tranes off the list soon if no one is interested.

Many more happy happy returns!

The mono LP of Pepper's is the one I've had since 1968, so the stereo version freaks ME out!

I went to a Target a few weeks ago for other stuff and looked and they had ZERO new Beatles remasters. Nada! skeith, my answer to your stereo/mono question is: both sound great. If you're not a Beatles fanatic (I hardly qualify as one myself) you don't need both and either will suit you, but you're probably going to be happiest with the stereo versions because the final five or so sound spectacular in stereo. I had the luxury of listening to the mono box set for a week and there were some sessions that seemed to sound better in mono but it's a fine line. I still haven't heard the stereo of the first four lps, and the mono versions are wonderful. When I could compare, the mono and stereo both have pluses and I guess I will just stay with my stereo versions. There are some later singles (Revolution, Hey Jude, Ballad of John and Yoko, etc.) which I think may sound better in mono as they were singles and were expected to be predominantly played on mono sources and I think were consciously mixed for mono, but again the difference is not large. I'm quite happy with my stereo version of Past Masters (the second disc of which may have my most often listened to tracks). If they do release mono cds outside of the box set I'll pick up Sgt. Pepper's and Mono Masters at the least. I've been reading Revolution in the Head and chuckling as I listen. I just am very different than MacDonald in my thinking about the Beatles. For instance he goes on about various reasons he felt were possible ones that Lennon was looking for a "relaxed" vocal sound on "Revolution." From the first moment I heard that single I felt that the mellow vocal attitude talking about "REVOLUTION" was a deliberate, and effective contrast. Briliiant in fact. And MacDonald totally dismisses one of my favorite Beatles tunes, Harrison's "For You Blue" with one brief paragraph. That song makes me think of my wonderful lover who is just as described in the lyric and by the feel of the song and has made a huge impact on my life; I know that George was sharing a similar feeling very effectively Sharing love is one of the greatest aspects of being alive, and a song like this can be celebrated, not "forgettable." Anyway, I think the MacDonald book is a great source of information, but I really don't connect with much of his "ideas" about the Beatles and the 'sixties. Listened to Let It Be Naked for the first time yesterday. Less of a big deal than I thought it would be reading a lot of comments about it. Let it Be has become one of my favorite albums. . . I seem to have forgotten how much I enjoyed it in the past and I really enjoy it here and now. Not a bad way to go out.

Many many happy returns!

Jazz Party is great. But it does NOT contain that D.C. recording you were writing about. It has a studio recording of Dizzy and others with the Orchestra, as well as great tracks of the Orchestra without guests. Sadly, Columbia let this one go out of print.

Thanks Chuck. That's about what I thought.

But not Washington, D.C. studio, rigtht? Similar. . . but not the same recording. . . I believe (am not by my collection and haven't found recording data for Jazz Party in a quick search).

It was also stupid to lose track of that key to the important locked drawer. I just think it was stupid of Don to let someone else discharge one of his employees without a fight. Who wants to work for someone like that? Esprit de corps . . won't develop. And he's just acquiesced without a fight to those above him . . . not a good business move on his part in my opinion. Draper's flag is slipping down the pole, despite the award dinner etc. Just my two cents. Doesn't upset me.

It would have been exceedingly stupid of him to do so. Well, you think so. I don't. Don has bitten off more than he can chew with this new ego-booster of his, the school teacher.

This was mentioned elsewhere in the forums last week, I ordered and already have it. What a bargain.

Think how much fun you could have with a guitar named "Lola"!

Flurin: Get these two: