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Bowing is a whole different discipline that requires quite some time, for me at least. If I were living in Ohio I could get lessons from my sister-in-law who is quite an accomplished violinist and assures me she could get me bowing with precision. Maybe someday I'll be in the same place with her long enough! But . . . I love pizzicato. Not sure I'd love that on a cello, and they sound so beautiful arco that if you had one that's what you'd have to do! I have so many instruments to concentrate on right now. A blessing!

Or my three Fender Jazz brothers. I have tried the bow. I can make some nice moaning sounds. It's something that does not come natural to me and I have to make another concerted effort to master it in the future.

That's one thing I loved about trying out different guitars. It was like getting to know a different person each time, and learning to enjoy them for what they were. I know... sounds corny. That doesn't sound funny at all, that's what I like about quality instruments. There are some that I wish I hadn't met, and some that I can't be without. Like the Wishbass.

I bought that about 21 months ago from a bassist friend. It's not a great one, but it's a full size and it plays! I like it. It's so different from the bass GUITARS and yet similar to the Wishbass fretless and this Jazz fretless, similar enough that I don't get TOO disoriented going back and forth. I've been focusing on the guitars lately but had a long run on the violin for a while, and it will call me back soon. Fun to play. Hard on the fingers because. . . different contact areas, especially the right hand.

The three I play most these days: My two Fender American Deluxe Jazz Basses (rosewood lined fretless, maple fretted fingerboards) and my '59 Thin Skin Jazzmaster reissue.

That's not how I hear it on my system at all. Other than that I can't comment. Our systems are different, our listening/mastering tastes seem to be as well. This sounds as other Meyer restorations have to me. That may be the best information I can give you if you're familiar with his work.

Sound is great. I'm still not the world's biggest Shaw band fan. But this is the set to get.

Yes, you've said that before. I agree for the most part. Glad to see Addey is doing this set. His work is always welcome.

No problem on my copies. . . .

32 bit!

Yeah, Jeter's "Noir" is hard to take. I set it aside a few years ago and haven't picked it back up. I WANT to like Jeter but really don't. Jeter was a friend of Dick's in his final years. He's actually a character in Valis (Kevin). I'm 115 pages into Kelly's biography of Monk. It started off slow but picked up about thirty pages in.

Many many more happy happy returns!

Well, that is the cover image. Now available for pre-order.

According to the new biography, Monk was impressed by Rouse when he heard him as a teen in D.C. while Monk was there with Hawkins. He took down his name. . . .

HG, thanks. Maybe there wasn't a remaster in 2002, I just seem to remember there was. I only have that studio session at the moment in the excellent sounding SACD.

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Artie Shaw

I'm a big Rouse fan, with and without Thelonious. Together they made wonderful music!

My girlfriend and I watch it for the period aspect mostly. She's entertained by the antics but shudders too. I'm beginning to like seeing Draper become more and more disgusting. He even suggested that Sal should have slept wtih the client. Sheesh. I guess now his seediness and his declining character fascinate me. How low will he go? I'm also fascinated that this is how they keep advancing the storyline. As someone who sometimes writes this also fascinates me. It really fascinates me that there are those who really admire him (I'm not saying that of anyone here, but in conversations off the board) whereas he makes me shrink back. Different strokes I guess. . . but. . . ewh! I guess he's becoming someone I "love to hate" and part of the reason I watch is because of this. I think I liked Sal and Joan best of the characters, and I hope they remain in the story for a while.

There's a soundtrack album, and a studio album totally unrelated to the documentary. In 2002 or 2003 both were released in new remastering, and these sound excellent. They appear to be out of print at the moment. . . perhaps the studio album that is in print is the same remastering though it says it isn't (I don't see why it wouldn't be). . . .

I have the SACD and the CD layer sounds great. I've never heard the other. . . didn't know there was one. Get it. One of my very favorite Dylan albums. That and Planet Waves mean a lot to me, nostalgically and on their own merit regardless of time and place.

Big man Don didn't even bother to fight for Sal. Sheesh.

What would the jazz world be like if Thelonious had taken up the violin as his mother Barbara wished, or had learned to play the trumpet as he wanted to?

I need to stick with seeing neither of these movies! (Not a Zombie fan).