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Japan released it on cd. Also it was on cd in the early nineties in the US http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Goes-College-Br...t/dp/B0000026TC Wait — I thought that old U.S. edition was Jazz Goes to College and not Jazz Goes to Junior College. Am I missing something? NO, I was confused, sorry, thought the US release had both. I have Junior on Sony cd.

I like Dunlop best. Mike, I think Monk got what he wanted, his rules, out of those cats. That's all. I like the contrast.

No extra tracks to the albums. Excellent sound!

So whose rules are those? I mean, if Monk didn't like what Rouse was doing he wouldn't have had him in his quartet in the first place, nor had him back for so looooooooooooooooong. I think Sonny and Charlie and Griffin did Monk just fine.

Beautiful scenery.

Yes, there are no 1959 recordings in the Mosaic set. That's clearly visible on the discographic pages included in one of my posts aboved. The 1952 material were titled "Plays Cole Porter" and "Plays George Gerswhin." The Verve 1959 sessions were called "Plays the Cole Porter Songbook" and "Plays the George Gershwin Songbook."

Japan released it on cd. Also it was on cd in the early nineties in the US http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Goes-College-Br...t/dp/B0000026TC

I don't consider him one of my favorite science fiction writers either. (And I was just joshing about the cursing and crumpling!) And he's not the smoothest writer . . . I appreciate his ideas and concepts more than the writing. But. . . I don't feel that "he couldn't write a novel to save his life." My mileage does vary. That's okay. PS: There are three Null-A books.

I've ordered them, but I haven't received them.

The Gershwin will have mono recordings on it as well, the second half of the cd if I remember correctly. The mono tracks were recorded in 1952 and the stereo tracks were recorded in 1959. The stereo material on the Cole Porter disc were also recorded in 1959. So in both cases the idea of the songbook playing was revisited in 1959 for Verve.

Well to each their very own. I don't remember gushing to myself about his skills, nor do I remember cursing or crumbling up books in frustration. Anyway, I don't think I have problems with his novels. Maybe it's just me.

Same cover as the one I read (back in 8th grade) but I don't think mine said "Ninth big printing" on it. Poor old van Vogt couldn't write a novel to save his life. Notice how Slan breaks down into 15-25 page segments, like short stories but without any endings, all stitched together in only the loosest way. There's almost no narrative thread at all. Perhaps that's why so many of his novelistic heroes are men who've lost their memory for some reason. I'm reading an edition not unlike that you read; mine is the 7th printing,without the "banner" on the cover. I don't quite agree with your assessment of his novel-writing skills. He is using bi-focal viewpoint here, with the two Slan characters as the narrative point, and their different stories alternating. I don't find it disconcerting or particularly clumsy after the first few transitions.

I like the earliest of Van Vogt and find it extremely interesting reading them now as a not younger person how influential his work was on a whole generation or two of writers. And how deeply paranoid or just plain hard and gnarly a lot of it is.

This spring I bought a Sony ES Series Blu-Ray player, BDP-S2000ES. http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...552921665228713 I could not be happier. DVD discs look fantastic, and Blu-Rays are addictively and seductively wonderful in playback. On top of that the sound on this player is excellent, fantastic on Blu-Ray (I think the improvement of sound on Blu-Ray can be even greater than the improvement of picutre) and very very good on dvd and cd. My taste in dics is not as sophisticated as many here, but here are favorite transfers of mine on Blu-Ray: 2001 The Shining Eyes Wide Shut (indeed, all three of these Kubrick transfers are perhaps the best pictures yet on Blu-Ray in some ways) Spiderman 3 The Fifth Element Ultraviolet House of Flying Daggers Curse of the Golden Flowers Alexander (Revisited) Kingdom of Heaven And I have bought three tv seasons on Blu-Ray that look wonderful, Lost Season 3, Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Heroes Season 2

Well if something happens I'll be disappointed. I mean. . . I just paid off my house this year!

Now reading

Oh well, what can I say? I liked Moorcock a lot in the seventies and eighties, especially the Elric and Jerry Cornelius series. Pure escapist potboiler stuff in most cases. Since then I've read a few well-written historical fantasy novels he's written.

I guess I've read 27. This list, as noted above, is very incomplete. Many are missing, Miller, Joyce (Ullyses I think) et al. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller East of Eden by John Steinbeck Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Lord of the Flies by William Golding My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Well, I just reread Norstrillia in a few days and man was it good. I have The Rediscovery of Man and hope to read it soon, I got it for about 20 bucks and i believe it has a handful of stories I've never read (and yes I still have The Best of Cordwainer Smith and a few others in the Best of series from Ballantine, I agree, that's a great series). Hmmm. . . don't know anything about "Cashier O'Neil". . .the books I mention are three: Ria, by Felix C. Forrest Carola, by Felix C. Forrest Atomsk, by Carmichael Smith None of them are science fiction, Atomsk is an espionage novel. I really read science fiction ony infrequently in the nineties and this millenium, rereading mostly Phil K. Dick and occasionally a few others such as Moore, Moorcock and Smith. I'm now in the mood and am reading and rereading Weird Tales-like fantasy and science fiction.

Mike, how about instead of taking a pot shot. . . I agree with you?

I love going to the theater. I'm looking forward to Burn After Reading.

I'd like to see and hear 'em!

In a lot of real and cyber places I frequent, you're an audiophile if you use stuff that doesn't come from a department store or chain store.

I've been listening to the Oscar Peterson Trio set.

For me, with the Pres, there's no problem with alternates, and that set was exciting in that there were NEW alternates of material circulated for more than half a century! As for the OP Trio set, there are about four previously unreleased alternates. Here's the discography info: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.a...;copies=7%20CDs