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Well. . . in Japan they manufacture and distribute, yes, but not necessarily in the US, at least not in the past, even the recent past. I think Mosaic may be a bit reluctant to "go there" as there have been numerous cd issues worldwide, and Fresh Sounds seems ready to continue to pump out releases . . . . Mosaic may feel the market for their versions has been diluted. Or maybe not!

Alex, welcome from one Helen Merrill and jazz fan to another. Thirty five or so years ago I spent not enough time in your wonderul city, and I will never forget the experience. Please post and enjoy the community here.

I find the sound of the CIMPs I have fascinating. Like JazzShrink above I feel they come close to reproducing the live sound of the instruments and there are gradations of timbre etc. here that aren't found in many other recordings. It's closer to what I would like to feel is "audiophile" sound, accurate and real sound.

Larry, I'm very sorry to hear of your wife's passing. I lost my wife six months ago as well, and I may know somewhat of your feelings and condition. For me, music has remained a solace, but I believe this is in part because for two years fighting Helen's cancer I was denied the comfort of my collection and the relaxed listening that had been a cornerstone of my wellbeing. During that time we spent more than a full year living away from home near a cancer center, and I was working from out of town as much as I could to keep my job afloat, and taking care of my wife as best as I could through the treatments and recoveries. Music just slid aside and listening on an iPod or a laptop was just perfunctory and mechanical. Losing her I was at least returned to my home and it was a slow start but music began to fulfill for me again it's role of stimulant and soulfood. On top of that I've bought instruments and pursued them with more joie de vivre than before. It has been a gradual process that I hope starts for you soon.

Many many more happy happy ones Chuck!

I watch movies all the time, in great sound, but two channel sound. I have a universal Sony player that has been modified to have a tubed amplifier output by my favorite audio designer, and I have tubed preamplifier, monoblocked tube amplifiers and radial dispersion loudspeakers from this same designer. I didn't used to really care about movie sound but now that I have this wonderful sound I really feel it makes a difference. I have a fantastic HDTV now though, and I will probably get myself a Blu-Ray player, not just for Neil Young archive volumes, but that's a plus, but for the improved video output.

It will mean buying a Blu-Ray player which could replace your dvd player in your system. I don't have one. . . but I probably would really like to have this first Neil Young volume. . . .

Theoretically you'll have much better sound. Definitely you'll save a lot of shelf space!

Right I've known about these collages for some time. And the almost hypergraphic writing of letters from dressing and hotel rooms around the world, and great writing in those as well. The man was a full blown well rounded genius.

Good for you! I don't think everyone wants his entire catalog and many of us don't do lps these days. Hey, I'm not incredibly excited by this set, but I can see why Mosaic wants to do it and I think it will be as successful as their other Verve sets.

Well, there's no Mosaic OP title, and I can see the appeal of having one. And this is a good choice of "theme" and the music that will be found on this set is bound to be quite nice. (What I know of the material is good!)

Okay, another week and this week. . . "Weather Report Suite" from Grateful Dead, Winterland '73 box, Sunday night. A very fine performance of a very favorite composition.

Well said BT!

Yeah, a Hohner! (A Homer?)

Those are the new iPods with large memory!

More sad news. Death has no mercy in this land.

I think he pioneered new directions in Miles Davis music.

I turn my head one eighty degrees and from this vantage point in my living room I see a piano, three guitars, two electric basses, a bass violin, a kalimba and a kazoo. (Also, thousands of cds, a few hundred lps, and a dozen or so books on music or musicians). That's just one room. For me, music is essential.

Yes, I have it. . . .The second side is nice as well, "Social Call" always pleases.

Monk only appears on the quartet session of this lp, correct?

I haven't received and heard the Conn of this one yet, but I have the lp and I like it. It's not the hardbop Bobby, but it's a very interesting fusion of third stream and Bobby's sound, and I really feel it was a valid statement from him at the time. Eager to hear the Conn.

I don't remember any recurring dreams until I began living with my late wife Helen. She suffered from mental health problems, and she also really believed in dreams as prophetic vehicles in a way. Early on in our life together I literally was sometimes punished for things that "I" said or did in her dreams. And she had dreams that I could and maybe should use to populate horrifying paranoid tv or film scripts or novels. She also talked in her sleep and would jar me awake with some telling phrases. But besides that, after some years together I found myself unwillingly remembering more of my dreams, and I had some recurring dream sequences. I think they were just sort of my mind deleting some information stored up and "overloaded" in two out of three instances. One: liner notes to lp and cd releases, but not REAL ones. Unwritten ones so to speak! Page after page of them streaming through my dreams, sort of in a manner that PKD had some of his pink beam informational visions. Sometimes it seemed I had written them, sometimes they were written by a few members here, sometimes the authors were the usual suspects like Christiern, MC, OK, IG, etc. Two: database dreams. For years I spent many many working hours within a database that was the work order system for our division and kept being expanded into the sort of "omniscient god" of our agency's mission and accounting. I seemed to be one of the one-eyed men among the blind in the agency and kept getting roped deeper and deeper into modifying and evaluating the database functions and data, until finally the agency hired two persons who had spent years working for the database's creator company to take on those roles. I would see screen after screen of this database stream along and intertwine in my dreams. It seemed that domestic activities and my details of my collecting life would be represented in dataviews and reports. It was the closest I've come to a nightmare in a long time outside of what my wife has related to me of some of her dreams. Three: the masks of comedy and tragedy. I have had some recurring dreams where these two masks, usually lying among trashcans in a sort of sixties urban alleyway (probably a memory of the one I used to experience off Sommersett St.(sp?) in Philly) and talking to me, analyzing things happening in my dream and/or life and offering me advice. I was usually chain-smoking cigarettes during these sessions; though I've not smoked in nearly eighteen years, I often smoke in my dreams.

No, I'm just saying what six string said!

Yeah, Marcia is really something. . . but she's not as "advertised!"

That's right. We're not impressed with over the top posts until the first dozen under the top have been posted.