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Jack Kerouac: Burning bright jazz streams chick vaulted through starry night to turn the key to the gleaming engine that was that other side the mad side the Dulouz hemp-lined hot side.

Personally, I find nothing wrong with the sound on the Secret Sessions box! Both box sets are good, but the Secret has more variety.

Great description! On a related note Helen Merrill inspires that kind of imagery whenever I hear her...but I'm not going to post what that is for fear of being banned! Helen Merrill. . . Another great singer, indeed.

If anyone has any fancy expensive power cords they don't want send them to me.

Still a helluva deal imo.

Wynton Marsalis: Now that chicken was funky. Not in the plugged in Miles Davis or Rick james or James Brown sort of funky chicken. But in the New Orleans gutbucket sort of cross road funky chicken. Blue. Deep blue in the jazz tradition.

I haven't discovered one. Looking around on Amazon a bit ago I noticed deals on Art Pepper All Star and Village Vanguard sets, and the Rollins Freelance set.

Right, this has been discussed in the Eric Dolphy Complete Prestige thread. Also available at the same price is teh possibly even better Evans box set, "The Secret Sessions."

Well. . . since I've just retired I don't think I'll take that job yet. . . . It's a great set, you definitely should grab it when the time is right.

Been listening to the June Christy/Peggy Lee Complete Capitol Transcriptions set. I forget about this set for a while and when I pull it out I nearly always listen to the complete set. The Christy sides are great. As a warm-blooded guy I get the impression listening to June that she's a beautiful and sweet gal that you just want to protect and build a nest with. And then the Peggy sides come along and you all of a sudden want to hold the door to your convertible open to Peggy and go for a long cruise and end up with a steak and martinis by the ocean by candlelight. Ah! A great set.

For me, she swings both ways. When I first open it she's going counterclockwise. If I scan down and watch her feet, she shifts to clockwise. Once she's clockwise, she tends to stay that way.

If you can only get one, get the Secret Sessions. . . spans decades and has some incredible playing. The first time I played this set my late wife Helen, who generally doesn't even notice a piano trio recording playing, kept coming in and sitting down and snuggling with me to listen. Not sure what that means other than it reaches out and suggests attention.

"Pharaohs of the Sun" Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Excellent catalog and scholarly compilation (okay, some of the essays are excellent) of the Amarna Period.

Hmmm . . I like all the Transparency releases better than Media Dreams and Disco 3000. Although I'll probably skip most of his next posts until I see his second semi-annual positive post, I'm sort of with Clem on the 80s Ra, I don't necessarily bother. Those June and July releases of 1968 and 1969 material will be sought out.

I love that Weston, just great music. Right now, Curtis Amy disc two. Again, a great set of music from top to bottom.

Many more happy happy ones!

When I've compared, a bit "better" (it's a bit sharper, less thick sounding (?))

My sentiments exactly. I had a similar sonic situation in an old EICO integrated tube amp I have. A bad solder on a connection to the rectifier tube. It did this for a spell than started blowing fuses. Once the solder weld was corrected, back to normal.

If you can find the deleted Sony changer Sony DVP-NC685V 5-disc DVD/Super Audio CD Changer you can have it modified by Steve Deckert of Decware High Fidelity and have a fantastic player; he takes the audio signal right after the DAC chip and runs it to a class A tube powered amplification stage. The transport on this is an interesting design, and the sound is excellent. I've enjoyed this in my system for years. It doesn't have HDCD but I don't miss it, I haven't been that impressed with HDCD cd players to be honest. It's also a DVD player, and I enjoy fantastic two channel nearly holographic sound from dvds, it's a player I don't want to be without. I've not had one lick of trouble with it. Steve doesn't offer the machine and mod right now, but if you provide the machine he'll modify it and it would be worth it. I might look for one in the near future. Steve now offers a modified TEAC single drawer cd player that I have heard is even better than this Sony universal player, and if it were a DVD player as well I'd go for it in a hearbeat because I'm addicted to having one player with excellent sound for cd and DVD, and I'm not that attached to SACD--great, but not enough interesting titles to call it essential. http://www.decware.com/newsite/mainmenu.ht...w.htm&intro

You certainly deserve "Customer of the Year" from Sweetwater!

Many more happy ones Cary!

Yeah, those were good lps. The Dukes could be a hot band. Right now, Duke Ellington Centennial box, Second Sacred Concert

Yay heavy and a bottle of bread! I think I'm done after I have the Breadwinner worked on . . . or sold and replaced with something with single-ended pups.

Pretty nice. My mania continues. I found a beautiful unplayed it seems used (2006) one of these. . . .(Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass, a extensively designed bass based on an '82 Les Paul bass, has a low impedance humbucker and a mahogany block under the pickup, but the maple top floats free of the block.) SOB has tone to burn. Doesn't play as well as my fretless Wishbass to me yet. . . may need some adjustment. I'm thinking about taking off the pickguard. I'm going to try to stop buying guitars now, okay?