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Vol. 5 and Vol. 4 are my two favorite of the Private Collections but they're all great. I just love the Suites on 5, and Ray Nance is all over 4.

No news about that concert Evan, but I bet the Kirk portion was something else!

I think it's written to be hard to ignore.

Almost made another complete circuit of the Hodges set again. It's awesome alright Ron! Glad you got it

Hey Tony, nice to see your son's smiling face again!

Happy, and more many returns.

Well, don't let its unavailability to you build up into a huge anticipatory thing or you'll be disappointed with the session when you do finally get to hear it. It's fine. . . but it's in my opinion the least of his Impulses. . . .I love Teefsky. . .I bought the Japanese Impulse cd some years back. . .but prefer all the other Impulse titles, and all the Savoys, to this one.

NOT by Definitive. Three singles, and an initial two cd set.

I'll bet he'll tell you after it happens in a few months!

Well, I just continue to respectfully disagree, that lecture is irritating BS to me, all that "wordplay" and biblical interpretation. . . just baloney. I can't bear to hear it and it tarnishes my opinion of Sonny. I'm pretty tolerant of this sort of thing, but I expected better and it just seemed like madness to me. I've learned to be leary of madness. These first three volumes or so came out at a bad time for my wife and I, and my memory of the sequence is spotty but there was definitely also a two cd "interview" set (radio show where music was played and Sonny was talked to). That may have been the only other extras, or there may have been another. . .

No Crabgrass, I'm talking about the first volume of the Lost Reel series on Transparency, the second disc. It's an actual class given by Ra and I find it 100% BS and it was making me really dislike Ra, so I'm not listening to it further!

Wow, I've had this material for a while on lp and now on the Jazz Oracle. Where does it fit in? Thirties poppy swing with a New Orleans tang, sort of. . . .? It's hard to describe this stuff but I think it's very good. I love the drumming on most of it.

Hey Paul, a few artists that energized me over the years and put me onto different paths with excitement, might do something similar and be a source of new material: Marvin Gaye John Lee Hooker Pee Wee Russell For what it's worth

You're on to something there. . . .

I love it all. Don't forget to get the five on OJC of Pres in D. C. Quite good for later Pres.

It's more than four cds. . . several are two cd sets, and if you had ordered directly from Transparency at the time you got extras too (interview and dvd discs). I like them, with one exception, the "lecture" disc that is the second disc of the first volume. Others really like that lecture, it weirded me out. But the music on these I like. Sound is very good to good.

Wow. Getz is someone I really like but don't really think that much in terms of "albums." I do like the Dragon two cd set and listen to that often enough to maybe qualify. And I like the "Ballads and Bossa" posthumous one a lot.

There's something in the air because I've been progressively listening to less jazz too. Burn out is a factor too, been listening to jazz with increasing intensity since just shortly after Allen started. Not too sure otherwise. . . I just don't feel compelled to listen to hours and hours of jazz as I had before. I am in a phase where bebop and hardbop just don't "reach me" but I've been in and out of this phase before. Big swing band stuff too just doesn't interest me lately. I have been living a good chunk of my jazz life in Ellington, because I seem to have to. His musical universe just has me anchored with tremendous GForce and I can't escape. And I love the sort of Armstrong All Stars and Chicagoans jazz still and respond with joy and rapt attention. That format and that sound is just in my blood. And I'm still in an Albert Ayler phase (may never get out of that) and a Sun Ra phase (I know that this one won't last too much longer, but will come back). I've been listening to a lot of sixties rock, a lot of Brazilian, and some Beethoven and Stravinsky in the place of some jazz Iistening.

I really like Django on electric, and this apparently has a healthy dose. . . my copy is already in the mail.

I agree, the sound on that set is excellent. So is the Hodges, I took it out this weekend and keep listening to it. I just don't get into the Nelson set. I'll keep trying.

Happy happy and many more!

That's what i thought. They bought a bunch of yachts and are just cruisin'!

As far as what happened to Mr. Washington. . . . I fear the worst.

That has me wondering too!

I think they did a fantastic job on the Eddie Gales, I wrote a nice review of them when they were released. And yes, the Ayler "Riviera Concert" release was exceptionally well done (as all of the Waters are, really) and a favorite.