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I know it's a shocker, but my competely unbiased opinion is to get it....IF you like pre war small group jazz. I think I mentioned when the set came out to start on te 3rd or 4th cd if you were not familiar with Bunny...heck, why not dig up old berigan thread????? http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=berigan I don't want either Berigan to ever go OOP. Me either!

Actually, I think Volume 1 is likely to contain some of the best Fats around. . . . !

A single cd version (I think!) of the two cd version of this one (the America session) is coming out next week here in America.

Gotta agree with you there!

Many many more happy ones Flurin!

Worlds Records I believe can get it earlier. . . they sent it out as part of their weekly "new this week" list.

I figure we'll see it soon.

I think both of those are really nice sets. . . . I'm glad I got the two cd versions of both.

Yes, well said.

Right. I use a set of Bose powered speakers and some expensive Monster Cable interconnects that I don't use at home any longer (and an adapter for the 1/4" phono plug into RCA jacks). Sound is pretty good at the levels that I can get away with at work.

Generally agree re: the .99 pricing structure, but OJCs have been readily availably now on emusc for only about .25/track (and even "less" in the unlimited days). I also find emusic preferable for being DRM-free mp3. Also nice about eMusic: you can download AGAIN. Just go to your account and select the downloads you have already paid for and download them again . . . very cool feature.

I could see a use for it in the office. . . . If I were rolling in dough I'd grab a nice dedicated system for the iPod for the office.

Well then seek out the Goodman on HEP, it won't duplicate much (if any) of the material. And the Christian box has excellent Goodman small group and big band material.

OK, we just have different opinions on CD's then. I love them, always have, saw them as a huge step up from what was available on the market previously (LP's and especially tapes). I remember groaning at how easily LP's would get scratched, or warped, or the jackets would split. Wasted so many hours in second hand stores, looking at LP's in substandard shape. The ability to so easily go from point to point on CD's was great, the sound quality of one done right was such a pleasure. I don't disagree about cds. I just think it's a coincidence that you were driven for your reasons to change over to cd. . . you would have been driven by the companies otherwise (I was, I wasn't really wanting to become a cd collector but so much stuff came out on cd that I wanted!) Ironically, downloads don't get scratched at all, and when done right they sound great.

He heh. It's no crime to want to seek out Goodman sides! There is a HEP cd that has Wardell and Benny, I bet more than is in the Proper box. (I'm not familiar with the contents of the Proper, those things give me the willies.) If you want some PRIME Goodman, get the Charlie Christian Columbia box!

But, Lon, acknowledge the point I was making, this is a change being pushed by the companies for their profits, not pulled by consumer desire to change to a better format, the way CD's were (at least for many of us). Concord (and the whole industry) was dishonest in trying to indicate that the switchover to digital is due to "customer demand". That's my point. Uh do you really believe that the changeover to cd was CUSTOMER DRIVEN? I sure don't. Maybe in a very limited sense customers were going along with it, but I see no real "customer drive" to the changeover. In the sense that I might see some, there is the same happening with younger cats going for downloads for their reasons (obviously not for the reasons we might want to keep to cds, but for convenience, portability etc.) We're always subject to the companies drive for profits. And as JAZZ customers we really don't count in any significant way.

I understand. . . . I'll be doing what I am now: listening to cds and listening to cdrs of downloaded material.

Here's what my crystal ball shows: The industry is going to shift to downloads off the net and even in stores and charge just about as much, and we're not going to have a choice, we're going to either have our heads in the sand (or elsewhere) or participate in this new format change just as we did from analog to cds.

You know, it's pretty easy to turn many of them into something solid and circular in your hands to pop into your player. (I admit that I have trouble with and have not learned to burn some forms).

Some adult jazz fans buy only cds. Some download as well, and not just for iPods. Nothing is that absolute.

Went to see Grindhouse today. Totally a blast just for the enthusiasm for the material that the directors and actors communicate. Very interesting to see the Austin area presented; three eateries I know well are filmed lengthily (one less than a mile from my house, another less than a mile from my workplace). My one gripe: the Austin characters, the girls out on a night on the town, didn't at all seem like Austinites to me. Not a one. But. . . boy is Ms Poitier charismatic!

Wow. . . so hard to pick favorites. . . I think I'm inclined to agree with Shawn.

Armstrong, Miles and Monk? I'll be getting those three! Good news!