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Ruta Maya medium roast, dripped via a #2 cone and filter, using Ozarka spring water and some half and half. Eyeopening the easy way.

What beauty!

Somebody better get that Basie. Sublime!

Me too, I hope they can bring out a lot of unissued stuff!

I myself didn't hear anything wrong with the sound, quite the contrary. I think it's likely Chas was just pointing out its availability domestically.

Rachel, here's hoping the best for your "sis". . . ! Thanks for the prayers and thoughts folks. Danielle: this is an exciting time for you! I admire your positiveness and your discipline. You'll go far with those!

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Don't you dare Shawn! I lost one friend a few decades ago that literally did walk out into traffic, and I swear I won't lose another! It's going to get better, by inches, slowly but surely. (I keep telling myself the same thing too).

Stef, Way to be!

A little nervous. Back in Houston for tests . . . nervous to find good news about my wife's condition next week. Hoping. . .but it's really hard to hope thoroughly and convincingly. On top of that, the toad Governor wrote our agency out of the budget, dividing it between the agencies of two elected officials, and I'm not sure what is going to happen in the next two fiscal years.

A birthday toast!

Here's hoping for many more happy ones!

I've got both. . .and play the Hodges MORE. No easy choice, no wrong choice either.

You'll be alright Aric. Next time you're in a cd shop, touch three Jelly Roll Morton cds and five Louis Armstrong cds. That should serve as an antidote.

Well, I could, based on my personal preferences, but that doesn't degrade the pleasure you're having!

MANY MORE HAPPY RETURNS!

Yes, some bright moments!

YO! MANY MORE

I can't honestly say I prefer a CD to a SACD of any one title, but some SACDs just don't sound as good as they potentially could, TO ME, and I don't know if that is because of the engineering, the source material or some other factor. Two that I feel didn't live up to their potential are Kind of Blue and Live/Evil. The Japanese DSD remastered cd I have of Kind of Blue is almost as good, a little different but in good ways. And the material on the Cellar Door box set sounds really really good, the two SACD set of Live/Evil I have doesn't necessarily sound much better. Oddly a few other Columbia/Sony SACDs sound fantastic even in comparison with really nice cd remasters. For example "For the First Time" and the great "Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy". . . .Fantasy SACDs sound considerably better than the cd counterparts from the same company, and I think the Love Supreme and John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman RVG remastered SACDs sound great.

I've got about 30 SACDs now, classical, jazz, rock. . . some sound spectacular. Some not so much. There's a lot of plain personal opinion in how we evaluate remasters. I really myself like Fenton, he's done amazing work, and I like Tarrantino and DeLancie and others. . . really like what the Sundazed Studios folk have been doing lately, and Jeff Irwin, etc. Still, and I'm not a blind RVG worshipper, but the work he's done on the RVGs of the last few years just has something, some immediacy and impact, that sets them apart from other work and I must say I really like them. I'm enjoying giving away previous cd issues of material that I'm now replacing with RVG editions to jazz curious persons.

Even if that engineer has ears that are 40-50 years older and now hears things differently (as we all do)? Well, if RVG's ears are as compromised as many infer, he has some really able help lately, because the RVGs of the last few years sound really good to me. Listening to "The Right Touch" right now. . .which is really an apt title for how this sounds! I think it's one of my favorite sounding Blue Notes!

Thanks I needed that.

WORD!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

Sheer genius that Kirk!