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Amazon is offering 14 hours of Baroque music for $1.29: Big Baroque Box

I was surprised by how much I liked Blue Moods, considering its bad rep. Teddy Charles is one reason it's interesting; another is the song selection. The date feels like a foreshadowing of Cannonball's Something Else - where Miles is a huge ingredient, but not the only ingredient.

I've enjoyed this since it came out. He sounds to me a lot like Cannonball with some Ornette thrown in.

Prine's good. Starting out, he was marketed as another "The New Dylan," but he insisted on being himself. "Bruised Orange" is a great album from 1978; Miranda Lambert recently covered a song from that album. He realized he wasn't making any money recording for the majors, and started his "Oh Boy" label in 1984. "Aimless Love" is a great album from that time. He's a good maverick; you should check him out.

Your post made me check my copy again, just in case I missed it the first time - it's fine, so it's not a pressing fault that affects the whole run. Yeah, the jewel case was busted up, and when I opened it, the disc was detached from the spikes, so who knows. Bummer, because I know it's a small company and I hate giving them more costs.

I got it this week from Amazon. Sad to say that track 19, Davenport Blues, skips (totally breaks up, both on my CD player and in my computer drive), so I must return it. Great sound otherwise, btw, and great booklet too.

On eMusic, someone posted this data: Lee Morgan & Conte Candoli: Double Or Nothin' - Lee Morgan & Conte Candoli: Trumpet, Benny Golson & Bob Cooper: Tenor Sax, Frank Rosolino: Trombone, Wynton Kelly & Dick Shrieve: Piano, Red Mitchell: Bass, Stan Levey & Charlie Persip: Drums - Recorded: \"Lighthouse Club\", Hermosa Beach, CA, February 14 & 27, 1957 - Original sessions are credited to Howard Rumsey & charlie Persip. Conte Candoli is playing on only 2 tracks. Nice, but not essential album. It's slightly misleading the way they packaged it.

What Jim said. This one might have a little more of an edge than Burton's ECMs because they were younger and the band had Coryell in it.

I did not know that Deval Patrick was the son of Pat Patrick.

No, you must be a member...but they usually give you some free downloads for joining. You can pick a cheap plan and quit soon after.

Not sure that anyone here is without this material, but these are two notable bargains @ $5.99 each (via Amazon): Bird Diz

On paper it sounds like a good bet, as Tate's tone should mesh well with A.I.'s style. If you want to hear it now... eMusic It is a good'un.

Well, it does look a little like this:

No, it's Monk's Blue Note material.

Can Your Non-Retirement Rock Like Bob Dylan's? If AARP designated a Person of the Year, Bob Dylan would be a shoo-in — except for one detail. The 71-year-old Dylan is anything but retired. And that epitomizes one of Dylan's greatest achievements: longevity. He is six years past the accepted age of retirement in the United States, yet he is still rocking on. Dylan's 35th studio album, "Tempest," is out today. More here: WSJ

Actually, you overpaid by $2.99: Project Gutenberg (search for Henry James).

Was it cold that night?

Some two decades ago, bassist Omer Avital stepped off a plane from his native Israel and into a jazz scene in Manhattan's West Village that was nearly devoid of his countrymen and their music. It was a lonely time, he said, and when he set up shop in Smalls, a dark and slightly tattered basement club that was, like Avital, struggling to build a reputation, he inevitably found his bands populated by Americans and his sets dominated by well-worn standards. But when Avital returned to a refurbished Smalls for four nights this past June and July, his standing had taken a turn for the better and his repertoire a turn toward the East. The occasion was the debut of his new combo, the Band of the East, which places the traditions of his youth at the core of a working unit. The personnel of the band changed over the course of the engagement, but on all four nights, a singular young Israeli, Nadav Remez, filled the guitar chair. Read more: Forward

Happy birthday, and thanks for all the great music.

Amazon US says "this title has not yet been released": Amazon

You are brilliant.

Didn't he also play on Blonde On Blonde?