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How about the John Coltrane title "Like Sonny"? It has a Roulette imprint, but EMI owns the masters. Consists of two studio dates, one from 9/8/60 and the other from 11/58. The 1990 CD I have says the 9/8/60 date is "remixed from the original three-track tapes." Rudy might be able to do something nice with the sound, and the RVG imprint might make the music more widely known.

Already filmed as "Total Recall" (as I'm sure you'll recall). After I saw the movie, I went back and reread the short story...was fascinated to note that the story never left a few city blocks. No planets, fighting, etc. That's how cinematic Dick's mind was; he suggested all these grand scenes with just a few words. Anyway, though nobody's asked, these are my favorite PKD novels (in no particular order); any one of them would satisfy as a movie: Galactic Pot Healer Ubik Our Friends From Frolix 8 Clans of the Alphane Moon We Can Build You The Crack In Space The Game Players of Titan The '50's novels were a little too simple, and by the '70's he was just cracked... But in the '60's he was ripe, and produced sheer genius.

"We Can Build You." I can still picture the Civil War being reenacted by androids.

I thought there was way too much Corea on "Black Beauty." And the guy really doesn't have a lot of taste - he's not a believer in "less is more."

This is fun stuff. Jarrett alone is much better than Jarrett + Corea (Corea was too much of a hog of the soundspace, Jarrett is an excellent comper behind Miles), McLaughlin is a gas (think of him at the height of his Mahavishnu Orchestra dexterity), and the sound quality is excellent.

My brother just bought me the iTrip. What a wonderful device! Made by Griffin Technologies, it's a little FM transmitter that plugs into the iPod, transmits at 87.9 FM. You just tune your radio to that frequency, and listen to your iPod! Works great in the car -- much better than a cassette adapter, which makes too much mechanical noise. And Jazz Kat, this is the solution to your "My music has no connection with my computer," because it works inside the house too (just not between floors). Highly recommended.

Those were fakes. ??? Pls elaborate. Sounded like Brown/Roach to me. Liner notes quoting Max, produced by Bob Shad, the whole nine yards. Were they just outtakes from other sessions?

If you want to test the music, the entire box is available on eMusic. I downloaded it and am very happy.

I think there was also a session on Moers Music.

The Clifford Brown/Max Roach sides that came out on Mainstream.

For Kottke, check out a live recording, "My Feet Are Smiling" (Capitol). I used to play it for my friends, and they couldn't believe there was only one guitar playing until they heard the applause. For later Kottke, check out "Greetings From Chuck Pink" (Private Music), but this is more music-, as opposed to guitar-, centric. For Fahey, a good introduction is the 2-CD Rhino compilation, "Return of the Repressed." It spans his entire career, and has excellent liner notes by Fahey's friend Barry Hansen (aka Dr. Demento). I also love this later Fahey work: "God, Time and Causality" (Shanachie).

This has always been one of my favorite Grant sessions. His guitar sounds so warm, Herbie's just great, and Billy Higgins...oh, man! A classic.

Where is the bitrate stated? Just started my second month; already used up my 90-song allotment. Too bad buying add'l songs isn't as good a deal.

I have something...it's actually a little hard to describe. It's an English 3-LP set called "Revelations." Came out around 1973. It was to raise funds for the Glastonbury Fayre. Some tracks were recorded there (care to hear 24 minutes of the Edgar Broughton Band sing "Out, Demons, Out!"?), others were donated, the most notable being the Dead doing a really out version of Dark Star from their Europe '72 tour. There's also all this stuff inside the package: booklets, pyramids, what have you.

Most albums I've downloaded have sounded fine. Some albums have poor sound or other problems: Dexter Gordon/Al Grey "True Blue" (Xanadu) has noise artifacts, and Don Wilkerson's "The Texas Twister" (Riverside) has about 3 minutes of silence at the end of the first track.

Can you burn these "Passalongs" onto CDs? Do they come with artwork and liner notes?

Last I've heard, they decided they are no longer a "country" act, and don't want to be referred to as one. No word yet on how they now characterize themselves. And they are still big in country music. CMT still plays their videos all the time, and they're played on country stations, at least in the Northeast.

Here's Nat Hentoff in today's Wall St Journal: Up for Bid: Intriguing Grace Notes To the Magic of Jazz By NAT HENTOFF February 16, 2005; Page D10 New York The first auction wholly dedicated to jazz -- ranging from John Coltrane's tenor and soprano saxophones and more than 100 pages of his handwritten music to Thelonious Monk's Stuyvesant High School notebook on what makes a good newspaper -- will take place on Sunday, Feb. 20, with previews on Friday and Saturday, in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, Broadway and 60th Street. Arlan Ettinger, owner of Guernsey's Auction House, assembled the 430 lots, amounting to thousands of items, most of them from the families of the musicians. Guernsey's previous singular auctions have included those focusing on John F. Kennedy and Elvis Presley, as well as the first auction of Soviet Union artwork (held during the Cold War). "But this one," Mr. Ettinger told me, "gave me a particular thrill because I was able to get to visit the homes and families of these musicians. Also, since these items did come from the families, there is no question of their authenticity." For instance, in the auction is the upright player piano from John Coltrane's childhood home, on which he first learned to play music. The player piano came from Coltrane's cousin, Mary Alexander, to whom he dedicated "Cousin Mary" on one of his breakthrough albums, "Giant Steps." What gave me a thrill are scores by Luckey Roberts, the dean of the swinging stride school of Harlem pianists. Roberts influenced James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. I recorded Luckey Roberts in 1958 for the Good Time Jazz label and marveled at how he created an orchestra from the piano. One of the auction items is inscribed to Luckey by W.C. Handy. While a last-minute dispute between family members and the seller may keep these scores out of the auction, at least historians will now know that these important pieces of jazz history exist. At my preview of the auction at Guernsey's, I saw the drum sets of Buddy Rich and Roy Haynes; an array of Benny Goodman's clarinets; correspondence by Dexter Gordon and by that prolific, buoyant letter writer, Louis Armstrong. "The name of this great POET who is so anxious to book my ass, in Siberia (of all places)," Armstrong wrote to his booking agent, "[is] Yougeny [Yevgeny] Yevtushenko," who courageously denounced Stalinism. An especially rare item in the auction belonged to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -- his tap shoes, which he gave to another legendary dancer, Howard "Sandman" Sims, in 1931. As a child, I went to see Shirley Temple in the movies, but it was the magical "Bojangles" Robinson who stayed in my mind. The nearly 200-page catalog for the auction will be an instant collector's item and, I expect, will someday be part of a lot in an auction. Among the extensive illustrations are historic photographs and reproductions of Miles Davis's original paintings and Franz Klein's "The Jazz Murals." In the text, the meticulous descriptions of the items, placed in historical context, are useful additions to the history as well as the lore of the music. There is "Charlie Parker's King Super 20 Alto Sax: The Holy Grail." It was made specifically for Parker by the King Instrument Company and became part of his legend as its "broad internal bore, enlarged bell and silver plating served to enhance and project Parker's robust tone quality; and the instrument's key mechanism, modified to provide a faster action than before, was perfectly suited to a man whose effortless dexterity redefined notions of virtuosity in music." I did not expect to find, from an auction catalog, this clue to that stunningly creative dexterity that has never ceased to exhilarate me whenever I play a recording by "Bird," as he was called by his colleagues and lay admirers. This catalog and its forms are required for anyone who wants to participate in the auction. For complete details on how to get it and on the various ways one can bid -- the auction is open to the public as well as to institutions -- Guernsey's can be reached by phone (212-794-2280); fax (212-744-3638); and on the Web (www.guernseys.com1), where you can see a number of the items in the auction. The auction house's email: auctions@guernseys.com2). For those who can't get to the auction, there is an Absentee Bid Form toward the end of the catalog that can be FedEx'd, mailed, or faxed to Guernsey's before the auction. Or you can contact the auction house to find out how you can bid by telephone during the auction. There is yet another alternative. In "real time," you can be part of the auction online through eBay Live Auctions. All the other terms and conditions are in the catalog or can be clarified by contacting Guernsey's directly. Although I was impressed seeing the storied instruments of musicians who have become vital parts of my life, what most moved me during my preview was a "Negro History" book made by fifth-grader John Coltrane. He had cut out red letters to place on its blue construction paper cover; and the 12 pages include newspaper clippings about Booker T. Washington and Joe Louis; and copies of Langston Hughes's "The Negro" and "O Southland" by James Weldon Johnson. Guernsey's Mr. Ettinger told me that for years he had thought of composing, as it were, a jazz auction. "In the auction world," he said, "we're pioneers in introducing topics, such as popular culture, that had not been considered important enough by the other major auction houses. That's how the Elvis Presley, Jerry Garcia and Mickey Mantle auctions came about, and now this one." In the introduction to the catalog, Ashley Kahn, who is an occasional contributor to this page and author of the deeply researched "A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's 'Signature Album'" (its scores are a significant section of the auction), writes: "Jazz is such ephemeral stuff: improvised, of the moment, here and gone. Few and valuable are the objets du jazz that hold on to that fleeting magic: a saxophone; a smoking jacket [like Thelonious Monk's gold brocade favorite attire]; a simple, timelessly significant piece of staff paper." It turns out there are many more than a few of these valuable finds -- intriguing grace notes to the music of these musicians who were, in Duke Ellington's phrase, "beyond category." I'm tempted to bid on Charlie Parker's gold pocket watch. It still keeps, like Bird, the right time.

I like country music, and watch CMT regularly (that is, until Cablevision recently took CMT off the lineup...DirecTV, here we come!). Natalie is a very good singer, and has great vocal chops. But I don't much like their outlook. It's not just that I'm pro-Bush. Have you heard their song, "Goodbye Earl"? Earl's a bad husband, so his wife is justified in killing him. It's a happy song! What an obnoxious outlook! So I don't care much for them, and change the channel when one of their videos comes on.

What was the first session that Benny Golson's composition "Whisper Not" appeared on?

I like Earl Klugh's LP "Magic In Your Eyes." Sort of an acoustic jazz/disco fusion, but very sweet.

I'm becoming interested in a drawer-type storage arrangement. The Can-Ams are too much $ for me, though. Thinking of going to a local woodworking shop & seeing if they can adapt a bureau for this concept, or have one ready-made.

Ikea offers something similar. Take a look at: http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/serv...517&cattype=sub Take a "Billy" bookcase and add a shelf insert. Results in mucho CD storage.

Fans of Buell Neidlinger should check out Leo Kottke's "Greeting From Chuck Pink." Neidlinger produced it and is all over it. Results in some of Kottke's best work.

Did she do any work on other leaders' dates?