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Excellent. I was at the Yoshi's show. A lot of fun. Gerald Wilson stole the show for ME.

If you're looking for compacts with good lenses, the Panasonics have Leica lenses. Can't get much better than that.

If I was going to get a point-n-shoot right now, I would pick up the Canon PowerShot SD800 IS. It seems to get good reviews and packs a lot for the price. Amazon is selling it for $320 these days.

Exactly.

Straightahead jazz. I just ordered Journey To Love. You have more / another suggestion? Stanley Clarke 450 x Keep swinging Durium Either of the first 2 Return to Forever albums

Today: Betty Davis "They Say I'm Different"

I wonder how quickly this is going to go. I'm nervous about ordering it this week as our office is moving on Friday and I'm worried about the shipping getting caught in the transition. Order it now and ask them to hold off on shipping it? I charge a consultancy fee by the way. The check's in the mail ...

That's one SMOKIN' album! I'm DL-ing "They Say I'm Different" when my subscription rolls over tomorrow.

I wonder how quickly this is going to go. I'm nervous about ordering it this week as our office is moving on Friday and I'm worried about the shipping getting caught in the transition.

Damn! I'm a week too early. I'll be in NYC 5/17-20. Oh, well ...

Just showed up are some East Wind albums under Test of Time/IODA and 441/IODA labels. There are a few hard to find Andrew Hills (including Uncle Skid's avatar, "Blue Black") and some albums by Hank Jones/Great Jazz Trio that are all quality. Also Jackie Mclean w/Great Jazz Trio, Don Friedman and Marlena Shaw.

Rats! I'll be in NYC next week, but we're leaving on Sunday.

Bad news from eMusic. Zorn's Tzadik label is gone. I had a quite large "Save for later" list on that, too. Oh, well ...

Well, Max is only "Running Low" at this point. "Last Chance" is the time to panic. I'll be getting this one soon, too.

MUSIC: PLAYLIST; Swinging to Beats in the Past and Present Tense By BEN RATLIFF Published: April 29, 2007 Chu Berry Here comes Mosaic Records with another soil-core sample of jazz history, ''Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions,'' a slice through time and context tracing one man's work. The tenor saxophonist Chu Berry (real name: Leon), who died in 1941 at 33, played fast and wisely, with awesome harmonic smarts and a rich, even tone. This seven-disc set amounts to a little less than eight years of recording, but the records came during the end of jazz's bustling innocence, when it was crowded with geniuses and not looking back. Here Mr. Berry moves mostly like a sideman through the orbits of more than a dozen bands, brushing up against one powerhouse after another. There's the plump, easy swing of the Chocolate Dandies records of 1933, directed by Benny Carter; the extreme toughness of Bessie Smith singing ''I'm Down in the Dumps''; the manic energy of Gene Krupa's Swing Band in 1936; the intensive, percussive authority of Clyde Hart's piano soloing in Lionel Hampton's sextet; and Milt Hinton's hummingbird bass pluckings with Cab Calloway's orchestra. And through it all, Mr. Berry sounds ecstatic, playing all over his horn. That he died just as bebop was beginning is a rankling thought. (Available from mosaicrecords.com.)

Get 'em. Those are 2 of the best CTIs ever. You can't go wrong with either one.

thrilljockey has the mp3 available @$10 If you're going to DL MP3s, you might as well join eMusic for a couple of dollars more....and DL a TON of other stuff while you're there.

Works for me! Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I never really listened to it much from the beginning. Maybe it's time to pull it out again.

I haven't seen anyone in Live Chat for a while. Conn? Free? Ag? Barak? ... anyone?

Don't know if it's "spiritual" or not, but it sure is good.

Were Elvin & Fred Hopkins on that album, too?

If Murray "can't play at all", how on earth did he get McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones & Fred Hopkins to record "Special Quartet" with him? After all, two of those guys are "Coltrane-linked". I can't fathom THAT.

I definitely recommend "Morning Song"