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... or a new living-room set: black light, beaded curtain, beanbag chair, hookah, etc.

My sister loves that band. Please post her cell number for interested parties. She's in prison??

I would prefer not to pay loads either, but bottomline is I want the best funds whether they come with loads or not. Vangard and Fidelity do not dominate the lists for best funds, even though their costs are lower. I also do not have any problem paying above 1% for funds. If I wasn't willing to do that I would not have any small caps or international funds. If cost is all you care about then buy index funds where there is no research. You can check with Scwaab or Scott trade. They may offer no loads. The no load companies give Schwab and Scott certain fees to offer their funds, I believe. You're right, Conn, about going over 1% for small caps and international although you can find some for less. OTOH, I would challenge you to find me a loaded fund where there isn't a near-equivalent no-load. It also depends on what you mean by "best funds". Some would argue that Vanguard DOES have the best funds. Schwab has a large selection of no-load funds in their "One Source" program that don't charge additional fees, but if you go away from that list they do have a charge.

Contact them directly. They won't give you specific investment advice (they're not brokers/advisors), but they will be happy to help you with the mechanics of transfering your funds.

HELLyeah! That's what I do! ... but diversification is the way to go. Depending on your age, you want to balance equity and income funds appropriately. And as far as fund fees, you should rarely (if ever) pay more than 1% - and never a "load". There are more and more "lifestyle" funds available from major fund houses, too (Vanguard, T Rowe Price, etc.). You pick a retirement year and it will rebalance itself over time. how can an individual purchase no-loads? all my people are pushing their load funds, of course, and this is what bothers me. It's pretty simple if you have a basic brokerage account. The Fidelity website prominently advertises theirs. I recommend doing some research on the Fidelity and Vanguard websites, as well as Yahoo/Google Finance. If you want to shell out some coin there are some good publications out there on mutual funds, too. Which of the big fund houses is your brokerage/advisor affiliated with? SEI It's really easy to invest directly through the no-load companies. They want your money and will help you any way they can to purchase/transfer your investments into their funds. Tell SEI that you're taking your business elsewhere.

HELLyeah! That's what I do! ... but diversification is the way to go. Depending on your age, you want to balance equity and income funds appropriately. And as far as fund fees, you should rarely (if ever) pay more than 1% - and never a "load". There are more and more "lifestyle" funds available from major fund houses, too (Vanguard, T Rowe Price, etc.). You pick a retirement year and it will rebalance itself over time.

It got sort of a mixed review from Ben Ratliff in the NY Times: KENNY GARRETT “Beyond the Wall” (Nonesuch) The jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett, after a recent trip to China, started building notions about the similarities between Chinese and African cultures, including matters of health and philosophy, as well as pentatonic scales in music. What he came up with is “Beyond the Wall,” an album billed by the label as “a musical and spiritual exploration of the connections between China and Africa.” But jazz listeners won’t have to break their heads on this concept: the album owes more to the John Coltrane Quartet than either of those enormous land masses. Mr. Garrett as always is poised, fast and deft on alto saxophone; his sense of time is ironbound, and he arranges his soloing ideas into confident streams of irregular phrases. He shares the front line with the tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, one of Coltrane’s old fellow-travelers, whose output has been uneven over the years but who plays astonishingly well here, rich-toned, rhythmically assured and harmonically sophisticated. They work hard on establishing common ground, finding similar pitch areas between the two instruments, and blending their approaches to rhythm. Despite an excellent, deep-cushion rhythm section — Mulgrew Miller on piano, Robert Hurst on bass, Brian Blade on drums — the weak link is Mr. Garrett’s compositions. They use pentatonic scales in some of their melodies and come to rest in long stretches of single chords, with the pianist Mulgrew Miller playing quartal-harmony figures redolent of McCoy Tyner, the pianist from the mid-1960’s Coltrane band. (There are also some singers chanting wordless vocals, which don’t really help or hinder; they become just another layer in the theme sections.) The best of the saxophone playing — especially in the title track and hymnlike track “May Peace Be Upon Them,” with some heavy-duty collective improvising — lifts this record up considerably. But the album sags under a kind of professional tedium, doing something very familiar almost too well. BEN RATLIFF

I ordered a bunch of RVGs: Lee - Gigolo, Tom Cat Hank - Dippin', Workout Horace - Song for My Father, Cape Verdean Blues Also: Santana III (Legacy Edition) 2CD set for $8.33

Two that I left out of that BMG order: Horace Silver: Song for My Father, Cape Verdean Blues (RVGs)

Anyone know anything about "Bix Beiderbecke And The Chicago Cornets" on Fantasy/Milestone?

It seems to be there now. Now that there are others besides me in there. Maybe that was the problem.

I guess we're on the same page tonight, Noj.

That's pretty funny, Noj! I was holding those albums until the right sale came up.

Is it me, or does it no longer show who's in Live Chat in the Board Statistics section at the bottom of the page?

JJJ disk #3

From BMG I ordered for $6.33 each: Hank - Dippin', Workout (RVGs) Lee Morgan - The Gigolo, Tom Cat (RVGs) Andrew Hill - Time Lines $8.33 Santana - III (2CD Legacy Edition)

I believe that there is a fair amount of the late, great John Hicks on this album. Probably some of his last recorded work, so it might be worth picking it up for that reason alone.

Any thoughts on the Berrigan vs. Bix/Tram/Tea?

Hey, Ag, you can get 2 full tunes from that new album here: YLT MP3s They sound good to me! I think I'll probably spring for that covers album, BTW.

There's a video of it available on the BELDEN VIDEO NETWORK. Lots of good stuff there, actually. To see Clifford on Soupy Sales, download the file named: "CB-Medley.m4v"

To the contrary, I would bet that Miles would totally DIG it. He never liked to look back at his old stuff and was always trying to stay contemporary.

Ron Horton has done some interesting stuff.

Speaking of Jeremy Pelt, there are a ton of MP3s (recorded live) that are available on his website here: Jeremy Pelt - MP3s