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I picked up an Iomega 160 external last year. Seems pretty good to me. They seem to run sales pretty frequently.

"Straight Street" is a REALLY nice Mabern album.

Yes you do! Your next DLs should be "A Sure Thing", "Big 6" and "Blue's Mood"

Hey, Conn. I didn't know you liked Joe Henderson!

"Someone"?

Interesting. I have this on vinyl with that tune. Yet the version of the album on eMusic does not include "I'll be Seeing You" or the alt version of "My Favorite Things". I assume this is how the CD is configured, too.

Here's an interesting use of it in conjunction with the NRDC - BioGems Tour

I first heard about them a few months ago on NPR. You can listen to the interview with them and Zorn ... HERE.

John McNeil - "East Coast Cool"

Do it, SS. I read on the eMu board that others have been credited for re-DL-ing it.

"Sconsolato" IS brilliant. I love that tune! The rest of the album is no slouch, either. I just realized (never noticed, somehow) that he's backed by members of the Clarke-Boland Big Band. Awsome! Have to listen to this one again.....soon. I like many of his Muse albums, too. Especially the first half dozen or so - my favorite being "Mark Murphy Sings". Nearly a perfect album.

Do you have the "build-able" stash box version? I've actually got a sealed copy of that.......just to have it. If I remember correctly, "Twilight Double Leader" isn't a bad song.

Hey, Wes ... happy big 4-0!

Lon - the blackface performance is on the "Fly Jefferson Airplane" DVD. It was for TV........Smothers Brothers, I think. FWIW, "Long John Silver" is a 'completists only' purchase. I have it on vinyl, but never listened to it more than a few times. "Takes Off" is a 'must have' though. I never really heard it until I got the new re-master. I was VERY impressed. Signe Anderson more than holds her own with the band.

Yeah......I noticed that later on. The clips sounded interesting, though.

Gotta play "Mean What You Say" in the chat session one night!

Steve Bernstein "Diaspora Blues" w/Sam Rivers Trio (Anthony Cole, Doug Mathews)

Hey, SS, you like that Oliver Nelson album?

No reason to keep both. If you're buying RVGs, it's usually because you expect the remastering to be an improvement. So why keep the "inferior" master?

I just assumed that you guys were trying to avoid me.

THAT'S weird. I come into this board a little after 10pm and notice that Conn & SS are in the chat room. Cool. So I click on "Live Chat", wait a few seconds for the Java applet to boot up, and when I'm finally logged in I see 2 messages: "SoulStation 1 has logged out" and "Connoiseur_500 has logged out". WTF??!?

But.........just think of all the $5.99 albums I could get for the same price as a single bottle of "fine single malt"!

You weren't looking hard enough. The nice thing about yourmusic is the consistency--$5.99 per disc, whether it be a single disc or a 16-disc box set, all the time, with free shipping. No secret codes to know, no special sales to keep track of, no mental gymnastics required. Just a good, dependable, solid price all the time. It's boring, but it works. That's MUCH too easy.

Ag-ster - I know people keep talking about YM. I've just stayed away because I don't need another "excuse" to buy albums. It's hard enough NOT to buy from BMG. I think of their scatter-shot sales as a control over my buying impulses.

I just checked YM out myself. I saw that the Bird set is a couple of dollars cheaper, but I didn't see the Trane box at all, actually. That price is what really caught my eye on this order, anyway. I've never seen it that cheap (new or used).