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Except for the direct-to-disk album, all my EWs are reissues on Inner City. Still sound good, though. BTW, is "East World" the same company? I have another direct-to-disk by Clifford Jordan on that label. It's called "Hello, Hank Jones" and includes Hank, Reggie Workman and Freddie Waits.

"Caravanserai" is much more laid back than those 2 albums. I haven't listened to Lotus & Moonflower back-to-back, but I still think they are more alike than they are different. Expecially compared to much of Santana's other work after those releases. He became much more commersh. "Incident at Neshabur" is a highlight, for sure. He even throws in some "Afro Blue", if I remember correctly.

Lotus isn't all that different from Moonflower. More instrumentals and just a couple of vocals from Leon Thomas. You'll should like it.

Another album they just added is Pharoah Sanders' "Journey to the One". A superb set!

Anyone listen to Secret Machines? A friend just turned me on to them recently. An interesting blend of prog & alt. "Now Here Is Nowhere"

They do have those "Booster Packs" (discussed above), if you just want to download some additional tunes this month.

A couple of Jessica Williams albums, too.

I'm not sure why they suck, but here they are: Booster Pack 10 - 10 Song Downloads $4.99 Booster Pack 25 - 25 Song Downloads $9.99 Booster Pack 50 - 50 Song Downloads $14.99 Basically, if you use up your monthly "allowance", and you still want to download more music, you can purchase a Booster Pack.

A general rule of thumb on final selling prices on ebay is double the original price (there ARE exceptions, of course - Larry Young, Andrew Hill, etc). Just make sure that you don't put that as your starting price. It will probably NOT sell if it's listed that way.

Thursday's ...

I've got 3 EW/Inner City Great Jazz Trio albums: "At the Village Vanguard" "Milestones" "New Wine in Old Bottles" w/Jackie McLean Also one of those direct-to-disks: "Love for Sale" w/Buster Williams (the others have Ron Carter) They're ALL excellent, BTW.

Yes. Very odd. I checked all over myself. Definitely not there.

washingtonpost.com Hunter Thompson Death Blows Uncle Duke's Mind In Cartoon Tribute By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page C01 So here's the setup: The legendary gonzo journalist kills himself, with a handgun bullet through the head, while seated in his Colorado kitchen on a February afternoon. A couple of weeks later, KA-BOOM! The comic-strip character based on the legendary gonzo journalist has his head blown up in the second frame of the strip. Not funny, you might think. The kind of outrageous violation of community standards that gets cartoonists' work suppressed by editors. The kind that, if the strip does run, is guaranteed to generate outraged complaints. Except . . . This is Hunter S. Thompson we're talking about, a man immortalized both by the "Fear and Loathing" persona he created for himself and by the one cartoonist Garry Trudeau hung on him as Uncle Duke in "Doonesbury." The former was a loose howitzer who positively gloried in outraging community standards. The latter is a paranoid substance abuser currently helping the Bush administration govern Iraq. Let's face it: Neither one of these characters stood much chance of surprising us anymore. After the literally explosive "Doonesbury" strip ran yesterday, neither the cartoonist, his syndicator nor the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors -- a newspaper group that keeps an eye on such potential controversies -- reported any blowback. There were no complaints, said Universal Press Syndicate editor Lee Salem. "We've had nothing move over our listserv about it," said Penny Bender Fuchs, the AASFE's executive director. Fuchs, as it happened, hadn't seen Trudeau's strip yet. Told about it, she expressed serious concern. "He didn't kill Duke, did he?" she asked. No, Trudeau said, he had no plans to have art imitate life that way. Reached by phone in his New York studio, he said that he had done a week's worth of strips as a tribute to Thompson and that he hoped Tuesday's would not be misinterpreted. The series began Monday with a strip in which Duke and his faithful would-be spouse equivalent, Honey, suddenly appear as if drawn by Ralph Steadman, illustrator of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and numerous other Thompson works. It continued with yesterday's strip, which Trudeau described as "basically mind-blowing" for Duke. In it, he reads of Thompson's death, his head is obliterated by a sudden explosion, and then he reappears, thinking: "That can't be right. Better Google it." At which point there's another "KA-BOOM!" The Thompson strips will continue through Saturday, but Trudeau was reluctant to discuss their story line. "I hate to talk about it until people have seen it," he said. Later, in an e-mail, he pointed out a reason that his readers may not have found Tuesday's strip unusual. "I've been exploding Duke's head as far back as 1985," he wrote. "I also had a rocket burst out of his head, a flock of bats, and during Duke's run for president, Mini-D, a tiny self that conducted Duke's business, even gave speeches when the candidate was incapacitated." After he'd established his original Thompson parody, Trudeau noted, he soon moved his story line away from the writer's real life. This was in part because sticking to Thompson's personal narrative "would have been very limiting." But it was also because Thompson himself "seemed so aggrieved by the character." As well he might have. For Trudeau's Duke, in the end, is a character far more sinister than the self-created, self-destructive gonzo artist who shot himself last month. Duke has a "predatory nature," the cartoonist explained. Once parachuted into a hot spot like Haiti, Kuwait, Panama or Iraq, his "relentless opportunism" will always take over. He stands for "a certain kind of mad unconditionality. Duke is never ambivalent, never in personal conflict. His take is resolutely binary: Is this in my self-interest or not? It's a kind of weird state of grace." Hunter Thompson he's not, then -- though the writer might have seen something of himself in that last phrase.

Great Jazz Trio

Well.........good luck!

Nice new Organissimo icons!

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Turns out the references aren't so "veiled". This week's strips are new.

I was trying to figure out if that was a new cartoon or they were re-running an old "Duke" strip. Trudeau has been out recently with a broken collar-bone from a skiing accident.

Similar to this (without the "ark").

The album cover at the top of this thread changed. This is about the Jazz Messengers' "Ritual" album, right? Anyway......I was right about Amoeba. I went there today and they DO have a bunch of these - sealed - for only $5.99. Needless to say, I picked one up.

Dave Holland - "Extended Play" Jazz Messengers - "Ritual" Steve Nelson - "Fuller Nelson"

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Hmmmmm. Interesting. B-) "The set is No. 3,312 and bears Mosaic catelogue No. MD5-151. It consists of 5 CDs. The set has been sold out for some time, since the 1960's I believe."

I've still got vinyl of "European Tour 1977" and "Social Studies", but never listened to them that much. Maybe it's time to give them some serious "air time". I recently picked up this Jack Bruce live album. It was apparently a very short-lived group and they only recently found tapes of one of the shows. Carla plays on it along with Mick Taylor, Bruce Gary and Ronnie Leahy.

Tim Hardin - "Bird on a Wire" This album has a surprisingly diverse roster of jazz (and other) artists on it: Warren Bernhardt Keyboards Richard Bock Cello Sam T. Brown Guitar Canby Singers Vocals, Vocals (bckgr) Bill Chelf Arranger, Keyboards Monte Dunn Guitar Ed Freeman Guitar, Producer, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements Steve Haas Percussion, Drums Tim Hardin Guitar, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals Paul Hornsby Keyboards Bill Keith Pedal Steel, Guitar (Steel) Tony Levin Bass Ralph MacDonald Percussion, Drums Mike Mainieri Vocals (bckgr), Vibraphone Glen Moore Bass Alphonse Mouzon Percussion, Drums Natoga Percussion, Drums Robert Popwell Bass, Percussion, Drums George Ricci Cello Margaret Ross Harp Rob Rothstein Bass Joe Rudd Guitar Bill Stewart Percussion, Drums Ralph Towner Guitar Miroslav Vitous Bass Collin Walcott Vocals (bckgr), Vibraphone Joe Zawinul Arranger, Keyboards