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Jim, I do believe she's giving you "the eye". You're a lucky man...she's gorgeous...treat her right.

This is "Uncle Don" !?!? And I love the debate of 'Lil Abner vs Kiss Me Kate.

Jeffrey, Glad you found your way here. I'd have a stab at it, but I'm not really familiar with jazz before the 50's. But just check tonight and see what you get. Later.

Thanks for clearing that up, RT. Hey, you were a celebrity for about 10 seconds!

Well, Scott's big 2004 cd clearance sale is coming up. Perhaps I'll let you pick through it first and let you have your pick...

Oh, he's definitely an asshole. Fuckin' hilarious show, IMO. Bugs the heck out of my wife though, so I don't get to watch very often. But when I do, I laugh 'til it hurts.

HELL YEAH!!! -- on both counts. Wow, I had no idea Rooster was a musician. Just checked the AMG bio. I'll have to check out yer stuff, RT.

What am I? Chopped liver? My record is still impressive: whenever I presume to post the Tanno News, I get no response and few page views. My parents would be so proud. No offence intended, Tony. In my book, you're the bees knees! Damn, but that sounded corny. Thanks for listing them. I'm at least one of the views on your thread. And thanks for the belly laugh!

Seeing the new listing of Japanese releases by someone else got me to thinking about Hans. I did a search and he hasn't posted since Dec 2. Anyone know how he's doing?

Got mine! Go get yours! Actually I've had this for a while. Love that track "Togetherness". But I really need to spend more time with this set. Thanks for the suggestion; this will be my morning listening!

Oh, but I drink tap water, through a Brita filter. Never seen one turn pink though!

Yep, you can always tell when something must have fallen in the water supply: they boost the heck out of the chlorine levels. At least, that's what my buddy who sets up and maintains water systems for most of the Vail valley says.

I would say the biggest cause of "artifacts/noise" in an MP3 files would be bad encoding. The emusic MP3s used to be hit or miss. Some were okay, some sucked. This was when they were all 128kb CBR. Now they're using the Lame encoder with a VBR that makes much better sounding MP3s. They re-encoded most of their files, but some have not be upgraded. The VBR ones sound purty darn good....for an MP3...

Okay, someone needs to 'fess up. Who wrote this piece of brilliance?

You guys fuckin' crack me up!

Kind Of Blue Totally reeled me in, in the spring of 1998. I had found the Columbia Years boxed set at the library, ON CASSETTE! That got me started, so I bought my own Kind Of Blue and then I never looked back! I completely pursued all the Miles I could find for about a year and a half, then started delving into the music of his sidemen, and so on. Now I've probably got about 3000 or more jazz cds. It used to be my main focus and I ignored rock/pop for awhile. But now I spend my time listening to both about 50/50. I'm glad I started listening when I did, as it was around the same time that the jazz reissues market really started cranking out the remasters. Because of this, I was able to avoid most of the older issues and get the newer 20/24 bit remasters. But, I've also learned that just cuz it says 20/24 bit remaster, doesn't always mean you're gonna like what you hear. I now know more about whose mastering work I like and don't like.

Avery Media has great software and perforated inserts that are photo quality and work great. It's free software at Avery Media Very easy to learn too.

Just sent an email re: Art Pepper SACD. Thanks!

I'd only pay that much for the TOCJ or the JRVG.

'fraid I hafta agree. I'm not exactly saying this album is "bad", but rather that it doesn't do anything for me. WAY too mellow... ...so much so, that it always puts me to sleep. ZZZZzzzzzzzz........ That's what I always use it for.

Wow! Street Singer wins! And I thought I got a good deal through Red Trumpet! Nice score.

What jazzbo (lonson) said. I listened to it this morning after reading your inquiry, ubu. Maybe not side 1(first two tracks are weird, to me), but side 2 is definitely a spiritual offering, Alice Coltrane style. I loved it again! Especially with the subwoofer on! I can feel COSMIC vibrations!

Wow! That's cool!

FWIW, I used to be selimsivad back on Napster! Welcome Selim and post often. (P.S.) Anyone here used to be on Napster with the screen name of "schmorr"? He and I would trade Miles Davis bootlegs all the time...cool dude. B)