Matthew

Seems as if there should be some other material on this set. The time for these 12 lps don't appear to add up to 8 cds. Still, this'll be a pre-order set, for sure.

I often think that Wilson and later Lester Young have a lot in common. Both are/were dismissed easliy by many people, yet Wilson and Young produced some beautiful music in later life. Even their "failures" reveal facets of the human condition where, in their musics ugliness, they still reveal a truth about their lives, and on some level, our own lives. Sorry if this doesn't make any sense, but at times, music doesn't have to be "played right" to still have truth in it. Needless to say, I'll be getting this first day it comes out.

This is really sad, the Ramones were what got me through High School is San Diego. CANNOT believe only Tommy is left.

I said two weeks. What the heck, at Candlestick, Reggie Smith was always going up in the stands after people, and nothing happened to him. Candlestick was such a cool place anyway, anything could happen there. B-) Edit: And not to mention Erik Karros, Mike Piazza, Derrel Thomas , and, I'm sure Tommy Lasorda wanted some action in the stand also.

Oh, please let this be true!

The Fabulous Dorseys in Hi-fi. Vol. 1. A Columbia "six-eye" that has a fantastic soundstage, you can hear the instruments layered on top of each other. Just wonderful, traditional, Big Band music, that is great to play at night.

What? No Eric Carmen: All By Myself. No guilty pleasure disk should be without it.

Wow, Hans!!! Is Groningen in the European Panhandle?

It's something that I never thought would happen, but I've become interested in early Country and Western music. About a year ago, on a whim, I purchased the Proper box on Ernest Tubb (please don't yell at me!) and I have enjoyed it ever since. The singing on the Tubb's box is wonderfull, and the man did write great songs. A couple of months ago I got the Hank Williams set, and, again, I enjoyed it. Now I'm wondering what are the ligit cds and box sets out there that I should be getting. I really, really don't like what's on country radio, and the era that seems to match my interest in up until the 1960s. So, let me have those cds recommendation that I really need!

Kind of Blue. Classic Records 200 gm version, and it's very nice.

This one falls under otherwise: I have a Tigger stuffed animal sitting on top of my computer, and a Tigger snowball on my desk. For some reason, Tigger just makes me smile.

Has to be because Verve is involved. The way they include breakdowns in their sets is a joke, esp. the Powell set.

What's on that, Matthew? Still wishing they'd put out an "official" complete BASEMENT TAPES. It's a 26 cd set that has everything that was ever recorded from Dylan's 1966 "World Tour". On stage, rehearsals, hotel rooms, and I think a sneeze and burp of Dylan's also. I just think that what Dylan created by '66 was so unique, and so powerfull, that I would love to hear all the music from that tour. Re: a "complete Basement Tapes" set -- there's a complete edition out of Germany making the rounds, and ... er, ahem, I hear it's pretty good.

One rock box set I would love to have, but not in my lifetime, is Bob Dylan: Jewels and Binoculars. A couple of days ago it went for well over $800.00 on ebay. That's my nirvana of box sets. *sigh*

The Jam is nice, and don't forget The Style Council either. Love the sound both these bands had.

Making my way through Charles Dicken's David Copperfield, and loving every page. I had forgotten what a wonderful writer Dickens is; so alive, creative, and real. Another book I'm reading is Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited by Clinton Heylin. It's a very interesting read and goes into great detail about Dylan's life. Recommended.

Try working to help the poor, believe me you'll get every scam run past you. My favorite was one guy who was .... shall we just say, not nice. Anyway, he kept trying to run every scam under the sun to get money, my fav was when he "rented" someone's kids so he could make the rounds, you know, "I need money for these poor kids of mine!" Well, the last time he came I told him: "Get lost! I'm just sick of you running all the scams past us, just leave and don't come back." Then he says:" That wasn't me, it was my twin!" Lord help these people.

But am I reading right?? $14.00 for a large Schneider Weisse, a wheat beer?? Yikes, how much for a Bud.

With KKJZ, you get what you get -- a nice mainstream jazz station where the "comfort zone" if very narrow. Forget anything outside, free-jazz, A/G, or any other weirdness. The "Mostly Bop", "Soul Jazz", and "Jazz on the Latin Side" or nice listens, but, bottom line: You don't get people to pony up major money by having Brotzmann & Cecil Taylor on your play list.

With any luck, there'll also be a part where the priest gives a homily..

Thanks for the info. I had thought all three masses were recorded, but, what do I know? On Mary Lou's Mass, are voices involved, or is it only piano music?

I know that Mary Lou Williams wrote music for at least three masses. Have any of these been released? The only lead I have is a lp called Mary Lou's Mass released by the "Mary" label, but after three years of looking, I've never seen a copy. Anyone have any leads on this?

He just wants our money to go to more important things than Mosaic lp sets. He's really doing this for our own good. Thanks, I haven't been able to get a lp set in a while, and I'm the better for it.

Though, if I remember correctly, a lot of Bix fans didn't even want to think of the possibility of Beiderbecke having a one night stand with Berton's brother. A book that I really like on Bix, though it goes into excruciating detail, is Bix: The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story by Philip R. Evans, Linda K. Evans. Everything you ever wanted to know about Bix is in this book -- kind of expensive though.

Don't want to open a can of worms, but I would think they would wait to see if DVD-A become the next "new thing" or not. Heck even Sony isn't releasing SACD's right now and they're the ones who were making the big push regarding this format.