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Tina Brooks - True Blue Grant Green - Idle Moments Keith Jarrett - Vienna Concert Surman/DeJohnette - Invisible Nature Cassandra Wilson - Belly of the Sun Larry Young - Into Somethin' Dwight Yoakam - La Croix D'Amour

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Arabian Waltz Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop Peter Erskine - You Never Know Kenny Garrett - Standard of Language Giuffre/Bley/Swallow - Life of a Trio: Saturday Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live Steve Howe - Quantum Guitar (thanks for the prompt, Lon!)

JM - I'd agree with you that ITTOD was probably their weakest original release (though the "posthumous" Coda is worse IMO). I still somehow manage to enjoy it, in spite of having heard "Fool in the Rain" 3 million times too many. I think I liked it precisely because it's so different than the previous Zep albums - it had a different color to it. I had a couple of buddies also who were big Zep fans, and they even went so far as to track down all 6 (or was it 8?) different versions of the album cover, which was just different pictures of the same bar scene. And it sounds like I turned into a big R.E.M. fan about the same time as you apparently (actually when "Reckoning" was first released). Stayed with them for a long time - in fact was even in their fan club just to get the X-Mas 45's for a long time. But I've sold off most of their recordings (including the numerous boots I had for a while) - for some reason they don't do that much for me anymore. NAIHF was the last album of theirs that I truly enjoyed.

I liked that thread (actually "those threads") because somehow BN decided to make me dynamic - for a while I was Aggie88, then Aggie89, etc. Not sure why, but it was definitely strange. And the order of the posts wasn't actually random - they were in alphabetical order by the poster's name. Or maybe they were just in alphabetical AND chronological order at the same time...

You could toss a Mosaic box set out a sixth story window and probably kill someone if it hit them right. It's not a factor of the weight of the object so much as the height it's dropped from, and the impact thereof. Anyone that wants to test this can send me their Mosaic box sets. As a reminder this is a destructive test, so the product will not be returned to you

Aw, c'mon - it's not THAT bad! "In the Evening", "All My Love", "Fool in the Rain", and - admit it, you know you have to - how can you resist the fun that is "Hot Dog"? Granted, it doesn't hold a candle to II, or the others, but it ain't bad, especially compared to most of it's competition in 1979 (PF The Wall excepted perhaps). And the LP had that cool packaging - brown paper wrapping, and the "paintable" inner sleeve...

I placed my order on Thursday last week, and apparently the titles I purchased (Up & Down, Basra, Poppin', & True Blue) were Fedexed overnight to me, as Fedex tried to deliver them Friday afternoon. Unfortunately I wasn't available to sign for them until today, so they sat on the truck until this morning. At any rate, that's pretty quick delivery - though my shipping fees were €11. All four titles have TOCJ numbers on them. And three of them are copyright 1993 from Capitol Records, while the other (Poppin') is copyrighted 1996. All four have a "published" date of 1998 from Time Life Barcelona though. It's kinda funny though, I guess the Blue Note quality control travelled with the material to Spain. Poppin' was recorded at the "Van Gewlder" studio, and Joe Anderson apparently played on Basra. Also, two of the cover photos were taken by Francis Wolf, while the other two were by the slightly more reknowned Francis Wolff.

Twist ending? Are we talking "Crying Game" or "Sixth Sense" here? You mean this isn't actually a Miles date but Kenny Dorham or something??

ubu: Thanks for the warning! I purchased the Evans Riverside box from my local 2001 store recently, but haven't had a chance to start listening to it yet. I have the same problem - my disc 8 is labeled as an Evans disc (w/13 tracks), but actually plays something else, with only 10 tracks. I'm going to e-mail Herr Luening and see what can be done here also. I hope this doesn't happen on any of the other boxes that 2001 was selling so cheaply...

I'd like to offer couw a big thanks for putting these alternative "booklets" together. It offers all of the relevant information you need from the Fantasy booklets, in a concise, easy to read manner. Even if you have the original booklets, these are quick and easy reference that will probably get used much more than the originals in my case. couw: THANKS! (<----- "big thanks")

Gotta hand it to you, RT... There are some fall-out-of-your-chair funny threads in there. "Raccoon him make the restful under table. Immediate, FCats go ape dew dew, LL oblige to grab FCats by rearmost legs and fling into house for safe. Then LL fling self from behind alsos."

Purple....definitely purple.

Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio Chick Corea - corea.concerto Bill Frisell - Before We Were Born Bobby Hutcherson - Components Jay Jay Johnson - The Eminent, Vol I Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather King Crimson - The Power to Believe (really diggin' this newest KC disc!)

tonym, your mother dresses you funny. And you have BIG EARS! Seriously, I'd agree with Joe's recommendations. Stylistically Frisell is difficult to pin down to any one thing. I guess lately he's been in his Americana bag more than the others, but if you want to try something relatively recent not so much in that vein, I'd also second ghost's choice - the one he did with Holland & Elvin.

Anybody have "Up All Night" yet? I'd love to hear some reviews/opinions...

I think this has been asked before, but are these official, legitimate BNs? And other than the color differences, do the booklets include all of the normal liner notes etc. of their counterparts?

Count me in on the Frisell bandwagon! I was just listening to "Before We Were Born" this morning on the way to work. Has a really nice, varied mix of styles, as do many of his recordings. Alot of folks will be quick to say he's "not jazz", but I'm not too concerned about that. I think he's a great player and creative talent, and I haven't found a bad recording of his yet. I like alot of the "Americana" style music that he's been releasing, and have most of his later stuff (except for "The Intercontinentals - haven't grabbed that one yet). I also like what I've heard of his work with Paul Motian, and want to start exploring the John Zorn stuff pretty soon. I'll strongly second Joe's recommendation of the Bass Desires albums as well! Great matchup with Scofield on those.

Too many great ones on the list. Since we're picking favorites, I'll go with Scofield. But there are too many different eras of guitar players on this list to really make a valid "pick" from the list. edit: Strange - I picked Sco from the list, but my vote isn't showing up on the poll. Nor am I able to go back and pick again, since I'm being told I already voted in this poll.

Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Vol I & II Donald Byrd - Byrd in Paris Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Bill Evans/Jim Hall - Undercurrent Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes Wayne Shorter - High Life Eberhard Weber - Chorus Peter Gabriel - Passion

Just one shared-jazz b-day, but two other musical ones: 1905 Tommy Benford jazz drummer 1935 Dudley Moore London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks) 1944 Bernard Worrell US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop) More shared b-days: 1903 Eliot Ness - (just try to forget Kevin Costner in that role though) 1922 Erich Hartmann German WWII pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts) - 352! 1933 Jayne Mansfield - oh yeah! 1968 Ashley Taylor Judd - oh YEAH! Historical Events: 1775 Battle of Lexington & Concord-American Revolution (the "Shot Heard Round the World") 1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint 1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't) 1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder) 1991 - Michael Bolton released "Time, Love and Tenderness." 1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members 1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500

Picked up a couple of interesting twofers the other day, with Jaco Pastorius and Bireli Lagrene. These are on the Jazzpoint Records label, a local Stuttgart label. The first one pairs "Heavy'N Jazz", which is a live recording from Dec '86, with "Stuttgart Aria", a studio date from March of the same year. The other set pairs "Live in Italy" which is a March '86 live date, with "Honestly", which appears to be a complete disc of Jaco solo improvisations. Probably more late-period Jaco that I need, but I somehow doubt I'd find this stuff too easily later on, so didn't want to risk it. Haven't listened to either yet, but at €12 per set, too good to pass up. Oh, I also came home that day with the TOCJ of Booker Ervin's "The In-Between" from the same used cd store.

Just a hunch, but I'll bet that they'll release a few of the "better" concerts from this box as individual releases, sometime soon. Similar to how they release the other Miles boxes, and then re-release the individual albums from the box shortly thereafter. So I wouldn't go and cave in to get the box just yet, unless you gotta have it all!

Is a 24-bit remaster of this album available? I've only seen the older cd version, which I've been told doesn't have the greatest sound.

Jim Hall - Live! Bireli Lagrene - Gypsy Project Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag Joe Pass - Joy Spring Chris Potter - Traveling Mercies Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol II John Hiatt - Slow Turning Tom Petty - Wildflowers

Donald Byrd - Blackjack Kenny Drew - Undercurrent Keith Jarrett - Ft. Yawuh Lee Konitz - 3 Guys Joe Lovano - Landmarks Steve Swallow - Swallow Larry Young - Groove Street Yes - Relayer