Brad

An extra cost I can do without.

I enjoy vinyl but I also like CDs. However, there is some music that just isn’t on cd. As a rule I now generally avoid new vinyl; there is lots of old vinyl out there in terrific condition that can be had at decent prices.

Those are not high prices. Dave’s Picks comes with three cds and usually sell from Dead.net in the $30s. OOP ones are higher. Lon’s prices are very fair.

Too many block ups to wade through.

I checked out the new JT but it’s full of annoying pop ups, plus when I try to get a new password it doesn’t work. Not too in love with it.

I haven’t been following everything here that closely. I’m mostly at Hoffman.

I didn’t realize that there was an issue with Allen. Too bad. However, he does have a Substack page.

Well said. A moderator’s job is not to drive away people.

When living overseas as a teenager I’d listen to Willis Conover. Everytime later in life I’d hear Take the A Train, I’d think of his program, Time for Jazz. When you live in a dictatorship like we did, you’d be hard pressed to find news you could rely on. The VOA and BBC did that, even Armed Forces Radio, as long as it avoided news about the host country, Spain, in my case. The VOA brought news to people who couldn’t get real news, especially behind the Iron Curtain. Today, VOA has now been effectively dissolved by Trump, a sad day indeed. I could say more but I’m sure you know how I feel

The whole thing sounds peculiar.

I rarely find these articles useful.

Disc 2.

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It never made sense to me to wish a dead person Happy Birthday. Instead, it’s better to note that this woukd have been the anniversary of their birth. Tuesday would have been my father’s 105th birthday (had he not died of a heart attack at the age of 56). I will simply note to myself that it would have been his 105th birthday

One of the first books to explore Dylan’s Minnesota roots.

Billy Hart Has One Foot in Jazz’s Past and the Other in Its Future No paywall.

Disc 1.

Took me awhile to get into this but starting to enjoy it.

He’s been responsive on the few times I’ve asked him a question on FB.

I purchased this years ago. Phenomenal music.

I posted the question about the additional tracks being rejected tracks and this is the reply from Joe Harley on FB: “Alfred approved and sequenced the original 5 track album. Later, after Alfred had passed, Michael Cuscuna added three great additional tracks to the CD version of the original. Michael was a dear friend of mine and we discussed this reissue before he passed. The additional 6 tracks are very worthy of being released. You can hear one of them now (‘The Take Off’) I did not include takes where there are technical problems like the tape running out or tape starting halfway through. I did not include one take because Michael and I agreed it was not worthy of release.” I don’t have the US re-issue, just the 1993 TOCJ, which only includes the original five.

You say it irks you that it’s called complete when it may not be but earlier in the thread you said you planned to buy the cd. Isn’t that slightly contradictory?

Why don’t you ask Joe Harley about this on FB?

RSD can be sold online the next day. You will be able to find them on Discogs, usually at the same price. The RSD thread on Hoffman is quite useful as many people will tell you who has what leftover I’ve found many a title that way You can also find them on RSD Market, which has a lot of older titles at good prices.