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I have a Paul Bley trio album recorded live in Haarlem which was done the day my nephew was born. I've thought about giving him a copy, but I'm not sure that he would like the music. On the day I was born, network radio's last attempt at a star-spangled variety show, called The Big Show, premiered. It stayed on the air for less than two years until they gave up the ghost.

Jazzbo (and ubu), a tour through the Fantasy site shows that Raney played on both Early Stan and Prezervation.

Vibes, that's one of my favorite Christmas albums, but I like Stan Kenton! In my view, Kenton's best albums were recorded in the fifties. The Xmas LP was about '62 I think. Contemporary Concepts from '55 (I think) was re-released recently, and I recommend it.

Tjazz, there is no additional charge to have it shipped as a gift. I'm pretty sure that what would be the invoice says instead, "This is a gift from Tjazz." The real invoice they send to the member separately.

Thanks jazzbo! I'll follow up on that at the Fantasy site.

Jazzbo, I have the Roost box. Do you know the name of the album(s) the Prestige material is on?

For you that don't get this offer.... Does anyone know if each CD can be sent to a different address as gift? The website appears to make this feature available, but I haven't tried it. If you can send the CDs to different names/addresses, then if someone wants to buy something, just PAYPAL me and I can order it for you. Tjazz, it's no more difficult having the CD sent to a gift recipient than it is to have it sent to yourself. Before you click on the final BUY button, it lists the recipients of each CD and asks you if the list is correct.

A few years ago there were a couple of sites which dealt with issues concerning the record clubs. They are probably still up somewhere, but they were abandoned some time ago. One guy stated that he put copies of a store-bought CD and a record club CD (same album) in his computer at work, and the program counted the bits of information, and the store-bought had 8 more. They were virtually identical. I believe that decades ago record club LPs were inferior to store-bought LPs because they were made from an inferior master. But today copying the digital does not reduce the fidelity, so there shouldn't be any difference.

I recommend it! I have found my trips here to be much more pleasant due to the absence of gratuitous insults against President Bush and the Republican Party.

I had never heard of him till I saw him at the '91 New Orleans Jazz Festival. The band was great! So I bought his current CD, a Blue Note album called Colors, I think, and I've enjoyed that too.

I held out till Dec., '88, to get a CD player. I noticed at that time that Telarc was proudly displaying the fact that their's were digitally recorded. The others were ADD, but Telarcs were all DDD.

Thanks for the links wolff! I've always been skeptical of remastering. It's not that a good job can't be done. We know it can. But it reminds me of colorizing old movies and the old "re-channeled for stereo". A corporate employee thinks he can improve on the original. On the whole, I would prefer to hear the original as is.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I recommend taking a moment to recall the purpose of the holiday!

Great idea b-3er! Please add my name to the no politics llist.

Here's a link. John Connally's widow was sitting next to him in the limo at the time, and she rejects the magic bullt theory (and therefore the lone gunman theory). http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/11.../25/12446.shtml

JazzMoose, have you and I NOTHING in common??? I haven't picked up the Four Freshmen box because I already have all but two of the discs! I won't be getting any Mosaic for Christmas. But if I were, I'd ask for the Gerald Wilson. I'm still smarting from my failure to pick up the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis box!

It is undisputed that 1) govt marksmen were unable to fire that model gun three times in the short time the shots occurred. 2) an extraordinary number of witnesses were dead within five years. 3) the event occurred in the state Kennedy's successor was unusually influential. 4) David Ferry died on the eve of his testifying against Clay Shaw. Jim Garrison admitted that day that Ferry was crucial to his case. 5) Barry Goldwater's poll numbers were on a steady rise till the day Kennedy died. From then on they were on a steady decline. It appears to me that 1) the Warren Commission was not a serious attempt to determine what happened. Even Gerald Ford, who was on the Commission, has stated that its product ruled out certain possibilities rather than determined which possibility happened. 1a) Therefore, the govt didn't want the public to know the truth. Why not? 2) Oswald recognized Ruby as he approached, and knew instantly what was coming.

Thanks Rooster! This was interesting. 1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (89%) 4. Orthodox Quaker (84%) 5. Seventh Day Adventist (82%) They got it right. I'm a believing Catholic. and the bottom ten... 18. Unitarian Universalism (37%) 19. Reform Judaism (30%) 20. Neo-Pagan (28%) 21. Taoism (22%) 22. New Age (21%) 23. Scientology (20%) 24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (20%) 25. Nontheist (19%) 26. Secular Humanism (17%) 27. New Thought (15%)

Daniel A, great idea! Here's the formula I would use: The important recordings are the originals of those songs to which lyrics have been written by Jon Hendricks, Eddie Jefferson and others for vocalese recordings. So I would say, off the top of my head... Charlie Parker - Scrapple from the Apple James Moody - Moody's Mood for Love Woody Herman - Four Brothers Wardell Grey - Twisted Horace Silver - Senor Blues Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat Miles Davis - Four, Boplicity

Congratulations Dan! 1) Prestige issued a single by Manfred Mann before Do Wah Diddy was a hit. How did this come about? Had The Beatles already appeared on Ed Sullivan? 2) How did Prestige land Groove Holmes? 3) Fantasy is releasing this month previously unreleased Prestige live tapes by Jaki Byard and Groove Holmes. Can he recall anything he didn't issue that in retrospect he wishes he had? 4) What were the circumstances of Prestige acquiring the rights to MPS Saba recordings about 1969, giving Prestige Jean Luc Ponty and Oscar Peterson? 5) How successful was the "The Giants are still on Prestige!" advertising campaign? Did the monthly ads in Downbeat pay for themselves? 6) Who does he consider to be Prestige's greatest finds? Who was the label's last find?

Congrats!

Happy Birthday Conn! You and Weizen share birthdays with Mose Allison!

Happy Birthday S o' W!

Looks like they're treating non-members better than they do members!

Welcome back Out2Lunch! Good luck! I'd go with the cheapest Remington you can find, under the circumstances, as long as it plugs into the wall.