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Beside the point, perhaps, but...what was the question?

No WAY am I going to try that. I don't doubt your experience at all - it sounds very intense. I just don't need to be spooked outside of a movie theater or the pages of a book.

Well, that certainly clears it up.

DAMN...

Almost Blue is nice, but you'd better like Elvis's take on cry-in-your-beer country. Given what you've really enjoyed, it sounds like you want Imperial Bedroom or Trust - though I'll put in one more strong advisement in favor of Get Happy.

I'd advise Get Happy! and Imperial Bedroom

Now playing... Shelly Manne and His Men - At the Blackhawk, Volume 2 (Contamporary/OJC, 1959) I have all five volumes of the Blackhawk set, and also really like the two-volume 1961 set from Shelly's Manne Hole:

On the way from yourmusic.com... Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Free for All (Bluenote, 1964) and... Miles Davis - Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 (Sony)

Oh, man. That's just wrong on so many levels. it's a joke, of course Oh, understood, Greg - just one of those that makes me go instead of

Oh, man. That's just wrong on so many levels.

Thank god (and Jim). Now I can stop listening to all this damn jazz music.

Some favorite piano-less (or chording-instrument-less) dates off the top of my head... Sonny Rollins - Way Out West Sonny Rollins - The Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard Fred Anderson Trio - Live at the Velvet Lounge Fred Anderson and Robert Barry - Duets 2001: Live at the Empty Bottle Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake - Back Together Again Branford Marsalis - Trio Jeepy Branford Marsalis - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Branford Marsalis - The Dark Keys Joe Lovano - Trio Fascination (w/Dave Holland and Elvin Jones) Joe Lovano - Flights of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Volume 2 (w/Dave Holland and Elvin Jones) Joe Lovano - Quartets Live at the Village Vanguard (disc 1 is a piano-less quartet with Tom Harrell on trumpet & flugelhorn)

Different...from what? Bela's okay. Ponty's had some great moments. Clarke is Clarke. I predict a wankathon.

The customer service folks replied to my query/complaint about the queues with the news that they were experiencing "technical problems," and hoped to have it fixed soon. Yup, and they did.

Yes, I'm having problems, too. I had 3-4 items in my queue, now all gone except for the one about to ship. I just tried adding the missing items again; the process seems to work (I get a message that the item has been added to the queue), but my queue remains empty. Edit: I just emailed a report on the problem to yourmusic's customer service.

The notice I saw (from Michael Ricci) said the AAJ site would be down "for about an hour" beginning at 6 p.m. EST for server maintenance. Seems to be taking longer than he thought. As most things often will.

Maybe we need another update on the AOTW Past and Present List?

I'm guessing here, not having seen the program, but could it be "Impressions," by John Coltrane?

Beautiful.

My results: It seems to have been correct with us guys (so far), but it's apparently not all that amazing: Now, people could be reporting that the genie has guessed incorrectly just out of spite, but according to these numbers, the algorithm sucks.

A distinct possibility.

Well, I went ahead and ordered Seven Steps from yourmusic. $41.93 total (free shipping). A great deal, for sure. But it better have the goddamn metal spine!!

There's no doubt that Seven Steps was released with a metal spine; I just wondered whether that packaging was what yourmusic had in stock. Wasn't sure if Sony had gone to the longbox yet for this set, or if yourmusic had some alternate cheapo packaging, or what. Thanks for the assurances, folks.

Thanks - that's what I wanted to hear. And yes, Jsangry, 'tis a fetish I share. I have a couple of other metal spine sets from that series of releases, and like the consistency as well as the packaging.

Okay, I just succumbed and signed up. Anyone know if yourmusic is still shipping the metal spine edition of Miles's Seven Steps box? (That's the edition I'd much prefer to have).