riverrat

PM coming on the Turrentine set

OK thanks JT. There are no replies in my PM "in" box, not sure what the problem is/was, but thank you anyway for trying!

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PM sent RE Art Blakey Like Someone In Love.$5

Here's a close-up of a CD I got from BMG:

Country blues CDs for low prices. Shipping: $2.00 for 1st CD, $1.00 for each additional, max shipping charge $6 for one package (continental US, other areas at my cost). 2CD sets count as 2CDs. Discount for CDs over $5: Buy 3, take $2 off, buy 4 take $3 off, buy 5 take $4 off. Grading is for CD/art. Jewel cases not graded, but most are in nice shape. Lightnin’ Hopkins Lightnin! Arhoolie 390 M/M $9 The Hopkins Brothers: Joel, Lightning and Henry Arhoolie 340 M-/M $6 Curtis Jones Trouble Blues (OOP) Original Blues Classics OBCCD-515-2 (BV-1022) M/M $5 Memphis Willie B. Hard Working Man Blues (OOP) Original Blues Classics OBCCD-578-2 (BV-1048) M/M $6 K.C. Douglas K.C.’s Blues (OOP) Original Blues Classics OBCCD-533-2 (BV-1023) M/M $8 Lightnin’ Hopkins Drinkin’ the Blues Part 1 Collectibles COL-CD-5143 M-/VG+ $2

Jan Gabarek/Anouar Brahem/Shaukat Hussain - Madar ECM, 1994) - $7 Add this one to my "hold" pile please!

PM coming on the Nigeria 70 set

I'm glad you had a better experience than we did. We had an older model from about 4 years ago, maybe they are better now. For $200 we expected it to last longer than 13 months (just after the warranty expired) before having the electronics break down. That controls the delay grind & brew so the thing is now basically worthless. French presses work great, but produce fairly sediment laden coffee unless you let it settle for awhile. On the River, we boil about 2-3 gallons of water, then take it off the heat and dump in a pound of high quality ground coffee, wait about 10-15 minutes, then pour it through a strainer into an insulated dispenser with a spigot. On cool fall trips, we keep it strapped to the raft frame and have access to hot coffee all morning as we float...

OK noj, the power of suggestion works...PM coming RE: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg CT-102 2 CD set MINT $18

PM coming RE Egberto Gismonti..

"TOCJ" could mean a lot of things- BN Works Series remasters (unlikely), JRVG/RVG remasters (more likely), TOCJ24 remasters (very possible). Do you have any more specific info about these reissues?

PM coming RE Blakey ,Art – Like Someone In Love (Blue Note) RVG $6 Haarla ,Iro – Northbound (ECM) $6 Bley, Carla – Goes To Church (ECM Watt) $6

PM coming RE DP vol 20 Sep-76, 4 discs $12 (rhino, barcoded) DP vol 28 Feb-73, 4 discs $19 DP vol 34 Nov-77, 3 discs $17

PM sent RE Steve Kuhn w/M.Vitous & A.Romano - Oceans in the Sky (Owl, 2001 remastered digipak reissue) $6 Carla Bley - 4x4 (WATT/Ecm) $5.50 Freebie: Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Take Me To God (Island)

PM sent RE: 15 Donald Byrd Byrd’s Eye View (TOJC w/Obi) 6 Hugh Masakela Grrr (Mercury) -- hole drilled through back corner 6 Bobby Timmons Soul Time (Riverside OJC) ECM special - all 3 Surman CDs for $15

Thanks Hans! holyghost, I was pretty sure that the US versions didn't use Japanese remasters. What I was curious about was whether the first Japan issues were separate remasters or just used the US versions. Hans seems to have straightened this out- sounds as if there were different catalog numbers but the first US and Japan CD issues used identical remasterings. Thus it would be silly to pay $30-40 for a Japan version (as I had suspected) unless there is some huge difference due to manufacturing standards, which I doubt...

Bumping up for more African Music recommendations, I've been really enjoying the Analog Africa and Sterns reissues of 70's vintage stuff...do you experts have any more recs in that vein? Also, I've been checking into the large Ethiopiques issue series. Which ones should I start with? There seem to be at least 20..

I'm curious about the first round of Blue Note CD issues. Can anyone tell me if the first US issues- the ones with the silver and blue BN logos from the late 1980's, later reissued in the early 1990's as the "Collector's Choice" series with white and blue logos- used the same mastering as the early Japanese Blue Note CDs, i.e. ones with the CP28, CP32 prefixes? I'm talking about the CDs that predate and were superceded by the BN Works "TOCJ" series. The early Japanese issues sometimes go for big bucks on a certain other site, but I contend that they are the same masterings as the early US issues, which in most cases sell for only a few bucks used on Amazon. I'd like to know whether or not this is true...

Got mine, thanks!

PM on the way RE: Little, Booker In New York Jazz View

2nd PM sent RE the Blue Mitchell..

PM sent

PM sent RE Jacknife

Thanks Big Al!