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Blakey/Moody, Benson, Clayton added.

Up with additions, price reductions and some of my wants for potential trades!

If you can wait long enough, you will eventually get a "buy one get three free" deall. It may take several months to get there.

I have the following for sale, all in exc. condition. Prices include US postage. Paypal, checks, money orders are fine. PM if interested, thanks! See also my wants at bottom for potential trades. XXX=gone XXXGeorge Benson It's Uptown (Columbia Legacy 2001 reissue) $8 XXXBuck Clayton The Essential Buck Clayton (50's Vanguard material) $8 Art Blakey and James Moody New Sounds (Blue Note) $11 XXXGene Harris and the 3 Sounds Live at the It Club (BN Rare Groove) $6 Jonah Jones I Dig Jonah (CC Music/Capitol) $8 Ahmad Jamal Ahmad's Blues (Chess/GRP, Live trio from 1958) $7 Paul Chambers Quintet (BN Conn) $8 Johnny Lytle The Loop/New and Groovy (Beat Goes Public) $11 Sonny Clark Sonny's Crib (BN Conn) $11 Clark Terry Color Changes (Koch/Candid) $7 Milt Hinton East Coast Jazz (Bethlehem) $7 Pee Wee Russell Swingin' with Pee Wee (Prestige) $7 XXXLonnie Smith Live at Club Mozambique (BN Rare Groove) $9 Tina Brooks Minor Move (BN Conn) $9 Tiny Bradshaw Breaking Up the House (Proper 2 cds) $9 Possible Trades.....I am looking for: Fred Jackson BN Conn Hank Mobley Another Workout, Slice of the Top, Dippin, Hi Voltage (Conns, Tocj or Jrvg) Joe Newman RCA-Victor 50's 2-cd set Charlie Ventura Proper box Don Wilkerson Texas Twister Oscar Peterson Trio plus one Clark Terry Blakey At the Jazz Corner (the one with Mobley) Byrd/Watkins Transition Conn Kenny Dorham Quiet Kenny K2 The Arrival of Kenny Dorham Adderley Bros. The Summer of '55 2cd Make me an offer! Thanks for looking!

Speaking of the Byrd Half Note issue from the mid-90's, I recently got that one and thought that it was a very fine sounding live recording. Hard to imagine it being significantly improved upon. Of course, if it were to be much better sounding, then that would be very impressive...I might be curious to hear it anyway...

Also added today, among others: Benny Carter Jazz Giant Mulligan Meets Monk Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar Anyone want to join and need a sponsor? PM me. (OK, i'll admit, I need a fix and I would get 5 free cds!)

Count me in... Maybe the Blue Mitchell will finally loosen the stranglehold that the Benny Green select has had over the cd player for the last few weeks.

Which stuff did you hear? i know that Peter has done some recent stuff...not heard it, so I cannot comment on it except to say that reviews I have read have not been so favorable. Have you heard the early Fleetwood Mac stuff from the sixties? The album names escape me but that is the stuff to try. If you still think he is a poor Clapton wannabe, well, to each his own, but my tastes run the exact opposite. I think Green's best stuff is the real thing and that Clapton is the blues-wannabe.

Clapton? Well, I love Cream and the early seventies rock, and even the JJ Cale-type stuff. However, I have to say, and with all due respect to EC fans out there, that I believe Clapton is terribly overrated as a straight blues guitarist. His phrasing, to my ears, is always awkward and his ideas, such as they are, are never communicated because of it. Even when he really tries hard to play straight ahead blues, he just doesn't seem to get it. There are many other players of his generation, and younger, who do a better job. One contemporary of his who I would recommend is Peter Green, who was able to achieve a more natural blues sound. Don't get me wrong, some of the blues-rock Cream type stuff sounds great, but the Freddie and Otis Rush type stuff takes a sort of relaxed yet intense approach that Eric never got. I bet he must have sh*t his pants the first time he heard Jimmie Vaughan--as many of us did.