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What a unique thread! Thanks patricia. I know you said you don't take requests, but I'll throw this into the mix: Hezekiah Leroy Gordon "Stuff" Smith.

Thanks for bringing up that old thread EKE. I hadn't seen it before. My previous question to Chuck is redundant. These forums sure are thought provoking!

Owners of some of the shops I frequent say they make more selling used cds.

Is it too far fetched to tie the prices mosaic sets sell for on e-bay to the consumer sentiment figures? (Now if I could just figure out if that $167 price is a leading indicator or not.......)

I'm from South Florida too. Unfortunately I missed the Kenny Drew Jr. concert. But on February 7th I was fortunate to attend the Melton Mustafa jazz festival at Florida Memorial College where MM teaches. Among the players in an all star band for the occasion were Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Jon Faddis, Mark Whitaker, and Winard Harper. To see these legends enjoy playing together was a once in a lifetime treat for me.

Chuck, Is that because you feel Ellington became too dependent on him?

So maybe I'm a Miles fan and maybe I'm not. I don't know anymore. I'm just so very confused.

I like this quote from Chick Corea regarding Miles' playing: "There's this one track on Miles and Monk at Newport, with Coltrane and the sextet, which is one of my favorite live Miles peformances. They do a version of 'Straight No Chaser', an F blues, and his solo on it, four choruses or so, is a totally marvellous, simple masterpiece. I've listened to it over and over again, and once for a lark I transcribed it, wrote it down. Miles solos are really interesting to look at on music paper, because there's nothing to them. On a Trane solo or Charlie Parker solo, you can string the notes out and see all these phrases and harmonic ideas, patterns, all kinds of things. Miles doesn't use patterns. He doesn't string notes out. It's weird. Without the expression, and without the feeling he put in it, there's nothing there." Also thank you for the warm welcome to this forum. I look forward to participating more.

My first post. I've been reading the wonderful posts here for a long time and want to thank so many of you for teaching me so much about my favorite music. You've opened my ears to different musicans and eras in jazz that I wouldn't have considered without this forum. I took trumpet lessons from a member of the Cleveland Orchestra when I was in high school. My lessons were strictly on improving technique.....all I listened for in other trumpeters was technique. Then, on the radio, I heard a live jazz recording that changed how I heard music. I didn't hear bravura playing. I heard pure musical expression. At the end of the cut the dj said it was Miles Davis. At the time (early 70's) I hadn't heard of him. That was when my exploration of jazz music started. From then on Bugler's Holiday was a technical challenge while Billie Holiday became a treasure. Because of that I love Miles!