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My resolution is to do more writing this year. I've never made that one before so so far I've never broken it. . . .

Tom thanks for mentioning Vic, quite an innovator, and one of the best jazz tympanists ever!

No, that's not safe! You're a marked man!

Okay, if we're going to name names like Chad Wackerman, then I'll add Danny D'Imperio.

Yeah, I have two Pepper cds thanks to Ron Thorne, one of the nicest guys on the planet, and I found one to be as Jim describes, stoner and interesting but. . .s t o n e r. The other is quite interesting and intense. One of these days I need to find some more!

That's interesting. . .I see them both as similar players in a way, flashy and bashy, though I think Bu comped better for soloists and had a more compositional approach to ensemble playing. Blakey as a drummer used to be an inspiration but I don't enjoy his drumming as much as I used to. I probably would have made the same choice in your shoes! But in any case I'd have liked to see both.

I'd add Tony Sparbaro (Spargo) and George Whettling.

I can take or leave nearly the whole season except for the fellowship fo family and friends and. . . I really really dig the time off and need MORE~!

Very good book I'll be reading for a while:

You know, this may be the only session as a leader of his that I don't have and haven't heard. They edited a bit out for the cd release, and I've been wanting to find and hear a complete version!

I don't know Bert. The out of tune piano doesn't bother me. It might bother the hell out of you as I know we are two different people and listeners. Does the Dolphy at the Five Spot piano bother you endlessly (if you're familiar with those recordings)?

He's not the best choice. BUT I think he does throw sparks around and gives the floks what they need. Still, even though I've been a drummer, I don't pay much attention to his work here; there's Bird and Diz and MONK. That's what I listen to and marvel at.

Stefan, my wife and I very carefully detail what we are getting for each other. That has been proven to be the safest thing to do. . . . I really like that Parker set!

My wonderful wife Helen got me the book of the Louis Amstrong HOUSE which is great, and the Master Takes on Verve of Charlie Parker which I am sure is great, but can't get at til tomorrow! Dem's da rules!

I have all eight volumes released on cd so far. This is a stupendous series in my opinion. Excellent sound quality. Great performances, featuring a number of selections live that are rarely recorded elsewhere. The original shows are well supplemented with other contemporaneous broadcast/taped live performances. It's so very fortunate that Storyville has initiated this program!

Quite a cool lp. This has been reissued on "RCA Spain" cd. . . . Great Jim Flora cover too!

Have a great holiday! PEACE

That is indeed the source of the picture!

C J, I hear it pretty much as you do. I dug it when it first came out because I had SEEN that tour, but I never listen to it any longer. The lps up through Tale Spinnin' are da schitte for me NOW and I hardly spin any of the others at all.

The Infinitys may have been better, but were they more EFFICIENT? I. e. did they get more volume out of a watt of power? If they were not as efficient as the new speakers it is possible the new speakers are revealing these sounds for the first time. If it is not a noise from the circuitry of your components it could be a ground hum or a ground loop noise from the antenna for the tv receiver, etc. . . . It's hard to isolate these things, and I'm not a good resource for ways to do so. A good power conditioner MAY help.

There's a strong possibility that what you are hearing is the hum or buzz of the amp or preamp or other equipment upstream from your speakers. Speakers of high efficiency will reveal equipment noise such as amplifier or preamplifier hum, tube "rush noise", etc. quite well, noise not previously heard with speakers of medium or low efficiency.

Well, my wife bought this for me for Xmas. . . BUT I wont' be able to open it til Xmas! It's sure giving me impetus for Xmas to be here! I don't have all these masters. . . . I have most of them, but this will be an upgrade in sound, and supply me with the remaining masters I need.

I've never had those sets, but I have that music, and I agree: it was very important to put them out and I'm so glad they did! I think the first decade and a half of BN's history was something else!

I LOVE "Quiet Nights." I often think I am in a minority, but I wish that one had been brought to fruition because I LOVE what there is. Singing it as she hears it, yeah I bet she does. Her "intonation problems" really don't bother me. . . . Non-"western" musicians and music often to me dances to a different sense of "in tune." I can dig it.