jazzbo

If/when I am/will be in the market, I'd follow Greg's advice and go for a dedicated SACD player and for quality. Personally I'm in no hurry to go to SACD, and am waiting to be able to afford a really great player, hopefully one with a tubed preamp output. I have 'hot rod' inputs on my amplifier (and I'm NOT changing amplifiers, I love my Decware Select!) that allow me to run an input right into the wire leads of my input driver socket, and this makes for a level of transparency that the normal inputs can't match. However there is no real gain control this way, and I don't want to add a preamp and another interconnect into the signal path, so I want to have a source with a preamped out. I have a Dynaco CD-2 that works very well in this role, and I can use the same brand and type of tube for the input tube of the amp and the output tube of the source (Siemens 6922). I'd probably consider a similar SACD player HARD. It's in the future for me, but I'm in no rush. I've worked hard on my system and room, and am very happy with it now, and enjoy just listening to music without obsessing too much about sound lately. And I still haven't seen too many SACD only releases I really really have to have, so I'm just chillin' til I have the kind of choices in players that I want.

Several weeks ago I had emailed Columbia/Legacy, then forgotten about it, and this morning I received this reply: The rumors are correct. A 4CD collection of the bands materials ranging from 1936-'50, including several editions of the band in numerous configurations along with cameo's on disc 4. You will see that no corners were cut and that the very soul of the music shines. Look for a release in September.

Those jazz photos are cool. . .but this one was truly a favorite for some time! Also there is a photo of my wife hanging upside down in gravity boots from about the time that I first met her that is a favorite. . .

A friend of mine would say "she'll clean up REAL GOOD."

I have vinyl of those that I want, the one that really tempts me is Planet Waves, which is my favorite of the lot! I haven't bought that on cd, and I've wanted to, so I may buy that when released. I have a nice tape copy of Blood on the Tracks, the other masterpiece here, and may buy a copy of that on cd down the road as well.

After trying for like the third time to read Hugh Schoenfeld's "The Politics of God" I have started "A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Mecca" (Volume Two) by Richard Francis Burton. I read an interesting little book called "Pioneer Preacher" by Leigh Opal Berryman before that. A "memoir" of a West Texas woman and her late nineteenth century upbringing in the home of a Baptist preacher in a newly founded town. I thought it would be lightweight and it was instead very clever and enlightening in its way.

Yes, I think you should. IF their management coughs up a good enough rental fee.

My twelve year old nephew bought his copy at 9:01 yesterday morning and finished it at 3:06 am this morning! Very impressive. You couldn't pry him from it except for a fiftieth wedding anniversary dinner for his grandparents! And then. . .only briefly. I've tried reading them. . .not my cup of tea.

Well, the tape doesn't sound that great, when I've heard it, but we've listened to worse. . . it would be nice to have a better tape and of the whole festival, yes it would but probably isn't avaliable anwhere. . . too bad.

Hey Chuck, that forty minutes or so on tape of Shepp with the Quartet puporting to be from that Chicago festival show. . . are they?

I must say that other than rereading reprints of The Spirit, I haven't read comics in YEARS nor am I going to start to! But I have enjoyed the Marvel Comics movies and will be seeing the Hulk eventually (not this weekend; this weekend is a celebratory one for my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary) and really hope the FF and especially the Dr. Strange movies become made and distributed!

I seriously doubt she's the only female trumpeter/singer! The world is a big place! She's an interesting player. What I have heard of her work is quite nice.

Dug the Wishing Well song. . . then. The rest of the album less. NOT an equal of Prince as far as I can tell. . . just my opinion of course.

Lou Ann There's quite a few here: http://images.google.com/images?q=Lou+Ann+...SO-8859-1&hl=en

Guess you are right that it has plenty of writing, but to me it has more of a "blowing session" feel to it than the Blue Notes, but that's just me, and it wasn't meant as a diss.

The Wingy Manone Imperials and Tyree Glenn Roulettes!

Yeah I know that. I post way too much in several too many places anyway, that's the main reason I don't want to go there. . . I'm concerning myself less and less with "sonic matters" too which is GOOD.

If you like Mingus, I would say yes. It's rough and raw in parts. It's got stops and starts and was a recording event gone wrong. . . but I like it.

My two cents. . . I like it. . .mostly a blowing session I would say. it has received mixed reviews from others on the boards. The stereo is of the extreme left and right variety, the sound is so so overall. . . some good solos. . . not exactly a fully realized session; could probably have used more rehearsal. "Prairie Dog" also on Atlantic I like a hair more. If you're a Pearson fan, you probably won't be disappointed.

Ah, Lateef. . . I began seriously listening to him about ten years ago . . . I think his roots go a bit before hardbop, in the bop and swing world. . . though he came to his own in the hardbop era as a part of "other tributaries". .. Mingus and his own fusion of world sounds and bop and swing. . . His Savoy stuff is what I like the most, especially "Prayer to the East"---that tenor solo on "Lover Man" is among my very favorite tenor solos. I've been getting into Brazilian music (mainly bossa nova) a lot thanks to encouragement and guidance and resources from JimR. And I've finally gotten around to the Lunceford Orchestra as a study. . . wow.