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Hmmm. . .I like "Music is my Sanctuary" AND "Beautiful." Oh well. I know I'm different!

It's been a LONG time since I heard her work. And I think this cd probably has almost all of it (?) I heard French RCA lps. . . . It was interesting. . . I wasn't THRILLEd but I was a lot less interested in the early years of recorded music in those days. . . .

I used to totally LOVE Weather Report. Saw them about five times, on two coasts. I've rebought this in the new remaster and it sounds great. But. . . I don't really get into WR any longer. "Tale Spinnin'" is the one I like the MOST. . . it's special. Must be the berimbau!

Hmmm. . . I just looked and it says my Dexter box shipped today! Maybe yours did too Ed. . . I'm hopin' . . . I'm hopin'. . . I'm hopin'. . . .

The rest isn't too bad to watch. I noticed the Blue Note imagery homage too, though cover imagery and photography etc. isn't too much of my bag. This was a decent show it's initial run, especially the show with the vet in the cage. . . .

I think these were selected by FRENCH Blue Note because they had not been out on cd before, and because they thought there was a market for them. I doubt that they would have been choices by US Blue Note, but I could be wrong. . . .

Koln, Germany.

Man, that's really nice stuff, I have nearly all of it. As you say Peter, great for the beginners in this hobby; those who are two or three decades into it . . . .

Sometimes I think the first decade was the best! Here's one, Hutcherson's "Total Eclipse"---recorded in Plaza Sound studio, NYC.

No, I'm still congested. No malice meant; just thought you would have all this stuff, and not be interested. The Milton Brown and the Verboten Musik sets look interesting to me. . . have very little of that material. BUT I have so much stuff to listen to that I'm in no hurry right now!

Bada boom! Yeah, I haven't looked at this, but I'm likely to have it all.

What---you mean you don't have all this stuff already?

Has to be the Messenger set. My favorite work of Lee and Wayne.

Almost every Blue Note session from 1939 to 1954!

Unlike Bertrand, I enjoy some of the Mizelli Bros. as Ed does. They aren't jazz with a big intellectual angular angst-ridden "J" like Shorter Blue Notes, but they're fun and as Ed mentions good dance music that I find accessible to a lot of listeners in ways that other Blue Notes aren't.

Yes, Brad, I'm referring to "Music is my Sanctuary." I think these are the best vocals yet on any of these albums produced by the Bros., but you may be wise to steer clear. (Some darned good dance music on this record though, and some great Bartz!)

Well thanks for that information. I'd probably read it given the chance, just for the writing, the tone that McCoy brings to the page. He and Woolrich were sort of poets in that way: even if the plot and characterization were implausible or thin, their writing and the mood and tone it conveyed fascinates me! (Goodis too.) And for my money Jim Thompson is in a whole 'nother league!

Brad, as far as I can tell, AMG is simply WRONG (once again) regarding the Candido. That is a very good session! There are lots of vocals on the Bartz. It is an lp I like, but if you don't like the Mizelli Brothers production on the Donald Byrd sessions, you won't dig this one. (It IS different than the Byrd's to my ears, BUT it has a lot of vocals.) It's quite funky; fits in that way with the Rare Groove idea.

Yes, that is a great vehicle he uses in the book. I love this book, it really resonates with me somehow about life, and I find it so amazing how he uses humor to illuminate truths of human life in this book. I'm sure you are going to enjoy it a lot. It's going to be a lot different than the Horace McCoy I bet (I haven't read that one.)

GOM, was that "Confessions of Zeno"? If so, one of my favorite novels, one I can read ever decade and get something else out of it because of my life experience. One of the great works of literature that has a little bit of everything in it and is stone cold funny while being deep. I'm currently reading Caetano Velloso's "Tropical Truth," after finishing "Jazz on the Barbary Coast" and "The Hours."

I find it interesting that I nearly voted for "Speak No Evil" but chose "Night Music" instead, and right now those two are neck to neck in votes! I'm a LOT less interested in Shorter's music than I ever have been before, but those two I still enjoy a lot, and I really feel that "Night Music" is the one I like the most. It's just. . . special.

Just an update: I've received a cd by Gal Costa called "India" from 1973 or 1974. I LOVE this cd. It has a variety of musical sounds on it, and the recording is very well remastered. She sounds similar to her later voice, but her young voice is very intriguing!

For me it's "Smokestack." Just eerily beautiful. Those two basses and those interesting piano lines and melodies. Dark, thought-provoking music.

NOJ: The Bartz is pretty much the same all the way through. . . . I like it, I bought it new when it appeared. Sentimental favorite. . . .

That's good advice there re: Stuff Smith. I would think that a fan of Parker's would like Stuff. The Definitive Coltrane is pretty cool. . . just don't expect it to really be "a Coltrane cd." It's Diz all the way! That Milton Brown is nearly a complete set! That's great. And the Verboten Swing box set looks quite interesting.