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Duke, that may possibly be the only one. . . that is the one that I know of. It's . . . different. I've learned to like it.

I've been spending more and more time at home. I'm a happily married man, and my wife has been happy to spend more and more time at home which is okay with me. Going out for dinner suits us both and that happens several nights a week, usually a weekend night and a weekday night. I started going out less and less when I quit smoking nearly thirteen years ago. The first year I couldn't BEAR to go where smoking was--too tempting or irritating or both, and there was still a lot of public smoking around then. And then I just got out of the habit. . . . And spent all my money on cds and tube equipment. . . .

That's a fair, not ignorant question! Yes they do. They're mastered at the beginning of the process at half speed for supposed sonic reasons but they're regular playing products at the end.

I like digipaks. I like lp facimiles. I like jewel cases. I just want 'dem shiny discs however I can get 'em!

Damn. . . it's Pretty Eyes Jackson cryin' the blues. The Board Blues "Woke up one mo'nin' My whole damn board was gone Now what am I gonna stomp on What am I go'ne stomp on. . . .

Africa Brass, the digipaks are very similar to the Verve by Request series.

I wouldn't say that the arrangements on the Kuhn is like Evans arrangements. . . it sounds identifalby McFarland and most of the time rather sparse; the first side of the lp has a string quartet backing, the second side has woodwinds and a harp. BUT the trio really is the centerpiece. . . at least that is how I heard it here at work.

I find it interesting that they made these digipaks. . . could they have listened to customers? NAH! Wonder if any of the non-Impulses in the series are digipaks; it's not unusual for Impulses to be that way ultimately. I'm going to get the "Afro-Harping" eventually---that is a COOL lp!

I wish they would do a second box, which would have the next volumes. Those are GREAT as well.

The Hines is very good. Very good. Ellingtonians. . . with a few ringers including Elvin Jones on half the album. I really like it. I like the Kuhn a bit more than Mr. Larsen does. And maybe the Ayler a little more too. The Shepp I've enjoyed on a German cd that I have. . . I'm eager to compare the remastering. It's in line with others of the later Impulses from Shepp. . . . It's no Fire Music. But it has some great moments of drama! The Pee Wee is really good, though I really reach for much earlier Pee Wee more often. Yes, these are available til some time in 2006. Gives you plenty of time!

Well, I picked up five new Impulse! reissues, the Kuhn, the Shepp, the Ayler, the Hines and the Russell. They're digipaks! Not like the Alice Coltrane in the last batch which was a gatefold. They have an insert that has photographic reproductions of the inside covers . . . so you get the art, but they're not really "lp reproductions." Listening to the Kuhn now, which is nice indeed with McFarland orchestrations. Great sound. And the best thing is that Tower was selling them for 9.99---and lists them at 12.99. Mistake? Maybe. A lot better than the last batch which was 18.99 list or so!

I really admire Hank Jones, especially the fifties work. The "Hank Jones Quartet" on Savoy with Bobby Jaspar is a real delight. I also like the Savoy "Trio" which is out on cd as if it were a Kenny Clarke release. . . that was recorded in Hackensack the afternoon I was born (in Canton)! His touch was so precise and pristine. . .it does tend to make some think of him as lightweight in the jazz department but as the originator of the thread has so rightly said: t'ain't so; his ideas are heavy, deceptively so. I'd give a lot to be able to play that way! Here's hoping more of his fifties sides see the reissue light of day---there are still a few that could get the treatment. And his Impulses are absent as well. . . . Those Jones brothers. . .you can't ignore ANY of them!

I share your opinion, definitely. I got this for myself for Xmas the year the set came out. . . . It was a very good holiday season, and I pop these discs in and get enjoyment from them fairly often. GREAT stuff.

I listen a bit all day long. But just a bit. And I hardly listen to anything else but jazz (well, Brazilian music has invaded my listening time of late.) The most time I get to listen however is on the weekends. The first hours of the weekend mornings I get undivided listening and they are the hours I live for! There are other reasons that the music may sound better at night, especially in urban areas: power is often cleaner in the evening hours (especially late night to the early morning hours) and I honestly believe that stereos really shine when the power is clean.

This set mentions that OKEH organizer Bob Stephens insists that it is not Hawk but Castor McCord of the Mills Blue Rhythm band. . . . They list it that way in the discography!

Brad, you are so right. Kirk Felton's work for OJC has been getting better and better and better. He has it going on!

I think the Dr. may be Weizen. That's just my personal theory, but you know, it may be a reincarnation of the coke addict himself.

Jack Purvis was a hot dance and jazz trumpeter who recorded from 1928 to 1935 and never afterwords. He was a good player, sort of to my ears a cross between Bix and Bunny. He was also a maniac, a conman and drifter type who ended up spending a good five or six years in Huntsville in the forties, and who was never recorded in the last two or three decades of his life. This reissue compiles all his sideman sides and the eight titles he did as a leader. A nice mix of jazz and pop music from the period, with a number of great players around, including Goodman, Berigan, and a few others. Not essential stuff, but a nice batch of hot dance sides. Also, the sound is great. . .Jazz Oracle gets the best out of J. R. T. Davies I think, or their transfering of his transfers to digital is just a bit better somehow. The sound is really good!

Hmmm. . . I rarely found Dr. Achtung funny!

I really like the Shirley Scott "Roll 'Em" Impulse.

Wow! I just got the Jazz Oracle three cd set of Jack Purvis's work! This is one class act. A SIXTY page booklet. J. R. T. Davies remastering. Pretty much the complete recordings of this oddball character but fine trumpeter. I'm really diggin' it. Jazz Oracle has NEVER disappointed me! By the way. . . Worlds Records is selling this for 38 dollars. A good deal!

I really like the Julia Lee set too. . .intriguing music, swinging and blue!

Free is definitely worth pursuing; has been out on cd (maybe now out of print?) in the domestic CTI reissue series, maybe among the first batches. Kindof noodly bigger ensembles with guest stars that you'll like who do good work. . . really worth hearing in my opinion. I've only heard Free and Fingers of Airto's CTIs, and they're both very different.

They also have Fingers, which I really enjoy. Bought it together with a cd by Aneuda called "Offeranda" which is arranged and produced by Hermeto Pascoal, and is a wild one!

There's two volumes of the Hickory House material, and the session with Zoot. . . . That would be enough for a Mosaic Select really, especially if there is any extra material from the Hickory House. (Doubt it, but you never know.) There are other recordings on German labels . . . that would be a nice set!