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Disk four, the Tony Bennett session. Can't say I'm too overwhelmed by it all. Bennett seems rather pedestrian in his singing, and I don't think his voice is a good match to the barrenness of just having a piano backing. Nice to have, but it's not like I'll be playing this section a lot.

I forgot to mention one thing from last night: Great clutch hitting there in the 9th JD Drew! Yeah, I know, I know.......

Crazy baseball scheduling, Colorado could be sitting around for a week waiting for the AL series to end. Boy, the NLCS was totally under the radar, again, baseball messes things up as only they know how.

Bill Evans: The Complete Fantasy Recordings. Disk three.

Thanks for the heads-up on the blog. I would like to start going into Seattle more for live jazz, yet it's an hours drive from where I live.

Got to love that Cleveland bullpen, come in and shut Boston down. Glad now that Seattle didn't go after Matsuzaka, he didn't look that good at all... What's great, if you're a Cleveland fan , is both Byrd and Westbrook come up big in the post season. The specter of Matt Morris hovers over Cleveland, look out!

Paul Byrd, the Matt Morris of 2007, who would've thunk it?

I just hope that this is for real. I've been slowly listening to my Monk cds recently, and they're making a huge impact on me -- I want to dig deeper into his catalog.

Traded in a lot of old rock cds, plus some extra cash, and got some Evans to plug some holes in my collection, plus a couple of others: Bill Evans: --- Homecoming --- Bill Evans and Orchestra at Brandeis Jazz Festival --- Interplay --- Autumn Leaves --- Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I mean? (SACD) --- New Conversations --- Letter to Evan: Live at Ronnie Scott's --- Live in Ottawa --- Live in Paris, 1965 --- Live in Stockholm, 1965 --- Time Remembered --- Solo Sessions Volume. 1 Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd: Early and Late Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (SACD) Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller (SACD) Gary McFarland and Steve Kuhn: The October Suite

That's what I've done, and it works well -- much easier to get the cds out to play also.

Bill Evans: The Complete Verve Recordings. Disk one. Note to King Ubu: There are also tracks 7 - 12 on the first disk of this set.

Thanks! For some reason I thought the Milestones SS would be in the Fantasy box, and I became confused when they weren't there. Looks like I'll be buying those three cds.

I don't think we'll be seeing Gagne for the rest of the series -- he's in free fall mode right now. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go back to Boston with Cleveland ahead 3-2.

Bill Evans: The Last Waltz. Disk seven.

Dumb question: Could someone list the solo cds for Bill Evans? I'm having trouble figuring out which ones I don't have. I should mention that I have the complete Verve & Fantasy boxes, so what, outside of these boxes are there? Thanks.

Now that postal service is back in England, it'll be interesting to see if anything will be shipped this week.

It must be the wet weather up here, but my box is turning to pure rust, and I've had it for about a year -- yuck!

Well, not me, but my parents are buying this for my birthday: THE VANDERMARK 5: Alchemia. Should be great music in this 12 cd monster.

It is the wood one. I was also thinking of the MMF-5. I used to have the MMF-7.1 (had to sell it when I moved) but it wasn't a stupendous upgrade from the 2.1 that was my first tt. It seems that if I get the MMF-5, and can use the money saved for a decent phono pre-amp; that package should come out to +/- $800, with good sound.

I'm thinking of getting back into lps and the Music Hall mmf-5SE turntable looks good to me. Any feedback on this turntable?

Sorry I missed this earlier. Not being a betting man nor a collector of RVGs, I think I'll pass. the tribe in 6 games That'll be tough for the Tribe, means they have to take one of the Boston games. I'd kind of like to see Cleveland win, Red Sox fans have worn out their welcome the past two years -- EXCEPT for Dan, of course.

I wonder if LaBron will show up at the game tomorrow rocking a Red Sox lid?

Disk three this morning. Great box set, the music being very minimalistic. Disk four now.

I had to look twice to make sure but it appears that Garnett only had 9 points. ...and Paul Pierce only had 8 points. The Celtics look good on paper but I'm still not completely convinced that Garnett, Allen, and Pierce will mesh all that well together.

Disk three this morning. Great box set, the music being very minimalistic.