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nsp,Why would you sell your SM discs?I have all of the 40th anniversary King Crimson Discs including Discipline. Each set comes with a DVD-A or SACD with the complete album in 5.1 surround mix. I also have all their latest live discs.They are rele... 
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R.I.P. Jerry GonzalezI still plan on going to the Larry Willis And The Heavy Blues Band show Friday evening October 19th at 7pm (1st show).Larry Willis was a former bandmate of Jerry Gonzalez. http://www.smokejazz.com/index.php/calendar/ 
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Thanks nsp for the ongoing updates on the Sonny Rollins VV sessions. I hope they release another disc with the complete sessions day and night.By the way, you had mentioned the group Soft Machine, I believe, a while back. I just picked up volumes ... 
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frogman, I have everything TYA ever put out and then some!Alvin Lee was heavily influenced by American jazz and blues. He covers the standard blues tune "Good Morning Little School Girl" and jazz "Woodchoppers Ball" with his blazingly fast guitar ... 
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mary_jo,I first heard Annie Lennox in the mid 1980’s with the Eurythmics. The song was "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This" and, although at the time, I was into the music of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and the like, something in her voice stuck in my ... 
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frogman, thanks for the links on accompaniment. A perfect example of correct accompaniment would be McCoy Tyner (accompanist) and John Coltrane (soloist) in the song "My Favorite Things"Even someone with limited knowledge of sheet music, chords, m... 
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nsp and frogman thank you both for the info on the Rollins Village Vanguard shows.Pete La Roca is something of an enigma. I have his first solo disc Basra and he was no slouch behind the kit. According to Wiki he left the music business and went t... 
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz7zfnYcvywhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmRVXDCoS0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDzD3L6JREhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx2DsFOvXqw 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJrMTDgTBshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwnXGRHiqnkAnnie Lennox, in both live performances above, was over 60 at the time. Still an amazing vocalist. Just imagine if she had taken some time in her younger days to... 
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frogman, I have both those discs you posted the song links from.When I first bought the live Village Vanguard disc I almost wore it out playing it. That was way back before I put my whole music library on my laptop in FLAC format. Over the last 5 ... 
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frogman thanks for that NYC story. I'm often in Manhattan and I never caught that guys act.Another of my favorite tunes from Sonny Rollins:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlatJOsLhPA 
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It was the way Stu applied the rythm to reeling in. The Striped Bass will stay underneath the Bluefish during a feeding frenzy. Therefore a surface lure will not get snagged but you will hook more Bluefish then Striped Bass. Stu would use a 2oz Wh... 
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Earlier Sonny Rollins with the MJQ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHX5nGzNFVIYou could here is genius even then!Percy Heath on the bass. I never met Percy but I worked with his son Stu in construction out on the east end of Long Island. Percy liv... 
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East Broadway Rundown was "free"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVO4FDqG-4AFreddie Hubbard and John Coltrane's rythm section of Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison!! 
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frogman that has to be the same version I just listened to on the new 6 disc set. Its the 3rd song on disc 2 which I just finished listening to (the whole disc 2). But in this set you get all the songs in their entirety and, even though the one yo...