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Wooo hooo!!!

I’d drop the live Blakey if I were you. It’s fine but I enjoy the other five much more.

It was early on Sunday when Rudy Van Gelder arrived at Blue Note studios to record Eddie Vedder playing the triangle. Soon the rest of the musicians began to arrive. First, Billie Holiday pulled up ceremoniously in her purple Ferrari, with Prince in the passenger's seat. Rudy slapped outside and...

I’m new to all this, but I really like Afro-Cuban by Kenny Dorham for some reason.

Yeah I guess it sure doesn't look like it. I thought maybe those pics were mockups and that the actual jacket will be of a higher quality but yea I don't believe that they'll be gatefold. Those Tone Poet albums have super nice jackets, some gatefold and some not, and really I might actually...

I haven't pulled the trigger on any of those yet, though they've been sitting in my Amazon cart for a while. With the Dexter Gordon coming with the Anthology and another album of his coming up next in the Tone Poet series, I haven't felt the urge to get that one (or the other two) that strongly...

Start with Pablo Honey and proceed chronologically. Experience the evolution!

Are the jackets not gatefold at all? I thought I had heard that they were.

I would agree! I got it after getting the Evans and Henderson albums. At first, I kind of just didn’t want it to be the only one I didn’t have. But it sounds great and it has really grown on me after a few listens. Great for setting a certain relaxing mood, I’d say. One of a kind voice and what...

^ the last one I saw....:love:

I’m lbloom. High school English lit teacher/literature and music enthusiast. Good to be back.