RICKAMAVEN, thanks for the history lesson--very interesting. i'm into modern smooth jazz like the rippingtons, brian hughes, etc.

Rick: you like Modern Jazz Quartet or Woody Herman? Some more of that smooth old stuff.

calavera: i consider "midnight at the oaisis" maria muldaur and "night in tunisia" dizzy gillespie as examples of modern jazz. i consider these as older music mills brothers anything, "smoke gets in your eyes" the platters. i consider these as classics "i can't get started" bunny berigan, "and the angels sing" gooddman, ziggy ellman solo, "my man" ruth etting, "strange fruit" billy holiday and bix anything.

http://www.duck.org/index.asp . uses real player. go there i implore all of you with ears.

how did we get from the outrageous price of hemingways

to music?

Cause Jazz is outrageously cool!

Man

$193 for a box of Signatures........