etherbored

i'm with you 100%,

fwiw, my shipment of titles from this series should be here tomorrow. i'll post my long overdue reflections on the 'born to be blue' set.

I have "piano and pen" but wasn't so sure about this "jazz piano international". until now... thanks again all of the above (mike / head man / allen).

just checked the track samples. very nice indeed. i'm in.

say, what's that date all about? i've been curious but assumed it to be somewhat generic... if you're after it there's likely some merit in it.

you will *definitely* be okay using a card at disk union

we obviously travel in different worlds. time was most businesses didn't accept cards. however, those days are long gone and more than not, do, in my experience. certainly most major music stores, such as disk union, hmv, recofan, tower, and so on do (as well as restaurants, can't say about clinics, hospitals, or dentists....). all 7-11, family marts, and lawson convenience stores do. in 2010 i made something of an observation to see how long i could go without having to use cash. funny you mention cinemas. I was at toho cinema in shbuya in november (2013) and found myself without cash. not only do they accept cards, but they allow you to purchase your tickets from an automated kiosk without so much as interfacing with a human. however, your point isn't lost at all. many business do not accept anything but cash and the advice to visitors is always to carry cash. certainly wasn't that way when i lived there but my how it's changed over the years. even my 'home kissa' in sengenjaya accepts kurejitto kado... (I knew the old guard had passed when that happened)

i've never used anything *but* credit (or debit) cards @ disk union... and as with most japanese retailers they'll ask you if you'd like the total broken into more than one installment.

i'd say you better get in touch with yosuke @ universounds....

more ochanomizu pics... looking towards the rear of the store, this is essentially what you see when you walk up from the street floor to the landing. the shot above (from kinuta) is from the rear looking forward. shinjuku jazz store. three floors (but each floor is rather small by western standards....)

i'm in the opposite boat. I have the galaxy set, but not the vanguard set...

hear, hear! those recordings are very important to me, too...

will do. i'll make sure to play it after dark... i remember feeling that way about 'am i blue' when i first heard it. it can be hard to shake first impressions of a date.

i have an appointment in ghana... but hey, some people disdain sleepy while others are really drawn to sessions wtith that sort of, um, energy - or lack thereof? me, for one.

"added elements"....meaning the typography and font?

artwork means everything to me. it was the stimulus that motivated me to begin collecting blue note as a teenager after a copy of 'speak no evil' was given to me (the same day as sanborn's 'taking off'...) and it still informs my choices to this day. that having been said, of course music is judged solely on its own merit, devoid of the package in which its delivered. my comments above were really tongue in cheek and in no way seriously representative of how i really make decisions. heck, i often think a covers are fugly with no correlative criticism of content. when a review is posted that describes a date as sleepy or boring, that's usually a magnet to me.

but that cover....it's a thing of, shall we say, anti-beauty. i could easily pass it when it was just another domestic issue, but now as an shm there's no denying it. maybe this review put me off; "Ike Quebec is the problem with Grant Green's "Born To Be Blue." He's way too laid back. A sax player with more energy might have elevated this beyond the doldrums, but as it is, they're just phoning it in. Grant Green deserves 2 Stars for showing up, but with so many great sets in his discography, you're safe bypassing this." now that i think about it, these two reviews highlight selling points; "This one was a little too subdued for my tastes. I didn't like Idle Moments or Street of Dreams either. And I'm really not into Ballads. So I guess if you like the slow stuff, you might like this one too. Otherwise, you might be a bit disappointed." ""Born to Be Blue" and "Cool Blues" are the standouts. Overall a very good, if somewhat subdued, recording."

'matador' is *the* title i've been waiting over 20 years for an upgrade on. 'born to be blue' i've never owned... (i know) what am i missing?

is that to say that you could see yourself preferring to hear this material digitally vs physically....?

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........!

i get it, but personally that's the kind of thing that drives a collector a little crazy!

thanks. is 'remembering' in this set so that you can complete the triology?

i'm guessing that the series will replicate the artwork from the original king release as well as the north american, if applicable, on the booklet exterior. or not. is that how 'oblique' is - the king color cover on the boklet front with the rvg on the booklet back? what are the other six you snagged? i normally love all the king covers, but 'my conception' is just plain ugly - and i still haven't convined myself i need/want it.

my useage precisely.... you'll pry my cd collection from my cold, dead hands. does anyone else find this pricepoint exhorbitant?

you mean the tracks absent from the new reissue of 'my conception'? perhaps. i'll need to do the perfunctory research when i'm not at work....