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  2. LPs that have never made it into CD

    in Re-issues

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    59 minutes ago, colinmce said:

    I still can't quite believe that the two Dave Burns Vanguard LPs have never been on CD in any form, even in some Andorran configuration. Is that really true?

    I posted that list 15 years ago and in the meantime some of thiose albums have been reissued by Fresh Sound, but might be OOP by now.

  4. Chuck Berry R.I.P.

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    1 hour ago, Dave Garrett said:

    Hip-O also released a third set that went up to 1974, Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969 - 1974. Given the asking prices for the Hip-O sets now, if I didn't already have them and was looking to get a comprehensive set of Berry's recordings I'd probably opt for the big Bear Family box instead. I haven't heard it, but I've read generally positive things about it (although the mastering on some BF sets can be a contentious subject).

    Chuck Berry: Rock And Roll Music - Any Old Way You Choose It - The Complete Studio Recordings ... Plus! (16-CD & 2 Bücher)

    You're right, totally forgot about that third Hip-O set. Never got it, the material is not my cup of tea. The 1950s were Berry's prime years; the decline set in during the following decade, although he made a few fine recordings in the early 1960s. 

  8. Chuck Berry R.I.P.

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    4 hours ago, Brad said:

    From what I’ve read the Chess Box issued by MCA sounds a bit sanitized, although it’s still readily available. Back in 2007, Hip-O Select issued a box called Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode: His Complete 50s Chess Recordings, which received very good reviews. Of course, it’s sold out and a little pricey. 

    Universal also released You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966 on their (now discontinued) Hip-O label. I have both sets, but don't like the sound very much, it's also too "sanitized" as you call it.

  12. LF: Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Mosaic set

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    13 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

    Yes, this I understood. But why? Is it complicated / expensive / cumbersome? One reasons why I am asking is that I sell stuff on Discogs occasionally, and I have the prices listed in euro. I offer the American buyers to pay in USD at interbank exchange rate (i.e. good rate) to my American bank account (set up through Transferwise - which is, as far as I am concerned, the best cross-currency payment solution today) - and they would invariably choose to pay in euro through PayPal loosing money on PayPal's screw-up exchange rate. I understand there is PayPal's seller protection aspect to it, but perhaps there are other reasons why bank transfers are not an option for Americans.           

    My buying and selling days with people outside the EU are long gone, not in the least because of the ridiculous overseas shipping rates these days.

  13. LF: Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Mosaic set

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    2 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

    Hans, not exactly. The intra-community euro transfers cannot be be more expensive than domestic transfers. Domestic transfers used to be free, but over the last three-four years the banks in many countries have started introducing per-transaction fees (often hidden in cumulative quarterly payments). And the banks have more leeway to charge corporate accounts per transaction. In any case, these are small amounts. 

    Ah yes, I see what you mean, those hidden costs.

  15. LF: Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Mosaic set

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

     

    1 hour ago, Д.Д. said:

    I am curios about why Americans chose PayPal for internal US transactions. In euro zone people would normally do an IBAN bank transfer. Your counter-party gives you their bank account number (which is safe, you can't really commit fraud with knowing just somebody's bank account number) and you make a transfer using your online banking. Depending on your bank it's either free or negligibly cheap.      

    Within the EU bank-to-bank transfers in euro are free, or at least they should be according to EU rules.

  22. LF: Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Mosaic set

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    17 minutes ago, Brad said:

    Princeton Record Exchange may have a copy but it will be awhile before I can get there, if you can wait. 

    Thanks Brad. Do you have any idea what they're generally asking for Mosaic sets, insanely high or moderate prices? There's also overseas shipping, which is quite expensive these days; that's why I was initially asking people living in the EU or UK.

  25. R.I.P. Cyril

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    Didn't know her and unfortunately don't remember her posts (haven't visited this board very often since I quit as a mod years ago), but this is all very sad and disturbing, someone dying so young. Somehow it feels like losing a friend.

    Thanks for posting the Dutch message (now deleted).

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