Patrick

I'm still waiting, yeah, yeah, yeah. My order (#5707) was placed July 13, and confirmed July 14 with an advertised ship date of July 18. Haven't received any messages about tracking numbers or actual shipping. Looks like I'll be waiting a bit longer... Did everyone that has received merchandise get a tracking number beforehand?

up Any intelligence on Joe's schedule for the Fall? I'm likely out that way in late September/early October.

The coupons can be applied to this Impulse sale. Initially, I was underwhelmed by what was on sale. Key is to scroll through everything (even if you've sorted by price, because the sorting is still by list price). I ordered Hubbard- The Body & The Soul, Haynes- Out of the Afternoon, Rollin- Alfie, along with Blakey- Three Blind Mice Vol 2 and Donaldson- Good Gracious. The latter two are special order and not on sale (listed at $11.99). They likely won't have these, but it helps get my bag over $50 so that I can apply the following $10 coupon. If past performance is any indication, I will have to wait awhile (with the Impulses in hand) as they figure out they have neither of the Blue Notes, but then still apply the full coupon to the remaining $29.97 of merchandise. Hopefully. 74TN5F6 $10 off $50, expires July 16

I received a similar confirmation, indicating that all 44 titles I ordered will go out on Tuesday July 18. I placed my order late Thursday (July 13) evening.

Familiar pattern for me. Learn of this a bit later than the hording masses. Place a large order (44 titles). Expect to receive about 60% of them (recalling J&R, Tower Blue Note, and other big sales). And will be very happy with whichever ones actually show up! CDUniverse does have pre-orders available for a few of these titles coming out as RVGs (Oliver Nelson Screamin' the Blues is the one title I recall). As always, thanks for alerting us to this buying opportunity.

Looks like True Blue Music is looking to clear out their inventory of the AEC box, priced at $69.98 True Blue

I just ordered the Moncur and Tolliver as well (already enjoy the Weston, Reece, and Pullen).

nice photo when does the caption contest for this start?

Sadly, opting out does not stop all of the unsolicited credit card offers--only those coming from outfits that rent these lists. Your alma mater(s) and even some charitities you support will still send you them. If you've attended (however briefly) more than one college/university in your life, you'll still get several such offers. In addition, American Express and Discover apparently don't use these lists because I continue to receive several offers from them. Most recent one was Discover offering an airline miles card. Sheesh. The opt out list does reduce the number of such offers, but does not stop them completely.

I'm no longer getting the "system maintenance" message. Page doesn't load at all. Oh well. Is CD Universe the next best US alternative for BN midlines (RVGs etc)?

Careful what you wish for. Call all those things on superstar LeBron, and then you gotta call all the hacking and bodying that that great Detroit D gets away with. LeBron may be built like a tight end (and travel, and use his off hand, and actually live up to all of the hype), but that doesn't mean he should be bodied like a tight end. If he was smaller like Rip or Gilbert Arenas, ant still attacking the rim, he'd be at the line even more. I say the hand to hand combat, on both sides, pretty much balances out. And Rip needs a few more flopping lessons from Bill Laimbeer. Those were pretty sad last night...

Give me a break. Every scorer in the NBA travels like crazy. Refs want to see the amazing finish and don't look at any footwork, and they haven't been for decades. It's not just LeBron. Kobe, Arenas, Rip, Iverson, beloved M Jordan (as much as LeBron if not more), Ewing, ...

Have and enjoy the Blue Note box and Love Gloom... Does anyone have discographical details and/or opinions about the Monk/Nichols Savoy recording M & N? Finally, anyone have suggested venues for nicely priced Herbie Nichols Project Soul Notes? Thanks

James Blunt has come so far, so quickly. Apparently only Madonna is more noteworthy among Warner Music artists....

If I could swing back to the music... Is the Gil release a CD issue of the contents of Pacific Standard Time which Scott Yanow tells me includes New Bottles, Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards, originally on World Pacific? Or are these the Pacific Jazz titles Cannonball Adderley and Gil Evans and America's #1 Arranger. Or are these a bunch of new titles for old recordings. Please educate me.

Destination Out, Capuchin Swing, Bluesnik, Vertigo, Action, 4,5,6 to start with. definitely need to play "Poor Eric", and Dynasty, and...

You may also want to check out Daedalus Books and Music. They have a lot of Naxos titles (jazz and classical) in the $1.98 - $6.95 range. Daedalus

My J.J. Johnson set (#4412) arrived on Wednesday. A number of comments, several of which have been made before, but are worth repeating. 1. Thanks for the running low alert. This community, my friend, is quite an Organ-i-zation (best pronounced with long "i"). 2. That Mosaic customer service still impresses. Ordered Monday evening, on my doorstep Wednesday afternoon. [better than my recent experiences at J&R and alldirect.] 3. Together with Byrd/Adams, Jazztet, and a tall stack of OJCs (from J&R and alldirect), I have plenty of new material to enjoy before Bird/Diz arrives. 4. My amazon order for Bird/Diz just got pushed back to October. I guess I won't be listening to this before it cools down a bit outside (hopefully this will be sooner than when hell freezes over). 5. I need to pause now for a bit from acquiring. 6. That O'Day lady sure photographs well.

tasty tunes Organissimo!! (...and nice radio pipes Lazaro)

Thanks Ron. I've placed my order for 11 of the 12 items that J&R ended up not shipping to me. Of the titles I was after, appears only Nat Adderley Much Brass is out of stock at alldirect. Will be interesting to compare J&R and alldirect--my first orders at each. And then no more shopping for awhile (...unless J.J. Johnson Mosaic goes last chance)! So many new treasures to enjoy. I share the paranoia about OJC given these sales at multiple websites.

So now 7 CDs have shipped, 8 have been cancelled (including Lucky Strikes), and the remaining 10 are still processing. Called again to ask about this last group, and the agent said they'd ship what they could. I had hoped to beef up my Farmer, Golson, Gryce and Waldron. Still a chance, but this is rather irritating--especially when I read about other's success[es]. What they say has shipped: Adams- 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot Eardley- The John Eardley Seven Farmer/Gryce- When Farmer Met Gryce Golson- New York Scene McLean- 4, 5, 6 Taylor- Taylor's Wailers Terry- In Orbit What's been cancelled: Dameron- Magic Touch (I obviously don't have it) Gryce- Rat Race Blues Land- The Fox Monk- 5 by Monk by 5 Russell- Stratus Seekers Thompson-Lucky Strikes (Not to my order) Timmons- This Here is Bobby Timmons (not here) Waldron- Impressions What's still processing: N Adderley- Much Brass Blakey- The Jazz Messengers Farmer- Farmer's Market Harris- Bull's Eye Haynes- Cracklin' Lateef- The Centaur and the Phoenix McGhee- Maggie's Back Russell- Outer View Waldron- Mal-1, Mal 2 Time to turn to the Jazztet Mosaic, which appears to have been even more affordable. Thanks again to those that put out the alert regarding the Byrd/Adams last chance, as well as J&R.

Last I checked, my May 30 order is still "processing". But one can't check online right now because their website is down. So I called. Agent has no idea what happened to my order, or what item(s) they're waiting for. Said she'd get it authorized and have a partial order shipped today. Not holding my breath. Asked if the website was undergoing routine maintenance/updating. No, their system crashed.

My Byrd/Adams set (ordered last Thursday evening) arrived today, #3245. Fabulous! Now if only J&R will honor me with some notice about my OJC order from two weeks ago...

Hey Jazzkrow, My order of May 30 has generated no response beyond the initial order confirmation. Everything is still processing...

What Big Al, Free For All, and Quincy said. I'm always grateful for the sales tips I learn about here, whether its Blue Notes at Tower, Jazz in Paris at DustyGroove, OJC's at J&R, or what have you. Often I don't pull the trigger fast enough and miss out on some of the more obscure items (like the Complete BN Gil Melle at some "graveyard" site way back when). I like to think of myself as patient. Eventually I'll get some message, and hopefully part of my order. If not, there is always the epinions link on the one J&R email I received asking for feedback...