JohnJ

Here are the details of this boxed set: link It apparently contains these albums: New Jazz Conceptions Tenderly Everybody Digs Bill Evans On Green Dolphin Street Portrait in Jazz Explorations Sunday at the Village Vanguard Waltz For Debby How My Heart Sings! Moon Beams Interplay Loose Blues The Solo Sessions Vol. 1 The Solo Sessions Vol. 2 At Shelly's Manne-Hole Tempting. Anybody know whether this box uses the latest remasters?

Art Pepper - Complete Village Vanguard Sessions for $19.99 at secondspin. Only two copies available though. http://www.secondspin.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=896503 Also, spend $40 and get $10 off until Friday. Very reasonable shipping too.

Was there on Saturday! Great store, not just jazz though, they also sell soul and blues Cd's/LP's. For whatever reason it tends to be more expensive than some of the other diskunion stores in Tokyo. I actually prefer the diskunion jazz store in Shinjuku.

Read and enjoyed this review in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704723104576062420986386998.html

Love the analogy. Great thread that could only exist on this board!

Good Deal!. Unfortunately for U.S. based customers only.

By coincidence was in Tunis on business in mid-December just before the rioting started. No sign of trouble then that I could detect, massive portraits of Ben Ali seemed to be everywhere. To be honest, I thought it was fairly sleepy and uninteresting as capital cities go but definitely had a secular atmosphere, I see more Burkas in my hometown of Luton! Also one of the cheapest places I have visited, a good meal with a couple of beers in a local restaurant cost around $8.00.

Lots of great recommendations above to which I would add James Crumley. 'The Last Good Kiss' is perhaps my favourite post-Chandler crime novel. Crumley died a couple of years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20crumley.html

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 - is available at Amazon UK for 7.99 pounds, a great price for this set.

Bought a CD player in Tokyo when they first appeared on the market so I guess 1984. First CD was probably Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees - which I still have and which still plays fine. They were expensive then though, 3,500 yen or over $40 at today's exchange rate (of course the dollar was much stronger in 1984!)

Wayne Shorter - Beyond the Sound Barrier Found a sealed copy for around $2.50, in a Riyadh shopping mall of all places!

Unlike the UK, a very mild winter here so far. Just glad it didn't rain in Adelaide this morning!

At Amazon.com. The stereo box is also available for the same price.

Bit late now, but for a while earlier today the Dylan 'Original Mono Recordings' box was available for $40.58 at Amazon. It was the bonus disc edition too! Just missed it unfortunately.

Great price for a great box! Bought a used copy of the big LP sized box Thelonious Monk Complete Riverside Recordings (15 CD's). Price was 8,000 yen which is a bit below $100.

HMV has the complete Miles Davis and Gil Evans Columbia box for UK pounds 12.99 (around $20). http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=655287

So you constantly assert. I see no evidence of that here in Tokyo where jazz CD's have maintained their prices in used stores.

Rates look the same to me. Total for this set to Japan would be around $43.00.

Don't think your opinion would be shared by many! The Bogart/Bacall version is one of the greatest movies ever made. The Mitchum version is not bad but not a patch on the original (including the acting).

Originally, maybe more than that, Tom. I have them both -- the first was in a metal longbox, the second's longbox is chintzy cardboard! They were numbered, indicating a limited issue, though I have no idea how many were to be made. My "Historically Speaking" is #0036, and "Blowing The Cobwebs Out" is #0177, so I'd guess a minimum of 1000, a maximum of 9999. (Some Limited!) My "Blowing..." has a pre-Euro price sticker from LUDWIG BECK am Rathauseck (Munich, I think) indicating DM140.00, but I don't know what the conversion rate was then. Bought a used copy of "Blowing The Cobwebs Out" for 1,000 yen in Tokyo a few weeks ago. That is less that $12 which seems quite reasonable! Have "Historically Speaking" too and while both sets are great, I definitely prefer the first one.

delete newsweek (really hate the new format) add "The Week" - really enjoy this one! Agree on The Week and Newsweak. Another that's really gone to h*ll is US News and World Report. That subscription won't be renewed. On the other hand, Business Week seems at least as good under Bloomberg. It ain't the Economist, but what is? The Economist is the only magazine I read on a regular basis (in print as opposed to online).

A fairly large nearby music store was selling loads of new CD's for a little over $1 each. All complete dreck, apart from one, Ben Allison 'Cowboy Justice' which I naturally bought.

Only have six of these and it is so cheap that I decided to order this from Amazon France. The delivered price works out at around $2.50 per CD and I should be able to sell the used versions of the ones I have for more than that to Disk Union here in Tokyo.

I was in Beirut for a couple of days last month. Loved the food!

Hey Monday, assuming that is you, welcome to the forum. Hope you will stick around! By the way, I used to see you drinking in Sunset Strip in Nishi Azabu way back in the early 90's with my friend Don Morton.