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The Clarke book is major.

yeah, that is believable. The materials should be tariff-free, of course, but without actual direction from the "top," it's anyone's guess what would be applied and how...

Felser provided the song titles for 10 and 11 matching up to the artists identified by JSngry, so those two can be considered solved.

I got these JLabs for my wife, paid a little more for a different model that I've been happy with. Amazon.com: JLab Go Air Pop+ True Wireless Earbuds, in Ear Headphones, Bluetooth Earphones, 35H Playtime Ear Buds, Bluetooth Earbuds with Microphone, USB-C Charging Case, Dual Connect, EQ3 Sound, Black : Electronics

I suspect it's a number slapped on by the shipping firms to cover their "overhead / expense" in addition to any putative tariffs. (Using "putative" because of the persistent assertion that "informational materials" are tariff-free.)

Isn't 25% greater than the current tariff on non raw-material goods from Japan to the US, anyway?

oh, it's definitely too many, but probably a fraction of what someone such as Mr. Nessa had at peak volume!

Thanks, all! (More input referring to my "list" very, very welcome! ) @Fer Urbina: Looking closer at that Marian McPartland book I see it is not "about" Marian McP, but rather "Marian McPartland about other jazz artists", so I'll file it along with the "Jazz Gentry" book. And I'll keep your recomendation in mind. And yes, I've read good things about the two books you put up front so they now are obvious candidates for prioritization. @HutchFan. Yes, quite a treasure, and a welcome haul. From a fairly wide field of jazz publication areas. @jlhoots and EKE BBB: Thanks for your recommendations about Pee Wee (which I will keep in mind too), but this one unfortunately was not part of the lot. With a lot of reshuffling of the contents of my bookshelves (and moving many books on other collecting interests into another room) I've managed to put most of the new arrivals that made up that haul in my music room (which has overflown into about half of the adjacent room by now) in an orderly way. But shelf space remains very limited (my order of the Pacific Jazz history book is still pending anyway), so I try to restrain myself from buying more music books right now. For the time being it's more a matter of which of these to get into first and how to rank them overall compared to other biographies on the same artists. But as these finds (and the others that came with them) came my way essentially free, who am I to sneer at any of them? But while we're at it: @EKE BBB: A question about Duke Ellington bios to you: This lot also includes German editions of three Duke Ellington biographies: "Music Is My Mistress", "Duke Ellington in Person" by Mercer Ellington, and "Duke Ellington, His Life and Music" (ed. by Peter Gammond). How would you rate these among the cop of existing Ellington biographies? I have a hunch that I'd have to turn elsewhere for today's #1 go-to biography on him, and I often have misgivings about German translations of such music books, but like I said - who am I to sneer at freebies?

I second those two!

Robert Hilbert: Pee Wee Russell (not on your list).

Thanks, that's very helpful to know.

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Clifford I’d say that if you’re house is about to collapse that might me a sign you just got too many records. Of course I am willing to sacrifice myself for the good cause and wanting to store a part of your collection free of charge 😜

Doubtful - that tune is on the "Standards I don't need to hear ever again" list.

When you place an order the fees are clearly shown in the final pre-payment page. Seems about 25 percent of the item cost on the order I placed. You can choose to order or cancel on that page.

What a delightful "problem"!

Very nice. I don't really have vinyl on the walls but I do have walls of vinyl. When I lived in an apartment in NYC, I had floor-to-ceiling walls of records, bolted to the load-bearing axes so as not to cause structural damage. Now that I am in a free-standing house, I had to be a bit more strategic about where the weight is placed, so the custom modular units are a bit more spread out. Given the amount of records, I was told by a structural engineer not to have them all in one room or there'd be hell to pay. 😂

Magnificent. ❤️

Of the ones you're showing, I'd go for first The Song of the Hawk (the only major biography of Hawkins, as far as I know), then Wishing for the Moon. I'd skip the Marian McPartland in favour of Paul de Barros's biography (done with her co-operation). F

Two that I can easily recommend: Donald Clarke's biography of Billie Holiday and Sidney Bechet's autobiography. Looks like you found a treasure trove!