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Mozart Piano Sonatas - K.283m K.331, K.332, k.333

Johnny Griffin Lady Bottom's Waltz

Gabor Szaba “Jazz Raga” Impulse/Light in the Attic cd Bass – Johnny Gregg Drums – “Pretty” Purdie Guitar [Fender] – Bob Bushnell Guitar, Sitar – Gabor Szabo

There is always space for some boogaloo:

Thanks for the clarification on my post, Mike!

Thanks Randy and Stompin! I ordered one pair of each. (Anker P20i and JLab Go Air Pop+) Both are half-price today.

John Coltrane “Blue World” Impulse Japan SHM-CD This album hasn’t really been played since it was first released. I’m enjoying correcting that. A very nice session.

Disc 2 - originally released as 2 Atlantic LPs: Fathead Comes On and House of David

Disc 2

Anker Soundcore brand makes some inexpensive blue tooth products (made in China) which have pretty good sound quality and offer noise canceling. I like the full over ear headsets they make, for example Q35. They have earbuds which probably have similar electronics. With blue tooth you get marvelous freedom of movement but the signal occasionally cuts out when you turn your head just the right way or get into a corner of the house where reception is poor. The dropouts are pretty rare and I just accept that. Another approach I sometimes use with iPhone is a small adapter which plugs into the the phone power port and has a mini-plug socket on the other end. Then I plug in wired Sony Studio Monitors or other phones, such as lightweight Koss SportaPros. To me Koss SportaPros sound better than most earbuds and are less wearying on the ear, physically. Sony Studio Monitors etc sound better but they are bulky.

Very true. But a lot of big US vendors seem to have lagged on this. List too long to mention. Maybe it was more pressing for cdjapan because they do a lot of pricey int'l shipping.

That sizing thing sounds like a efficient that should have happened long ago just because.

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 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 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), all of them in their German editions. How would you rate these 3 among the crop 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.