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Updtaed list with price reductions. I am thinning my collection and am offering the following jazz and rock and reggae CD box sets for sale. Please note that I will not be able to ship items until the weekend. Shipping is $6.50 per item (I can combine shipping if multiple items ordered). U.S. shipping only. Payment by pay pal friends/family. Pearl Jam: Live at the Gorge 05/06 (7 CD, Rhino, 2007) CDs and digipacks: Excellent condition. Slipcase: Very Good. Slipcase has some shelf wear to corners. $31 The British Invasion: The History of British Rock, Vols 1-4 4 CD, Rhino, 1990 CDs and CD jewel cases: Excellent Slipcase: Very Good. Slipcase has an approx. 1" tear to top edge of slipcase and some shelf wear to corners and edges. $36 Albert Ayer: Revaluations: The Complete ORTF Fondation Maeght Recordings (4 CD, Elemental Music, 2022) CDs, CD digipacks, booklet: Mint Slipcase: Near Mint due to a horizontal scratch to mid slipcase spine which is how it arrived to me from Amazon. It is a superficial scratch (may be due to a box cutter) and not deep. Otherwise, everything is basically like new. $34 Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts: Solo Piano: Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Sapporo, Encores. (6 CD, ECM, 1990) CDs and jewel cases: Excellent Outer box: Very Good. Outer box has a small bump/tear to middle top edge and also has some shelf wear to corners. $44 The Story of Jamaican Music: Tougher Than Tough (4 CD, Mango, 1993) Everything (long outer box, CDs, booklet) is in Near Mint condition. Limited Numbered Edition (this is # 028348) $28

John Coltrane “Crescent” Impulse reissue LP Never tire of this music. Probably my most played Coltrane release.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/miles-davis-publishing-catalog-rights-sold-reservoir-media/

The deal includes 90 percent of Davis’s music publishing rights... https://variety.com/2025/music/news/miles-davis-catalog-acquired-reservoir-media-1236512587/

I love it

Op.59/3 and Op.95

Now on my turntable: A favorite LP of mine.

Last night at Lowlands Son of Goldfinger Tim Berne, David Torn & Ches Smith 50 minute piece with 11 minute short piece to close all improvised as is the group’s way incredible as always. First show of the group in over a year. Playing again next Tuesday. Ches Smith is a force of nature. Best playing I’ve heard from David Torn. Peaking at 72, apparently:)

ROTF LOL

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Addition by subtraction! Darren May placed on IL ... hopefully never seen in a Red Sox uni ever again! Whatever happens with the two rookies I'd rather have them gain experience and do what they can than watch Mr. 100 Pitches to get thru 3 1/3 innings.

Herbie Hancock “Empyrean Isles” Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD Great sounding edition of this classic Blue Note session. Tony Willams always draws my attention here.

I never get tired of listening to this masterwork:

Getting ready for the 50th Anniversary edition that will be released Friday by listening to this SACD. Grateful Dead “Blues for Allah” Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab SACD

In honor of Dave Burrell's 85th birthday today Dave Burrell: High. Douglas SD 798 [US 1969] Personnel: Dave Burrell (p), Norris Jones (b), Pharoah Sanders (tambourine), Bobby Kapp or Sunny Murray (dr)

Mario Adnet “Saudade Maravilhosa” Selo cd Bright and silky textures of Adnet’s guitar and arrangements in stellar sound.

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Tania Maria & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen “Tania Maria In Copenhagen 1978/79” Stunt 2 cd set, disc 2, “Tania Maria Live” 1978 I’ve been ignoring Ms. Maria too long, once again. Even this early on her music is fully formed, fully her own. With Mark Berteraux on bass and Andre Ceccarelli on drums.

Starting off with an album that sounds better when I can turn it up more. . . will revisit it later. Jose James “1978” Rainbow Blonde cd Funky, dnaceable, R&B crooning James music. Nice!

regarding Donald MacDonald, the one thing I could find out easily is that he was dead by the time his wife, the violin player Betty MacDonald died in 2010... https://web.archive.org/web/20180817035122/http://macdeemusic.com/index.html there it says that he left the family at some point... the fact that they were still married decades later suggests that he may have died not too long after leaving his family... for instance, I can find one Donald MacDonald from Massachusetts born 10 August 1940 who died in August 1979... that might be him but without a birth date it's impossible to confirm edit: Actually, there was an obit in Downbeat back in 1979, Drummer Donald MacDonald died March 21 in New York City at age 41. Ill health had forced him to retire from performing, and he was residing in Woodstock, New York, at the time of his death. First studying percussion at Fredonia State Teachers' College, he played in Florida for several years. MacDonald worked and recorded with Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens and Gary McFarland, but was probably best known for his membership in Jeremy Steig's early jazzrock band the Satyrs, which included Warren Bernhardt, Eddie Gomez and Adrian Guillary; he was also in the White Elephant Band led by Mike Mainieri. MacDonald is survived by four children and his wife, who wrote db that a Final Bar "seemed the most fitting way for me to let all the musicians that he played with over the years know that he has passed on."

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