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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. $33 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. $38 Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury, Vol, 1: Great Jazz Years, 1954-1956 (6 CD, Mercury, 1985) CDs and jewel cases: Excellent Slipcase: Very Good. Slipcase has some shelf wear to corners. $35 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. $37 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. $46 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) $29

This album seems to be a nice followup to “Serenade to Sweden” . . . the mood seems right. It’s been 21 years now since its release. . . I think we can call it a “classic.” It seems to deserve such a designation. Marc Johnson “Shades of Jade” ECM cd Marc Johnson – double bass Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone (7 tracks) John Scofield – guitar (4 tracks) Eliane Elias – piano (8 tracks) Joey Baron – drums Alain Mallet – organ (2 tracks)

Yeah, Bob Harris(1) was the Leaves' drug dealer. They didn't even know he was a musician. He walked over to a piano while he was making a 'delivery' to them and played the schist out of the piano, and they freaked out. He wound up playing keyboard for the Leaves on some obscure tracks. Then Pons got Harris and Sill involved with the Turtles and got Harris into the "vaudeville" Mothers. Or about that Jeremy and the Satyrs album with that horrible singer?

Disc 3 - originally released as Green Shading Into Blue

👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1054 ST

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Alice Babs and Duke Ellington “Serenade to Sweden” cd Now a focus on Ellington trombones and Alice Babs, an excellent session recorded in Stockholm. If ever there is a jazz album that could use the Plangent Process. . . I think this one would benefit heavily, there seems to be a wobble to the sound.

Joe Farrell: Upon This Rock. CTI Records CTI 6042 S1 [US 1974]

Schubert String Quartet D.887 - Guarneri Quartet

Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble featuring Gary Smulyan “American Jazz Institute presents Ellington Saxophone Encounters” A very well-recorded swinging disc that has scratched an itch for Ellington music.

👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1063 ST

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MV 2506 (Japan 1974) - Getz / Gillespie / Stitt " For Musicians Only" - rec. 1956

Returning to the Fourth Symphony in this set: Picked up this set recently after having owned the companion set (Syms. Nos. 1-3) for a long while. I'm really impressed. I think Markevitch's entire Tchaikovsky cycle is terrific.

I couldn't say what way is the most common, but I have heard a couple of different recordings with J.J.Johnson and he always seem to include those four bara. I think it's a nice way to conclude a solo and if you're doing several choruses I like to hear it at least in the final chorus.

He plays on 4-5 tracks on a Fred Hersch quintet album on Enja from 25 or so years ago.