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I could understand the disappointment for those who prefer the cd format. I wish they just do both. No need to always place the vinyl listener in the audiophile loony camp though. I think it’s like Clifford mentioned: the vinyl market is more profitable at the moment. There aren’t a lot of labels that are lead primarily by the ideal of spreading the art. Most of them are just businesses who want to maximize their profits unfortunately.

Back to "great finds made" ... Here's a great music find not in the grooves but between the pages … The other day I met up with a high school classmate from our “Class of 79” who had told me she had started selling off the jazz record collection of her deceased father and wondered if I was interested. Purchases from that collection will be on the back burner for me for the time being, but in her dad’s jazz book corner the below item caught my eye … So I offered her 50 Euros outright for this book, which she was pleased to accept (in fact she had intimated earlier that she did not expect to make much money from disposing of her father’s books – jazz books included). As a bonus, a free copy of the “Eddie Condon Treasury of Jazz” (1st edition of 1956) came my way too. The Bird book is in NM condition (no scuffing to speak of, no splits of the box, no loose pages - which I understand can happen with this book), just some very minor fading of the box spine. I’ve now placed an order with a specialist shop for a premium cardboard archiving box of the right size to hold the book and maintain it in its current condition on my bookshelf for the rest of my days. Needless to say, I was (and am) pleased with this find – even if the vinyl part of my inspection of that collection should come to nought.

I have long wondered what is so awful about the 1964 Live At Pep's session that it was rejected.

The NYT obit was pretty eye-opening for me. I didn't know a lot about her early life. She was definitely a survivor! I was fortunate to see her in 2019 at SFJAZZ in their small Joe Henderson Lab space with Cameron Brown. A wonderful show. Sheila Jordan, Fearless Vocal Improviser, Is Dead at 96

Great front line. Will definitely stream it, and if it's as good as it appears to be will probably by the CD, too.

When Zev released this announcement on FB today I asked him if there would be corresponding CDs for this project. His response: "... this is an analog LP series. As of now exclusive to vinyl. Thanks for your support." Fortunately I have a number of Muse albums on CD - including some of the ugly 32 Jazz releases and Woody Shaw's Muse Mosaic box. Still have some good vinyl too, but my LPs are in storage.

Hello, all- I'm proud to present my last release of the year (and, hopefully, my last bit of member spam) - Bukas, releasing next Friday, August 22, on 577 Records. Bukas documents a band assembled for two Bay Area shows in May of 2023. This was my first major project after the birth of my child and the effective end of social distancing, and it serves as a celebration of the resilient free jazz music that helped me weather a difficult time in our lives. Using the words of John Coltrane as a conceptual tether, this album argues that Free Music can help to shape a world informed by conscience and decency. This is an idea of value, I think, at times like these. Bukas features the legendary Andrew Cyrille, playing some of his most incendiary drums of recent years. He's joined by Asian Improv aRts cofounder Francis Wong, Lewis Jordan (of the storied Bay Area band United Front), bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and keyboardist Rei Scampavia (of Grex). The album may be pre-ordered/ordered here: https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/bukas And here's a quick video about the project: All the best to you all, K

Sold! Thank you. Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet +1 NM $70 shipped Paypal US only Bumped with price reduction

This afternoon:

Yep. Got a copy close to that, at least it aint this BS cover:

This one too. Every bit as good, but/just not all tenor.

WOW!! Didn't know about these records!!!

***Please Disregard other Listings. This list combines/expands them, is updated with availability, and prices have been reduced. Thank you.*** PLEASE NOTE- All the CDs listed below are new/sealed. Most are marked as promotional CDs either with a cut in the jewel case, scratch through the bar code, or a sticker over the bar code. Some may be marked internally with a disclaimer printed on the disc itself. Please contact me with questions about specific titles. Unless otherwise noted the Blue Notes should all be RVG releases. Shipping via media mail at cost. Lower 48 only. Payment via PayPal Friends and Family only. Thanks for looking. $3 Each- SEALED Horace Silver- Further Explorations… Horace Silver- Silver’s Serenade Dexter Gordon- Our Man in Paris Stanley Turrentine- Joyride Sealed- As Priced Sal Salvador- Quintet/Quartet (Connoisseur 10’’ Series- Sealed) $10 Thad Jones/Mel Lewis- Live at Village Vanguard (Sealed) $8 Open Blue Note CDs $3 Each Mixture of promos and purchases. Promos identified in description. Most of these are unplayed. Media is Ex/Cases VG++ (due to the promotional marking) Art Blakey Quintet- A Night at Birdland- Vol. 2 (Mono 1987 release) The Jazz Messengers- At the Café Bohemia Volume 1 (Mono 1987 Release) Richard Groove Holmes- Best of Pacific Years (promo printed on CD) Floratone- (promo sticker over UPC) Jason Moran- Soundtrack to Human Motion (promo printed on CD) John Scofield- Steady Groovin’- (promo printed on CD) John Scofield- Time on My Hands (NOT a promo) Open CDs- $3 Each Discs Ex/Cases VG++ (please ask about specific titles) -John Scofield- Who’s Who? (Drill In UPC/ Disc Ex) -Robin Eubanks- DB3 Live Vol. 1 (CD/DVD) (spine has crease as though something was set on top of it) Case G/EX -Charles Mingus- Modern Jazz Symposium -T.E.C.K. String Quartet- -Saxophone Summit- Seraphic Light- -David Murray- Saxmen- (Hole in UPC) -David Murray- Creole- (Drill mark in UPC) - Paul Motian- Monk in Motian #20/81- (Cardboard shows light wear/slight case cut scratch on spine) -Bobby Vince Paunetto- Commit to Memory/Paunetto’s Point Non- Blue Note Titles- Mix of promos/purchases- ALL SEALED $3 Each Red Mitchell/Warne Marsh- Big Two, Vol. 1 John Scofield- Bump The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album Ravi Coltrane- From the Round Box Stan Killian- Unified Sonny Rollins- Road Shows, Vol. 3 SF Jazz Collective- Untitled- Nonesuch 79855-2 Duke Ellington- Live at the Whitney Freddie Hubbard- Outpost (sealed) Donald Harrison- This is Jazz Free Range Rat- Nut Club (Clean Feed) Houston Person- Talk of the Town Big Satan- Souls- saved hear T.S. 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Ex/Ex $75 -Joe Henderson- Mosaic MD5-271 (725/2500). Unplayed. EX/EX $88 -Hank Mobley- Complete Fifties- MD6-181 (2154-/7500) Edge of top cover has a slight bow to it- Pictures available on request. Box G/Discs Ex $52 -AEOC- 2131/6000. Played once to rip to itunes. Slight bow to sides (as if something had been set on top of it wear on bottom. $65 Outer box VG/Discs Ex -John Abercrombie- (ECM) The First Quartet. New and sealed. Scratch through the barcode. M/M- $14 -Jean Luc Ponty- Vol. 2- Original Album Masters. New/sealed. 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This is the original cover: Fonts matter.

Mrs. Carlos Santana since 2010. That album caused a big stir when it got released, including two grammy nominations. Columbia, having one of their pro-jazz moments, was all in on publicizing it, but it was worthy.

$30 is the average price, or close to it, for new records today. It is definitely not great when you consider most people's salaries haven't been adjusted similarly... Sadly, CD reissues just aren't selling like they used to. I still enjoy them (and sometimes buy them in protest when I don't want to mess with a potentially undercooked and overpriced new LP), but the writing seems like it's very nearly on the wall.

Symphony No. 9 A desert-island disc.

Yeah, couldn't believe it, only $8 used, no 32 Jazz reissue. CD issued has the original sleeve art you see above, music is terrific, my favorite Shaw, even passes Rosewood by a smidge, which is a fantastic record! Understudy of the 70's, he deserves so much more credit. Fantastic writer and musician! Not a Muse, but we are talking about Woody Shaw, this has to be mentioned

Because it serves no purpose whatsoever, "heavy" vinyl, 'remastered from original tapes' with zero improvement over the sound of a CD - which can also store worthy alternate takes and unissued tunes and this vinyl-only series cannot do that. Sorry if you can't comprehend that not everyone is a committed audiophile desperate to shell out approximately a dollar per minute of recorded sound. The only time I ever did that was $30 for a Japanese RVG Cd of what must have originally been a 10 inch Hank Mobley LP. Nothing on the Muse label is worth a dollar a minute not even for extra heavy vinyl and extra "special" remastering.

Wow. She's pretty!

I think I also know that album. Isn´t Bemsha Swing and Evidence on it ? I love those tunes and they are few I kept in my repertory from the bop tunes, maybe the only ones that I kept. During the spring tourings I think I did either Bemsha or Evidence sometimes as the last tune and got so carried away that I jumped up from the piano and did some dance steps. I think I have it with another cover. this looks much more like a much later foto of Mingus than the time when "Chazz" was recorded. Wasn´t "Chazz" and "Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach" on the French America label, I had both of them, but think as a boy I was a little disappointed since it sounded much more "tame" than the recordings with Dolphy. Almost like an old bop record. But the sections with Max Roach are fine ! Otherwise it is too much hard bop or bebop style than I want to hear from Mingus.

Too beautiful ! How much I love that album. This is my year ! Maybe the best I ever had in live. I don´t know that special album, but each of them is a personal favourite of mine so it must be good. It just happens that at that important period in my live I rarely purchase or spin so called "straight ahead" albums, though I am sure that those men go far beyond it. It´s strange: this must have been "centuries" ago but I also saw Jackie McLean live together with Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, the 4th member of the quartet was no one less than Bobby Hutcherson. I remember it was the best bebop setting I ever had heard. Don´t know how I would think about it today, but sure it is very good music. Schizophrenia was the first Wayne Shorter album I had. I think it is wonderful. Maybe even my favourite from that early period. I think I saw the cover foto on another album of Bud Powell. I have not listened to bop music for much time and don´t really want to play that style myself anymore, but I think I remember the very very fine versions of those super old tunes "Deep Night" and "Thou Swell" and "OId Black Magic" I think they go back to the 20´s. I remember Bud played them very very often so they must have been favourites of him, and I think I hear it in my ears that he plays some astonishing stride piano on it. This must be an early Bud Powell record from the mid fifties, but I think I mostly heard interpretations of those tunes at least 10 years later when Bud had returned to Birdland and seemed to celebrate that event with those old tunes from his youth/childhood.

Again one of those albums that moves me so much it is so overwhelming, so much balsam and nutrition for my soul it almost hurts. I can´t describe it in words, it´s too heavy for words. Since I purchased it many decades ago it has it´s special place in my collection, but it seems that as years passed, and especially this year is the most emotional year for me ever, so many tears, so many happiness it gets more and more intense. That´s the kind of music I´m deeply in now. Late Cotrane, Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and very very much Sun Ra.