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Stan Getz “Anniversary” Emarcy cd Stan Getz - tenor saxophone Kenny Barron - piano Rufus Reid - bass Victor Lewis - drums A great live jazz album recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Jazzhaus Montmartre in 1987.

Medeski, Martin & Wood - It's a Jungle in Here (Gramavision, 1993) I bought this CD on the day that it came out. Then I played it so much that my wife got sick of hearing it. And, as good as MM&W's records are/were, they were even better in concert.

There's a Gene Shaw Argo CD that I can't find.

I love the instrumentals, but not so much the tracks with Ernie Andrews. His style is not really my cup of tea, he talks the lyrics more than sing them. This could have been one CD, IMHO.

Very cool. I am curious why the outliers in price -- is there a special edition of the Bird box?

One of the first box sets I ever bought. And I still love it!

Disc 1 That Booker Ervin record is terrific.

Gotcha. Finding great deals is fun.

I moved from TX to NJ in 2019, and then NJ to AZ in 2023. Both moves involved a moving companies, and relocating my music collection. In one of the moves at least one large box of CDs disappeared. I am assuming it accidentally stayed on the truck and wasn't offloaded at my new home. In both moves the truck was shared with other customer's boxes for their cross country moves too, and the shipping company puts moving stickers on the boxes that are color coded for each customer. But it seems like this opens you up to some level of risk, and that hit me. So either some other customer got a box of cds that they probably weren't interested in, or the box ended up left on the truck after the final delivery and was discarded. There are specific titles that I decide I want to listen to and can no longer find, but I didn't notice until well after the timeframe for making a claim had expired. Oh well.

Listening through this - I think I will sell it. Many raities, but when will I listen to all of this again? This probably is the third time I pulled zhis from the shelf since I bought it 40 years ago. https://www.discogs.com/release/11241299-Charlie-Parker-Live-And-Private-Recordings-In-Chronological-Order Now if this was the Pres bix ......

Available for $1.98 + reasonable shipping on ebay from oldies.com (who have a different user name on ebay). Same for the Walter Bishop Left Bank and the Marion Brown Bremen.

Original LP

Most of the times these days. I don't need 'everything' ... I go every week to four thriftstores in the area to search for Classical Music. I hardly find time to listen to the stuff i find ... but i love it a lot. Sometimes you will find exellent stuff if you now were to search for it.

Luckily, I have everything ripped and don't play CDs much anymore. But this is still a problem. If I had everything is alphabetical order, I could find stuff a lot better. Instead, I have this fetish of having everything in complicated suborders that approximate the chronological, stylistic, and geographic significance of each artist. I have no trouble locating my CDs of major artists who made lots of them (in my collection). But it is the more obscure artists, or artists for whom I have few CDs, that can be hard to locate.

Kenny Barron - Soft Spoken Here (32 Jazz) Disc 2 - originally released as Golden Lotus (Muse, rec. 1980)

Do your purchases strictly come from thrift shops?

Monday Michiru “Optimista” I love this album. So good in every way.

I am listening .... beautifull tone and articulation indeed. Someone was lucky in the Charityshop one day, it wasn't me that day ... that's the way it is. Maybe i'll find it some day ...

Yes, I think it does. It's become my "go to" recording for the Goldberg Variations, among the several versions that I have in my collection.

Does this recording live up to the awards it earned ? I've never heard it.

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Earl Warrant and the Count's Men (Muse)