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Clifford I’d say that if you’re house is about to collapse that might me a sign you just got too many records. Of course I am willing to sacrifice myself for the good cause and wanting to store a part of your collection free of charge 😜

Doubtful - that tune is on the "Standards I don't need to hear ever again" list.

When you place an order the fees are clearly shown in the final pre-payment page. Seems about 25 percent of the item cost on the order I placed. You can choose to order or cancel on that page.

What a delightful "problem"!

Very nice. I don't really have vinyl on the walls but I do have walls of vinyl. When I lived in an apartment in NYC, I had floor-to-ceiling walls of records, bolted to the load-bearing axes so as not to cause structural damage. Now that I am in a free-standing house, I had to be a bit more strategic about where the weight is placed, so the custom modular units are a bit more spread out. Given the amount of records, I was told by a structural engineer not to have them all in one room or there'd be hell to pay. 😂

Magnificent. ❤️

Of the ones you're showing, I'd go for first The Song of the Hawk (the only major biography of Hawkins, as far as I know), then Wishing for the Moon. I'd skip the Marian McPartland in favour of Paul de Barros's biography (done with her co-operation). F

Two that I can easily recommend: Donald Clarke's biography of Billie Holiday and Sidney Bechet's autobiography. Looks like you found a treasure trove!

I had long wondered whether to put this question into the "What jazz book are you reading right now?" topic but then decided to start a new one in order not to let that "reading right now" thread get deviated into too many directions. Sooo ... I am wondering which of the following books to tackle next after the current one (Eddie Condon's Treasury of jazz - which is well-suited to small instalments and can be put aside almost any time in between, of course): (FTR, (Right now I am leaning towards either "The Song Of the Hawk" or "Jazz Gentry" - another one that is perfect for reading in small -chapter-wise - portions in between) The primary reason I am asking is this: Quite a few of the above artists have been graced by several biographies through the years, and these may not all have the same ranking among those in the know and familiar with them. So my question is: Any of you with any opinions on how the above rate compared to other biographies on the respective artists, or recommendations on which of these are particularly recommended, or which to put on the back burner in favor of a different one of the artist, maybe, etc. (FTR, I do own and have read the Bix biography by Richard Sudhalter, and I did bypass the "Lady Sings The Blues" bio, of which there is a copy - German version - in this lot too) (And in case anyone's wondering, "why that avalanche of biographies in one swoop?", 2 weeks ago I cleared out the bookshelves of the estate of a deceased jazz collector (from the source that the Bird book mentioned in the "Great finds" thread in August came from), and the above items are the tip of the iceberg - or should I say "icemountain? - and the more tempting ones of the biographies included in the lot.) Thanks in avance to everyone for your opinions and assessments.

I agree but what can we do these days with (customs duties) matters being THAT nebulous? (Uneasiness in the opposite direction over here is not much better, BTW)

👍 - the original BYG 529.321 ACTUEL VOLUME 21 is on my shelf ...

I'd get that one too.

Which is, to me, bad business strategy, as USA customers are going to (understandably) assume the worst Better to address the issue head-on. I might consider CDJapan at this point if I knew exactly what I was facing tariff-wise, but the unknown nature of that cost steers me to Dusty even with their substantially more expensive prices.

Grachan Moncur III: New Africa (Charly CD reissue of BYG album)

looks like all 4 are getting the CD treatment

Op.76/4, Op.76/5, Op.76/6

A cool morning. Memphis the American Bully heard an owl outside for the first time. Was fun to see his reactions! Listening to both discs of this new release from Japan, Miles Davis “Paris Jazz Festval - Salle Pleyel - 10/1/1964” 2 disc hybrid SACD set from Sony. I think this was a smart move because it is likely the material from the latest Bootleg Series release that collectors are least likely to have. And there are those who will buy it for the SACD sound, such as I!

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