J.A.W.

See my post #6. The two sets represent totally different periods in Armstrong's career.

The new set will have the complete 1934-1946 Armstrong Decca big-band sessions, while the OOP Mosaic (#146) has the 1950s Armstrong small-group All-Stars dates on Decca: AMG review

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel just told me they are planning a Louis Armstrong box with his complete 1935-1946 Decca sessions on 7 CDs. No release date has been scheduled yet.

So, will they ship outside of Germany? No harm in asking! Not everyone on this planet speaks English. Maybe the German seller is one of them, or simply doesn't want to be bothered with international shipping. The details of his auction clearly say that he only ships within Germany. International bank transfers from outside the eurozone are often very expensive, and I'm not even talking about the unfavourable exchange rates.

Depends on when the Great Depression ended in one's perception; many would say 1939 with the beginning of the war economy of World War II. The earliest tracks on the Mosaic date from August 1939, just before the war started in Europe.

The John R.T. Davies-mastered single Benny Goodman CDs on the Scottish Hep Jazz label are excellent alternatives. Some of the discs have several of the late 1930s and 1940s tracks that are on the Mosaic set.

Why don't you ask a member who lives in Germany to help you?

Frog released the John R.T. Davies-mastered Bessie Smith CDs, not JSP.

Chris is right, the John R.T. Davies-mastered Frog CDs (DGF 40-47, scroll down) are sonically superior to the Columbia CDs.

See my post #7. When you are registered with eBay.com, you're also registered with the European eBay sites.

According to the auction details the seller does not ship outside Germany, while the only payment method allowed is a bank transfer.

As someone once said to me, you either love it or hate it, there's nothing in between

As I said earlier I fully agree with Chuck that Bechet "deserves equal billing with Armstrong for developing/transforming the jazz solo concept", but after so many years I still find Bechet's vibrato very hard to listen to... I can't get used to it. My loss, I know

Thanks also.

Agreed.

I have always liked this earlier Benny Goodman collection--is this an example of the pre-1934 playing you like? Pity they smothered the music with Sonic Solutions' NoNOISE All "Decca Jazz" releases suffer from noise reduction.

The upcoming Benny Goodman Columbia/OKeh Mosaic is available for pre-order. It will be released on November 20, 2008. Discography and other details

Just read on another forum that South African singer Miriam Makeba died of a heart attack after a concert in Italy on Sunday (November 9). She was 76.

Buyers can't get negative feedback?! How does that make sense? It seems too many sellers were posting retaliatory negative feedback.

Does that board still exist? I couldn't find it. I guess it never survived the departure of all former BNBB members when this board started...

And, as Jazzmoose said, feedback now covers only the last 12 months.

I got a cryptic message from Ricci when I was banned years ago and when I asked him to explain, I never heard back from him. Doesn't matter, I lost any interest I may have had in AAJ a long time ago.

Same here, except that I stopped trying when I was banned for the first time several years ago

I sold a truckload of hatOLOGY CDs, including many on your list, to a friend of mine a few months ago for about €2.50 apiece...