J.A.W.

Very funny, guys. I hope RC will return here soon.

It's December 10, 12:15 AM over here, so: happy birthday Dmitry! Have a great day and many happy returns!

P.S. He didn't say anything about parrots

I got an e-mail from Tod today. His health is OK and he's working again. He asked me to say hello to all of you.

The draw: Group A Germany Ecuador Poland Costa Rica Group B England Paraguay Sweden Trinidad & Tobago Group C Argentina Ivory Coast Netherlands Serbia-Montenegro Group D Mexico Angola Portugal Iran Group E Italy Ghana Czech Republic United States Group F Brazil Australia Croatia Japan Group G France Togo Switzerland South Korea Group H Spain Tunisia Ukraine Saudi Arabia

You can get the same material for 20% of the cost by purchasing the Green/Clark 2CD set and Green's "Born to Be Blue". I know, and I have those CDs, but it's the Mosaic set I'm looking for. I probably should have said so in my first post.

Why don't you ask Hiroshi Tanno: hiroshi@earlyrecords.com?

I'm looking for a copy of the Grant Green/Sonny Clark Mosaic 4CD-set The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Grant Green with Sonny Clark (Mosaic MD4-133) in excellent or better condition. The booklet must be included. Please PM me if you have a copy for sale or know where I can get one. I can only pay through PayPal (credit-card-linked account), or by bank transfer within the euro zone.

The following CDs are scheduled for release. On December 21, 2005 Muzak MZCF1083(New) Sommers,Joannie/Voice of the Sixties 2625 Muzak MZCF1084(New) Sommers,Joannie/For Those Who Think Young* 2625 Muzak MZCF1085(New) Sommers,Joannie/Sommers' Seasons* 2625 On January 18, 2006 Sony VRCL 18830(New) Jones,Hank/'Round Midnight 2835 On January 21, 2006 Victor VICP 63282(New) Grusin,Don /Bill Sharpe/Geography 2520 Victor VICJ 61343(New) Ogawa,Satoko/Swingin' Stride 3000 Victor VICJ 61341(New) McPartland,Marian /Steely Dan/Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz 2000 Victor VICJ 61342(New) McPartland,Marian / Elvis Costello/Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast 2000 On January 25, 2006 BMG Funhouse BVCJ 34031(New) Suzuki,Shigeko/Silent Stories 2835 On February 8, 2006 Victor VICJ 61344(New) Noon/title undecided 3150 On February 22, 2006 Sony SICP 1007(New) Marsalis,Wynton/Hot House Flowers 1500 Sony SICP 1008(New) Marsalis,Branford/Trio Jeepy 1500 Sony SICP 1009(New) Evans,Bill/Live in Tolyo 1500 Sony SICP 1010(New) Powell,Bud/A Tribute to Cannonball 1500 Sony SICP 1011(New) Brubeck,Dave/Anything Goes 1500 Sony SICP 1012(New) Tatum,Art/Piano Starts Here 1500 Sony SICP 1013(New) Christian,Charlie/The Original Guitar Hero 1500 Sony SICP 1014(New) Watanabe,Sadao/How's Everything 1500 Sony SICP 1015(New) Kasai,Kimiko/Kimiko Is Here 1500 Epic Sony EICP 589(New) Woods,Phil/Phil Talks with Quill 1500

It's December 9 over here, so: have a great day and many happy returns!

C'mon guys, the Dutch aren't that good...

Same here.

Tod (Out to Lunch) hasn't posted here since September 20. Anybody know if he's alright? Edited to correct a spelling error.

Also according to the BBC, Friday's draw will work in the following way: The eight seeded teams will be drawn into eight different groups. Germany have already been allocated Group A and Brazil Group F. Eight unseeded European sides will be drawn into the eight different groups. The lowest-ranked European side Serbia and Montenegro will be allocated to one of the groups containing either Brazil, Argentina or Mexico to ensure there is no more than two European sides in any group. A pot of the five African countries, Australia and the two remaining South American sides drawn into eight different groups. A pot containing the four Asian countries, the USA, Costa Rica and Trinidad drawn into seven different groups.

The draw will take place on Friday, December 9.

According to FIFA the eight World Cup seeds are: Brazil Germany Italy Argentina France England Spain Mexico

Some of us are in a hurry...

Agreed.

What fragrance are you using?

I know the feeling, I lost my best friend in 1998. He was only 50. My condolences, Jim.

Same here with my PC, I thought my broadband connection or the modem was to blame. By the way, I'm now getting multiple new post notifications...

I just got this message from Hip-O (the actual message was longer, but this is the part about the Motown sets discount): Dear Music Hoovers, Tune Accumulators, Disc Junkies and Patrons of Hip-OSelect.com, In the "We Hear You!" department, a few of our customers wondered (some more politely than others) why we were giving a discount on the Motown Singles boxes to these Johnny-come-latelies (or Jenny-come-latelies) who were only just now getting around to buying Vols. 1 & 2, while our loyal customers who bought Vols. 1 & 2 right away and wanted to pick up Vol. 3 for the holidays were not being similarly rewarded. Whoops. FOR THREE DAYS ONLY, you get 15% off ANY ONE of the Complete Motown Singles box sets. Of course, you are welcome to buy all three, but you don't have to in order to get the discount! This offer ends on November 30th. Don't delay. The end of the month is closer than you think. As for us, we're sufficiently stuffed with turkey and accoutrements that we almost didn't fit back into the vault, so we're going to aerobicize a little and then start mining again. We're already pulling out gems for the new year. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Cheers, Hip-OCrates and all (two) of us here at Hip-OSelect.com

You can e-mail him: hiroshi@earlyrecords.com Mr Tanno can supply all currently available Japanese jazz CDs, and some OOP discs as well. He doesn't take credit cards, but he does accept PayPal. His shipping rates are reasonable, especially when you compare them to the rates other Japanese stores like HMV Japan, Amazon Japan and Tower Japan are charging. ---------------------------------------- Ha Daniel, you beat me to it!

Updated.

Yeah, my clock is off too. Mine too.