J.A.W.

Ha, finally, my first laugh of the day! I needed that.

The Kelly CDs are on hold.

I'm selling these Japanese mini-LP CDs (with obi): ALL CDs ARE GONE shipped on Monday, May 3, 2004: Randy Weston - Little Niles - Toshiba TOCJ-9475; $14 ~~~~~~~~~~ Wynton Kelly - Wynton Kelly! - Vee Jay BSCP-30036 (contains 1 alternate take); $14 Wynton Kelly - Kelly at Midnite - Vee Jay BSCP-30035 (no alternate takes); $14 Wynton Kelly - Kelly Great - Vee Jay BSCP-30038 (no alternate takes); $14 Shipping by standard mail: $3 first CD, $1 each additional CD; Priority Mail is extra. Payment: no cash, checks or money orders; PayPal accepted outside the euro zone, but add $1 fee; in the euro zone: BIC / IBAN electronic bank transfer Check out my other jazz CDs sale

You're not wrong.

I agree with Bev and Claude's views above. My favorite versions of Mahler 1 are: - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam / Bernard Haitink - Philips; 1972 recording - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Haitink - Philips; 1987 recording - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado - DG; 1989 recording - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam / Riccardo Chailly - Decca; 1995 recording.

Gokhan, I don't think Д.Д. would mind if you'd refer to him as "D.D." (Д.Д. is Cyrillic for D.D.) B)

Improvisation is in the nature of this thread

You're absolutely right, Gokhan. Welcome to the board, by the way!

I wonder how many jazz lovers would buy limited-edition (facsimile or otherwise) CDs just for their value.

Why not flip a coin?

I'm interested in some NO jazz, or rather the émigré Chicago variant (Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers recordings, King Oliver w/Armstrong), but, like I said, these Atlantic sides are really not my cup of tea...

Okay. This does it for me. I'll have to purchase the JJ Johnson box in my next Mosaic order. Nope, no choice. I have to do it. B) The J.J. Johnson is one of my favorite Mosaics. It's an absolute must-have. According to Mosaic's Scott there were about 170 J.J.J. sets left last week; it will remain available for quite some time, i.e. well into 2005, and they'd order additional sets if necessary.

1. Atlantic New Orleans Jazz 2. Tristano/Konitz/Marsh 3. Morgan/Shorter Vee Jay 4. Chambers/Kelly Vee Jay The Atlantic NO set is not my cup of tea, but the others are terrific.

The Benedetti/Charlie Parker box will never expire. Is this correct? I checked the Mosaic discography but, unless I missed it, could find no release date on the Benedetti box. You asked what the current Mosaic CD box with the oldest release date was - well, that's the Benedetti/Parker set. It was released before the Condon set, which is the oldest still available limited-edition Mosaic set. Mosaic sets are released "chronologically", i.e. set 129 (Benedetti) came before set 152 (Condon). The oldest still available limited-edition CD-set is indeed set 169 (J.J. Johnson).

According to the March 2004 Mosaic brochure it's the Dean Benedetti/Charlie Parker set (Mosaic 129).

No, I wouldn't have, and no, I don't

That buying freeze of yours seems to be quite hot at times...

Just for your information, behind DISCONFORME is hiding BLUE MOON who owns the much celebrated label FRESH SOUND. Thanks for that - I saw (on the Disconforme site), that they are distributing Lonehill. Did anyone find out if Freshsound and Disconforme are the same, fundamentally? Or just closely linked? ubu Ubu, There have been several discussions on the board about this - can't seem to find them right now. Bottom line: yes, they're very closely linked.

You can always bid on my Japanese mini-LP copy here

Younger posters? Surely not all of 'em...

I've just ordered it from Jon. Will report here when my CD player's fixed - hopefully this year... He-he, that's what Soviet psycho-analysts called "involvement through imposed controversy". La Voyelle Liquide is a terrific disc. Strange... Actually, I ordered it a month ago but asked Jon to hold it for me - I "activated" the order before I posted here. What would those Soviet psycho-analysts have said about that, I wonder...

I've just ordered it from Jon. Will report here when my CD player's fixed - hopefully this year...

I know, and I will not pick it up.

I'm guessing that one didn't sell as well in Japan as the "regular" TOCJs / JRVGs.

Toshiba wouldn't do it if the disks wouldn't sell.