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I think you've uncovered the business plan. Disagree - We'll get a poorly selected 36 minute compilation, "Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Play For Lovers". Followed by Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Blue Moods, Jazz Showcase, Prestige Profiles and Greatest Hits.

I think you've uncovered the business plan.

I purchased a Rega Planar 3 earlier this year. It is quite a wonderful turntable. Me three. No fuss, no muss.

Yeah, the Ella is nice. Not normally my bag but I paid more for a Book of the Month club LP edition of just the Gershwin stuff once upon a time so seemed kind of like a easy call on this.

I'm holding out until I have a servant to flip the record over every eight minutes.

It's not that I can't afford them, I'm just holding out for the inevitable 78 rpm issues. That's gotta be (almost) twice as good as these 45s, right?

I like the strings and I like the latin stuff.

OK, someone at eMusic compiled a pretty complete list for both the US and Canada. So, cheers to TMBGfan, here's a link for all interested parties: http://www.emusic.com/messageboard/viewTop...d=116071#739959

Actually, the image that comes to me is the lonely geek with the 5-figure system and only three recordings to play, all boringly approved by his fellow audiophiles and containing music that everyone has heard to death. As an example, his entire jazz collection would be Kind of Blue...

I really don't know. I spent more on my stereo than I'd intended, but I haven't felt the need to buy a single component since, nor have I felt the need to go with endless tweaks, etc. Plus I'm running a $1200+ amp through a pair of Dynaco A-40XLs I bought at Goodwill for $4 (their tag was half off that week, should have been $8) so I'm not sure what that says about me.

I think some older CD players would have problems with fast burns. I've heard this anyway, but it's always third or forth hand. I always go for as fast as the drive and media will burn. I was with a company that replicated discs for a while and that's how they did 'em and no one ever complained, if that tells you anything.

Yeah, I think I was the one who discovered the Canadian thing. (I post as Rob G. there.) Anyway, the site is horrible to navigate, the download manager is awful and some people even had their files with a wma extension even though they were mp3s. My biggest beef is everything I've bought has required a bunch of retagging. It's all been box sets and not one has had the disc numbers included anywhere in the information. Dragsville, but thanks for the cheap tunes. Can't say I'll be back when this dries up.

Speaking of downloads and ECM...http://www.amazon.com/Rarum-Box-Set-Selected-Recordings/dp/B0013XQI0E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1221284112&sr=8-1 ECM is a label I've always dabbled with and enjoyed what I've heard but the releases I come by always seem kind of accidental (pick up Standards Live at a pawn shop, find Bight Sized Lift at a thrift, etc.) Soooo...those of you with a little more knowledge, would that rarium set be a good place to start exploring more ECM or should I check out some of these Touchstones instead? At $18 for the set, it's almost a no-brainier anyway.

http://us.puretracks.com/catalog/details.a...42284663021_mp3 Someone pointed this out on the eMusic board as a Canada only thing, but I can confirm I downloaded this here in the US. Three caveats: 1) 192kbp CBR only (make sure you don't hit the WMA version by mistake.) 2) The bonus track/disc 11 is missing (you might be able to snag this elsewhere.) 3) no booklet (which is a big drag to me, anyone hook a fella up with a spare? LOL) Still, considering this is $200+ on the second hand market, I think I'll live with the faults. There were some other UMG/Verve boxes supposedly available in Canada for $10 (Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Hank Williams, Ella's Songbooks) but I didn't see 'em in the US. I'm guessing this is a limited time thing (or a screwup) like the Rhapsody deal a month or two ago, so YMMV and I wouldn't wait around if I were you.

HELLyeah! Same here, even though I own almost all the vinyl. The records get played a lot, it'd be nice to have clean copies.

Thought I'd throw this out there, since I noticed it was being talked about above. The "original Jamaican version" of "Catch a Fire" is still a mythical animal that no one knows for sure if it exists or not. When I was last looking into it, even Marley experts had never actually seen a copy. Conventional wisdom says it's out there, but even Steffens & Pierson's Definitive Discography list the exact same mixes appearing on Tuff Gong LP 101 as the the version the rest of the world got. So, what's on the deluxe CD? A 2001 remix approximating what a Jamaican mix would have sounded like. Nice job, but I think Universal fudges the facts a little in the case of this issue. I know many don't like 'em, but I think the overdubs add to the album. Marley was certainty in favor of them and the music was recorded with holes for the slide guitar and whatnot. I would have been more interested in a set of dubs of the album than the "original Jamaican" remixes, but maybe that's just me.

:tup OH and this is some hot stuff.

I love Morgan, but I think* I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing Sidewinder again and be ok with that. *not that I ever really want to find out, mind you

He's been trying to sell this collection since 1993, originally at $50 million. It was almost sold twice, once to CD Now, who folded, and once to the Library of Congress, who couldn't meet his price (but were offering more than the $3 million he wants now) and he told to take a hike. Long story short (and this story has been a weird obsession to me): this guy was a long time record dealer who did a lot of business in cutouts and remainders. By this point, every collector or institution that would have the means and desire to own this collection, which he insists on selling as a whole, has seen it. The price has dropped from $50 million to $3 million and it's still on the market. Might mean nothing. But I'm really tempted to believe it means this is a lot closer to those 3 million crappy records clifford_thorton is talking about up there than some goldmine of treasures at a fire sale price.

Heh, I actually found this entry and it was what convinced me to snag it from eMusic. (I'm Rob G.) Listened to the first disc of this last night. Really enjoyable music. I wish there was a way to get the liner notes from eMusic, but what it cost me there vs. ordering the physical CDs softened that blow a lot.

Just dropped on eMusic. http://www.emusic.com/album/Duke-Ellington...d/11270886.html

Just saw this come across eMusic (sans booklet) and iTunes (with booklet, but more expensive.) I guess this is a Jazz Heritage Society exclusive? Looks interesting though. I really dug the home tapes I heard at the Armstrong home in Queens. Anyone have this one? The samples sound pretty hot on the Fleischmann's side. eMusic link with samples.

Actually, I got the title wrong: Fever, Smoke and Fire. Don't know about the King Curtis. Knew the one you ment. The King Curtis album is "Swingin' on a Star". Always been curious to hear that one.

I think I have Smoke and Fire, I'll have to check. I know I've seen it dozens of times. Didn't they do one with King Curtis? That's another I've been on the prowl for.

Big fan. See It In Sound is one of my faves. Fun stuff. Crazy arrangements and some great sound. I've always wondered why his stuff seems to be so hard to find. For example, the only Esquivel record I have is Other Worlds, Other Sounds, and it's beat to hell. I was always under the impression the stuff sold. Maybe not millions, but sold enough that in all the years of digging I should have seen more than one album. I also really love the Three Suns, at least the late 50s to the 60s stuff. In fact, today I finally found a copy of Movin' and Groovin', my fave Suns album, which has proved to be really elusive also.