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I assume you mean 6 tracks. My disc only has 4 as well. I assume a printing error rather than a pressing error.

Louis Armstrong Masters of Jazz vol. 1-5 $35 Discs 2-5 are sealed. This is the first five volumes of the Louis MOJ series in a box. Tal Farlow Complete Verve Mosaic (Universal Edition) $65 Nat King Cole - Riffin' 3CD Hip-O Select $25 All prices include shipping in US. International upon inquiry.

Some discs unplayed, all discs in fine condition, same for booklet and box. $120 shipped in the US. Nat King Cole set is mint. $35 shipped in US.

Dusty Groove is now carrying a raft of Hatology titles at the lowest price around (9.99/15.99). A good thing, or a bad thing?

Jeremy Denk, who is a tremendously enjoyable writer whose work has shown up in The New Yorker and NPR.com, has a wonderful new release forthcoming of Legeti Etudes paired with Beethoven's Sonata no. 32. There is a link here to stream the record. He also did a great Ives album last year, the recording of which was chronicled by him in the aforementioned New Yorker piece. I'd love to see him in performance, where he's been doing these Etudes alongside the Goldberg Variations!! http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/jeremy-denks-ligeti-beethoven-streaming-full-npr-first-listen-denk-staggeringly-good-chops-plays-masterfully-2012-05-07

A recent eBay score: Vinny Golia - Spirits in Fellowship (Nine Winds 001) Good stuff, and another brick in my complete John Carter collection.

Or wait, are you talking about the Black Forest LP? Edit: You are. Got it.

Oh great! I always thought this was a solo Taylor session. Doubly excited to own it now (though I obviously love solo Cecil as well)

Gee, how exciting.

Supposed to be a new batch announced this month, but apparently nothing 'til at least July now

To each their own, but this is a nightmarish proposition for me.

I'll take the other two.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chuck's announcement of the impending Hal Russell and AEC reissues. Looking forward to those!

"Jimmy Smith is my man/I wanna give him a pound" Seems a sentiment anyone here can get behind. I am very saddened by his passing. He left us with some incredible music and music videos, as well as an inspiration for holding true to one's ideals. RIP.

Huh, I didn't realize they even had stable owners. Were they just licensed all over the place? Everest and Vee-Jay put them out in the 1960s.

Hell, while we're at it can we untangle the European live recordings, too? What all is there, what CDs are duplications, etc. I've always been remarkably confused by this.

I have never quite got around to getting these because I just don't know which source is best, or if there is such a thing as a definitive source for this stuff. Lonehill put out a CD collecting all of it, but this is hard to get ahold of now. Suggestions?

Yep. I also plan to shell out for this: http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Reports-Ethnomusicology-Vol-Multiculturalism/dp/0882870513/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335983494&sr=1-6 and this: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Arts-West-Culture-Struggle/dp/0822346796/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335983494&sr=1-2

It would be fantastic if someone could put some of that Tapscott stuff out. Mosaic seems a stretch, but maybe something more like those big Sun Ra box sets.

Why not just go whole hog and do complete sets a la Black Saint/Soul Note? Blakey, Mobley, Morgan, McLean, Smith & Green might be unfeasible, but they're 1 Joe Henderson album away from all of them.

For this reason and most importantly because I think it is a good album rather than a great one I would say skip Insights. Stacked against the individual musical visions of Dixon, Hemphill, Fischer, Carter-Bradford and Tapscott, and the divinely inspired playing of Denny Zeitlin and Russell Thorne, it simply doesn't match up for me.

I have been a member for some years, but the service is basically dead now and was mostly worthless in the past. I have received some mixed product from them. I ordered a bunch of RVGs once that were the real deal. Other CDs, not so much. I got some Miles Davis remasters that had pretty poor printing on the booklets. The discs were standard redbook, but with a JHS logo. Ditto some Savoy remasters and old Columbia Benny Goodmans-- actually terrible printing on these, but real discs with JHS logos on them. They also used to traffic in these abominations:

I also love the music on this set, but it is of course available on CD if you ever want to try again.

I have Extension on the way. Excited to see it and hear it.