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Planning on it later this month or the next.

A used Plugged Nickel is available on Amazon for $65

I live for those people who don't know better, or at least don't care. But yes, you really do have to be quick.

Gah! I have to, just have to. *covers eyes, turns head, clicks 'place your order'*

I think half the problem is finding a copy. Some of those Hats can be ludicrously scarce, like the Jimmy Lyons titles. I guess the few who have them, keep them. edit: I mean Riffs and Push/Pull. I know Jump Up is more easily located.

I think his approach to songs and song form are the basis of Steve Lacy's genius. With both Monk's music and his own I think he offered a totally unique approach to improvisation within and across songs. Kind of like his own insular version of the Tristano school. So the free improvisation on Sortie leaves me cold. But yes, different strokes.

Indeed, Sortie is-- I admit I bought it. And I don't really like it much. Disposibility is the much more enjoyable listen.

Sometimes I wish you weren't able to see completed listings. They haunt the mind ... http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPLETE-GLENN-MILLER-BLUEBIRD-1938-42-CD-SET-/400218044704?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item5d2edab920#ht_500wt_1156

If I may ask Jeff, where did you get all of your obscure Lacy records from?

In case anybody has been wanting to grab this after reading the Penguin Guide and has been unable to find a copy (it has been OOP for years and very expensive and elusive second-hand) it has been reprinted by Nagel Hayer and is widely available on Amazon and Ebay. I'm very excited to finally hear it.

Read about this in the Times. Sounds fantastic: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/music/paul-motian-quartets-tribute-to-modern-jazz-quartet-review.html This is why Ratliff is one of my very favorite jazz writers; how perfect is this description of the MJQ sound?: "diaphanous, concise, glassy with blue streaks"

That one is near the top of my must have list (if you can't tell <---). It's often curiously expensive on Ebay. One day, one day ... I have the music, of course, but you know how that can be.

Ran Blake's is very nice. Good deals on his music, too: Blake :

$6.99 no less!

Warne Marsh - Warne Out Warne Marsh - The Art of Improvising

If you'd like a more open-minded jazz loving poet, try the incredible Philip Levine. I do enjoy Larkin, though.

Thumbs way up on the Carter-Bradford! I definitely thought I'd have to shell out for the 90s Hat Hut CD. edit: now I see the price for used copies has magically dropped from $50 to $30 on Amazon.

Lousy, lousy selection, but I will miss that "free" "extra" CD in the mail each month.

Great Wynton Kelly, too.

Agreed. Doesn't even get any better.

Whoa, great price.

I have seen that. Gerry Mulligan, too. Now where is that mountain of Freddie Slack and Johnny Richards?

I never enjoyed Byrd's playing overmuch, but I decided to put in Transition Sessions the other day and was really impressed. His playing on "Crazy Rhythm" was dazzling. Maybe I need to listen harder.

Tell me about it. There was also a fellow who sold almost every Select and maybe 60+ big boxes on Ebay earlier this year, all with Mosaic invoices included. I wish I knew the secret!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mosaic-Select-Complete-Collection-exc-32-35-3-CD-sets-/230612268509?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item35b18ff5dd#ht_500wt_1156 All the Selects. An amazing deal, really at $33 per set. I have few completist collecting goals, but this is certainly one.