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I enabled the system. We'll see how it works; I might disable it again. Works great! Thanks.

I haven't read all 200 posts here, so maybe this has been covered already. How do you enable the +/- green/red buttons on the lower right of each post? I tried a green one and got an error message informing me I had exceeded my daily allotment. Great new look by the way! I'm already accustomed to it.

Whatever you do, don't follow these examples: The Gift That Needs Forgiving I have no idea what I'm giving my wife. I haven't had time to shop until now (been working too much). However, I tend to agree with this reader's advice. Maybe I can pull it off:

That's strange. I didn't have to log in at all this morning, the first time on the new forum.

Thanks, guys, for all the responses and great advice. Special thanks to mjzee. You've convinced me to try it. I'm glad it's back in stock. I just received a very small bonus yesterday, just enough to buy the Smith set with shipping. I also got word, inadvertently, that the other two sets on my Christmas list (Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby) have an excellent chance of finding their way under my tree. That should keep me humming for a while!

I've had my eye on the Johnny Smith too. Can anyone tell me: is it closer to the Joe Pass or Tal Farlow set? I really dig the Pass, not so much the Farlow.

That's obscene. And I think it's 6 CDs.

Roy Eldridge - Complete Verve Studio Sessions Putting my 9-year-old to bed with Pretty-Eyed Baby and Jumbo The Elephant, by special request.

Stanley Turrentine - Blue Note Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions I used to be bonkers over this set, but I unfortunately overplayed it (along with the Blue Mitchell set). It's been about a year and a half since I've listened to it all the way through. Sweet!

Just got a reply from Scott. He doesn't know exactly, but he thinks there are less than 10 tracks with celeste and maybe half of the set is with organ. No set for me, I'm afraid How could he not know exactly? Isn't that what an accurate discography is all about? Let's see if I have this straight: Half of this 7 CD set is on organ, but not one of the 5 provided music samples has organ? What's up with that?

Don Pullen Select I also have Shank / Cooper waiting in the wings. Both from the public library (owned by local San Diego branches).

It's now gone.

If so, then they work! Those four CDs I bought took half an hour to open and the gummy strips wrecked the jewel cases. I find the easiest way to remove the strip at the top is to unhook the hinge at the bottom, rotate the plastic cover up and then separate the front from the back. I can usually get a completely intact strip removed with no residue this way. I know a seller on eBay who does this, but he only unhooks the hinge leaving the strip as is, copies the disc, puts the hinge back, slips the jewel case back into the original cellophane (after a careful slice to begin with), uses a couple of short pieces of clear tape, and sells the disc as "new". He can fool 19 out of 20 people this way.

Horace Parlan Mosaic, my favorite of the black box sets. Not one track is a disappointment.

Louis Armstrong Decca All Stars, discs 3 & 4. Now playing: When You're Smiling

Would you believe the first Dinah Washington went for even more, and it wasn't even mint? Meanwhile someone snatched up that incredible deal for a nearly new Don Pullen set.

I wouldn't call this "eBay craziness" (at least not yet ), but good news for buyers and completists. There's a lady that just started selling her first 10 Mosaic box sets. They appear to be consistently in mint sealed or mint unwrapped condition. Here's what piqued my interest: Care to venture a guess of who that might be?

Columbia Jazz Piano Moods Sessions, Earl Hines, disc 2

Did this set bypass Running Low status altogether, or am I imagining things?

I don't have an issue with the policy, but if it's going to be enforced, it needs to be done on a consistent basis. Someone needs to better moderate the Politics forum because whole articles are quoted there all the time.

I have the same problem, though only a small fraction. I've got perhaps 50 records with nothing to play them on, and no idea how to grade. They just sit in my entertainment center. A couple of them are probably collector's items (MFSL).

Thanks, Allen. Grimes/Higginbotham received today in mint shape.

I just scored a brand spankin' new Don Pullen Select from ... of all places ... the public library. I placed the order a week after the bad news was announced and was told by a librarian that the library didn't actually own the set but would initiate an order with the manufacturer. They apparently have listings of material that's just waiting for the first customer to come along and request it, then they go spend money and acquire the material. When I heard this I thought, yeah right, fat chance getting that order fulfilled. And this was one of those sets that was already in backorder state when it suddenly went OOP. Well, lo and behold, the "manufacturer" came through. Makes me wonder if Mosaic Records sets aside sets that are reserved for potential library orders. If so, perhaps I'll see my second order, Shank/Cooper, come through too. At least I can get a full taste of it before shelling out $159 on eBay.

Why don't you ask Mosaic? Thanks, J.A.W., that was good advice. I received a response this morning from Mosaic: "There were performances that were recorded for the CBS show that we did not include like turn-of-the-century (last century) ballads and dirges with only organ accompaniment and duets with some Lindsay (things like gibbitzing around with rock tunes like "Rock Around The Clock") - in other words, things that were unsuccessful or too far afield for this set. Recordings and Sessions means the same thing. I'm not sure why we sometimes land on one rather than the other while titling."