Daniel A

This does not sound too promising. How reliable is this service? With the amount of sniping going on these days I wonder if it will really help to use a sniping assistant, as it will depend on the sniper with the highest bid anyway. I suppose the typical sniper does not follow the auction to the last second, so maybe a manual bid towards the end would work just as well. If not - the others were simply prepared to pay more...

When I ordered from UK Amazon (earlier this week) 17.5 percent VAT was added during the check-out process. I was surprised; thought they had to include VAT from the start. That's strange, EU Amazon prices always included VAT before check-out - I just remembered that during the check-out process prices were adjusted to include the VAT percentage of the EU country the customer lives in. Maybe they've changed it and just add VAT at the end. No, you're right! I checked my order and the VAT was not added, only adjusted during check-out. I was confused because in the order summary each item was listed with final VAT included, but the items subtotal just below was without VAT. Except from books, Sweden has the highest VAT rate in the EU...

When I ordered from UK Amazon (earlier this week) 17.5 percent VAT was added during the check-out process. I was surprised; thought they had to include VAT from the start.

He'll happily let you stay, but don't count on sleeping very much as he is also very generous when it comes to beer...

Next I'll play the quadrophonic(!!) version of Ahmad Jamal's 'Tranquility' (ABC/Impulse), just for brownie! Beats even a good stereo pressing, don't you think?

If they can't make any money from the tapes, perhaps they could donate them to their respective national libraries, no? It would probably cost more to destroy them.

Funny, I could've sworn the 2004 design lasted longer, but the archive proves differently. After checking out the links above I realized I'd forgotten how the site looked like up to last week! So here's: The 2004-7 version

I'd really like to get that one, but always get outbid on the 'puter. Got my copy at a reasonable price just two weeks ago. I hope it wasn't you a couple of dollars behind me... Now: 'Have You Met Hank Jones' (orig. Savoy), an endlessly attractive record, probably one of my favourite Hank Jones albums as well as solo piano albums.

"Jazz in the Space Age" is marred by a lot of audible splicing. I suppose not much could be done about that. Tenorist Dave Young was a suprise for me first time I heard this album. It would be nice to see it in print in some form.

Belated but deeply heartfelt birthday greetings...

Up!

Don't have that one on LP, and I promised myself tonight would be vinyl-only... Struth! I'll try Hutcherson's "Total Eclipse" (Lib.) instead.

Louis Armstrong?

Chick Corea "Tones for Joan's Bones" (Vortex). Joe Chambers is amazing on this album, never heard him play like this elsewhere!

I second this! "Summertime" has everything that "Troubled Waters" lacks. Good Sebesky arrengements and CTI production - still on the A&M imprint at the time - at its best. It's exciting to hear the rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Leo Morris or Airto behind Desmond; despite the big band and the reverb they are quite audible. Only offered as a download from the Verve site, but it may still be possible to get this from Japan, and not too expensive. Or get the LP!

I recently returned to eBay after some time, and to me it appears as if the prices on jazz LPs are about as before. But I noticed two differences: lots of Japanese pressings, and sniping en masse. If you're measuring in Euros the reason might be that the dollar has dropped about 30 percent in a couple of year.

"Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks", which means they don't really have it in stock. But it's cheap anyway...

This is more up to date: http://www.jazz-book.com/disc1.htm

The complete version for those who are not already subcribers (and paid a lot from the start) is much more. But I take it it's better than Lord anyway.

The fifth trio session in the UCCJ-9082/86 Corea box will be with Hadrien Feraud and Richie Barshay.

My opinion is that saying that prayers won't do it is no more in place than accusing someone who wishes George Cables all the best for not praying. That said, I really hope George is going to get well.

It would be an understatement to say that I don't give much for Clementine's posting style, but actually there was no bunch of guys; only one - albeit very hostile - post, following a possibly uncareful question.

No, he was covering Mary Martin. The movie was made in 1965.

Recently I bought a CD from Aebersold's (rather new) eBay business. After a couple of weeks I got an email asking me submit feedback. I responded that I had not recieved the item, that it's not unusual with an overseas shipping time of more than two weeks and that I assumed that I'd gotten an automated message. I received no comment on my response, but when I finally got the CD it turned out it had been posted two weeks after the end of the auction; in fact the day before I got the email...