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Well, I got the itch again. This is the cover for mine. 2006 seems a bit optimistic. Cheers!

I have something like 3000 CDs. Although I find myself listening to jazz almost exclusively nowadays, that doesn't mean I don't listen to and buy other stuff. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Peter Frampton (yeah, I was a teenager on a school trip to London when that one came out), King Crimson, The Rhino Disco Box, Night on the Bold Mountain by Mussorgsky (in the original orchestration), Dean Martin (Bear Family), Steve Vai, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Thunder, Motorhead, Earth, Wind and Fire, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, all the Universal Deluxe Editions, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Andreas Vollenweider, Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin, Riot, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and, and , and. My answer: I'm all for it.

The person who sold this one had several of these - apparently he had bought them as an investment and kept them for quite a while because he wasn't happy about some people in Germany (on amazon.de) selling these for about Euro 150 to Euro 190.- I guess he suddenly needed some cash and I took two off his hands because I knew I could get what he was asking back from some fans here. So I sold them for exactly the amount I paid. Not a cent made. Call me humanitarian. Call me dumb. Call me jazz fan. I'm somewhere in the middle. Cheers!

... or send her my way.

Funny, same thing happens to me. And I've got a job in which I can't really afford to do so. On top of that, biorhythmic activity is non-existent within my body. Really, I don't have a biorhythm. And, to answer the question, I go to bed as late as humanly possible. Sometimes not at all. This edges me into heart-attack country faster than other people. Cheers!

Peter, I haven't seen the new set anywhere else but on Amazon.fr yet. And there it's up to around 180 Euro (I'm too lazy to check). Chet Baker: Broken Wing is available on amazon.com, but I would get it second-hand somewhere. I bought it for 5 Euro, mint from my local dealer.

No. 8 is the Chet Baker one which was apparently taken out for copyright reasons. But, it was still widely available the last time I looked. BTW: I also bought myself the last 25-CD set just after Christmas ... and just before they raised the price considerably on amazon.fr. Now it almost costs what I paid for the mint 75-CD set on eBay last year. I now have almost exactly one whole shelf-length of Jazz in Paris. Wonderful. Colourful. Cheers!

Jazzmoose ... sometimes you just really crack me up. That one was a winner. Cheers!

This one costs an arm and a leg on sites I frequent. I'll keep an eye open for it. It sounds just like my kind of CD! Thanks! Cheers! (Anyone else here got a spare one?)

Cheers!

I missed it by 74 or so. But thanks to organissimo for this wonderful board. Cheers!

Come on guys! I have to leave in 50 minutes. Push it, baby, push it! [spam, spam, spam]

I'm away for the weekend (leaving in an hour or so) and I'm gonna miss it. Don't forget to down a tequila or two for me at the celebration! Cheers! (P.S.: Maybe I can logon where I'm going to be, just to see who gets the 100.000th.)

*hugs & kisses* Cheers!

So do you ... Cheers!

Hi Brad, jazzbo, danasgoodstuff, Claude, chris olivarez, brownie, couw,king ubu, skeith, EKE BBB, Brad, and mmilovan! Thanks for helping me reign in my passion a bit and making a somewhat informed decision. I ended up buying the box and after very (!) speedy delivery of a mint condition box, I am listening to it as I write this. a) brownie: The CD is included and is a wonderful small addition. B) king ubu: Yes, in addition to having the complete Brownie takes, the main incentive was actually getting the Helen Merril sides. Excellent stuff. Love it. c) I was a bit afraid of the possibility of inferior sound, but as someone stated above, it holds up well and on my stereo it sounds good. No regrets there. A final note. The reason why I went for this set (and might invest into remastered Brown/Roach releases in the future) is simple: "Jordu" was instrumental in getting me completely hooked on jazz. I played my dad's old LP thin just listening to that tune, and it is still at the very top of my all-time best-of list after all these years. I'm looking forward to studying the recordings in more detail. Right now, I'm just a proud parent who had lots of good people on this board help him make the right decision. Thanks, guys! Cheers!

Hi RDK, it really depends how you print covers. There are programs out there which will just automatically downsize any image to the cover size. What I do is this: I use Pagemaker (you can also use word or any other word processing prog). I set up a CD cover (guides which outline the final size of the thing the way I want it printed out), insert the image and size it so it fits into the guide grid. Then I print it. I'm sure there are freeware programs (mostly without much comfort when it comes to adding extravagant layout details) out there, which will produce simple but perfect covers, inlays etc. for you without you having to do much. Just check online with the usual download sites. Or does anyone have a good link? I won't have time to check these next few days, but maybe someone else can. Would be great to have a link to a decent cover-printing program in this thread. A free or careware one. Cheers!

If you are interested in that sort of stuff, check out this book: Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. It's a wonderful series, currently in its 10th volume. There should be tons in there you like. And, the collectors' value is tremendous, if you go for the hardcovers. The first few volumes in the series have risen dramatically in prize, if you can find any, that is. Cheers! P.S.: It was the same Jon Foster. I have tons of good links here. Will post more in the future. I don't want to saturate this thread.

Jon Foster

David Ho

Monty Python Spam Song Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam. Wife: I don't like spam! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam! Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

Well, let the contest begin then. As of right now, 1005 posts to go. Cheers!

Well, for better (I assume after having tallied the votes here) or worse, the box will be on the way to me on Friday. I'll post at some other time what my first impression is, what the sound was like, etc. Again, kudos to everyone who helped me make a decision. Cheers!