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And I can sell you mine if you want, as I now have it all on individual CD's.

I count four Savoy titles and three Muse titles, which will fill out a four or five CD box just fine. "Not enough titles" from the company that brought us Freddie Redd and Don Cherry boxes with three albums on two CD's?

It's about branding as much as anything, and Hoffman is a "brand". Starbucks has low-quality coffee, but have created an extremely attractive brand which enables them to sell it at jacked up prices and have people standing in line for the privilege of paying. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Starbucks-considered-bad-by-coffee-purists-Why-do-people-hate-sneer-at-Starbucks

Me too, have been watching for it to be on CD for 30 years.

PM sent on these, with exception that if I get a DVD in the box set, don't want a separate of same DVD: DVDs $10 John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan Bonus Disk Series Two Jazz Icons Sealed Sonny Rollins "Live in '65 & '68" Jazz Icons Sealed Cannonball Adderley "Live in '63" Jazz Icons Sealed Rahsaan Roland Kirk "Live in '63 & '67" Jazz Icons Sealed Dizzy Gillespie "Live in '58 & '70" Jazz Icons Sealed Thelonious Monk "Live in '66" Jazz Icons Sealed $7 John Coltrane "Live in '60, '61 & '65" Jazz Icons Wes Montgomery "Live in '65" Jazz Icons Dexter Gordon "Live in '63 & '64" Jazz Icons Dave Brubeck "Live in '64 & '65" Jazz Icons Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Live in '58" Jazz Icons

Not sure how much would be available to add. As has been discussed elsewhere on the forum, there isn't all that much non-rejected unreleased BN material from the first lifetime.

PM sent on Christian Scott - "Christian Ajunde Adjuah"

Thanks Wayne, sure I will. Was it Maria Schneider that we were together for at the Philly Art Museum many years ago?

PM sent on Chet Baker "At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall" Hamburg 1979 Jazz Line NDR (Sealed) Maria Schneider Orchestra "Sky Blue" (a couple of light scuff marks that doesn't effect play and the booklet is pretty beat up) Maria Schneider Orchestra "Concert in the Garden" Promo Maria Schneider Orchestra "Days of Wine and Roses" Sealed Maria Schneider Orchestra "Allegresse" Enja Sealed (cut out notch in spine) Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra "Evanescence" Enja (a couple of light scuff marks that doesn't effect play) Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra "Coming About" Enja (a couple of light scuff marks that doesn't effect play)

Great set at a great price from a great seller who I have known for many years.

Isn't a lot of jazz also formulaic? Even someone like Pharoah Sanders, when I was listening to those early 70's albums, I could correctly predict "OK, this is the spot in his solo where he will go from mellow to freak out". As far as the early Monkees music being good, in addition to Boyce & Hart and the Wrecking Crew, Goffin & King made contributions ("Pleasant Valley Sunday" for one), and Neil Diamond was a believer. I have nothing against records of Goffin/King songs played by the Wrecking Crew, many of them are awesome to me. And I was a "rock" guy, WEBN Jelly Pudding in Cincinnati, WMMR in Philly, but never felt the need to choose sides in the divide. Nothing more glorious than a perfect 3-minute single.

IFWIW, my procedure is to check theseconddisc.com (shows new releases for the week every Friday) , superdeluxeedition.com (shows coming releases for the week every Monday), and the new releases section on allmusic.com (shows new releases for the week every Friday), as well as following along in the neighborhood here. The first two sites I mentioned carry limited jazz coverage, but are fabulous for rock/pop/soul releases, especially reissues.

Nah, something like your first Kenny G CD would rate behind more Woody Shaw....

Correct. The "cloud" is just a network of servers that you have access to, but don't need to maintain. I help run a huge datacenter of them, for hospital applications. A lot of the consumer "cloud" is actually just servers run by Amazon (Amazon Web Services) or Microsoft (Azure)

Indeed, I'm sort of "finishing off" my collection right now, and my jazz has largely been done for a couple of years. Seems like the Japanese (and the Andorrans) are the only ones who are ever going to put out any jazz CD's I want going forward. And even the Andorrans seem to be slowing down or repeating themselves.

Well, I'm glad this is happening now, and not 25 years ago. But still bummed. And at least in my case, they are shooting themselves in the foot. My total lifetime expenditure on digital music has been $11.98 ($4.99 for the Hannibal Marvin Peterson MPS album, and $6.99 for Elvin Jones at Town Hall), where I own many hundreds of discs created by companies who licensed the material from Sony.

Agreed, the Kelly/Chambers dates don't really have a clean fit stylistically with either of the other boxes. If anything, I would have put them in the first box rather than the new one.

I have a good bit of the early Hoodoo Gurus, and really enjoy it! I consider "Under The Milky Way" by the Church to be one of the most beautiful records I've ever heard, but that was a later/different sound for them. Great list for me to explore some, thanks! Isee the history slightly differently with my USA line of sight (though labels are never as neat and clean as we would like to make them). There was a parallel movement centered in Athens, Georgia which included R.E.M., Guadalcanal Diary, and Let's Active from your list. And Many of the other groups on the list, such as Los Lobos and Lone Justice, were considered "Roots Rock", yet a different tag (not really an organized movement), and the Blasters were a major force in that. The first eight groups you mention are all definitely considered Paisley Underground, which was west-coast based for the most part. The Smithereens were out of the New York City area, and were thought of more as like a latter-day power pop group. The Paisley Underground groups tended to have some psychedelic flourishes (as did the Athens crew, though less so), and the others don't (though the early Lone Justice sort of does). I need to explore some of the groups you

If it's that good for them, it's good enough for me. Billy Pepper later rose to the rank of sargeant and led another band.

Me too, in some ways, not in others. Some excellent records the first two years, though they did not write or play on many of them, though they did sing them. And "Headquarters", where they did it all, is really pretty good. But they went off the cliff during "Head" (though I do like "Porpoise Song").

Green on Red was definitely considered Paisley Underground in their early stages. Sorry their early music is so unavailable (keep thinking/dreaming that Cherry Red will do a box, like they did with the Long Ryders, or that Omnivore will do something, like they did with the Dream Syndicate and Game Theory), and I've never heard the later stuff, as Chris Cacavas's organ was so much of what I liked about them.. I also have a good live DVD reunion by them. I have always found "Cheap Wine" very moving. The line "I'm just a man who doesn't know right from wrong, who can tell?" often runs through my head in difficult situations.

Not surprised it's good. I have a DVD by them called "State of Our Reunion" which is pretty fabulous.

3x4 sounds fun to me,

I know that, so did the Oneders . Doesn't change my point. They used to sell those sort of knock-off albums in grocery stores. 99 cents or whatever, which was actually a decent chunk of change ca. 1964.