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While I certainly won't be buying the complete sets, I do recommend the George Duke - 'Brazilian Love Affair' album (70's Flora Purim) and the self-titled Stanley Clarke album (similar to Corea/RTF efforts of the mid-70's era with some grandeur, rather than the Clarke/Duke mindless funk that came soon after). Judas Priest? You're on your own there.

I agree, especially on the Anderza.

Shorty Goes to Hollywood is a good set. Count me among those who much prefer the earlier Rogers Atlantic's to the later RCA's.

Avid is my favorite of the PD labels. I really like their format, they load the discs to the max, and the price is great.

I am getting much more susceptible to doing that now, picking up things I already own. Especially since things are coming out in different formats and different labels for the same material so often now. And also because my racking has been in shambles for a few years now.

PM sent on Jimmy Giuffre - New Forms in Jazz. Complete Capitol Recordings 1954-1955, featuring Jack Sheldon (Fresh Sound) $7 Khan Jamal Quartet - Dark Warrior (SteepleChase) w/C.Tyler, J.Dyani, L.Lowe some light scratches/scuffage, no playback problem $8

Is there another source for those Wilen set? Are they noteworthy?

Saw it on Berkshire Record Outlet, but actually able to get it cheaper through Amazon UK, provided I ordered it correctly (have never ordered from there before). The 3 pound shipping charge seems low for a 13 CD set coming to the USA.

There is a 13-CD box available on United Archives (distributed by Harmonia Mundi). Anyone familiar with this set or this label? Worth $45-50 cost? thx

We have a small spare bedroom that I have for storing my music collection, and I have a desk in there, but I do almost all of my listening at work (a perk of being a techie worker bee in the IT industry), and my home stereo equipment (nothing remotely impressive, think $hundreds, not $thousands) is actually in our family room. We have a second small spare bedroom that my wife uses as a home studio for her work. That's how we still have wives.

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PM sent on Steve Nelson - Sound Effect (High Note promo, xeroxed notes) $1.50 Art Pepper - Unreleased Art vol III - Kool Jazz Festival 1982 $6 Art Pepper - Unreleased Art Vol V - Stuttgart (2 cds) $9 Randy Weston - African Rhythms (Comet) $8 Randy Weston - African Cookbook (Collectables) $5 Johnny Hammond Smith - The Soulful Blues (OJC) $4 Johnny Hammond Smith - Good Nuff (OJC) $4 Art Pepper - Unreleased Art vol 1 : Abashiri Concert 1981 (2 cds) $9

PM sent on Pat Martino Quartet - Undeniable (High Note) digipak $6 Donald Harrison/Ron Carter/Billy Cobham - New York Cool. Live at the Blue Note (Half Note) digipak, minor weak on digipak $5

Worth it for Brubeck's new essay in the liner notes alone. Really.

PM sent on Stone the Crows - Radio Sessions 1969-72 (2 cds on Angel Air) $10

Somebody needs to jump on that Art Pepper set. 9 CD's of timeless music for $25.

I noticed that, but also noticed that I hated that whole album (by far weakest in the set), and that one of the two missing cuts is an alternate take, so I'm not sweating it.

I'll take the Giuffre's.

You can get it a good bit cheaper through some of the third party sellers on Amazon Marketplace.

PM sent on the Curtis Amy

I picked this up from Amazon for under $30. Nine CD's, all but one of the albums has bonus material. Wildly uneven, but some gorgeous stuff as Ms. Simone seeks to come to terms with the burgeoning late 60's - early 70's rock and political scenes. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Album-Collection-Nina-Simone/dp/B005LTDPFW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1323258780&sr=1-1

PM sent on Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer Complete Live in Rome Concert Lonehill $6

Verve has picked up rights to some of the MPS albums for CD issue in recent years. I can't say which ones, but I have a couple of Friedrich Gulda's they released on their JazzClub imprint (which seems to be German-based).

George Russell - Complete Black Saint/Soul Note Recordings.

Don't know if you are old enough to remember a great (Hall of Fame great) CFL quarterback named Condredge Holloway. He and I were on the same community league football team in Huntsville, Alabama in 1966. Won the City Championship in 1966, totally due to his vast superiority over every other player in the league. I was a benchwarmer, and that was my only year in organized football. I did play organized baseball (poorly) for several years.