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No,Jim, that's the punchline to "How many jazz singers does it take to sing My Funny Valentine".

Would like to get Magic Sam's "West Side Blues" and "Black Magic" and Junior. Wells's "Hoodoo Man Blues" and "Live in Boston", but find myself balking at pulling the trigger as they are all a good bit pricier than I tend to go on blues CD's. If anyone has these laying around and would be interested in selling or trading them, please let me know. Or in the case of the first three, feel free to tell me I'm nuts, they're classic, and I need to just go spend the money to get them new off Amazon.

The Giant is Awakened. It would indeed be nice to have by itself, but it does appear in whole on West Coast Hot along with one of the Carter/Bradford Flying Dutchmans, which is shorn one track. Magnificent album(s). isn't WCH out of print? Yes, it is long out of print. That Tapscott introduced us to Arthur Blythe, who arrived on record fully formed. Magnificent stuff.

Me as well. And me. We were soooooo close. gregmo I'll jump on this bandwagon. Would make a great 2-CD set.

Looks like somebody bought the new Complete Aretha on Columbia box set :rolleyes:

Sonny Simmons - Rumasuma the Harold Land albums on Mainstream the John Klemmer Impulse's (before he went commercial) some of the Live Archie Shepp stuff from the early-mid 70's The Max Roach stuff with Billy Harper the Billy Harper on MPS Hannibal Marvin Peterson Jazz Contemporaries - Reasons in Tonality on Strata-East missing Prince Lasha titles Elvin Jones - Coalition (and other Blue Note titles)

PM sent proposing trades on the following: Beggars Opera - Act One (Repertoire) $9 Beggars Opera - Waters of CHange (Repertoire) $10 Beggars Opera - Pathfinder (Repertoire) $10 Alquin - Marks (Esoteric) $10 Alquin - The Mountain Queen (Esoteric) $10 Wire - On Returning 1977-1979 (EMI/Harvest) $3 Fat = Fat/Footloose (Second Harvest) $15 Spooky Tooth - Lost in My Dream Anthology (Esoteric 2 cds) $15 Clark-Hutchinson - Free to Be Stoned (Esoteric) 2 cds $15 Soft Machine - Man in a Deaf Corner (mooncrest) 2 cds $8 Kevin Ayers - Songs for INsane Times (EMI 4 cd set) $18 Sam Gopal - Escalator (Esoteric) $10

My great new personal discovery is Malachi Thompson. Knocked out by what I heard of him on a couple of CD's I traded for, and have acquired the rest of his Delmark's. Major major jazz musician to my ears. Billy Harper and Gary Bartz apparently think so, also. My track of the week is "Get on the Train" from his 'Blue Jazz' CD. Recommend the CD and his entire catalogue!

Willing to take offers on mine, and I don't need $250 for it!

PM sent on the following: Art Pepper - The Hollywood All-Star Sessions (Galaxy) 5 discs, $27 Mark Turner/Jeff Ballard/Larry Grenadier - Fly (Savoy Jazz) $5 Michael Marcus - Sunwheels (Justin Time) w/R.Burton, N.Waits, C."Patato" Valdes $3 Michael Brecker Quindectet - Wide Angles (Verve) $3 Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Brass - Insomnia (Knitting Factory) $6

When they first started doing used CD's, I sent a small sale list (10-15 items) to them to feel out their pricing. No garbage titles, but stuff ranging from common to much harder to find ($6-7 to $25-30 on Amazon marketplace) They were around $3-$3.50 offered for every title on the list. When time permits, I'll go back to them in the future to sell some used CD's, but not the valuable ones.

Was depending on Ebay to keep good to their promised buyer protection if I had a problem. Otherwise would not have.

PM sent to propose trade on: Iron Claw (Vintage/Rockadrome) $9 The Best of The Boston Sound (Varese Sarabande) $7 Titanic - Eagle Rock (Repertoire) $10 The Spoils of War (Shadoks) $10 Marc Moulin Placebo Years 1971-1974 (EMI) $7.50 The Third Eye Awakening/Searching/Brother 2 cds on (Fresh Music South Africa) $20

I presume eBay/Paypal have some way to claw-back the money from the seller. (I can't imagine they would eat the cost of such bum transactions.) They don't. They are demanding that I eat the cost of shipping the set back to Malaysia with tracking number ($38.75) to get refund on the set. I called to complain and get an equitable solution, and got 40 minutes of being on hold followed by 10 minutes of clerk mentality, so I am going to open a claim through American Express and see how that goes. I had already had enough of being abused by ebay/paypal as a seller, and had not bought or sold anything for two years before this. I've now had it as a buyer also. Not worth the grief. I'll stick to the Organissimo community and Amazon.

'...Horizon' is Benson "put in the right environment". It's his masterpiece, and quite atypical for CTI (no sweetener), and my favorite jazz guitar album. The title track from the Hubbard is gorgeous in a prototypical CTI manner. Also, 'White Rabbit' is one of the best "typical" CTI's (sweetener galore, but it all works).

And that's for almost four hours of classic bop in a beautiful package.

Wow, good news? How'd that process work? Protracted any? What did you have to provide as 'proof'? I presume you had to surrender the (counterfeit) set to someone, yes? In any case, glad to hear it. I have to send the counterfeit set back to the crooks, and show the tracking on the delivery to ebay, who will refund my purchase price and $10 ebay credit for my shipping costs. Took a little over a week for them to get back to me with this settlement.

I highly recommend the Art Farmer. Great price, too, and totally dependable seller.

Glad to report that Ebay is giving me a refund.

Duly ordered from Amazon marketplace. It and a '65 concert doubled on a two CD set for $12 + $3 shipping. Based on the recommendation by Jim, gotta give it a listen. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014I7JYM/sr=1-5/qid=1299357789/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1299357789&sr=1-5&seller=

He's a different, less compelling (though more "sophisticated") animal after 'Trust', for sure. That's where I would stop in terms of serious $ outlays also. I have up through "Blood & Chocolate", but just for reference, as they were very inexpensive when I got them used.

In terms of quality or just rarity? Didn't realize he was still playing in public in '68, thought his second absence was 66-72. Man, he sounds lost on the title track of 'East Broadway Rundown', though I like the other two cuts (especially "Blessing in Disguise") just fine.

So, if one wanted everything (which I don't), one would have to buy both editions? Yep, at least in some cases on the early albums. And the differences aren't just a stray track here and there.

If you payed by credit card through paypal, you can initiate a claim with the credit card company.

Or maybe that they do....