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I'll take them all.

It's of great value. Choose your buyer carefully!

Had to sell my LP collection in '80. A lot of great stuff. 90% probably has come out on CD and I've been able to pick it up over the last 20 years if I really want it, but there was nice stuff I'll never see again. But you do what you have to do when you have to do it, and it's OK, and I respect those who make the tough decision when they have to. What percentage of the world has ever been able to have something like our music collections, even if we just have them for a season? We've been blessed in that sense.

One possible factor on these is that they were not Blue Note recordings. The Drew was a Pacific Jazz session and the Chambers were Transition recordings. So they are not canonical for Blue Note collectors. They are available very inexpensively on Amazon. Also, I believe that at least the Chambers was reprinted around the turn of the millenium in that "Collector's Choice" series of reissues or whatever it was called where they reprinted some of the early CD titles which had fallen out of print.

Side One : Absolutions Side Two : The Beehive Side Three : Neophilia Side Four : Nommo First jazz album I ever bought, and it was good enough to inspire me to 36 more years worth (and counting). "Absolutions" especially was amazing to my 17 year old ears. Also one of the great CD reissue jobs by Blue Note, getting all that other material released in the package. I got to meet Mickey Roker several years ago at a Shirley Scott piano concert at the Ethical Society in Philly, and he is a very kind and dignified man. Bennie Maupin and Harold Mabern are also really strong on this album. I also liked the next Lee Morgan album, 'Lee Morgan', with Billy Harper and Moncur on board. That's the one with the amazing version of "Capra Black".

Boooorinng, but I'll take the whole package.

PM sent: Hank Crawford, After Hours (Atlantic) $7 Hank Crawford, Mr. Blues/Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul (Collectables) $6 Milt Jackson, Centerpiece - at the Kosei Nenkin Volume 2 (Pablo) $7 Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt (Chess) $8

PM sent on following: Roy Brooks, Beat (Fresh Sound - Workshop Jazz originally), $10 INCLUDES JEWEL BOX Michael Cochrane, Cutting Edge (Steeplechase) $7 Lines of Reason - Michael Cochrane/David Alan Gross/Calvin Hill/Alan Nelson (Bluejay) $6 Johnny Griffin Orchestra, The Big Soul Band (OJC) $6 Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins (Koch) $7 Eddy Louiss Trio - Kenny Clarke, Rene Thomas (Dreyfus) $9 Melvin Rhyne, To Cannonball With Love (Bellaphon) $8 Mel Rhyne, Stick to the Kick (Criss Cross) $8 Mel Rhyne, Mell's Spell (Criss Cross) $8 Don Sickler, Night Watch (Uptown) $9 McCoy Tyner, Today and Tomorrow (Impulse) $7 Sonny Stitt and the Top Brass (Atlantic) $8 Thelonious Monk, Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (Concord) $8

I'm waiting for a price break on the Deluxe sets of the first three, but got the Deluxe set on 'The Joshua Tree' a while ago, and the sound was terrific, a great improvement. I would have liked to have gotten the super-deluxe version with the DVD, but it is way too pricey. I consider 'War' to be their best studio album ('Under A Blood Red Sky' their best overall), and "I Will Follow" from 'Boy' and "Gloria" from 'October' their best songs, so I am really looking to getting the three early titles in these reissues.

Their albums were pretty spectacular, well worth the import prices you'll pay for them in the USA. Would have loved to see them live.

I'll put in another vote for "That's Where It's At". Didn't expect to be blown away by that one (I'm not big on McCann from that period, though I really like the "Swiss Movement"/"Invitation To Openness"/"Live At Montreux" recordings later on), but I was/am.

The Jimmy Scott is sold.

First five albums on remastered mini-LP CD's (no bonus material), 'Africa/Brass', 'Live at The Village Vanguard', 'Coltrane','Duke Ellington & John Coltrane', and 'Ballads'. 'Africa/Brass' played once, others not played at all. $25 + $3 shipping or trade for something interesting. PM if interested. Also have 3CD sets Jimmy Scott - 'The Savoy Years and More' and Tito Puente - '50 Years of Swing' available, each $15 + $3 shipping or trade for something.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm not a sound quaility geek by any means, and I love Clifford Brown, but the original Bee Hive release was basically unlistenable to me. Even advance warning didn't prepare me for how bad the sound was, sort of like some of the Bird stuff floating around and the Miles Davis/Jimmy Forrest recordings. Stuff you wouldn't believe any one would consider releasable. I haven't heard the "More ..." release.

And the Humphrey reissues are the three Larry Mizell schlock jobs rather than the other three, fairly interesting earlier releases she had on Blue Note.

Listening to Tyrone Washington's 1967 Blue Note set, 'Natural Essence' on headphones. Joe Chambers is mind-blowing on this! I always knew he was really good, but seems to be on a whole other level on this one. Maybe it's just my Friday afternoon mood, but he, Barron, and Workman are one amazing rhythm section with Washington and Woody Shaw here.

Hope it's not a sign of things to come. Is "Horace Silver Plays For Lovers" around the corner?

Yep, the Zoot overdubbed session I have gives me the creeps when I hear it, as do those overdubbed Signal "music minus one" sessions reissued on Savoy, despite the stellar personnel. Maybe it's just my knowing they're overdubbed, and ignorance would be bliss, but all of the above sound stiff to me.

What are the rarities? 10:44 minute extended remix of "Eurydice", studio version of "Directions" from 1971, 13:05 minute live 1974 version of "Nubian Sundance", DJ Logic Remix of "125th Street Congress".

Guess that means it will be up to Lonehill/Gambit/Jazz Factory/Definitive to put it out.

You might even be able to drag me along to a couple of these. I'd be up for the Sanders/Drake and the Zankel depending on date and work schedule.

3 CD/1 DVD career retrospective box set by Weather Report, "Forecast Tomorrow", available in trade for something equally interesting. Box set on CBS/Legacy has three remastered CD's spanning their 15 years of recordings (including a couple of rarities, but mainly the basics), and the DVD is a two hour concert from the late 70's. Nice book with the set, which comes in a 6"x12" long box. Played once, excellent condition. PM me if interested. Probably only makes sense in USA because the set is heavy and would cost a lot to mail overseas, but I'm open to that if someone overseas really wants it.

PM sent on following: Shorty Rogers - Shorty Goes to Hollywood Monty Alexander/Ray Brown Straight Ahead 2 CDs Monty Alexander/Ray Brown Triple Scoop 2 CDs Mose Allison Back Country Suite Grant Green Live at the Lighthouse Freddie Hubbard Backlash Freddie Hubbard Black Angel Keith Jarrett Expectations Johnson/Winding Jay & Kai (Savoy) Yusef Lateef - Psychicemotus Jeanne Lee w/Mal Waldron After Hours Joe Lovano I'm All for You Bob Marley Legend - 2 CDs of Greatest Hits and a DVD Sun Ra Solar Myth Approach Affinity (1 CD version) Jerome Richardson - Midnight Oil Charlie Rouse - Epistrophy (Landmark version) Cecil Taylor Trance Stan Tracey Genesis surface marks Phil Woods - Musique Du Bois (32 jazz version) Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark

So that they can include cuts from it on the future releases "Art Blakey Plays for Lovers", "Art Blakey Concord Profiles", "Best of Art Blakey", "Art Blakey Bluesing", "Art Blakey Jazz Showcase" and "Brushed Art", Silly!

PM sent on the following: Paul Bley Trio – If We May Time to Smile - Steve Grossman w/ Elvin Jones, To Harrell, Cecil McBee Fred Hersch – Evanescence: a Tribute to Bill Evans Phil Ranelin – Inspiration Eastern Rebellion – Cedar Walton, George Coleman PM sent on the Ibrahim and the Murray.