Dmitry

About $350-400 average. $35-40 per record.

Was just spinning my moderately chewed up Turnstiles album. 'Summer, Highland Falls' and "I've Loved These Days" are probably known only to the fans; I don't even think I've heard either one on the radio. Undeservedly, imho. Didn't care much for "All You Wanna Do Is Dance", "James", and "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" . His vocal style on the "New York State of Mind" reminded me of Ray Charles. Awesome song. How was Joel's music viewed at the time by the young people of above-average intelligence?

One thing to remember with old tube gear that has been sitting untouched for decades - never switch on that estate sale Bogen RP series receiver until it has been refurbished by a certified technician. Leaky capacitors will fry the transformers, and sayonara. Even if sounds OK, and even good as is, those paper capacitors are leaking with every passing second.

The quality of the mass-produced items is exponentially better than it was then. You can have a car for 10k or you can have a car for 100k, both will last. Same with watches. In the 1940s, if you bought a watch for a $1, it was garbage. If you buy a $10 watch today, it'll last years. 'Things' have become a lot cheaper to buy, at least in America. Not so much in other first world countries still.

It's amazing that people spent upwards of a $2500 for home stereos in the 1930s-1940s. One could buy a house for that money then. Incredible how our realities change in only just a few decades. A $10 watch will show just as good a time as a $10,000 watch. A $10,000 car may outlast the $100,000 car. Etc.

I like 'em, but this one is a piece of crap. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=110649690222&si=BiYILIBFZIOnkG2mbjaA3BZhi5s%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&afsrc=1 Snappy titles - welcome!

How many leader dates has Konitz released so far? Got to be 50 or so. If he doesn't have the longest recording career in the history of the genre, he's got to be up there.

Scored this nice LP the other day. Good Ted Brown there, + some neat Rufus Reid interjections. Does anyone around here do Lee Konitz signature authentications? I sure would like one of those fancy certificates with a seal, like they print for signed baseballs. It'll go nicely with the Swing Journal Seal of Approval.

I'll most probably go to the Record & Tape Traders in Towson, since it's only a couple of miles away from the Faigrounds, where I'll be for two days. Looks like they carry a decent stock. http://www.recordandtapetraders.com/

Thanks for the recommendations! I was also directed to Trax On Wax in Catonsville, Sound Garden in Fells Point, and Record & Tape Traders in Towson. I'll only be able to make it to one store, due to a busy couple of days. I'll have to figure out which one...

I will be in Baltimore on March 18th-20th, exhibiting at the Baltimore Antique Arms Show http://www.baltimoreshow.com/ If there's a must visit record store in the area, I'd appreciate a recommendation.

It's probably true for the multi-thousand selling albums, but for a somewhat obscure title like this one, I would be surprised if they did more than a couple of runs. The truth probably hides in the dead wax numbers, but I don't know what they mean. As long as we're on the topic,here're the photos of the British EMI issue of the Indo-Jazz Suite. Did it come out before the US version? My knowledge of the British labels and catalog numbers is nil.

It would have been the record company who drilled it, before selling it to a cut-out (deletions) distributor. This would be done when the title was going oop, and the rec.co. drilled to indicate that no returns would be taken? BTW, the cd version of this album lists you as one of the Thank You people.

Total and utter insanity ! The factory-sealed cd w/obi sold for $5,000 last year.

Not vinyl, but madness nevertheless. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&hash=item19c3778338&item=110653571896&nma=true&pt=Music_CDs&rt=nc&si=BiYILIBFZIOnkG2mbjaA3BZhi5s%253D

3/$1 - can't beat that. Paid x times that for this baby yesterday. The sticker stays! I forget, who would usually put the bullet hole in the jacket, the record company, the distributor, or the retail store?

Sony DVP-NC555ES 5-disc changer in pristine condition, used very sparingly. A remarkably good player, plays cds, sacds [incl. multi-channel], dvds. ES stands for Elevated Standard, Sony's top of the line. Original box, manual, remote [small nick on face of remote]. This is a heavy beast. $200 post paid in the US.

My father gigged as a librarian in our local philharmonic hall [Odessa] sometime in the late 1950s. I have a bunch of photos that touring artists signed for him; most of whom I have no idea who they are. Shostakovich-inscribed photo is among them. Victor, if you liked Skrowaczewski, you must acquire the Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic recording of the 10th.

Well, the make up of the audience proves they came to see Ahmad Jamal and not Lee Konitz. Just your normal sort of people, who don't have much desire to challenge their brains while listening to the toons. Like I said, it' a gorgeous venue, easily one of the best I've been to. The acoustics is very good, even up in the cheap seats, where we were.

Jamal played 3 cocktail encores after 3 standing ovations. Konitz got bupkis for ovations. Bizarre.

Yes, that is an amazingly keen sense of humor.

Something isn't right here. Why doesn't he just hire people to sell his LPs? If he puts 5 f/t guys/gals on commission, let's say even 50%, he should make more than what his wholesale price is. He's offering $5000/day shopping spees. http://www.recordrama.com/invite.htm I'm sure all the desirable titles have been picked over.

I will be selling a number of LPs myself in the coming year, once I purge and sort them all. Like you, I will sell as a lot, not individually, so as not to waste time. How did Amoeba price yours? Academy Records in NY buys cds/lps for 1/3 their retail price [whether true or not, I have no idea, but that's what the clerk told me.]

...and then you meet someone who's even more hopeless than you.

Just got back from the show. 1st half was Konitz, 2nd - Jamal. Nice venue, good acoustics.