Ken Dryden

It really depends on how badly people want an out of print CD. While you probably can't get a premium price within a bulletin board, it is possible to sell stuff through Amazon and half.com. For example, I sold Out of the Blue: Live at Mt. Fuji, which I had picked up at a used CD store for $2, for around $20 on half.com. I've had luck with other long out of print CDs as well. Just don't try to sell Amani A.W. Murray's CD here, you'd be lucky to get the postage, if that.

That's a good start, though you also want to note the condition and to which countries you will ship, what typical postage charges will be (most people will have to contact you for an estimate), what type of payment you except (Paypal is generally preferred by many people), if you offer insurance in the case of large orders. Also be sure to list the label. You also want to be certain that you are comparing the exact edition of a CD to the one you see at Amazon. Many CDs have come out in several different editions with the same title, with additional or bonus tracks, different packaging or liner notes, etc. Good luck.

For you Andrew Hill fans, MVD has just issued a solo DVD session, which was taped in HD. I haven't yet had a chance to view it.

I don't remember too many jazz artists killing each other in violent feuds, though more than a few went to jail for repeated drug offenses (usually possession, not selling). As for rap being compared to jazz, forget it. Rappers are not musicians in my book, just lousy poets who generally scream their drivel. The turntablists are just as useless to me.

PM sent on Hot Stuff From Brazil.

PM sent on: Little, Booker Historical Masters Jazz View 5 1960 with Flanagan, Kelly, La Faro, Haynes Mulligan, Gerry Walking Shoes Bandstand 7 1959 quartet live

I wonder if they used the original defective offspeed master for part of Kind of Blue?

This CD is out of print, while the only Amazon copy is listed for $96.25. Pete's price is a bargain!

I doubt Mosaic will reissue popular sets of the past because they would have to pay the licensing fees once more and it might be risky to assume that such sets would sell out. Remember that they have often had problems selling Capitol sets, putting many of them on sale.

PM sent on: I'm interested in the following CDs: M.O.B Trio - Loose (Omnitone) Meridian Arts Ensemble - Brink (Channel Classics), SACD HYbrid Sun Ra - At the Village Vanguard (Jazzdoor) Zappa, Frank - The Mothers Down Under (recorded 1973) - 2CD, still sealed

Lord's Discography is hardly immune to errors, as he not only doesn't have physical access to every record or CD, but he duplicates errors on released recordings as well as inserting some typos of his own. For example, I acquired CDRs of all of the unissued music remaining from Jaki Byard's The Last From Lennie's session so I was able to not only correct song titles but to fill out what exactly remained in the can. While I shared that information with him, I have found it too time consuming to provide further updates to him without any incentives.

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Whoever designed that KNEW what it would look like and managed to get it through senior management. I wonder what Urlaubs means. MG I remember Ariola being a Dutch label, as they issued some Flying Burrito Bros. LPs back in the early 1970s.

I have a long list of wants, so pm me if you are interested in a trade. I can provide specific condition on any title, though the condition of most discs is near mint. If shipping is required, $2 for the first CD and 50 cents for each additional title should be sufficient for first class mail. Brass: Louis Armstrong: In Scandinavia, Vol. 2 (Storyville-import) $9 Louis Armstrong: In Scandinavia, Vol. 3 (Storyville-import) $9 Art Farmer Quintet At Boomer's #2 (Eastwind-Japanese import) oop $40 rare no OBI Dizzy Gillespie The Cool World/Dizzy Goes Hollywood (Verve) oop $8 Roy Eldridge/Dizzy Gillespie/Clark Terry The Trumpet Kings at Montreux OJC sealed $6 Pianists: Mose Allison Swingin' Machine (Collectables) sealed $6 Classical Jazz Quartet (Kenny Barron/Ron Carter/Stefon Harris) Plays Bach (Classical Jazz) $6 Duke Jordan One For the Library Storyville $8 Jay McShann After Hours (Storyville-import) 1977 solo/trio/quartet $10 Johnny Varro Everything I Love (Arbors) a jazz party favorite, piano trio $5 Denny Zeitlin Trio As Long As There's Music 32 Jazz/Venus $7 Reeds: Gene Ammons Goodbye OJC sealed oop $5 Herb Geller & Brian Kellock Hollywood Portraits (Hep-English release) $6 Herb Geller Herb Geller Plays (Japanese reissue of long oop Mercury CD) oop rare $45 Haze Greenfield Five For the City w/Tom Harrell (Owl) oop $9 Johnny Griffin & Eddie Lockjaw Davis Tough Tenors Back Again! (Storyville-Danish import) $8 Danny Moss Meets Buddha's Gamblers A Swingin' Affair (Nagel Heyer) $7 Guitar: Gene Bertoncini & Michael Moore The Art of the Duo Stash oop $50 Strings: Red Mitchell/Warne Marsh Big Two, Vol. 1 Storyville $6 Red Mitchell/Warne Marsh Big Two, Vol. 2 Storyville $6 Drummers: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers 's Make It (Universal Japanese Mini-LP gatefold CD reissue of original Limelight release, with English liner notes inside) oop/rare $75 Tony Williams The Story of Neptune (Blue Note) $10 oop

I don't believe that the complete Town Hall concert of June 9, 1945 has been reissued on CD, though it was included in the third volume of The Complete Commodore Recordings (a 20 LP limited edition boxed set), which has been oop for years. I remember finding the 1970s 2 LP set of it as a cutout for the price of $2.47 plus tax. It's great music that's worth acquiring.

I've seen all kinds of silliness, but when did American bootleg labels ever send out promo copies? That's what this TMOQ audience recorded bootleg of a part of Frank Zappa's 1970 200 Motels concert at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion claims to be. My guess is that someone added the promo stamps after the fact. http://cgi.ebay.com/FRANK-ZAPPA-20-MOTELS-PINK-WAX-PROMO-TMOQ_W0QQitemZ260554575195QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item3caa434d5b#ht_500wt_975 In any case, this music, including portions not released on record, has been circulating among collectors for some time.

I've never heard of Mosaic full sized boxed sets described as boring. Easy to read liner notes, with lots of details, no magnifying glass needed. While the idiotic design of the various small cubes where you can't lie the liner notes flat on a surface to read them, the metal box's rust spreads to whatever it touches, or the cardboard holders scratch the CDs as they are removed and inserted... No contest, give me Mosaic's designer and fire the bozos who designed the Verve Bill Evans set, the Billie Holiday Verve set, the Charlie Christian Columbia boxed set, the Thelonious Monk Columbia best of set (with rubber holders barely holding onto the discs, etc.

Unfortunately Universal Music has consistently designed impractical boxed sets in recent years. Whether scratching the CDs on cardboard when removing them, having open top sleeves to let dust in, or the microscopic fonts used for liner notes, they obviously haven't learned from Mosaic. At least the music is decent.

I just finished reading your article Ken, then I see this. Another one of the good guys gone. I used to visit the Jazz and Blues Centre quite often when I was younger and making road trips to Toronto. A wonderful advocate for the music and great guy he was. Thanks for your kind words, Ted. His death is a great loss to jazz.

Nothing like reading about a concert a few hours after it took place...my loss! I always enjoy hearing Marian McPartland talking about Alec Wilder and have long loved his music. I doubt anyone has played "I'll Be Around" or "Blackberry Winter" on more occasions.

It's funny, but this is one rare year where I actually like both teams and haven't figured out which I one I'd like to win. My gut tells me that the Colts' defense is better and the Saints are more likely to turnover the ball, while the Saints also had way too many penalties during their defeat of the Vikings, so I figure the Colts will win by 10. I'm not betting $$$ on the outcome!

That looks like the late actor Billy Barty on the cover of Have Harp Will Travel. He was in the films Under the Rainbow and Foul Play, along with being part of Spike Jones' troupe in the early 1950s.

It was also reissued on a Japanese Toshiba EMI CD, which is how I picked it up.

They aren't, just the 9 individual volumes of airchecks, many of which have appeared elsewhere, though there are a few rarities mixed in. I am surprised they omitted one of the few Tatum television appearances which is available on YouTube, which I think is "Humoresque."

I'm saddened to learn of John Norris' death. I just interviewed him for All About Jazz New York last fall and it was published in the February 2010 issue.