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My Andrew Hill set came with a big gouge in disc 7. I called and a replacement disc was sent on the quick!

That's not a bad thing at all!

My DJ friend's response, FWIW: Depends on what genre you are looking for. Hip-hop/rap/funk soul rarities...I would say the Hip Hop Site on Maryland Parkway (across from the University) just up the street is Big B's. Great for all-around stuff. New and used Rock/Indie vinyl as well as CD's. Some funk & soul gems on occasion. We have a string of "Record City"s around town, mostly picked over crap, but you never know. And numerous thrift stores and swap meets.

Love that Gerhard Richter.

We kick so much ass.

The tension is palpable... Will they arrive? Will the prices remain? Will I empty my wallet there?

San Francisco, actually. ....I think it's San Francisco, Italy! I gotta put the crack pipe down...

Still love these.

Reminds me a bit of the time about 6 years ago where the one online site had everything at a price of $5 or some silly thing.

Seems like it would be right up their alley. Aren't they based in Italy?

Moon Ska had to be one of the most prolific labels of the modern era. At the record store where I used to work, we had a guy that was a huge ska fan. He would make these orders with this distributor in Chicago for hundreds of dollars worth of ska and punk-ska 7"s and CDs, driving the boss nuts. The stuff would sell out in the next weekend. The kids ate the stuff up. There were a couple of neat titles on Moon Ska by the Ska-Jazz ensemble. They did some Sonny Rollins tunes and some other hep stuff. I like the two-tone stuff and the earlier, grittier stuff straight outta Jamaica. Skatallites are fab! There was a comp of some of their dub plates released a couple of years back:

I brought my lovely wife to a Braxton concert a couple of years ago. He had been an artist in residence at the University of Wisconson-River Falls, and this concert was the culmination. I had played some Braxton in the house before, mostly the standards stuff and some of the 70s Arista quartet LPs, but nothing was to prepare her for what was to come. The band was the quite nearly competent UWRF college jazz band. [Granted, anyone playing Braxton's scores would have a bit of a time.] There was very little soloing from the band. The head of the department did a bit of soloing and directing the group with Mr. Braxton. He brought his alto and sopranino. Braxton would divide the band in a "this half and that half" fashion and hold up cards with composition numbers on them. I still have the program around somewhere. For a couple of the performances, there were at least a half dozen of his numbered works performed at the same time. My wife has pretty open ears, but I must say that this proved to be her limit. She nearly got up and left! She was nice enough to tell me this on the ride home, rather than at the show. I went back and met Mr. Braxton. The person ahead of me in the queue had a copy of the orchestras Arista box and he remarked that he hadn't seen one of them for years. When I introduced myself, I made some knowledgeable comment about how I enjoyed his comments on the Second Vienisse School of composers in his Tri-Axium Writings. He was quite nice. He asked if I was a musician, and I replied "no, just a listener." His reply was "well we are all musicians in one way or another." A lovely sentiment. He was indeed wearing a cardigan sweater.

Welcome samnat! As a fellow business traveler, I can attest to the fact that this board is a good source for record store recommendations. I would second the vote for Waterloo.

Are there any revelations in the article not touched on in Graham Lock's book? That was a fab review, Nate.

After him!

most of it... Behold!

I would welcome such a thread. On eai, that is. I don't care for Jazz Corner. Haven't browsed seriously there in years. Still get those bulk emails from Lois, tho.

Word.

I work in the public radio business.

Rollini had a way with that thing like no one else. Is he on much of that new Lang/Venuti Mosaic set?

Right on! I would add only on thing to that list: Where Is Brooklyn?

Old habits die hard. Even reviewers who are staring at a shiny 5" disc call new releases "records" - "a review of ________'s new record" Rod --- Now playing: Can - Halleluhwah I use the term "records" all of the time, much to the confusion of those around me. It makes sense--at least as much sense as "albums" did when describing LPs, not albums of 78s as it used to. I look at it as a record of the artist's work. My mother-in-law calls them all tapes. CDs, LPs, the whole lot.

My count varies greatly, as I caught the trading bug early on. I have over 750 now, but have traded/sold at least as many. It's an illness...

They have some harder-to-find-in-the-US John Martyn recordings, namely the live ones. Just downloaded the Milan 1979 show last night!

I wish RCA had a stable reissue program that would let this one see the light of day on its own outside of the box...