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Ada Moore Jelena Ana Milcetic (aka Helen Merrill) Ava Gardner

Henry the Great Wilbur Little Asta

and one is a much appreciated disc in this house here now!

Got a shipping notification, after all! Hope it doesn't yet get caught up in the x-mas mail and will be duly delivered in a week or so!

JPC is a fine vendor. I think they don't stock it all, but this is most certainly there within the time frame they give (while with Amazon "1-2 weeks" often means never ever, that's not the case with JPC, from my experience). Also you could cancel it by logging back in, and order from Amazon.fr (see brownie's link) - the price is about the same.

Well, it's not been that long since I started drinking wine, but going by glasses, it seems in the past ten years the prices have risen quite out of proportion compared to how wages have risen... same for beer, of course! They even made the glasses smaller a few years ago (a regular tap beer used to be a third of a liter here, now it's mostly a fourth, at the same price initially, but by now of course at a higher price). There's a save value though: a pint of Guiness - the thing that sucks about it is that it costs almost as much as the cheapest sales bins disc we can find here (about 9$, usually).

NORK - mentioned in the first post... I got the Retrieval recently, still need to play it!

Donna Summer Joseph Kosma Josef Stalin (or: spring > summer / fall / winter...)

another great one that I already have: Henry 'Red' Allen 1929-1933 (Chronogical Classics)

any relation to?

Barney K, I guess?

Bismillah was one of the greatest! the scatological amendment, so to speak...

Bill, I found that Old Time Jazz LP (the blue one) at the used book store recently! Good to see it's a recommended one! Haven't played it yet... paps: try some Jimmie Lunceford! Frémeaux have a 2CD "Essential" set, maybe you score lucky with some Chrono Classics... brownie helped me get the full (?) run of the Masters of Jazz of his, and I have the Columbia 3LP set. Brilliant stuff, but also out of the scope of this thread, I think (but then it's you who listed Wilson, so...) and speaking of Wilson: if you don't have the Billie Holiday Columbia recordings, there's a cheap wallet-box edition of them out now for very few $$ - glorious music! I'll follow this thread myself, for more 20s recommendations!

The 'Sleepthief' should be good. Saw them a while ago in Birmingham. A German/Brit/US combination that works ! I skipped the whole festival... too tired and too exhausted from all the pre-x-mas stress... Next up: Depart, December 20th

bought the recent Fresu/Towner (Chiaroscuro) as an x-mas present for my mother (I think...) - sounds pretty nice! source and more

So can anyone say something about the three different editions of this? There was the old Verve disc (jewel case) (which I have) Then the VME And most recently the Newport Anniversary edition pictured above (I have a few of that series, but still need others) Do the VME and the 50th Anniv. editions use the same remastering? Which one is to be preferred? Is the old one bad enough to be upgraded or is it ok?

maybe Suzie Q. - excited about the whole CCR 40th Anniversary box!

I like the "healthy curiosity" bit... but it might at times become just a wee bit unhealthy, I admit... I also like MG's advice about beer... does it apply to red wine, too?

Well, 300 bucks for 70 disc IS a BIG FAT bargain, at least for us poor ol' yurpeens over here! I still won't buy it, but consider this: you get the whole box for the price you pay for 8-10 "nice price" CDs sold at regular prices (like RVGs, Verve Originals, or in the better bygone times, OJCCDs of the not limited kind). I know that you can't flat out compare prices for single discs with box-sets, but the Coltrane box usually can be had for around 90 bucks here. (I had one bought and sent to me from the US, for 35 bucks in total... even though it was a hassle for the friend who bought it for me, I don't think I could find it that cheap over here!)

Thanks Bob! In the very worst case I'd hang on to my Conns, the TOCJ and look for some japanese edition of "Soundin' Off"... There are still a few acceptably priced (but quite higher than Mosaic) copies on offer at amazon... haven't gotten a shipping confirmation, the order is "en course" since ten minutes after I put it in. Hope that's not a bad sign. It's not quite as bad with Swiss customs, alas, but I guess they now need to search additionally for hidden minarets in larger packages...

Yikes ! Seems that someone at Mosaic was thinking about 'Reece Witherspoon' instead of 'Reese Wetherspoon' (sorry ubu, couldn't resist ). The Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select sounds great, by the way ! And may I recommend the Tony Williams as an alternate, if you don't already have it? Ï'd have gone for the Paul Chambers... but they already seem to have processed a refund and told me to keep the Witherspoon as a gift (Captain Reese James?) No shipping confirmation for my amazon order yet, but I keep hoping...

Same here, it's in all the shops as well - but I won't buy it, that's for sure!

"all else" was supposed to be "everything else"... so the answer is: the new box set, previously it wasn't in any box set.

I can totally relate... I am wrapping up my studies, have a rent and some other expenses to pay, but have a small but regular income, and every now and then, the dreaded sales bins (and Mosaic "last chance" sets) are just getting too much. But then the signs are there by now that the CD era is winding down, at least on a broader perspective... I've mined the Blue Note sales close to exhaustion (the only one I can think of that I still need is Duke Pearson's Honey Bee, which weird enough *never* turns up in the regular BN sales here). The small catastrophe at Mosaic a couple of months ago tore a hole in my budget, and I already had the Beatles mono box on order at the very same time. Yeah well... I'll just sit it out and cut down my expenses for a while now Having no major obligations of course helps, otherwise I'd definitely have to change my buying behaviour. As it is, I spend it all on CDs, books, the occasional magazine (The Wire, also I subscribe to Jazz Magazine from France and Songlines from the UK), newspapers (I'm an addict...), going to the movies (rather than buying DVDs), and occasionally to see live music, too.

Ok, big relief, my amazon.fr (final copy!) order is beyond "change order", it's already being processed! I guess I'll just have Mosaic send me another Select instead... and of course I'll pay for the Witherspoon, although it was only on my "possibly buy" list...