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Hey guys, I should have come back earlier with the results, but.. I had it up 3x, and got a few watchers, and a couple of unsolicited offers. I left it on the sidelines for a few weeks, but thru the ended auction, it turns out a guy I've been doing a lot of selling to (I had about 190 Mosaic sets a year ago Aug '12 when I started to unload) and while we were negotiating a large purchase of said Mosaic's we needed to talk together on the phone to finalize it. We hit it off real well, and talked for about 90 minutes or so, when I started pitching him this set. It turned out he was not only familiar with it, but at one point was thinking about about trying to collect it... So he was thrilled to hear that I had it would indeed sell the complete 1st edition run all items brand new. We eventually agreed at $1,500 with me paying the freight. The ironic part was 2 days later a guy from eBay contacted me. He had set as an eBay Saved Search, "Jazz In Paris", BUT the email didn't arrive in his inbox until the 3 weeks later, just after I sold it. He emailed me after receiving the saved search note for my auction. He had seen the price, and in the email offered to pay full price $1,950), if I'd re-list it. He had a copy of the 25 CD set, and wanted to buy my entire set, and then try selling his 25 CD set on eBay. He specialized in collection full series type stuff). So after I apologized and told him it was gone, he asked me if I had any other types of HTF full collections. As that was one of my OCD traits (Collecting an entire series like this), I offered him 3 such collections which he ended up buying over the course of a few weeks. You have to understand that all 3 of these were mainly OOP. Many items went for in the $4-&7 range, many were between $8 - 15, and then each set had its own particulars of the several very hard to find at a decent cost, or the HTF at ANY cost. Including shipping for each single purchase of course makes it more expensive. 50 CDs shipping at an average of $3 - $4 adds $150 to $200 for the price of the collection. And then when you get to the last few discs you're missing, and either can't find them or are not willing to pay $100.00 for way, you wait, keep looking, and the next time you find one of the last few you're willing to go pretty high, so it all adds up. But that's the Story of... and That's the Glory of..Collecting. Live at The Maybeck: a series of Live Solo Piano (Concord Jazz), by almost every well-known jazz pianist performed alone in the acoustically great Maybeck. The complete series included another 12 Duos (8 piano/bass, 2 piano/guitar, 1 piano/piano, and 1 piano/sax), 54 releases in all PLUS a very limited edition rare OOP 4 CD Box, containing Vols 1 - 4, which was released to announce the beginning of the series (which was open ended initially) The 4 CDs contained within are also provided in its regular single CD release as well. All the $ figures show what I paid for the title and the S&H amount charged for each disc This complete set sold for $790.00, once again making a very few $'s, but having the ripped Flac/MP3 files to listen to Maybeck Recital Hall - Solo Joanne Brackeen Dave McKenna Dick Hyman Walter Norris Stanley Cowell Hal Galper John Hicks Gerry Wiggins Marian McPartland Kenny Barron Roger Kellaway Barry Harris Steve Kuhn Alan Broadbent Buddy Montgomery Hank Jones Jaki Byard Mike Wofford Richie Beirach Jim McNeely Jessica Williams Ellis Larkins Gene Harris Adam Makowicz Cedar Walton Bill Mays Denny Zeitlin Andy LaVerne John Campbell Ralph Sutton Fred Hersch Roland Hanna Don Friedman Kenny Werner George Cables Toshiko Akiyoshi John Colianni Ted Rosenthal Kenny Drew, Jr. Monty Alexander Allen Farnham James Williams The Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 1-4 Box Set Maybeck Recital Hall - Duo Roger Kellaway & Red Mitchell Dave McKenna & Gray Sargent Ken Peplowski & Howard Alden Alan Broadbent & Gary Foster Adam Makowicz & George Mraz Ralph Sutton & Dick Hyman Bill Mays & Ed Bickert Denny Zeitlin & David Friesen Michael Moore & Bill Charlap Chris Potter & Kenny Werner Hal Galper & Jeff Johnson TOTAL $ 573.58 $ 148.97 $ 722.55 Charly Blues Masterworks: 50 CDs of all the Greats, PLUS a very rare, sealed 4 CD Sampler Box which was a promo for the series. He bought this one from me $525.00 total (close to break even, a little ahead. I had my fun of collection, then rip all this music to flac/mp3 CHARLY BLUES MASTERWORKS SERIES $ 319.92 $ 150.42 $ 470.34 CHARLY BLUES MASTERWORKS SERIES GUITAR JUNIOR ALBERT KING/OTIS RUSH JIMMY ROGERS JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS W/ WALTER TROUT HOWLIN' WOLF CLARENCE 'GATEMOUTH' BROWN JOHN LEE HOOKER LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS WALTER 'WOLFMAN' WASHINGTON MUDDY WATERS BUDDY GUY ELMORE JAMES ROBERT JOHNSON T-BONE WALKER MUDDY WATER, BUDDY GUY, HOWLIN WOLF et al ROBERT CRAY JIMMY REED ALBERT KING JOHN LEE HOOKER ERIC CLAPTON, JEFF BECK JIMMY PAGE MEMPHIS SLIM SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON LITTLE WALTER OTIS RUSH JIMMY WITHERSPOON THE SUPER, SUPER BLUES BAND (See Vol 15) BUDDY GUY ELMORE JAMES MAGIC SAM HOWLIN' WOLF BESSIE SMITH VARIOUS ARTISTS LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS BILLY BOY ARNOLD EDDIE TAYLOR FRANK FROST LUTHER ALLISON JOHN LEE HOOKER MUDDY WATERS CHAMPION JACK DUPREE FENTON ROBINSON EDDIE BOYD BO DIDDLEY WILLIE MABON JOHN LEE HOOKER HOWLIN' WOLF J.B. LENOIR LOWELL FULSON BIG BILL BROONZY ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP Verve LPR Series (LP Reproduction): The Complete 114 CD containing all remastered for this set, of a tremendous cross-section of the best Jazz Verve had to offer. They all came with an OBI-type insert w/ some addn'l info about that particular CD. The first 30 were indeeed Repro Cardboard LP w/ rice paper for the CD, and a pull-out set of liner notes. The last 84 were switched over to a Digi-pak container. Purchased in about 2008, in a single transaction for about $550.00 Count Basie: King Of Swing Willie Bobo: A New Dimension Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond: 1975: The Duets Rosemary Clooney: Swing Around Rosie Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not Stan Getz: Stan Getz And The Cool Sounds Astrud Gilberto: The Shadow Of Your Smile Dizzy Gillespie: Afro Woody Herman: Woody Herman 1963 Stan Kenton: The Formative Years Carmen McRae: Birds Of A Feather Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66: Equinox Wes Montgomery: Willow Weep For Me Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band: At The Village Vanguard Anita O'Day: Incomparable! Oscar Peterson: Soul Español Mel Tormé: Olé Tormé Sarah Vaughan: It´s A Man's World Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook Ernestine Anderson: My Kinda Swing Buddy De Franco: Mr. Clarinet Slim Gaillard: Slim Gaillard Rides Again Terry Gibbs: Plays Jewish Melodies In Jazztime Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory & The Cecil Taylor Quartet: At Newport The Jazztet: The Jazztet At The Birdhouse Sam Rivers: Crystals Lalo Schifrin: Piano, Strings And Bossa Nova Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Gospel Train Cal Tjader: Soul Bird: Whiffenproof Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping Albert Ayler: Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe Ray Brown: Jazz Cello Buddie Emmons: Steel Guitar Jazz Jim Hall: Live! Earl Hines: Once Upon A Time Steve Kuhn & Gary McFarland: The October Suite Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now! Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Gabor Szabo: High Contrast Cannonball Adderley: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Stan Getz: Reflections Jimmy Giuffre: The Easy Way John Klemmer: Involvement Lee Konitz: Motion Billy Mitchell: This Is Billy Mitchell Gerry Mulligan/Johnny Hodges: Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges Sonny Stitt: New York Jazz Phil Woods And His European Rhythm Machine: At The Montreux Jazz Festival Brook Benton: Songs I Love To Sing Kenny Burrell: Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas Blossom Dearie: My Gentleman Friend Frank D'Rone: After The Ball Ella Fitzgerald: Sings Sweet Songs For Swingers Al Grey: Snap Your Fingers JJ Johnson: JJ's Broadway Hugh Masekela: grrr Buddy Rich & Harry “Sweets” Edison: Buddy And Sweets Jack Teagarden: Mis'ry And The Blues Mel Tormé: Tormé Mel Brown: Chicken Fat Gloria Coleman: Soul Sisters John Frigo: I Love John Frigo...He Swings Roger Kellaway: Cello Quartet Yusef Lateef: The Golden Flute Lyle Ritz: How About Uke? Tony Scott: Tony Scott Archie Shepp: The Cry Of My People Stuff Smith: Cat On A Hot Fiddle Clark Terry/Chico O'Farrill: Spanish Rice Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: ‘S Make It Candido Camero: Candido Johnny Griffin: J G Illinois Jacquet: Desert Winds Roland Kirk: Kirk In Copenhagen Machito: Vacation At The Concord James Moody: James Moody Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin Patato & Totico: Patato & Totico Sonny Stitt: Personal Appearance Lorez Alexandria: Alexandria The Great Freddy Cole: Waiter, Ask The Man To Play The Blues Blossom Dearie: Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs Bill Evans: California, Here I Come Ella Fitzgerald: Hello Love Ahmad Jamal: Chamber Music Of The New Jazz Ramsey Lewis: Another Voyage Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66: The Fool On The Hill Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra Jimmy Smith: The Boss Al Cohn: Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer Xavier Cugat: Cugi's Cocktails Harry Edison: Sweets Dizzy Gillespie: Sittin' In Gene Krupa: Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements Joe Newman Quintet: At Count Basie's Buddy Rich: Blues Caravan Max Roach: Jazz In 3/4 Time Ernie Andrews: This is Ernie Andrews Ella Fitzgerald: Hello, Dolly! Milton Nascimento: Courage Marlena Shaw: The Spice of Life Jimmy Smith: Stay Loose Sarah Vaughan: After Hours at the London House Dinah Washington: I Wanna Be Loved Jimmy Witherspoon & Brother Jack McDuff: The Blues is Now Albert Ayler: New Grass Gato Barbieri: Chapter Four: Alive in New York Yusef Lateef: Psychicemotus Oliver Nelson: Live From Los Angeles Freda Payne: After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! Pharaoh Sanders: Elevation Gabor Szabo: Spellbinder Michael White: The Land of Spirit and Light If you're still with me down here, my guess is you have collecting "tendencies". The fact I'm selling everything due to divorce, and a plan to move from my home of 20 years in San Diego, perhaps even internationally called for drastic changes. I LOVED buying LPs back in the day (I did have a massive LP collection at one pont, and when that was sold off, I thought I would never get back into it. I did so by1994 w/ CDs, very slowly then decided to go crazy for several years by focusing on Box sets. I think that's one area that will continue to gain in value, as the regular CD diminishes. There will ALWAYS be Collectors like me in every generation, who will want the rare HTF top quality jazz, blues, rock etc and they will continue to get harder to find. Regards All, and sorry if I took to much time/bandwidth. PS Please feel free to write or offer thoughts.

For anyone who MIGHT be interested here (I don’t know how many folks still check out this thread), I have listed thru eBay (U.S.), the complete 1st edition run of Jazz In Paris w/ BOTH box sets (the 75/25 sets), as well as the 4 Deluxe 3 CD sets, and all the ones not included ion the 1st 100 CDs on those large sets… Over 150 CDs in all. Brand New). Life circumstances have changed for the worse, and I’m 2/3 of the way thru selling my over 1400 box sets. My loss can be your gain. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=131052359239