Eric

Happy birthday Tom!!!

Toying with the idea of buying the vinyl as I am assuming it would come with a larger book. I am getting a little tired of the micro font used with many of the box set books. So with book in hand, how say ye? Is it readable? Sincerely, the old grouchy guy, (apparently).

Same reaction - wow - 13 years. Motherhood, apple pie, hot dogs and "that board you are always looking at"

Never been one to engage in the "wars". My views are similar to those expressed by Jim A in his first post. Here is how I generalize listening to both formats over the past 25 years: Digital is better than vinyl. But vinyl can sound pretty darn good. And digital is much more convenient.

Fascinating - what is the source?

Very nice, thanks for the post.

Hey, he got a quick close - there is some value to that - and presumably a price he could live with. Delmark carries on. Even as an icon, you have to have a web presence - which JRM did not. They had a large (i.e. not inexpensive) footprint and frankly nothing of great consequence that you could not easily find online. I'm not damning them - that is very hard to do in this day and age. I can say from personal experience - in the pre-Internet era, I stopped in every time I visited Chicago, usually for hours at a time (and usually multiple visits per trip - just ask the ex ). As I mentioned earlier, Dusty Groove had long since become my "go-to brick and mortar" alternative in Chicago - less stock, for sure, but more "hard to find" stock. Again, no disrespect meant to JRM - that's just how it was. Hopefully he did not take a bath on his inventory and got some value for his trade name.

I think it's great. No an attorney, but by virtue of it being a blindfold test, hard to see how a particular artist may be harmed. Not a legal defense, but my guess would be our BFTs have the net effect of increasing sales for artists, however puny the numbers.

That is coool

When I read this thread earlier, it occurred to me that DG has long been my "go to" record store in Chicago. Last time I went to JRM it was nearly empty (in terms of other patrons, not stock) and nothing distinctive about the stock. Some of it has to do with marketing - certainly from an online perspective, DG is fun and interesting, whereas JRM barely has an online presence. In store, DG is smaller - seemingly much smaller, but definitely seems to favor quality over quantity. Too bad for JRM. Not sure how you make a go of it. Now in terms of lifetime spend, JRM probably still has the edge

Cool picture of Blue!

Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out. Odd ...

Web site says there will be two lps ... http://www.resonancerecords.org/release.php?cat=HCD-2022

I own this one sans bubble (sorry) ... bought it mail order when I was in college in the early 80s. I adore this album. My copy has some very unique drawings on the back ... discussed in this thread (towards the bottom of the first page) if you are interested:

Always enjoyed those albums and their 70s vibe. Great to have Mosaic uh, select them for reissue back then.

That's how it sounds on the clips. Thanks for posting.

As to your first question ... http://www.amazon.com/Paris-ORTF-Recordings-CD-Deluxe/dp/B0188EOHOY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453590252&sr=8-1&keywords=larry+young

I really like the cover photo.

This does look fabulous! I see they also have a couple Stan Getz records coming: http://www.resonancerecords.org/

Curious - how you heard the 5th disc from the special edition?

I received an email from Mosaic on these three today. They make clear that they don't have them in stock and they they will place a bulk order from Sony and then ship to their customers. They are offering the Blakey set for $69.98. Amazon Prime has it for $34.26. Amazon sellers have it as low as $22.59 new. I'm not bashing Mosaic and I hope for their sake they sell the hell out of it at $69.98. I have always wondered "who" that customer is. The sad irony of course is that ten years ago, $69.98 would have sounded like a great price for an 8-CD Blakey box. As I mentioned above, it is a nice piece - detailed Cuscuna notes, good discographical info.

I need to pull this back out - it has been a while and my appreciation for Petty has deepened since I first bought this.

PM on "Turn"

I picked this one (i.e. the Blakey) up - agreed on the content side. Cuscuna did the notes - both they and the discographical info are "Mosaic Select"-like. Exceeded my expectations.