Eric

They are my amazon seller of choice, particularly for OJCs. They give shipping confirms and ship very quickly.

Same goes for the Montgomerys.

Yeah, but it's still fun as hell, especially when you've got youngins.

I listen to music every day, although often I am doing something else. I tend to listen to rock in the am (getting ready for work, driving in) and jazz in the evening (cooking dinner, reading before bed, etc.). As for which artist, I tend to go in "subgenre spurts". I may be into the organ thing for 2-3 months, then I move on to more avant garde stuff and then maybe some 70s fusion-y stuff. I have wondered if there is any linkage between subgenre and my overall mood, stress level, etc. So far, no discernable connections! I will sometimes "go exclusive" to either rock of jazz, but usually I am listening to both over the course of a few days. I really do apreciate the size and diversity of my jazz colection - there is always something perfect to listen to. This board definitely is a stimulant for particular artists. Case in point - recently there were some lukewarm comments about Freddie Hubbard's Blue Note records. I happen to love most of this work, but haven't listened to it hard core in maybe 15 years. So I have been pulling them out over the past few weeks and it has been a blast to reconnect with these old "friends"

There are five Frank Wolff photos on the Mosaic site: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/photosearch.asp

Not sure if this is hard bop, but I liked just about everything from the Akiyoshi/Tabackin big band. Insight is a personal favorite. Clifford Jordan has a pretty cool date on Mapleshade. Much better than the one on Milestone. I also like the Joe Henderson record on Verve.

In your opinion, in general terms, how do they help?

Pulled this one at the last second ... great record!

Andrew Hill - Black Fire Art Blakey - Witch Doctor Joe Henderson - Our Thing Tina Brooks - Minor Move Grant Green - Born To Be Blue Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack Larry Young - Contrasts Sonny Rollins - Night At The Village Vanguard Very hard to just pick ten ...

I happen to love Freddie Hubbard's BN dates (well, except for the live one). I think they are more interesting artistic statements than most of the stuff that Morgan or Mobley put out. Donald Byrd made quite a few good records on BN ... personally he doesn't do much for me as a trumpeter.

You can go here to find the nearest Coinstar machine: http://www.coinstar.com/US/html/A-home It even tells you if the particular machine works with Amazon. This is very sweet

Interesting to see Mark Elf on guitar. Kinda surpising that he only plays on 3 cuts. Based on the line up, this would seem to have some promise.

Ditto, except Kansas.

Awesome!! Thanks!

The rainbows came out just as I was getting into jazz and were often the easiest Blue Notes to find. They were/are a lot of fun - I learned a hell of a lot from the notes.

oops, must have fat-fingered my birthday - it is actually the 13th But thanks much all - I do plan to celebrate tonight

What he said about what they said.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ideas_farm/Th...ecord/cover.htm and http://www.urpressing.com/tips.html

On the new arrivals, the genre is on the left. So click on "new arrivals", the click on "jazz" at the left. I found that if you click on the term "jazz", you get all the jazz items, but if you click on the number next to "jazz", it brings them up by media type. One thing I do like is that if you find something that is on say the P-Vine label, it gives you a search option to see all the P-Vine material. You could do this before, but you would have to use the search engine. A nice enhancement.

My ex-wife was ironing right next to my album crate and knocked the iron down on to the records. It landed face down. Davis through Farlow were f'd within a matter of seconds. Nothing as valuable as yours, but it was not a happy moment.

Glad you enjoyed yourself Michael.

Agree - my experience has been similar.

The "Silver 'n" lps would make great candidates for the Mosaic Select series

I think the UK sub of Blue Note has issued it. You can probably find it on amazon/uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Comedown-24B...TF8&s=music (sorry for not using CD Universe - they just show it as backordered)

I think the UK sub of Blue Note has issued it. You can probably find it on amazon/uk.