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Mostly sailed CD wise, can't speak to vinyl. Some CD sets still sell at high prices, but overall the premiums have greatly declined or reversed. The previous Tristano-Konitz-Marsh Mosaic CD box never commanded very high prices iirc. It's currently offered on discogs for $100, fwiw. [Disclosure: I own both sets but am not a seller.]

This is a very boppish 1959 release by Hideo Shiraki (w. Akira Miyazawa on ts):

Yeah, I know, but it got to be too time-consuming. And my recent collecting interests are practically disjoint from the Mosaic catalog. But with these price trends I'll have to start making occasional surveys. 🤔

If you log into discogs, price history w. graph is available. Not sure about eBay...I think some price info might have been available years ago, but the multitude of ridiculously high eBay offers has reduced the signal/noise ratio to such an extent that I pay almost no attention to the site.

I had two big cdjapan coupons and spent excessively on a bunch of East Wind 1000 yen reissues (Andrew Hill! Tristano!) and other things. UCCJ-9139 Cedar Walton / [Live at] Pit Inn [Limited Release] UCCJ-9147 Andrew Hill / Hommage [Limited Release] UCCJ-9148 Ronnie Mathews / Trip To The Orient [Limited Release] UCCJ-9159 Andrew Hill / Blue Black [Limited Release] UCCJ-9162 Andrew Hill / Nefertiti [Limited Release] UCCJ-9170 Lennie Tristano / Descent Into The Maelstrom [Limited Release] CDSOL-47724 Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet / Tension! [Limited Release] UCCQ-9233 Bobby Hutcherson / Happenings [SHM-CD] [Limited Release] UCCU-5937 Lee Konitz / Motion [SHM-CD]

Juma Sultan and Aboriginal Music Society: free concert this Friday.

[Emphasis added] Wow. I haven't been paying attention to Mosaic CD box prices (not a seller, and not fond of the format/packaging so disinclined to buy at historical price levels), and am surprised to see such softness in the marketplace. I'd expected that on some level, but it never seemed to materialize so I stopped checking discogs, etc. I also own the JJ set, but passed on the Stitt.

I noticed that new (or at least recent) NoBusiness release a few days ago...

The Bird / Benedetti box on CD has always (in my experience) seemed to trade at relatively low prices. Interesting that the vinyl is offered so much higher. Definitely appears to be a large LP premium. In CD land the Maynard Ferguson box has always been notorious for high prices.

https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/strange-strings-expanded DL, vinyl, CD About time this got reissued.

Ray Copeland and Keith Copeland is another possible angle, but I don't have time to sleuth.

I bought it (Steve Swell and Fire Into Music, For Jemeel, Fire From the Road) with really high expectations. It's not bad, but somewhat underperformed those expectations.

Kenny Drew and John Coltrane (Blue Trane) Kenny Drew Jr. and Ravi Coltrane Thinking there could be an example including the Redmans (Dewey and Joshua), but haven't come up with one.

Mototeru Takagi. The set's been praised on "Japanese Jazz Revisited" and "Solo Saxophone" threads. The Bastards periodically stock it. Took a few listens before I fully connected with the music, but (now) I concur with the praise.

Mala Waldron was in the area recently, gave me an idea, so sleuthed: Mal Waldron, Reginald Workman Mala Waldron, Nioka Workman (they've played together live, but not recorded AFAIK)

Thanks! I made cursory checks at DG and cdjapan earlier but came up empty.

It was discussed on another thread. Seems like Sonny Clark did play minimally on one track. Anecdote discussed in Hawes's book fwiw.

A nearby Kingston McPhee event coming up. I just found out about it. Sunday, June 9: Joe McPhee / James Ilgenfritz / Sean Meehan/ Zoots Houston / Catherine Sikora / David Menestres at the Old Dutch Church (Kingston, NY), 7:30pm. https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/joe-mcphee-james-ilgenfritz-sean-meehan-zoots-houston-catherine-sikora-david-menestres/