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+1 IMO. Indirect link from 2007 (original 2001):

Earl Hines and Plas Johnson appear on this.

Sun Star. For some reason (chiefly dumbassery) I've listened to very little late (say post-Ascension) Coltrane. Recently acquired this disc via the forum and it's awesome.

I've periodically seen the Turrentine Mosaic at $75, both on eBay and discogs. Considered it at that price, but it'd be a marginal purchase and I always passed. Never seen it any cheaper, though. The Tristano/Konitz/Marsh is another Mosaic whose price is kinda soft. I did buy that a few years ago. I guess it varies: some Mosaics have maintained high prices and others get cheap from time to time. I agree that currently prices seem to be "off the lows". I tried for a long time to find the Andrew Hill Blue Note at a reasonable price (in hindsight, I narrowly missed on eBay a couple of times near relative lows), but gave up and cobbled together the individual discs for less. That took a little over a year (the last CD was stubborn). Once missed on the Beehive on eBay at an attractive price, took over 2 years to find it at that level again (on discogs).

I agree there are occasional bargains on eBay, but finding them takes more effort and sleuthing than I'm willing to expend these days. I bought the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic and came close on several bids in the not-too-distant past, but lately I've shopped and purchased from Discogs more often.

I rarely check Mosaic listings on eBay. There are so many absurdly high offerings that the signal/noise ratio is too low. I don't generally have time to sort through pages upon pages of crap. I fail to understand the economics of laughably high offerings: does eBay no longer charge listing fees? I'm out of touch, but years ago when I sold there I had to pay listing fees.

Well said.

Owners/ballclubs game the system all the time. Especially limiting service time of young players to maximize duration of contractual control. See e.g. Chicago Cubs / Kris Bryant. What's good for the goose...

FWIW, my package from Lithuania (NoBusiness) shipped and Valerij said to allow up to 10 weeks for delivery (Northeast USA).

Definitely. But kinda strange to me, hearing it only after a lot of much later Taylor. I dimly recall a quote in a profile of revered (by me) engineer Roy DuNann about how he found some of the hyper-modern jazz he recorded for Contemporary very strange*. I always assumed that referred just to Ornette, not knowing of the Taylor album. So I checked the credits and indeed, Looking Ahead! was recorded in Nola Studios, NYC, engineers Tommy Nola and Lewis Merritt. *it's in Stereophile, https://www.stereophile.com/interviews/402roy/index.html "What was it like, in 1958, to come in and set up a session for some new musician you didn't know, and hear Ornette Coleman play like that? Jazz was changed forever from that moment. It must have been incredible. You were there, Roy. What did you think?" In his inflectionless voice, Roy said immediately, "I would have sent him home." "You would have sent him home." "Yeah. I got so I could listen to a lot of the jazz stuff and know where one chorus was going to end and the next one begin. It was important for knowing where to make a splice. But with Ornette, you couldn't tell where you were. It just started out and it ended. It wasn't music at all for me."

I broke down and ordered the newish Sam Rivers (Ricochet) from NoBusiness. This won't be quick, so I'll heed earlier comments, forget about it and let arrival be a surprise.

I very recently came across the Cecil Taylor Contemporary (Looking Ahead!) and just had to purchase it.

! Happy birthday! I remember seeing your posts on rec.music.bluenote before finding out about this forum.

This is badass:

Depends on definition of really. For most items, I figure that if expected delivery time is measured in months, the chance of never receiving the item is too high and the hassle of obtaining a refund after 3 months (say) or whatever too great. If OTOH I know up front it'll be shipped by sea, I'm OK with months. If I want to get all logical about the matter, I already own so damn many recordings that I don't really need any more.

Just finished this.

Thanks. I'll order the Tapscott ASAP. Come to think of it, I've been receiving UK orders (avant-garde classical label Another Timbre direct and rarewaves through eBay) in reasonable time, and delivery from France ought to be comparable. Valerij at NoBusiness has always done well by me (I order through poligrafovicius on eBay), but I consider shipping time from Latvia and Russia to be comparable (possibly unfairly), so will hold off on the Rivers for now.

John, have you ordered anything from NoBusiness lately? I want the new Sam Rivers release but have held off because I fear brutal delays...even before COVID my NB orders could take a month. Also holding out on the new Horace Tapscott (DarkTree in France), but I'll probably chance this soon.

My pandemic orders from Squidco (media mail as noted) have taken weeks to go from NC to upstate NY. Seemingly because they get routed through the infamous Jersey City hub. Maybe it boils down to the configuration of the hub network and possible weak links therein.

Looks that way. Vinyl apparently sold out. https://www.bbemusic.com/downloads/cjq-location/

Or at least Brian something. Definitely a Brooklynite, and back in the day some of the cognoscenti addressed him as "Brian". [Added] After googling, yeah, probably Berger. As much as one can be sure of the identity of anyone posting on the Internet. Someone on this forum once theorized that Clem/Moms = "Gio", the prolific Amazon reviewer whose reviews of Renaissance polyphony CDs I've often read. I consider that improbable but hey, it's the Internet, so by no means out of the question.

I was in the neighborhood Tues. 6/16 and stopped in w/o warning. I was the only customer, the proprietor and an assistant were at the front desk. I had a mask on, they had a box of disposable gloves from which I took a pair. Only had a few minutes to shop before a business appt., but they had lots of inventory and I found 3 interesting used CDs, a big purchase for me. The shop is too far away (over 1 hour drive) to merit a special trip, but I wouldn't hesitate to revisit if nearby on a weekday. I'd avoid it on weekends or when lots of customers might be expected. The only sour note: neither the proprietor nor the young assistant wore masks. That's not wildly outlying behavior in my area (rural Ulster Co., NY). For instance, I declined to enter a barber shop today because the barber (sole proprietor) didn't require an appointment and had no "mask required" or "one customer at a time" signs on the front door. But most merchants wear/require masks.

I've never been able to secure a copy of the MacDonald book . I have the Combs book, and it's quite good, but there's quite a bit of musical analysis that might go over the head of some readers (like me). Reading Combs, it's evident that Dameron was a highly enigmatic personality and biographical details are difficult to come by.

[Emphasis added above]. I gotta admit that I drifted away from BOAC in recent years for more or less the "same-y" reason, so to speak. But since moving away from NYC area almost 20 years ago I've had to rely on recordings rather than concerts*. I actually found these performances from homes/studios way more compelling than traditional concert venues (and of course recordings). *Just in the case of Rzewski, for instance, I have great memories of late '90s performances of De Profundis by "Red Fred" himself @ Jazz Gallery and Coming Together by Eighth Blackbird (as best I can recall ) at Miller Theatre. I won't miss that one!