Face of the Bass

Bump: Price reductions on the McPhee and Sanders, several new sets added.

It is still pretty much my favorite place to shop for music in person. I've always found the staff friendly and knowledgeable and I try to make a point of ordering from them when I can. I've discovered more music there than at any other store.

Only the Jones is left....

Continuing my pruning of my current collection of box sets, I have the following four Mosaic Selects for sale. Each of them is $30, shipping included to the U.S. Paypal only. PM if interested. Will ship internationally at cost. For all four sets, the booklets and discs are in like new condition. The outer boxes have minor shelf wear consistent with what you see in most Mosaic selects. The Jones outer box is a bit more banged up than the others. All Sold. Thanks for looking!

One more. In addition to everything I above, I've put a sealed copy of the Lester Young Mosaic up on EBay as well. The Buy It Now Price is $10 cheaper than the final price that the last one sold for... http://www.ebay.com/itm/251227584490?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Update: the Bill Evans Verve set and the Roland Kirk Mercury Set are now both on E-Bay. Here is a link to the auctions. You might be able to get them for a lower price: The Evans is here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251226782486?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 The Kirk is here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251226784771?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 The other sets that I still have available are listed above and can be had by sending me a PM. Thanks!

PM sent on the Parker.

Lou Donaldson is gone. Get 'em while they are hot!

Hawkins and Hutcherson select are both gone.

Nothing wrong with it, I've just got too much stuff and other things I need to listen to, so I'm selling it.

Just a note that if you have any interest in any of the remaining sets, let me know this week. As of Friday they will go to auction.

And another two boxes added. Thanks!

Up...4 more Mosaic boxes added to the list. PM if interested.

I have the following sets for sale. Prices include shipping to the U.S. Please inquire for international deliveries. Paypal Only, PM if Interested. Box Sets Peter Brotzmann -- Die Like A Dog: The Complete FMP Recordings -- $35 **ON HOLD** Thanks for looking!

Huh, I wrote that almost two years ago. Not sure if my opinion still holds. I do think, though, that hard bop as a genre was vital to jazz music until the early 1960s, by which point it was largely played out and overly formulaic. Of course, a lot of free jazz is also overly formulaic these days as well. Eventually everything gets played out.

Thanks for the suggestion. I contacted her and she said that the set has been sold out for years, but she hopes that sometime in 2013 Ogun will be releasing some unissued Harry Miller material. I'm just amazed that I can't find a single copy of this anywhere, not even a horribly overpriced copy on Amazon.

Well I absolutely love record stores. Every time I hit a new city I always find out where the record stores are (if there are any) and drop a boatload of cash. Online shopping is nowhere near as fun, and downloading is awful. I'm a human being, which means that I relate better to physical objects. Does that make me old-fashioned? Maybe. But I'm only 35.

Figured I'd take a stab at this. Checking the usual places, I cannot find a single copy of this for sale anywhere. (Only illegal downloads come up on searches.) I am trying to bolster my collection of South African jazz, and so if anybody happens to know where one can get a copy, or have a copy themselves that they would be willing to sell or trade away, then send me a pm. Thanks.

Looks interesting, but I have to say experience has taught me that no 52-cd box set could ever be worth the price. That's simply too much material.

Are all of Dyani's albums as a leader as impossibly awesome as Witchdoctor's Son?

I should have updated here that the CDs I ordered came through. Delivery was just a bit late, but everything was fine.

No, it wasn't. As long as there are not people trapped inside houses or on rooftops or inside a sporting facility for days on end, or terminally ill patients in hospitals being euthanized because help is not on the way, or whole cities being leveled as if they were never there, or atomic power plants melting down, or death tolls not in five, four, or even "just" in the high three figures (right now, it's at 30 in the US and 67 in the Caribbean), this was not the worst case scenario, not by a long shot. Don't misunderstand me, this was one nasty, scary, bigass storm that has done and will continue to do a lot of damage, but from all accounts I'm hearing, we're looking at a type of damage that is, on the grand scale of possible outcomes, looking to be more a matter of massive inconvenience and an economic blunt trauma that A Great Human Tragedy. I do not minimize that, that's some real shit, it's definitely bad, but "worst possible outcome" of a Massive Weather Event Meets Massive Population scenario? Not really. You misunderstand what I mean. Obviously storms can and do kill many more people and cause much wider damage. What I meant was that this storm hit the most heavily populated region in the country right at high tide and in a way that sent massive amounts of water rushing into downtown Manhattan. Based on the size and scope of the storm on Sunday, if you had wanted to envision a "worst-case scenario" for Hurricane Sandy, that would have been about it. If you had stipulated in advance the strength of the winds, the size of the storm, and the amount of rain, you couldn't have found a worse scenario than the one that played out. Obviously if we are talking about a poorer country or a less prepared citizenry, it would have been much, much worse. I'm simply referring to the way in which this storm made landfall and where it sent the most water.

I was watching the footage last night and thinking this was pretty much the worst case scenario, with all the power of the storm pushing water right along the New Jersey shore and into Manhattan. Up here in upstate New York, we got lucky. Some strong winds and a few power outages, but not much rain and no flooding. Today everything is back to normal. I can't imagine the economic damage this storm has done, given what happened in Atlantic City, Jersey City and Manhattan last night, not to mention Long Island.

I read her autobiography over the summer and enjoyed it very much. One of the best jazz writers, IMO.

Yeah, that's why I was hoping somebody might have a more reasonable offer at there. All the sets being offered now are priced between $400 and $900. I can't imagine anyone is buying at those prices. If this doesn't work I'll just start collecting the individual CDs, where possible.