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There are so many posts in this thread that one never knows if this stuff has been posted before .. Anyway ... Bud Powell, Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke, and Jimmy Gourley in Paris, 1959 ...what can one say? http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yor1jv-yGMI

I also posted this to the Westcoast jazz list this morning, but for the few west coast fans on this list (Hi Chewy!) I thought that I would pose this question here as well .. I realize that most of you probably get this list, but for the few who don't, here is the latest release sheet from Fresh Sound and assorted Andorrean affiliates. These catalogs are filing some significant gaps, but also creating quite a bit of overlap ... For example, how many versions of the Urbie Green material has been reissued in the last six months ... can anyone sort out these various CDs? I think that one has to buy three or four Urbie Green CDs to get all of the material but that also gives about 60% overlap! On to Bobby Scott. I have always wondered why of all of the "great" west coast jazz recordings, the album that Bobby Scott did for Bethlehem remains un-reissued? The music on this album is a prime example of what we would consider to be the "west coast" sound, and features on eight cuts Candoli, Rosolino, Giuffre, Scott (p), Max Bennett, and Stan Levey. On the 12" version (BCP8), there are five additional cuts from a great "east coast" group including Eddie Bert, Hal McKusick (whose music thankfully is now being appreciated by a younger generation of jazz aficionados), Milt Hinton, and Osie Johnson. Maybe this album has just gone under Jordi's radar ... if so, can someone bring it to his attention. It has never, to my limited knowledge, ever been reissued as a CD in any of the many, often frustrating, attempts to reissue the Bethlehem label. Garth, Houston. Fresh Sound Records /Fresh Sound New Talent New Releases July 2007 Visit our web at http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/newreleases.php Fresh Sound Records Terry Gibbs Quartet - Featuring Terry Pollard Septet & Octet Her Complete Bethlehem Recordings (2 Cd Set) Lucky Is Back! ( Then, So Is Love) - Featuring Tommy Flanagan FSRCD 455 Lucky Thompson - Lucky Is Back! ( Then, So Is Love) - Featuring Tommy Flanagan Featuring: Lucky Thompson (ss & ts), Tommy Flanagan (p), Willie Ruff (b), Walter Perkins (d), Oliver Jackson (d), Frank Anderson (org), Wally Richardson (g) FSRCD 454 Chris Connor - Her Complete Bethlehem Recordings (2 Cd Set) Featuring: Chris Connor, Sy Olier's Orchestra, Ellis Larkins Trio, Vinnie Burke's Quartet, Ralph Sharon's Quintet FSRCD 451 Urbie Green - Septet & Octet Featuring: Urbie Green, Doug Mettome, John Murtaugh, Jimmy Lyon, Ruby Braff, Oscar Pettiford, Al Cohn... FSRCD 450 Terry Gibbs - Terry Gibbs Quartet - Featuring Terry Pollard Featuring: Terry Gibbs (vibes), Terry Pollard (piano), Herman Wright (bass), Nils-Bertil Dahlander, Jerry Segal (drums) Lone Hill Jazz Jazz At The Cellar 1958 At The Cotton Club 1956 ( Deluxe 3-CD Set ) LHJ10291 Arold Land - Jazz At The Cellar 1958 Featuring: Harold Land (ts), Elmo Hope (p), Scott Lafaro (b) & Lennie McBrowne (d) LHJ10292 Clifford Brown - At The Cotton Club 1956 ( Deluxe 3-cd Set ) Featuring: Clifford Brown (tp), Sonny Rollins (ts), Richie Powell (p), George Morrow (b) & Max Roach (d) Gambit Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club 69272 Ornette Coleman - Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club Featuring: Ornette Coleman (as), Don Cherry (tp), Paul Bley (p), Charlie Haden (b) & Billy Higgins (d). 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I'M BAAACK! Thanks for all of the good wishes folks .. it worked. After five and a half hours worth of spinal surgery last Thursday, I am home, wearing my very sexy corset, and recovering well. I should be up and running, so to speak, at a good clip by the weekend ... Till then I will be thinking about my next list ... Thanks again, Garth.

Thanks Riverrat .... I do try to keep myself in shape ... see the attached pictures ... Of course, I have gotten a little older since these were taken on Clifton Beach in Cape Town in 1957! ... BUT NOT MUCH!

Sure Al .... That would be great, as long as you promise to walk my dog (a boisterous mini-schnauzer) a mile or so every morning at about 7 a.m. The rest of the day while you are indulging yourself with my collection, you can also make breakfast, lunch, and dinner for me, and bring me grapes and glasses of wine when I request it ... Please call me to make arrangements ...

Yes, I know it is weird to post a "non-list" BUT I had promised quite a few people that I would be posting a new list this week. However, my back surgery has thankfully been moved up, and I will undergo the knife on Thursday morning, 14th .... My rugby playing days are catching up with me ... So I will be in some sort of recovery for several weeks, wearing a brace (they are going to "fuse" one level), and I am not sure how this will work trying to do the mailings ... I will use my recovery time to cull my collection a little deeper, and a new list will appear in the next two weeks ... I also want to thank everyone for the great response to my sales ... my nine children and four ex-wives thank you for putting bread into their mouths.

Indeed, he did! Jack Lewis was the A&R man behind many of Victor's best jazz releases from the fifties. Yes, he did supervise the Jazz Workshop series, but judging by the nature of much of his less adventurous work for RCA, I think he essentially just OK'd the JW projects (for which he certainly deserves credit). The musical supervision, I'd bet, was pretty much in the hands of the respective composers-leaders: George Russell, Hal McKusick, et al. Again, I wouldn't mind having full access to the RCA/Jack Lewis jazz catalogue of the time and being able to pick and chose, but there was IMO an air of routine to the typical RCA date of the Lewis era. And when there was some welcome focus and spark, as on the Cohn-Perkins-Kamuca album, I suspect it came from the musicians taking things in their own hands far more than from Lewis. Another way to look at it is that the RCA/Lewis material was essentially a byproduct of the relatively flush NYC recording studio scene of the mid-1950s, when guys like Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Al Cohn, Nick Travis, Barry Galbraith, Bernie Glow, Billy Byers, Manny Albam, etc. were playing in and/or writing for a floating studio big band that found itself in whole or in part in recording studios on dates of all kinds as often as 16 or more hours a day. Thus an air of the routine was almost inevitable when those guys assembled, though it could be broken through. I would say that the vast majority of the guys who recorded for RCA were drawn from that pool of musicians, with the exception of actual Basie-ites like Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Henry Coker, etc., and the West Coast people that RCA recorded (who were of course drawn from the LA equivalent to the NYC studio scene -- though I don't know if Lewis was the A&R man for the West Coast material). What potential Mosaics are in all that material? I don't have a list of all the stuff that RCA produced in the Jack Lewis era (BTW, I see that Al Cohn with Four Trumpets album is on the new Mosaic set), but unfortunately it looks like Fresh Sound has been there first in many instances ("unfortunately" because Mosaic could do it better and also because even when Fresh Sound is operating on the square, it feels to me like they are not). I believe that much, maybe all, of the Jazz Workshop material (George Russell, Hal McKusick, et al.) material has made it to Fresh Sound, plus there's a Fresh Sound that combines some RCA McKusick (the date with a string quartet and Manny Albam charts -- much better than one might think, with some gorgeous McKusick clarinet) with stuff he did at the time for other labels. A Rod Levitt Mosaic Select has been wished for before. For those with a taste for such things (I'd probably bite), a Sauter-Finegan Mosaic would be nice. Whatever else, those were fantastic-sounding recordings, and it would fun to hear them restored to their original glory if possible. Is there enough for a Mosaic Select of the Maynard Ferguson Dream Band? I'd probably pass, much preferring Maynard's band of the Roulette era, but it would be nice to have the option. Of individual albums of note, Mosaic has already done "The Brothers." RCA's subsidiary labels "X" and VIK had some interesting stuff: one forgotten gem is a Chuck Wayne big band/small group album with some of trumpeter Don Joseph's best solo work, "String Fever," reissued on CD on Euphoria, a guitar-oriented label; there are George Handy's two for "X," a blowing date with Allen Eager, Ernie Royal, and Kai Winding, and an interesting if precious at times orchestral album whose title I can't recall, both I believe on Fresh Sound now; and I've always had a soft spot for John Benson Brooks "Folk Jazz USA" (VIK), with Nick Travis, Zoot on alto, and Cohn on baritone. Fresh Sound also has put out the Nick Travis RCA quintet album with the Flora cover, "The Riot Is On," a collection of RCA Pete Jolly small group material that I have on order, and, I'm sure, much else that RCA did on the West Coast, including lots of Shorty Rogers. I'd love to see a complete list of RCA jazz albums from the '50s. I probably heard most of them at the time. But please spare me from "The Drum Suite"! It has always been obvious to me that Larry and I have very similar tastes (it must have been the water in the fifties-sixties) for this era's jazz, now thankfully being reissued .. even if it takes the Andorreans and Barceloneans to do it! When talking about RCA jazz of the fifties, I just wanted to throw into the mix the three great Tony Scott albums, and to thank Jordi for making these available .. sure as hell RCA in the U.S. would never have reissued those ... and IMO they are among the most interesting RCA albums outside of the Workshop Series. I used to think that I was the only Hal McKusick fan in the world when in the late fifties I collected all of his stuff that I could find, including fugitive tracks on Coral, Decca, Savoy and his fine Bethlehem album with Barry Galbraith. It is a pleasant feeling to see my tastes vindicated by a younger generation of jazz fans. (God! To think that I now have to refer to a "younger generation"!!!!)

I am closing down this sale tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. CT. Now is your last chance ... the remaining items will be placed on eBay ... I will try to get a totally new list on sometime this week ... These past lists were mainly dupes, and things I really did not wish to keep ... Now I am beginning to bite a little deeper into my collection, making tougher decisions!

I know, I know. About Lonehill I mean. I don't know about the bonus track on 'Introducing' but guess it's 'Our Love Is Here to Stay'. I have the album on vinyl plus that VSOP box so I'm happy with that Cleveland material... I have both the VEE and the Lonehill 4-CD reissue (great sound here BTW), as I got tired of paying outrageous collector's prices for this material, some of which was NOT available on CD anyway ... I can confirm that "Our Love Is Here To Stay" is on the VEE. What was most interesting to me is how several of the Benny Golson arrangements found on the Lonehill set were precursors to his later work with the Jazztet ... very similar voicings.

Another tasty morsel .... Jackie Mac and Phil ... Paris 1989 .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMoxm8xDOqM&NR=1

I feel just the opposite. Golson=underrated (especially as a player); Shorter=overrated. Shorter's composing leaves me cold much of the time, and although I do respect him, his playing has never reached me in a strong way, either. I have to go with Jim R. on this ... How anyone can claim that Shorter is a better composer than Golson I just cannot understand. Sure Wayne has some fine, introspective compositions, but Golson is in a class by himself. Also (and I am on record as having said this before on this site) Shorter's playing just leaves me wondering where "the meat is" ... Griffin, McLean, Watson, Ira Sullivan, and certainly Mobley all excite me far more than Shorter. I always feel a little guilty that I just cannot "get with" Shorter considering al the fuss that is made of him on this list.

SPECIAL SALE!! THIS IS A LIST OF THOSE ITEMS REMAINING FROM MY PREVIOUS SALE LISTS. I AM OFFERING ALL OF THESE AT 40% OFF THE LISTED PRICE! SPECIAL QUANTITY DISCOUNTS. 10 ITEMS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR 50% OFF AND 20 ITEMS (OR MORE) WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 60% OFF LISTED PRICE. I accept Paypal (preferred), money orders, or personal checks. Please contact me if interested on here, or at garthsj@earthlink.net (quicker). For convenience this list is alphabetized by first name. POSTAGE: Priority: 1-3 CDs – $5.15; 4 or more $6.95 Media Mail: 1-3 - $2.95; 4 or more $4.05 Japanese Pressings: Charlie Parker, "Memorial, Vol. 1" - Denon (Savoy MG-12001) Mini -LP - $10.00 Charlie Parker, "Story," - Denon (Savoy 12079) Mini-LP - $10.00 Art Blakey, “A Night At Birdland, Vol. 3” TOCJ 1602 - $20.00 (Sealed) The Jazz Messengers, “At The Café Bohemia, Vol. 3,” TOCJ 1603 - $15.00 Benny Green, “Soul Stirrin’,” Conn Series EMI Taiwan seal, Japanese??? - $15.00 (sealed).*** *** Can anyone help me a clear ID of where this came from. It seems to have Japanese on the OBI. but it it has a red seal in the plastic cover which says EMI Taiwan ... I always thought that it was a Japanese issue, and originally purchased it as such, but now I am not sure ... Regular Pressings: "Calypso After Midnight" (Lord Invader, Duke of Iron, etc.) The Live Midnight Special Concert, Town Hall, N.Y. 1946. - $6.00 Adam Makowicz, "The Music of Jerome Kern," Concord - $4.00 Ahmad Jamal, "I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn," Telarc – $4.00 Anat Cohen, "Place and Time," Anzic - $5.00 Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Joe Henderson, "Tenor Tribute, vol. 1," - Soul Note - $25.00 ($59.95 on Amazon) Art Blakey Messengers, "Like Someone in Love," - Blue Note (Sealed) - $7.00 Art Tatum, 'The Best of The Pablo Masterpieces," - Pablo - $6.00 Benny Green Trio, "Greens," Blue Note - $5.00 Bill Evans, "Alone," Verve - $6.0 Bill Evans, "Trio '64," Verve - $7.00 Buddy DeFranco - "Street of Dreams," (with Martin Taylor) - ProJazz - $15.00 Charles Lloyd, "The Water Is Wide," ECM - $6.00 Charles Mingus, “Epitaph,” Columbia (2-CD set) - $18.00 Charles Mingus, “Revenge,” Columbia (2-CD set) - $15.00 (sealed) Christian McBride, “Getting’ To It,” Verve - $4.00 Clark Terry, “With the Metropole Orchestra,” Mons - $4.00 (sealed) Claude Williamson, "Mulls The Mulligan Scene," Criterion (Fresh Sound) - $10.00 (sealed) Claude Williamson, “The Fabulous Trio,” Contract (Fresh Sound) -$9.00 (sealed) - $9.00 Count Basie Band, Basie's Bag," Telarc - $5.00 Dameronia, "Live At The Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris," - Soul Note - $17.00 Dave Holland Trio, "Triplicate' (Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette), ECM - $8.00 Dizzy Gillespie / Max Roach, "In Paris, " Vogue-BMG (sealed, but oop cut on the jewelcase) - $5.00 Dominique Eade, "When The Wind Was Cool," RCA-BMG - $4.00 Don Byron, "Bug Music," - Nonesuch - $4.00 Donald Harrison, "Nouveau Swing," Impulse - $5.00 Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, "Live At The Left Bank," - Fantasy - $7.00 George Shearing (with the Robert Farnon Orchestra), "How Beautiful Is Night," - Telarc - $5.00 George Shearing, "I Hear A Rhapsody - Live At The Blue Note," Telarc - $5.00 Gil Melle, "Mindscape," Blue Note - $6.00 Hal Galper Trio, “Tippin’,” Concord - $5.00 Hampton Hawes, "Blues For Bud," Black Lion (original) - $15.00 Jackie McLean, "Right Now!" - Blue Note (NOT RVG) - $4.00 James Newton, “If Love” (Billy Hart, Anthony Cox, Mike Cain), Jazzline - $9.00 Jane Ira Bloom, "Sometimes The Magic," Arabesque – $6.00 Jazz At The Philharmonic, "The First Concert," - Verve - $4.00 Jeff Linsky, " Up Late," Picante - $5.00 Jerry Granelli, “A Song I Thought I heard Buddy Sing” (Garrett, Priester, A. Cox), Evidence - $3.00 Jim Hall, “Concierto” (Remastered) – CBS - $4.00 Jim Snidero, "While Your Here" (Benny Green, P. Washington, Tony Reedus), Red - $10.00 John Coltrane - Don Cherry, "The Avant-Garde" - Atlantic(reissue) - $4.00 John Hendricks, "Boppin' at the Blue note, " Telarc - $4.00 Joshua Breakstone Trio, "9 by 3," Contemporary - $5.00 Joshua Redman, “Spirit of The Moment – Live At The Village Vanguard” – Warner Bros. (2-CD set) - $5.00 Kenny Clarke, "Plays Andre Hodier," Jazz in Paris-Gitane - $5.00 (sealed) Kenny Drew, "Undercurrent," - Blue Note Limited Edition (NOT RVG) Sealed. - $8.00 Kenny Drew, Jr., "Winter Flower," Milestone - $3.00 Kenny Drew, Jr., “Trio,” – Antilles - $2.00 Lee Konitz - Bob Brookmeyer, "In Paris," - Vogue-BMG (Paris) - $4.00 Lee Konitz, "At Storyville," Black Lion (original) - $10.00 Lee Konitz, with Alan Broadbent, "More Live-Lee," Milestones - $8.00 (sealed) Martin Taylor, " Spirit Of Django," - $10.00 Marty Erlich – “Malinka’s Dance,” Omni-Tone - $7.00 McCoy Tyner Big Band, "The Turning Point," Milestone - $10.00 McCoy Tyner, "Prelude And Sonata," Milestone - $1.00 Mike Melillo, "Alternate Changes," Red - $10.00 Mike Melillo, "Bopcentric," Red - $10.00 Nicholas Payton, "Gumbo Nouveau," Verve - $5.00 Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson, "Very Tall," - Verve - $6.00 Peter King, "Hi Fly," Spotlite - $10.00 Peter King, "Speed Trap," (with Presencer, Melling, Dankworth, Keogh), Ronnie Scott's Jazz - $9.00 Peter Leitch Quartet, "Mean What You Say," Concord - $3.00 Peter Leitch, "Trio/Quartet." Concord - $6.00 Phil Markowitz, “In The Woods,” Passage - $5.00 Ralph Moore, "Complete Landmark Recordings" (2-CD set), 32 Jazz - $16.00 Sam Most, “Mostly Flute,” (Jordan, Farlow, Higgins), Xanadu - $20 (sealed). Shelley Carrol, “ With Members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra,” Leaning House - $6.00 Simon Rattle, "The Jazz Album" (Milhaud, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Bernstein), EMI - $4.00 Steve Turre - "Sanctified Shells," Antilles - $8.00 Tal Farlow, "Chromatic Palette," - Concord - $6.00 Ted Rosenthal, “Rosenthology,” (Drummond, Formanek), Concord - $14.00 The Harper Brothers, "You Can Hide Inside The Music," - Verve - $2.00 Tommy Flanagan, "Lady Be Good ... For Ella," Verve - $7.00 Trumpet Legacy (Payton, Soloff, Henderson, Harrell) – Milestones - $6.00 Walter Bishop Jr., "Midnight Blue," - Red (Italy) - $13.00 Walter Norris Duo (George Mraz), "Hues of Blues," Concord - $4.00 Zoot Sims, "In Paris," Vogue-BMG (oop cut in jewelbox) - $4.00

For all you Brubeck fans out there ... something special from 1987 ... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22y0i_da...ake-the-a-train

I am just bringing this list back up before preparing another list of special items ...

List #5 Once again, here is another list of CDs. All of these are in NM condition. To make it easy this time, all of these albums are $4.00 each. Five for &18.00. Ten for $30. These prices are ONLY for this list, and cannot be combined with previous orders. I will create a special sale from items left over from my four previous lists this comiing week. I much prefer Paypal. but will accept checks or money orders. Postage: Priority: 1-3 Cds – $5.15; 4 or more - $6.95; 10 or more - $7.95 Media Mail: 1-3 - $2.95; 4 or more - $4.05; ten or more - $6.00 Please write to me at garthsj@earthlink.net for faster ervice. or contact meon here. Steve Turre, "TNT," (James Carter, Dewey Redman, David Sanchez), Telarc - Jon Yamada, "Bluestone" (Cyrus Chestnut), Milestone - Ahmad Jamal, "I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn," Telarc - Bobby Hutcherson, "Dialogue," - Blue Note (sealed) - George Shearing (with the Robert Farnon Orchestra), "How Beautiful Is Night," - Telarc - Art Tatum, 'The Best of The Pablo Masterpieces," - Pablo - Kerry Strayer Septet, "Jeru Blue: A Tribute To Gerry Mulligan," Palmetto - Donald Harrison Quintet, " For Art's Sake" (C. Chestnut, C. McBride,) Candid - Donald Harrison, "Nouveau Swing," Impulse - Louie Bellson, "Jazz Giants" (DeFranco, Menza, Candoli, Hank Jones), Jazz Heritage - George Shearing, "I Hear A Rhapsody - Live At The Blue Note," Telarc - Dexter Gordon, "Our Man In Paris," Blue Note (not RVG) - Dizzy Gillespie / Max Roach, "In Paris, " Vogue-BMG (sealed, but oop cut on the jewelcase) - John Metzger, "Unto The Light, (Fred Hersch), V.S.O.P. - Ray Drummond, "Vignettes" (Gary Bartz, Chris Potter, Rene Rosnes, Billy Hart), Arabesque - Ray Drummond, "1-2-3-4" (Craig Handy), Arabesque - Virginia Mayhew, "Nini Green" (Kenny Baron, Ingrid Jensen), Chiaroscuro - Virginia Mayhew, "Phantoms" (Ingrid Jensen, Harvie Schwartz), Renma - Jeff Linsky, " Up Late," Picante - Benny Golson, "Tenor Legacy" (B. Marsalis, James Carter, Harold Ashby), Arkadia - Walter Norris Trio, "Love Every Moment," Concord - Bruce Forman, "Forman On The Job" (Joe Henderson), Kamei - Ted Gioia Trio, "the end of the open road," Quartet - Jane Ira Bloom, "Sometimes The Magic," Arabesque - Stefano di Battista, "Stefano di Battista" (Elvin Jones, Jacky Terrasson), Blue Note - Stefano di Battista, "'Round About Roma," Blue Note - Terence Blanchard, "Simple Stated," Columbia - Dominique Eade, "When The Wind Was Cool," RCA-BMG - Weslia Whitfield, "Live in San Francisco," Landmark - Laure Theodore, "What The World Needs Now," Bearcat Records - "Calypso After Midnight" (Lord Invader, Duke of Iron, etc.) The Live Midnight Special Concert, Town Hall, N.Y. 1946. Simon Rattle, "The Jazz Album" (Milhaud, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Bernstein), EMI - Marlon Jordan, "For You Only," Columbia - Marlon Jordan, "Learson's Return" (Tim Warfield), Columbia - Kim Richmond, "Ballads," CMD - Zoot Sims, "In Paris," Vogue-BMG (oop cut in jewelbox) - J.J. Johnson / Nat Adderley, "Yokohama Concert, vol. 2," - Pablo - Jack Wilkins Trio, " Call Him Reckless," MusicMasters - Ron Affif Trio, "Ringside," Pablo - Count Basie Band, Basie's Bag," Telarc - Benny Green Trio, "Greens," Blue Note -

And at age 16 your letter to Marshall Stearns appeared in the December 1956 issue of Jazz Today : WOW! I have a clipping of that article, but tend to forget about it ... maybe I am embarrassed! However, there are certain prescient aspects to what I wrote ... I did end up studying the history of popular culture in America, but my Ph.D. dissertation was not on jazz, but on the social and cultural impact of the motion picture. (Published as FILM: THE DEMOCRATIC ART, Little, Brown, 1976). In return for publishing that letter, Marshall Stearns sent me a signed copy of his book, suitably inscribed ... I still have that volume sitting proudly on my shelves. .... and I used to love JAZZ TODAY magazine, What a pity it folded so quickly, and copies are hard to find these days. Thanks for uploading this pleasant memory ...

Ask, and thou shalt receive .... Of course this is going to cost you another $1.05 because you will now receive 4 CDs!

The early bird strikes! I gotcha covered!

Went for a mere pittance @ $472.99. I was checking prices for my Sale List #4 on Amazon, and I remembered this post. There are two used sets of the U.S. Columbia Legacy pressing for $16.99! Can here be THAT much difference in the sound of the "gold" recordings... ? Hmmmmmm ... Maybe I should more chances selling my surplus CDs on Ebay!

Here is my fourth list. Once again I have based my prices on Amazon.com and discounted by 20-55%. There are some rare items on this list, and they are priced accordingly. I will be preparing a fifth list of new items on the weekend, and then I will consolidate all of the albums left over into a master list. Please contact me at: garthsj@earthlink (faster), or leave a message for me here. Kenny Drew, "Undercurrent," - Blue Note Limited Edition (NOT RVG) Sealed. - $8.00 Paul Chambers, "1st Bassman," - Vee Jay (24 bit Blue Moon reissue) - $10.00 Paul Chamber, "Go" (Adderley, Kelly, Philly Joe, Hubbard, Cobb) - Vee Jay (24 bit Blue Moon reissue) - $10.00 Wynton Kelly, "Wynton Kelly" - Vee Jay (24 bit Blue Moon reissue) - $12.00 Warne Marsh Quartet, "Berlin 1980" - Gambit (sealed) - $7.00 Sonny Stitt, "Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio," - Verve - $15.00 Buddy DeFranco - "Street of Dreams," (with Martin Taylor) - ProJazz - $15.00 Art Blakey Messengers, "Like Someone in Love," - Blue Note (Sealed) - $7.00 Lee Konitz - Bob Brookmeyer, "In Paris," - Vogue-BMG (Paris) - $4.00 Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson, "Very Tall," - Verve - $6.00 Jackie McLean, "Right Now!" - Blue Note (NOT RVG) - $4.00 Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, "Live At The Left Bank," - Fantasy - $7.00 Don Byron, "Bug Music," - Nonesuch - $4.00 Walter Bishop Jr., "Midnight Blue," - Red (Italy) - $13.00 Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Joe Henderson, "Tenor Tribute, vol. 1," - Soul Note - $25.00 ($59.95 on Amazon) Dameronia, "Live At The Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris," - Soul Note - $17.00 Anat Cohen, "Place and Time," Anzic - $5.00 Joshua Breakstone Trio, "9 by 3," Contemporary - $5.00 John Hendricks, "Boppin' at the Blue note, " Telarc - $4.00 Paul Horn, "Rivera Concert" (Getz, Joe Farrell), - Who's Who - FREE (plus postage) Adam Makowicz, "At Maybeck, vol. 24," Concord - $9.00 Valdo Wliiams, "New Advanced Jazz," Savoy - $17.00 Antonio Hart, "For The First Time" (M. Miller, C. McBride, L. Nash, R. Hargrove, Bill Pierce), Novus - FREE (plus postage) Richie Beirach - George Coleman, "Convergence," Triloka - $10.00 Tete Montoliu, "The Music I Like To Play, VOLs 1-3" Soul Note (Will sell only as a 3-CD set) - $40.00 ($91.00 on Amazon) Mailing: Priority: 1-3 CDs - $5.15; 4 or more $6.95 Media Mail: 1-3 - $2.95; 4 or more $4.05

List #3 Here is my third list. Please contact me on here, or at garthsj@earthlink.net (faster service). Again, I have based these prices as 30-50% less than Amazon prices. Japanese Pressings: Charlie Parker, "Memorial, Vol. 1" - Denon (Savoy MG-12001) Mini-LP - $10.00 Charlie Parker, "Story," - Denon (Savoy 12079) Mini-LP - $10.00 Regular Pressings: Jim Snidero, "While Your Here" (Benny Green, P. Washington, Tony Reedus), Red - $10.00 Danny D'Imperio "Blues For Philly Joe," V.S.O.P. - $6.00 Ralph Moore, "Complete Landmark Recordings" (2-CD set), 32 Jazz - $16.00 Jazz At The Philharmonic, "The First Concert," - Verve - $4.00 Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen, "Trio" (Rosnes, Johansen), Milestones - $6.00 Steve Turre - "Sanctified Shells," Antilles - $8.00 Keystone Trio, "Newklear Music" (Hicks, Mraz, Muhammad), Milestones - $3.00 Nicholas Payton, "Gumbo Nouveau," Verve - $5.00 McBride/Payton/Whitfield, "Finger Paintings," Verve - $5.00 The Harper Brothers, "You Can Hide Inside The Music," - Verve - $1.00 Antonio Hart, "Don't You Know I Care," Novus - $1.00 Adam Makowicz, "The Music of Jerome Kern," Concord - $2.00 Peter Leitch Quartet, "Mean What You Say," Concord - $3.00 Peter Leitch, "Trio/Quartet." Concord - $6.00 Kenny Drew, Jr., "Winter Flower," Milestone - $3.00 Kenny Drew, Jr., "At Maybeck," Concord - $15.00 (Amazon is $27.95) Joe Henderson, "Lush Life," Verve - $3.00 McCoy Tyner, "Prelude And Sonata," Milestone - $1.00 McCoy Tyner Big Band, "The Turning Point," Milestone - $10.00 Martin Taylor, " Spirit Of Django," - $10.00 Charles Lloyd, "The Water Is Wide," ECM - $6.00 Peter King, "Speed Trap," (with Presencer, Melling, Dankworth, Keogh), Ronnie Scott's Jazz - $9.00 Peter King, "Hi Fly," Spotlite - $10.00 Gil Melle, "Mindscape," Blue Note - $6.00 Walter Norris Duo (George Mraz), "Hues of Blues," Concord - $4.00 Dave Holland Trio, "Triplicate' (Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette), ECM - $8.00 Lots more to come in the next few weeks ..... Mailing: Priority: 1-3 CDs - $5.15; 4 or more $6.95 Media Mail: 1-3 - $2.95; 4 or more $4.05

In the old days, back when I was in town (NYC) a lot and I was still getting a lot of exercise, I used to walk from 25th st down to Tower in the Village quite a bit. I can go one better .... 1988/89. when I was on a Gannett Fellowship at Columbia University, I lived on 106th Street (Duke Ellington Street) ... On Saturdays, and even some following Sundays, I would meander all the way down Broadway to J & R .... I loved that walk, buying books, flea market LPs, and sundry goodies along the way, and then take the subway home. During my 10 months living in N.Y. I lost over 50 lbs without going on diet. In Houston, where it is either too hot to walk, or there is not much to window shop for, I have had to devise a rigorous exercise program to control my weight. I sure miss that walk!

Notes per pound/dollar? I have a problem with this unless you are paying "primo" prices for the music. If you get pleasure, what is the limit? You're being grumpy again Chuck. Think "damn this is good, I wish it lasted longer than 37 minutes!" I believe that was my sentiment .... much like my feelings about "Grand Encounter" with John Lewis, Jim Hall, and Bill Perkins .. could there have been too much of that music? ... 32 minutes was not enough!

Thanks for posting his ... made my day!

Here it is .... If interested, notify me on here, or at garthsj@earthlink.net (faster response). LIST #2 Japanese Pressing Modern Jazz Quartet, "Django," Jap. Victor VDJ-1515 - $15.00 Regular Pressings Herb Geller, "Quartet," V.S.O.P. #89 - $5.00 Lester Young, "Trio" (Nat King Cole, Buddy Rich, also Edison) - Verve - $6.00 Mike Melillo, "Bopcentric," Red - $10.00 Mike Melillo, "Alternate Changes," Red - $10.00 Kenny Clarke, "Plays Andre Hodier," Jazz in Paris-Gitane - $5.00 (sealed) Stuff Smith - Dizzy Gillespie, 2-Cd set, Verve - $12.00 Horace Silver - "Horascope" - Blue Note (RVG) - $6.00 (sealed) Booker Ervin, "Texbook Tenor," Blue Note (RVG) - $6.00 (sealed) Shelly Manne, "Steps to the Desert," Contemporary (Remastered) - $7.00 (sealed) Hampton Hawes, "Blues For Bud," Black Lion (original) - $15.00 Red Mitchell -Warne Marsh, "Big Two," Storyville STCD 8582 - $10.00 (sealed) Lee Konitz, with Alan Broadbent, "More Live-Lee," Milestones - $8.00 (sealed) Lee Konitz, "At Storyville," Black Lion (original) - $10.00 Bill Evans, "With Symphony Orchestra (Claus Ogerman)," Verve - $6.00 Bill Evans, "Trio '64," Verve - $7.00 Claude Williamson, "Mulls The Mulligan Scene," Criterion (Fresh Sound) - $10.00 (sealed) Bill Evans, "Alone," Verve - $6.00 John Coltrane - Don Cherry, "The Avant-Garde" - Atlantic(reissue) - $3.00 Tal Farlow, "Chromatic Palette," - Concord - $6.00 Art Farmer - Enrico Pieranunzi, "Isis," SoulNote - $10.00 Charles McPherson, "Come Play With Me," Arabesque - $6.00 (sealed) Tommy Flanagan, "Lady Be Good ... For Ella," Verve - $7.00 Big Band Mingus, "Live At The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt, Vol. 1" - Soul Note - $20.00 ($43.00 on Amazon!) Eddie Higgins/Kevin Eubanks/Rufus reid, "Quiet Days, - Sunnyside - $8.00 Mailing: Priority: 1-3 Cds – $5.15; 4 or more $6.95 Media Mail: 1-3 - $2.95; 4 or more $4.05