Stompin at the Savoy

This just arrived today. I ordered it directly from the Village Vanguard website. I like this band and have the Mosaic set and a few of their other early recordings. The book is huge and has a surprising amount of content. Wow! Some shots of it here.

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/05/187385391/kenny-barron-quintet-live-at-the-village-vanguard

The other day I snagged surprisingly inexpensive (and in beautiful shape) copies of this and the Herman Capitol box. Swinging. And wacky! Some throwaway songs but some great arrangements and soloing.

Ends up being a pretty big waste of fuel and unnecessary carbon footprint. Grumble grumble...

You're probably right about sorting near the origin. Still this is a hell of a way to run the post office, sending a package to the other side of the country and then back...

I recently ordered a dvd box set (the complete Powerpuff Girls series) from ebay. it was submitted to USPS by the seller in a town near Los Angeles. It then traveled to Memphis, Tennessee and onward to Birmingham, Alabama, before turning around and coming to southern Oregon! Wtf.

I got this and the Blue Note Clifford Brown box a while back and keep returning to them. I've been looking around for copy of Sonny Rollins Plus 4. Which mastering should I get?

https://musicbrainz.org/release/830a4142-10b4-4db0-9f81-ecde6e1224f2/cover-art

I guess I'm weird but for me Oscar Peterson is a plus. He can overdo it sometimes or even seem bombastic but every once in a while he'll play something and I'm left thinking holy crow that changes everything...

So did I and they do. This may be better. Here's the booklet: https://musicbrainz.org/release/8c6f08c5-2b1d-4208-aa39-41a2b1bd838a/cover-art

I have the Mosaic set with these performances but saw an inexpensive used copy on ebay and snagged it. Remastered by Malcolm Addey in 2007. Seems like this has a clearer image than the Mosaic; very lively, warm and clear.

I preordered with credit card and received the confirmation immediately. Check your spam folder if you don't see it.

I received it! Thanks so much. You did a great job of photographing those. My booklet is complete!

A device like she has there isn't much use to me. I'm trying to blow the text up on a large screen. That thing or a phone - the screen is so small that once I've blown up the text size I have to scroll all the time. So those are useless to me. I'm sure they are great for people with better vision than I have. Kindle on Ipad works ok for me in a pinch. The screen is big enough to work pretty well. I mainly use kindle with pc and monitor. OK, been derailing this too much so my final remarks on this topic: I think maybe we are talking about different things here. You are considering the kindle device and some issues surrounding the kindle/Amazon ecosphere. And there are significant issues, I'll allow. Of course you can always use the Kindle for PC reader independently of Amazon to read public domain books in kindle format from Gutenberg.org and elsewhere. From a PC point of view this is simply another format, like Adobe Acrobat. I am talking about accessibility. I am now in the 'large type' stage of life though I have never bought any large print books. I have found that I can turn any digital book into a large type book with the perfect size print to read without glasses by displaying them on a large monitor. I even photograph Mosaic booklets so I can read them blown up on a monitor.

Steve, Steve, Stevarino! This is not a battle of printed books against digital books! I'll be seventy in a few months and have been collecting paper books all my life. I have so many I have to keep most of them in a storage locker the size of a one car garage. Somebody saying that digital books can help people with visual issues is not a challenge to you and your decision to avoid them. Relax, ok? Nobody is trying to convert you. Remember the old saying: don't knock it if you haven't tried it?

I picked up the Django Reinhardt box on ebay the other day - $80, which is I think a pretty good price. But... I started enjoying the music and then discovered that the booklet was missing the first leaf after the cover, so pages 1 and 2 and 27 and 28 are missing. It looks like this was a promo or something because the serial number is "X". I've been able to obtain the discography on the last two pages of the booklet from Internet Archive old versions of the Mosaic website and I have the jewel case liner notes with more or less the same info. So I'm just curious about the first two pages. Anyone care to help me out with photos of pages 1 and 2? -edit: Ah never mind I guess those first two pages are just boiler-plate bio of Django etc. I'll live without it.

Well Steve, there are many advantages to having a book as a file rather than a printed copy. In my case, I had used progressive lenses for a few years and complained to my optometrist that it was awkward and uncomfortable trying to read through an aperture smaller than a dime at the bottom of the lenses (and having to move my head to scan the page like reading through a telescope) and asked if I could get reading glasses, whereupon he told me to buy dime store magnifying glasses. I used those for a while but I needed such strong cheaters that I was having to hold the book very close to my face and it was a jolt every time I had to look away from the plane of the book. Now I just blow up the text on a monitor to a size I can read comfortably without glasses. So it's useful for people with vision issues. But as someone else pointed out, ibooks allow you to carry thousands of books with you on a phone or tablet or kindle device (I still haven't bought a kindle device). Another great advantage is you can do things like rapid text searches through the book, which you can't do with print. In many cases the kindle edition of a book is far cheaper than the print version and in some cases the only practical way to obtain the book. Hundreds of thousands of books published before 1926 are available on Gutenberg.org for free. Paperless reading saves energy, reduces logging of forests, and reduces traffic. I could go on enumerating advantages but I think that's enough. It seems to me that your question - how do I turn electronic books into paper - misses the whole point of having electronic books. Printing electronic books negates the whole purpose of an electronic book. If what you want is a paper book, buy a paper book, don't buy an electronic book and then jump through awkward and expensive hoops to turn it into paper. This is kind of like complaining that using soap to clean your body doesn't allow you to reconstitute the dirt and put it back on your body!

Haha well I don't want to derail the thread but here is a suggestion: download the free kindle for pc software and install it. Go to Gutenberg.org and look around for a free book to read as a sample, such as a nice P. G. Wodehouse novel. See how it works for you. The whole exercise is totally free. A few years down the line it might change your life.

You might enjoy reading on Kindle as you get older if your eyesight deteriorates. I have to wear strong cheaters to read most hard-copy. Every time I look away from the book I have to remove the glasses to see. With Kindle I put it on a large monitor and bump up the fonts so I can read without glasses. It's great!