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My favorite Grant Green cover was the photo of the street signs at the corner of Grant and Green in San Francisco.

It sounds like his last roommate felt the need to move to another city to get away from him!

I had no fine arts classes when I was in high school. Considering how important music was to all of us then (the mid-60s), I'm sure that we all would have gotten something out of it.

Happy Birthday Chuck!

Sure you do. It was last week. Last week's sales were the worst for CDs since 1991. Soundscan says that only 5.3 million CDs were sold. Justin Bieber was the lucky guy who sold 60,000. Carole King and James Taylor have a new album together which came in at #6 with 44,000. http://www.prefixmag.com/news/this-weeks-cd-sales-worst-since-1991/40633/

I can think of only one person, a woman, who fit the OP's description. She did not have a large record collection, and she had a dozen or so (maybe fewer) jazz albums. So I agree with the tenor of the OP. Maybe my observation is that people who are a little into music (most people) are not into jazz. And people who are into non-jazz music a lot are not into jazz at all, except for those whose favorite music is jazz.

Maybe three years ago I had a convergence of a number of things. BMG/Your Music stopped offering a ton of stuff I wanted. My collection of unopened CDs grew to a mile high. I ran out of money. Also, I found that I had a few albums of just about everybody I was interested in. When you listen to an album only once or twice a year, that is not too much different from getting a new one. I found that I was spending my time listening to what I had already opened instead of hungering for something new. I checked choice #1, but if three years is a long time, then I should have checked choice #3.

Happy Birthday Larry!

Lala: Hot Club of Detroit - Night Town Cal Tjader - Tjader Plays Tjazz

Jim Popp is considering NFL offers. His house in Montreal is up for sale. If there has been a better player personnel guy than Popp in the history of the CFL, I'm unaware of him. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/popp-weighing-nfl-offers/article1569609/

Paul, the US Constitution specifically refers to copyright and the limited period of time that it should exist. The idea is that works of art should be available to the public. That makes it different in the US from typical family assets.

Great article! Thanks mjz!

Believe it or not, JaMarcus Russell is on the Ticats' neg list. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/ticats-not-interested-in-jamarcus-russell/article1565631/

The Lord has blessed me. The set I was most reluctant to part with, the Holman Russo, didn't sell.

I note how few of the selected albums are on labels I've heard of.

Thanks, Clifford. I've still got two more to go which end tomorrow, and both are stuck on the minimum bid, so I don't expect either to reach the reserve price. I have an eleventh which I didn't put up because I only have ten boxes, so I guess that will go up next week.

Today was a bad day. Well, so much for the idea that Monday is the best day of the week! The Curtis Fuller sold for $21 per cd. The Kenton Presents and the Herbie Nichols didn't sell. I put the reserve bid at $25 per cd for both of those. My thinking was that if someone doesn't want to pay $25 for Mosaic, then he just isn't interested. I think I will contact the high bidders and give them a second chance. I may relist them as "Buy Now or Best Offer" and see what happens. Any ideas?

Markus Howell retired today. I had no idea that he was so old, or had played in the league so long. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/veteran-stampeder-howell-retires/article1563561/

I always preferred Just Once in My Life to You've Lost That Loving Feeling, but I've always felt that it was because Feeling was beaten to death on the radio and Life was not. If the roles had been reversed, I'm confident that I would have liked Feeling more.

The Bud Shank just closed. I clicked to see its status, and it showed that with only four seconds (!) left the bid was $135.50. Yet when I clicked to see the final tally, the winning bid was $159.28. I think that the buyer got a real bargain with this, inasmuch as it is a 5-CD set, three of which are sealed. However, my Bid It Now price was $200 with free shipping, which was not much more than $159.28 plus shipping. So I can't complain. The winning bid comes to $31.85 per cd.

Here's another question: I am under the impression that each leading bid, including the winning bid, is not the full amount of what the bidder is willing to pay, but only one dollar more than the #2 bidder's maximum bid. Is that correct?

I have another new best friend. Someone has purchased the Chet Baker Studio at $45 per cd. This makes four of the ten I have put up which have been purchased at the Buy It Now price.

As you have seen if you have visited any of my auctions, I paid $5.00 per item for packing materials (from Sandy's recommendation Bags Unltd.), and am therefore charging a $5.00 handling fee to cover it. It appears that eBay is ignoring the handling fee when sending the invoice to the buyers.

I am a little surprised to see that the items with the most watchers (by far) are the Bud Shank, the Curtis Fuller and the Chet Baker Studio.

The Buddy DeFranco buyer has given me positive feedback, so that has freed up enough money to pay for the shipping of the other sets! That takes a load off my mind. One of the things weighing on my mind is that I set the reserve prices too low. Oh well, it's too late now.