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So these are on the way over the next few days for the true shopaholics who want a leg-up on the sale : 3448967141423 025218523325 025218520027 ... Ok, I'm still working away at these. More soon!

Ok, this is more of a taster, but I will be out much of the afternoon, and I said some things will be listed this weekend. As before, 3+ CDs gets you free shipping to the US. 5+ gets 10% off the order. If a CD is marked with a *, then it is free with one other CD purchase (but does not count towards the 3 or 5 totals). And for a total tease, in the next post, I will put down all the UPCs I am working through. While there is still some efficiency, I still need to check condition (and price them) to avoid problems down the road. As ever, thanks for looking! HOLD 7 Eric Alexander Prime Time (W/Dvd) (High Note) very light scratch towards outside of playing area, not affecting play; DVD looks mint HOLD 6 Clarke-Boland Big Band All Smiles CD in very good condition with liner notes; however the mini-LP slipcase is not included. HOLD 6 Clarke-Boland Big Band More Smiles CD in very good condition with liner notes; however the mini-LP slipcase is not included. HOLD 8 Harold Mabern The Leading Man (Sony) This has 10 tracks with nearly all of the DIW version of Leading Man, along with several tracks from Lookin on the Bright Side. Hole in UPC. HOLD 8 Sonny Rollins & The Big Brass (Verve) digipack -- glue holding CD tray in place slipping and tray starting to come loose HOLD 9 Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (Impulse) digipack Sticker residue on digipack; mark through UPC HOLD 4 McCoy Tyner Reaching Fourth (Impulse) minor marks on CD not affecting play Consolidated

Whatever you just said, I'm in! As crazy as it was to learn about the remake of The Color Purple, I wish the poster had said A Lighter Shade of Purple. That would have been more amusing to me.

So I'm seeing the Costa Memorial Concert CD pop up in a few places, though currently out of stock at DG. Is it worth tracking down? From what I gather, side B has a group led by Coleman Hawkins, but I don't know if this appeared elsewhere. Thanks.

Sorry - another inventory slip. I'll go fix that. The Chico is on its way to you. Yes, most of the Heath's are still available and even a few Teddy Edwards still.

I'll probably pull together all the box sets into one place. For now, this is what I can recall. At the moment, I have the following Mosaic Selects $30 Andrew Hill solo HOLD $30 Johnny Richards HOLD $35 Art Pepper Select $20 Art Pepper Hollywood All-star Sessions (played once) $40 Dexter Gordon Live at the Montmartre Jazzhus (3 Black Lion CDs - Dexter in Copenhagen, 1967)

Well, I was thinking more: but ok.

Consolidated list from past 3 weeks (basically everything except the Last Chance and most recent two lists). Scattered price drops throughout. Virtually everything has been mailed out, except for a few things on hold. Thanks so much! I won't be checking PMs quite as frequently until the weekend when I hope to have a truly massive listing. HOLD 5 Ornette Coleman Skies of America (Columbia) HOLD 10 John Coltrane Live in Seattle (Impulse) 2 CDs, light scratch on CD2 HOLD 5 Walt Dickerson To My Queen HOLD 8 Bobby Hutcherson Un Poco Loco (Koch) sawcut in spine HOLD 5 Marty Paich The Broadway Bit/I Get a Boot out of You (Collectors Choice) Holepunch in UPC - sticker residue on front case (not artwork) can replace if desired HOLD 5 Oscar Peterson Trio at the Concertgebouw HOLD 9 McCoy Tyner Asante (BN) HOLD 9 Larry Young Of Love and Peace

Yeah, I'm with you. Tone is so hard to convey. It is sad, but it isn't precisely tragic, when a long-time abuser dies, because most of them were offered plenty of help. And it isn't like anyone born since the 1960s doesn't know that hard drugs will probably mess you up at least a bit, and then to go ahead and take them anyway...

Whoa, Jim. You're running close to Ebert territory here (he actually had his Facebook page blocked for a while for saying unkind things about the death of the Jackass star, who pretty clearly had been drinking and driving). Maybe you need some more time to reflect on this before people's feelings get bent. ( ) Anyway, Lindsay Lohan has considerably more talent than Paris Hilton at least. Though it may be a while before we get to see her act again. I do think she is more likely to get her shit together than Amy Winehouse, though the odds still aren't better than 50-50 she pulls it off.

In the tradition! Amy Winehouse got trashed for your sins... In related news, they have cancelled the rest of this tour. In all honesty, I hope she can get some help and get herself together, but I think that is fairly unlikely. I feel the same way about Lindsay Lohan, who is quite a trainwreck herself. The main difference being that I no longer think Lindsay is going to die of a drug overdose.

Or at least that she's gotten herself high somewhere. I think we can all agree she's managed that.

Quite accidentally I have booked myself to arrive in Vancouver on the last day (July 3) of their jazz fest. I might go to some of the free stuff and also am thinking pretty seriously of catching Atomic's 7 pm show. Anyone else going to be there?

More than I should... I'm not super big on lists of CD collections, but maybe I will post it on a blog somewhere (now that I have my UPC scanner!). Briefly, I am keeping nearly all my classical CDs, particularly the Living Stereo Box, the Bernstein symphonies box, that Glenn Gould OJC collection, a few other OJC and EMI collections, some of the new RCA slimline sets (like Leinsdorf conducting Prokofiev) and the Kronos Quartet 25 year anniversary box. I am keeping most of my world music collection, which is focused on African music. I'm getting rid of almost all the rock/pop except for my New Wave collection and the Beatles. As far as jazz, I'm keeping a core of mostly bop/hardbop centered on Blue Note recordings, along with most of Andrew Hill records, Coltrane's classic quartet on Impulse, Miles Davis on Prestige and Columbia, and pretty much everything put out by Monk or Mingus. So I'll be left with kind of a traditional collection with a few oddball choices that still grab me.

What do you think of the two Black Lion CDs with Barney Kessel? Kessel seems a strong enough voice to me.

Thanks for the orders! I'll be settling up today and tomorrow for most orders. Then I'll be away for a few days but hope to have another long list over the weekend (broke down and got a UPC scanner, which gives you some idea how many more are left to process!). New listings (6/20/2011): HOLD 15 Teddy Edwards-Howard McGhee Together Again (OJC-Contemporary) HOLD 7 Teddy Edwards Heart and Soul (OJC-Contemporary) HOLD 7 Teddy Edwards Good Gravy (OJC-Contemporary) HOLD 8 Teddy Edwards Nothin But the Truth (OJC-Prestige) HOLD Booker Ervin The Book Cooks (Bethlehem) HOLD 22 Jimmy Forrest Most Much (OJC-Prestige) HOLD 12 Jimmy Heath The Quota (OJC-Riverside) HOLD 6 Jimmy Heath On the Trail (OJC-Riverside) HOLD 6 Jimmy Heath Triple Threat (OJC-Riverside) light scratches not affecting play HOLD 5 Jimmy Heath Really Big (OJC-Riverside) Keepnews Collection HOLD 5 Freddie Hubbard Hub Cap (BN) HOLD 6 Harold Land In New York (OJC-Jazzland) Rest consolidated

So, she was just hindered by booze (as opposed to completely wiped out) and only trying to put a new (presumably "jazzy") spin on some old chestnuts because, poor thing, she must be sick of having to sing all those tunes straight by now. I was kind of thinking that with the stints in rehab keeping her off the road, she was kind of like a red-shirt freshman and should have some spare enthusiasm. Anyway, the comments are runnning roughly 98-2 in favor of calling the author of the piece a complete wanker.

An interesting contrast between Grappelli and Stuff Smith can be found on a Pablo release of four tracks they did together in 1957, called "Violins No End." I also prefer Smith to Grappelli, finding the latter too sweet, although very easy to listen to. The band is good, too: Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Jo Jones. (The final 3 tracks have Grappelli only). Actually I believe the final three tracks are Stuff Smith only (my copy of Violins No End just turned up). He does seem most interested when "pushed" a bit by a strong second instrument or indeed a violin duet. I am was still waiting on Violins No End, but have been listening to the JiP Stuff and Steff. The MPS date Violin Summit is quite good, and the violin/mandolin pairing in Grappelli & Grisman is interesting. Not as interesting when all the backing instruments go electric, as in Ponty/Grappelli. Some people really like Uptown Dance, but I'm not that taken with it (Dusty Groove had a somewhat beat LP I just transferred). It's very easy listening, perhaps a precursor to smooth jazz. That said, it is surprising the label didn't release it on CD as it might have done quite well. Probably too late now. C'est la vie.

I'm embarrassed to say I've had the new Ellington set (#248) for about a month and I've not even cracked it open. I'll listen to some of it today, probably starting with the last two discs and working forward.

I'm not sure that an hour's worth of color move has more bits of data than an hour of a black and white movie, as far as transferring to digital is concerned. Really it depends on the bitrate that is used in the mastering. I've seen 2 hour movies in B & W as well as color squeezed onto one side of a DVD, but it is more typical that either type will take up 75% or so of both layers (most DVDs being dual-layered). It is true that older source material that hasn't been painstakingly restored (and which would generally be b & w) is more likely to be encoded at a lower bitrate.

I guess it is hardly surprising that the quality of the books in my stack are going down when I am specifically going through the ones that I expect to leave behind. Nonetheless, this one was a disappointment -- Seafaring and Civilization by De Souza. To me, this was basically like reading a history book based on Wikipedia entries. Shallow in many places and without a coherent central argument. On the plus side, it is short. Then I read The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead. My gut feeling about Whitehead is that he has been struggling to live up to the hype over his first novel (The Intuitionist). However, he has at least kept going, and didn't get totally frozen on a follow-up novel a la Ellison (who to be fair certainly kept writing *and publishing* non-fiction). This isn't a novel at all. It is probably best described as prose poem about Manhattan that sort of riffs a bit on E B White's Here is New York. I think the earlier sections are the best ones where he indulges in a melancholy reverie. I wonder if he is/was aware of Ben Katchor's work, since some sections seem very much in that same vein. A quick read, but absolutely a disposable book. Speaking of Ben Katchor, Cardboard Valise has finally been published: Valise. I don't feel as deep an attachment to Katchor's work as I did 10-15 years ago (probably for the simple reason you can't find his strips in the alternative weekly papers anymore at least not in Chicago), but at one point it resonated strongly with me.

Well, it's probably this: Fascinating-Rhythms or some material from the sound board that was used to construct this album.

Rudresh Mahanthappa is in residence at the Jazz Showcase starting tomorrow (June 16). I intend to make the Sunday matinee.

Still working my way through several boxes. Many more Blue Note and OJCs to come, particularly Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Heath and Arnett Cobb. I'll probably be consolidating the lists soon, dropping some prices and moving more to last chance by the weekend. For the most part, I'm not looking for trades, but there are a couple of CDs that I have some interest in: Bud Shank Fascinating Rhythms (2009) Charles Mingus Jazzical Moods (OJC, 1995) Oddly, I don't think I've ever heard this Mingus. New listings 6/15/2011: HOLD 4 Kenny Dorham Blues in Bebop (Savoy) HOLD 12 Teddy Edwards Out of This World (Steeplechase) HOLD 8 Duke Ellington Live at the Blue Note (Roulette) 2 CDs HOLD 5 Duke Ellington Afro-Eurasaian Eclipse (OJC-Fantasy) HOLD 4 Duke Ellington New Orleans Suite (Atlantic) HOLD 4 Frank Foster Well Water (Piadrum) hole in UPC HOLD 8 Dexter Gordon American Classic (Discovery) HOLD 4 Johnny Griffin The Big Soul-Band (OJC-Riverside) Moved to Last Chance

I've been in a new house for a couple months, and I finally cleaned out my closet, literally as well as metaphorically. Got rid of all the clothes that I will never wear again. Probably am hanging onto a few too many clothes that I might be able to wear again if I got my act together. Also thinking how ironic when I was emerging from winter hibernation and starting to exercise, I threw my back out something awful. Doctor says that this week I should finally be able to start swimming again, but no biking until July.