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I agree it's tricky, but I think the majority of people want something new (and hassle-free), and on the whole you are better of on Amazon. Plus for the most part, the free shipping Amazon offers when you bundle a couple items together is the deciding factor. It has to be a very large price differential for me to go with the used copy. What I do like about the used items is that a fair number of things that are OOP show up there, so it's one more place to look at in addition to eBay and Gemm. (Also I can no longer order through half.com because of their payment policies.)

I suppose I'm simply more used to sort of grey market items showing up on eBay (like Asian DVDs not intended for the US market), but for the first time I got one on Amazon (through the used offerings). I ordered the Broken Flowers DVD and didn't get the US version. In fact the DVD plays fine and is region 1 NTSC, but doesn't have all the bonus material and the subtitles are in Chinese and Thai rather than French/Spanish. I think it is sort of legit and not simply a pirated version, but I guess it is hard to tell. I can live with this edition, and certainly the hassle of sending this back to the US and reporting it to Amazon is too high, but it is annoying. I certainly would have sent it back if the US version had a commentary track (maybe there will be a Deluxe edition later on). I suppose I will leave neutral or negative feedback. Is anyone else noticing the spread of these these eBay tactics (selling Asian imports or screener copies) onto Amazon or other sites? I wrote somewhere else that the rising number of scams and general headaches of dealing with eBay had turned me off, and yet I just bought a great box set on eBay with no problems and got this sort of shady item from an Amazon seller, so I guess you just never know.

Maybe he'll take a money order like in the old days.

I think Joshua Redman was definitely overhyped when he hit the scene in the early 1990s. Hard to say if any of his early albums will hold up. But I think he has retreated from that a lot, and I definitely like his work with the SF Jazz Collective. I think Osby's Invisible Hand will definitely hold up -- from roughly the same time period -- but he wasn't really marketed as a Young Lion, unless you count being part of Blue Note's New Directions band.

Well, somebody has just reissued these two on vinyl, and there appears to be a Fresh Sounds CD to be released March 7. CD Universe Walt Dickerson Quartet -- Vibes In Motion (Jazz Impressions Of Lawrence Of Arabia/Plays Unity) . . . CD . . . $12.99 Audio Fidelity/Fresh Sound (Spain)

Every time I work my way down through my Saved for Later list, something else comes along. Not complaining, but it looks like I'll be a subscriber for a lot longer. One CD mentioned in the re-issue thread is here -- Hank Jones The Talented Touch on the Okra-Tone label (the legit version of this material). The tracks are quite short, but I think I'll get it in a month or so. I'm also enjoying the VSOP additions, though I wish they had added the John Graas International Premiere in Jazz album (a Third Stream piece). It is actually out on CD but not on emusic. Maybe I will email them to ask what's up with that.

I'd definitely like to hear a bit more before I take the plunge. The label website has even more details of this really sad story: 90th Floor. Apparently, not long after Kiz died, the label owners were drafted into Vietnam. At some point after that, the masters were lost in a fire.

According to my way of thinking, corporations pushing for (and Congress gladly acceding to) a massive, retroactive increase in copyright is far more unethical than operating within the 50 yr EU limits. That said, I still spend my money with the original rights-holding labels when that is an option.

There are too many concepts going on here. You certainly cannot publish Shakespeare and call it something you wrote. You almost certainly could pick a specific edition and make some strategic alterations and publish that as Shakespeare as edited by A. Lowe. Indeed, most of the major publishers do this very thing. They all have currently in print or in the past have printed complete runs of Dickens, Jane Austen, the Brontes, etc. Why this is so shocking is beyond me. It's been going on since the invention of the printing press. I'll just add that telling DG that they should be ashamed of themselves is the fastest way to get branded as a crank and completely ignored in the future.

No, I didn't like Dalton at all. I personally would put Brosnan ahead of Moore. I don't really watch the Bond flicks anymore, though I might when my son is at the right age. I can tell you right now I will boycott this new loser Bond. I hope they lose a ton of cash on him. Even better they should either recast or go back to Brosnan -- the publicity can't be good. In fact, I smell an inside job to make him look so bad that the studio has to drop him.

Apparently, Pinhead's dog escaped from Hell.

The Nocturne Hollywood box is great. I keep wondering if they will get around to vol. 2 some day ...

I think the "fairest" would be if the majors opened up everything in the vaults to digital download, then the items that did the best sales would be issued on CD from time to time. Not expecting it, but that's a model I could definitely support.

Not to start a fight, but there are plenty of Lonehill CDs that aren't readily available elsewhere such as one I learned about today -- Hank Jones & Tyree Glenn. This is pretty obscure stuff. Just possibly there is Japanese import, but that would be it. If you mean that it was available at one time on an LP, well ok, but that doesn't qualify as available to me.

Setting aside the morality for the moment, is the Gigi and Here's Love music worth tracking down? It looks like Gambit is the only game in town for this, unless Okra-Tone gets around to it. Also, Lonehill has Hank Jones/Tyree Glenn's Quintet/Sextet Complete Recordings. Three Complete Albums Tyree Glenn's "at the Embers", "at the Roundtable" and "at the London House". Is it available legitimately (on CD) and is it worth tracking down? Many thanks.

That must be the one including Jones's "Gigi" and "Here's Love". Watch out for the follow-up (just out): "Hank Jones Quartet With Kenny Burrell And Barry Galbraith - Complete Recordings, vol. 2". It includes the albums "The Talented Touch" and "Porgy And Bess" Yep, exactly like last year's Mighty Quinn's Okra-Tone reissue (approved by EMI, current owner of the masters). F Just recently heard a track or two from the Okra-Tone release Talented Touch and plan on buying it soon. Was wondering if there is a legit release of the contents of the Gambit Complete Recordings v. 1 (Gigi and Here's Love).

Cool. I'm listening to a bit of it now, but can probably hear the whole thing tomorrow.

I didn't move fast enough on the 13-CD Baden Powell box a few months back and the discounted ones available through Caiman have all disappeared. However, one appeared on Ebay recently and I put in a bid. Despite getting sniped, the seller actually had two and I got one of those Second Chance opportunities at a decent price. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing this. It also worth mentioning that another Meirelles CD appears to have been issued (or re-issued) recently: Esquema Novo. There's also one called Tropical but that seems a bit harder to come by.

A few months back I CDRed Monster and Virginia Woolf and they fit onto one CD. That would make a good reissue, though I guess since Virginia Woolf is coming out on the Mosaic, Verve wouldn't do that. Too bad. (Though if I read the bit in Payne's message correctly, only part of V. Woolf is coming out on the Mosaic, so maybe there is still a chance. Or maybe Monster with the Woolf that wasn't on the Mosaic as a bonus.) I would certainly get behind a campaign to reissue Monster and Black, Brown and Beautiful. I'm definitely getting this set, but probably not until fairly late in 2006 or maybe early 2007 depending on finances. The thing that may be a bit frustrating about this set is that it really is chopping up albums to just get at the Big Band sessions. That's not the way I would normally want material reissued, though I recognize the Nelson arrangements are the running thread. It still feels incomplete somehow.

Nothing says bloated excess like the Olympics. I would strip away somewhere between 50 to 75% of the events and get the thing back down to a week. But there is probably nothing that would restore the event to its roots where amateur athletes competed. It's not possible to train that hard without some compensation. But I am definitely not a fan of the trend of athletes moving to a different country and then competing for it.

It seems every year I am less and less interested in the Olympics. I believe I will go this time without watching any, except for 3 minutes of curling I watched inadvertantly. There are a lot of things I dislike about the Olympics, but probably the number one thing is adding in ridiculous sports that only one country (and usually the US) is good at. Currently, I'm thinking of snowboarding and other ridiculous X-games imports. The US is well behind its own goals for the medals. It currently has 13 medals and 6 are from snowboarding. If you removed them from the count -- and I think we should -- then this has been quite a flop for the US.

Don't know if this is for real, but was reading about a guy in Australia who is collecting vomit bags from different air carriers (unused presumably). So I'll bring that up the next time I get hassled a bit over my jazz collection. I basically collect three things - jazz and a bit of classical music, DVDs and books. In none of these cases am I particularly worried about first, second, etc. printing/pressing. I am very much about using the media and not storing it away in a vault. So that's not too much like a real collector. On the other hand, I have more music, books, video etc. than I can comfortably listen to in a typical year and I am a bit like a junky in needing a fix of something new on a monthly basis. Anyway, if anyone wants to share stories about their collections, please go ahead.

preservation of an artist's musical heritage? that sounds like without the lonehills of the world, this music will be lost forever. that isn't the case. it continues to exist. it's just difficult to access it. let's face it - some of us believe we have a right to own this music, whether it's by legal means or not. If you can't get it from iTunes or from some torrent, it's as good as lost forever for 95% of the population. I think that ought to concern people who want the public's understanding of "jazz" to stand for more than Wynton, Miles Davis, Norah Jones and maybe some Monk/Coltrane thrown in for good measure. There are a lot of facets to this issue, but yes, fundamentally those of us who argue against copyright extensions believe that the public does have some right in being able to access the music in a convenient form -- and that PD recordings are a legitimate way to do that if the majors won't release the material.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

I've not decided yet what entourage guy I want to be. Look Mean Guy Straighten Joe G's Tie Guy or Guy on Cell Phone But Not Talking to Anyone Guy ( do they still have these guys?) I'll be the disinterested-guy-barely-in-camera-range-watching-plasma-television-while-MTV-Cribs-is-filming guy. Or maybe driving-the-white-Bronco guy (just in case). Let me guess......, you'll be watching Scarface. Naah, Jammin' the Blues in an endless loop