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Sorry guys. Well, stay in correspondence with Felser. He sometimes passes things along after a short period of time. Maybe you can even reserve a few items in advance...

I've been fairly busy in taking CDs to the local shops, and this is what is left at the moment. I suspect it will all be cleared out by the end of Sept., so do let me know if anything catches your eye... 3 Louis Bellson Skin Deep (Exhibit) long scratch outside playing area (totally different cover than one on Amazon) 3 Alan Broadbent You and the Night and the Music - light marks not affecting play 6 Bob Brookmeyer Kansas City Sounds (Fresh Sounds) 5 Bob Brookmeyer Tonite's Music Today + Whooeeee (Lonehill) 5 Bob Brookmeyer Traditionalism Revisited (Pacific Jazz) 6 Bob Brookmeyer The Blues Hot and Cold + 7x Wilder (Lonehill) 5 Ray Brown Trio Live from New York to Tokyo (The Red Hot/Bam Bam Bam ) (Concord) 2 CDs - promo printed on CD2 5 Giorgio Buratti Jazz Forms for Export 8 Kenny Burrell-Jimmy Smith Blue Bash! (Verve), partial mark through UPC & CD tray glue coming loose 5 Jaki Byard Freedom Together (OJC Limited-Prestige) slight bend to artwork. 6 Don Byas Chronological 1952-1953 7 Cab Calloway Swinging Big Band Leader with Chu Berry (Jazz Archives no. 171 French Import) 6 Bill Carrothers Armistice 1918(Sketch) 2CDs light marks on CDs not affecting play 4 Arnett Cobb Blows for 1300 (Delmark) 5 Arnett Cobb Blow Arnett, Blow (OJC-Prestige) 3 Bill Coleman Live (Americans Swinging in Paris) light marks not affecting play 4 John Coltrane-Frank Wess Wheelin’ & Dealing (OJC-Prestige) 10 Miles Davis Its About That Time... (Live Montreux 1969) 6 Walter Jr Davis Davis Cup (BN TOCJ-6457) no obi 5 Wild Bill Davis Vol 1 April in Paris (Ocium) CD-Rom w bonus feature 5 Wild Bill Davis Vol 2 Syncopated Clock (Ocium) CD-Rom w bonus feature 5 Eric Dolphy Complete Latin Jazz Sides (Gambit) 7 Sunset Eyes by Teddy Edwards (Pacific Jazz) light mark through UPC, promo label on CD colored in with marker 3 Symphonic Ellington by Duke Ellington (Discovery) 12 Don Friedman A Day in the City (Riverside), some sticker residue on cover art 6 Dexter Gordon Homecoming (Columbia 1990) 2 CDs 8 Bennie Green Soul Stirrin' (BN) 4 Grant Green Easy (Unidisc) 5 Chico Hamilton/Dolphy Original Ellington Suite (Pacific Jazz) 7 Slide Hampton Drum Suite (Mosaic Singles) 5 Barry Harris Trio Breakin' It Up (and Burnin’) (JazzBeat) 5 Hawes-Nichols-Mehegan-Paul Smith I Just Love Jazz Piano (Savoy) 5 Coleman Hawkins Saxes Inc./Trombone Scene Lonehill 6 Fletcher Henderson Story A Study in Frustration (Essential Jazz Classics) 3 CDs 10 Billie Holiday Complete Commodore Recordings 2 CDs + booklet 5 Vijay Iyer Memorophilia (Air) 3 Vijay Iyer-Mike Ladd In What Language? (Pi) 5 Vijay Iyer Reimaging (Savoy) 5 Milt Jackson Quadromania: La Ronde Suite (Membran) 4 CDs 12 Milt Jackson & Ray Brown Fuji Mama (West Wind) light marks not affecting play 6 Willis Jackson Bar Wars (Jazz Society, 1997 remaster) 5 Budd Johnson Ya! Ya! (Black and Blue Sessions) light marks on CD not affecting play 7 Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra presenting Joe Williams (BN) 3 Thad Jones/Pepper Adams Mean What You Say (OJC/Milestone) 7 Steve Lacy-Mal Waldron I Remember Thelonious (Live) (Nel Jazz) minor mark not affecting play 6 John Lewis Orchestra U.S.A. (stereo & mono versions) (Lonehill) 5 Johnny Lytle Trios Got That Feeling/Moon Child (Milestone) light marks not affecting play 5 Shelly Manne And His Men vol. 2 (OJC/Contemporary) 5 Howard McGhee & Milt Jackson (Savoy) hole drilled in back cover 6 The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (Verve) 2 CD set 3 The Modern Jazz Sextet (Dizzy/Stitt/Lewis/Heath) (Polygram) 15 J.R. Monterose The Message (Prevue) hole in UPC, not CDR 7 Fibra by Paulo Moura 8 Moye-Tchicai-Geerken The African Tapes (2 CDs) (Golden Years/Leo) digipack 5 Moye-Tchicai-Geerken Cassava Balls (Golden Years/Leo) digipack 5 Simon Nabatov Nature Morte (Leo) 5 Hot Trumpets of Joe Newman & Henry Red Allen Prestige 3 Charlie Parker South of the Border (Verve) light marks on CD not affecting play 5 John Patton Boogaloo (BN Rare Groove) very light scratches on CD 5 John Patton Got a Good Thing Going (BN Rare Groove) very light marks on CD 3 Portico Quartet Isla (Realworld) digipack 5 Soundtrack to Simply Heavenly* (Sepia) * Bonus session included on CD - Bertice Reading accompanied by Art Simmons Quartet, Paris 1956 8 Ike Quebec The Strong Tenor of Mr. Quebec (Jazz Archives no 153) 10 A.K. Salim w/ Sahib Shihab Blues Suite (Savoy) 7 Shirley Scott Trio Classics vol. 1 Prestige 4 Shirley Scott/Stanley Turrentine Blue Flames (OJC-Prestige) 5 Shirley Scott For Members Only (& Great Scott) (1995 Impulse) - there is a circular ring on the backside of the CD but I think it is somehow part of the pressing, certainly not affecting play 9 Archie Shepp True Blue (Venus) CD, not CDR no obi 8 Sahib Shihab & The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra (Oktav) 5 Jimmy Smith Six Views of the Blues (BN Conn) promo label on CD 9 Jimmy Smith Bashin' (Verve) Digipack 5 Lucky Moments by Lucky Thompson 5 Tommy Turrentine (on Time) 6 René Urtreger En Direct D'Antibes #3 (Emarcy) Digipack 6 Valdambrini-Piana Quintet Afrodite (Schema) 15 Territory Band (Vandermark) New Horse for the White House (Okka) 3 CDs 3 Mal Waldron You and the Night and the Music (ProJazz CDJ 617) light scratches to CD not affecting play, hole in back liner, some water damage to booklet 5 Randy Weston Tanjah (Verve) light marks not affecting play, promo stamp on booklet cover, hole in UPC 7 Zodiac Suite Town Hall 1945 by Mary Lou Williams 5 The Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams (w/ Ben Webster) (Vintage Jazz) 10 Impressed 2 (compiled by Gilles Peterson) (Universal) one mark on CD not affecting play 6 Various Artists Eccentric Soul: Nickel and Penny Labels (Numero) 4 Various Artists Lost Grooves (BN)

As the title implies, I will be making a short trip to Seattle on Aug. 1 (just under a week from today), so if orders are completed by then, I can offer lower shipping to U.S. addresses, particularly for box sets. In fact, free shipping (to US) for 3+ CDs (not including sets) listed in this post and the following post. $3 for 1 or 2 single CDs to US/Canada. Shipping for sets will be priced based on the total order. (After I am back from Seattle, I will refigure the standard shipping prices.) I'm not sure there is a big advantage in shipping to Europe from U.S. vs. Canada anymore with the new USPS rates. As always, feel free to PM if you have questions. While I have lowered the prices in the second post, if you want to make a reasonable counter-offer, you can do that as well. Thanks for looking! As far as I can tell, I've not listed these (single CDs) before on the board: New listings 15 Toshiko Akiyoshi Live at Newport II (BMG Japan) mini-LP style, Japan liner insert 10 Don Byas feauturing Mary Lou Williams and Beryl Booker Trio (Vogue) 5 Griffin Davis Pisces 5 Famadou Don Moye Bamako Chicago Express (il Manifesto) 5 David Murray Trio 3-D Family (Hatology) digipack, 2 very, very light scratches not affecting play 18 Sahib Shihab Complete Sextet (Fresh Sound) 2CDs 5 Eccentric Soul: Outskirts of Deep City (Numero) light marks not affecting play Box Sets - jazz 15 Integrale Louis Armstrong vol 6 (Fremeaux) 3CDs 12 Stephane Grappelli Sweet Georgia Brown (3 CD box set from Black Lion - Live in London; Stardust; Parisian Thoroughfare) 10 Coleman Hawkins Affinity set (no booklet) 6 CDs 60 John Patton Mosiac Select 3CDs good condition but some scuffing to cardboard case Hold Art Pepper Complete Galaxy Recordings (the cube version) Box sets - Classical 15 Pierre Fournier The EMI Recordings 7 CD set 15 Heifetz Great Violin Concertos (RCA) 6 CDs 6 Lutoslawski Orchestral Music (EMI) 3 CD set 25 Neville Marriner & the Academy 20th Century Classics (Decca) 10 Cds 20 Mstislav Rostropovich Edition (Brilliant – Historic Russian Archives) 10 CDs 18 Victor Tretiakov Edition (Brilliant – Historic Russian Archives) 10 CDs 20 La Musique des Lumieres Enlightenment 30 CDs

While not scheduled for completion for many years, Chicago's Deep Tunnel is designed for flood relief and to reduce (somewhat) sewage wastes leaking back into Lake Michigan: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/December-2011/Deep-Inside-Chicagos-Deep-Tunnel/ Even the fact that it is partway complete has had some positive benefits, and with more irregular weather predicted and probably more floods in the future, it will definitely be needed. One of the few instances of modern day (late 90s) politicians actually undertaking a large (and useful) infrastructure project. (In my opinion Boston's Big Dig was a wasted effort, though it was certainly a massive undertaking.)

That's very strange. They were going to essentially use the Post Office Building next door to sort of mimic the old Penn Station. Maybe they ultimately decided it was too costly and that it was too much of an imposition to passengers to go a block west (certainly the passenger flows are primarily on the east side of the existing Penn Station). I am very curious as to how this all plays out.

The new Decca set is a little tempting, though I'd need more details. I don't listen to the original Decca set nearly as much as the Living Stereo set, which didn't seem quite so gimicky (only one CD per conductor for the most part on the Decca). Here's a box of early Haitink on Philips: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bernard-Haitink-Philips-Years-Beethoven/dp/B00DI5BS8M/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1374769920&sr=1-4&keywords=decca+box (Sorry, more details here: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/us/cat/single?sort=newest_rec&PRODUCT_NR=4785671&SearchString=4779548&javascript=1&UNBUYABLE=1&per_page=100&ADD_OTHER=1&presentation=list&SET_LANGUAGE=kr) I think I'll pass, as I just don't need most of these duplicated. I would probably go for just the final disk (CD 20), but I should be able to find that elsewhere. Still toying with the idea of the Reiner, but so much is duplicated on the Living Stereo box that it would be hard to justify. There would have to be a lot of material that I couldn't easily acquire elsewhere!

A bit off target, but I thought this was a fairly cool quiz: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/07/starbucks_locations_quiz_name_the_city_by_its_starbucks_stores.html (You have to identify cities by their Starbucks outlets.) I did ok - 14 out of 20. There were two or three that I probably should have gotten. I certainly could have done better had I had an atlas at hand, but just wanted to try it freestyle...

Sorry for the extremely short notice but there are 5 hours left to hear this group play about 20-25 minutes live (they may or may not have been playing samples in the background). Listen here. To be honest, I wasn't that taken by it, and I don't imagine I would like the CD either. I just am allergic to the spiritual side of jazz.

The description says "The Jazz Couriers In Concert, Couriers Of Jazz, Tubby's Groove, Tubbs, Tubbs In NY, All Night Long, Return Visit"

This thread has been super dormant. I have a CD to pass along. Given how postage has gone through the roof, I can send to a Canadian address (next couple of weeks) or to a U.S. address (on Aug. 1). Sorry for folks in the EU or Japan. Unless it is swooped up right away, I'll probably crosspost in my next sale post (hopefully up this weekend). Louis Armstrong - Live at the University of North Carolina (1954) http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7268916 This is a nice concert. First CD is fine but second CD is totally beat up with fairly deep scratches all over. (In fact, the Amazon seller had to give it to me for free after I made them aware of the problem.) It will probably play skip-free on most CD players and computers, but no guarantees. Note: Armstrong has been claimed. I might have a few other things on offer later.

Am quickly wrapping up Palace Walk (book 1 of The Cairo Trilogy). I should be able to start Book 2 tomorrow!

I think there was yet again one more LP that never made it to CD. I had it at one point but may have sold it.

No point in getting overwrought either way, but I decided quite a while back to stop supporting Jarrett (no CDs and no live dates) and I've stuck to that.

Finally gotten to Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. It's a little bulky so I'll actually check out the individual volumes for train reading.

Or you can blame the union for not being willing to bend on some very unreasonable work rules (if I recall, the union in charge of deliveries wouldn't allow bread and more cake-like products such as Twinkies to be delivered in the same truck). Most of the unions were willing to negotiate. One wasn't and thought that management was bluffing... These times suck, no question about it, but not recognizing that and being a bit more flexible is simply a recipe to lose everything.

Amazon's explanation is more ambiguous; it sounds like it might be an internal Amazon problem. Here's what is posted: Item Under Review This item is currently unavailable because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it's described here. (Thanks for the tip!) We're working to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Yes, but sometimes when they do this you can still order from secondary sellers. In this case, it is not possible. To be honest, this looks like something where disgruntled parties can try to blackball products, so I am not sure I really welcome this development. Amazon is certainly opaque in these matters. The other time I am aware of, they simply started reselling the item without any indication what was wrong. So odd.

So I am getting close to putting in an order for this, and it is apparently on Amazon's banned list. They say that enough people have written to say there is a problem with the CD that they aren't selling it (and apparently won't even let Marketplace sellers sell it). I've seen this just a few times in the last few months at Amazon. Kind of odd what ends up on this list. It usually takes a week or two to be restored to grace. Has anyone found a problem with the CD that would justify this treatment?

That Henze is kind of a strange set. I realize they are just going for the DG recordings, but to miss completely Symphonies 7-10! I almost never listen to classical vocal pieces more than a second time, so the balance is definitely off for me in this set. I just can't imagine getting enough enjoyment out of it to justify it. But if they ever split up the set and did a (complete) Symphony and Chamber Music set, that I might go for...

I'm sure there will be a handful of rare items that might still go for a fair price, but honestly after the Boomers go and maybe half of Gen X., will there be a critical mass of people willing to still "pay" for these items? I really doubt it. At the moment, (some) vinyl is holding its value, but CDs really are not. I just don't see it getting any better after a few more decades. Most likely real estate market will really adjust downwards by this time as well (though this depends a little bit on immigration policies as well).

I used to worry a bit more about this, but the sad truth is that when I pass on (most likely 30 years from now), CDs won't have any value. Most of my books won't have value either. I'll just instruct my heirs to donate to any library willing to cart it off. I mean it is rare to find any store willing to pay more than $2/CD and 30 years from now, I just don't believe there will be a viable market in used CDs. If I find it too tedious and bothersome to try to extract a bit more value by going the eBay route, I certainly can't expect my heirs to do so. If I am really lucky, they will like the music (and books) enough to keep it for themselves.

Interesting, though the guy doesn't sound quite like a Mitchum-type, who would be far more threatening and get his way with the lower-level thugs without sounding a bit ridiculous. The relationship in the book doesn't sound completely dissimilar to that between the Alan Ladd & Paul Donlevy characters in The Glass Key, which I just watched a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, just 100 pages more to go in Anna Karenina, which I hope to wrap up tonight. It's definitely an ok story and doesn't drag that much, but I think contemporary readers, such as myself, just are not that interested in Levin and his doings/musings, which do pad the book to some extent. After this, I need to finish reading Things Fall Apart. I'm about 25% into it. While I know it's a stone-cold classic of African literature, I don't care that much for the main character and his deeply misognistic worldview, so I don't think I'll be reading this again. Fortunately, I've found it to be a fairly fast read.

Pretty sure it was mine as well. It is an amazing set. I would have been in the market for the Andrew Hill but it had sold out (or did it time out?) right before I became aware of Mosaic. Over the years, I did have a chance now and then to get this set (and the McLean) but by that point I had gotten some of the individual releases and eventually got all of them as they were reissued. I am not sorry to have the music that way. In fact, it is fairly likely that I do listen to it more on individual CDs than I would in a big box set.

Well, amazingly it's still in print, so this isn't a case where the grasshoppers are that much worse off than the ants (other than not listening to the music in the interim of course).

There seems to be enough magical thinking in the world already. I can't really get behind an effort (on Kickstarter no less) to actively trick people and build up a fake urban legend. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

So I saw one ticketed show last weekend (Vijay Iyer) at the Vancouver International Jazz Fest and a few free things (most of Soweto Kinch's show and now the first set by The Unsupervised). Don't know too much about The Unsupervised, aside from the fact they are a 5-piece of mostly (entirely?) Canadian musicians. They seem to be clearly inspired by Atomic. I liked most of their set except the final song, which took fast, slow(quiet), fast to parodic extremes. I was a little bummed to see it on their independently produced CD, but decided to pick it up anyway. Had I been on my own, I probably would have stuck it out for a second set (added kind of at the last minute apparently). But my son was getting a bit weary of all the free jazz. As far as Vijay's set, I found it a bit of a let-down. I've seen him in action 5 or so times (including twice with Rudresh Mahanthappa) and this was by far the least satisfying. I only really enjoyed a single piece they did -- MJ's Human Nature, oddly enough. I know he's trying to do some interesting things with time, but there were two songs where the bassist and the drummer kept intentionally screwing around with the beat and I just couldn't go along with that. There was another piece that was quite good but really dragged down by a loooong bass solo. And I just don't like the drummer -- Tyshawn Sorey. I know he's got all kinds of cred. (In fact I was pretty sure I had seen him two years ago at the Jazz Fest -- and indeed he was in a group with Ingrid Laubrock called Paradoxical Frog.) But I just don't like his approach -- in general he seems to call way more attention to himself than is necessary -- and his unconventional approach to time-keeping. And I doubt I'll ever go see a group again if I know he will be participating (not that drummers are usually listed on the marquis). I'm sure it's my loss, but I just didn't enjoy either time I saw him and he was the largest contributor to that both times.