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I have the box and I've also had some of the contents in their original release. Overall, definitely worth your time & money in this packaging. Please let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to know about it.

Added the 10 below (and the last to the list of freebies). Thank you for looking. Lee Konitz e Il Suono Improvviso - a Venezia (Philology) $7 Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell - El Corazon (ECM) tray front cover not in the best condition - one small scratch and a few creases - and plenty of scratches on the disc (got it in this condition myself), but no playback problems here $3 Franz Koglmann Pipetet - Let's Make Love (Between the Lines) $6 Chico Freeman - The Pied Piper (Blackhawk) w/J.Purcell, K.Kirkland, M.Thompson, C.McBee, E.Jones $6 Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12) digipak $6 Archie Shepp - I Know About the Life (hatOLOGY) w/K.Werner, S.Debriano, J.Betsch, 2003 remaster $5.50 Jeff Parker & Scott Fields - Song Songs Song (Delmark) $4 Scott Fields Ensemble - Mamet (Delmark) w/Zerang & Formanek $4 (sometime might have sent me this for free, I don't remember, if so I'm happy include this for free in any trade/purchase) Steve Vai - Alive in an Ultra World (Epic) 2 discs $5 Common - Be (Geffen/UMG) $3 Ludacris - Release Therapy Ludacris - Theater of the Mind

Vol.8 has just been released by BIS - in Europe, at least. And even earlier here in Singapore. Well worth while, like the rest of this series so far.

Yes, that is his specialty. I remember using material from his instructional videos for a while during my ultimately failed attempt to play drums. I would not call him young. Must be at least 45 years old (anyone know?). I've never heard of the reeds player, though.

Just added the following 10. More to come next week, if I can find the discs. Thank you for looking. Jimmy Heath - Little Man Big Band (Verve) $7 The Adam Makowicz Trio (w/A.Dawson, G.Mraz) - My Favorite Things. The Music of Richard Rodgers (Concord) $5 Edie Bert with the Hank Jones Trio ("Musician of the Year") (Savoy/Denon, 1992 Japanese issue, with obi) $13 Peter Brotzmann Group - Alarm. FMP 1030 (Atavistic/UMS) w/Breuker, F.Wright, Kondo, J.Bauer, Tomlinson, Schlippenbach, Miller, Moholo $6 Walt Weiskopf - Night Lights (Double-Time) price sticker on booklet, 1cm in diameter $4 James Newton Ensemble - Suite for Frida Kahlo (Audioquest) slight wear on booklet $5.50 Julius Hemphill - One Atmosphere (Tzadik) w/obi $6.50 Jaki Byard - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, volume seventeen (Concord) $12 Cat Power - Myra Lee (smells like) $4 Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Interscope) $3

OT: He meant, dear Pete, number-of-posts wise, I think.

Added the 12 below & took off half-a-dollar from some earlier listings. Max Roach - Drums Unlimited (Atlantic) remastered 2004 reissue $4.50 Eric Dolphy with Booker Little - Far Cry (New Jazz/OJC) 20-bit remastered/ZYX, digipak $2.50 Eric Dolphy Quintet featuring Freddie Hubbard - Outward Bound (New Jazz/OJC) 20-bit remastered/ZYX, digipak $2.50 Alex Sipiagin - Mirages (Criss Cross) w/S.Blake, M.Miller, B.Kozlov, J.Blake $6.50 Paul Bley Trio - My Standard (SteepleChase) $7 Vinny Golia Quintet - Dante No Longer Repents (Music & Arts) $4 Brad Mehldau Trio - Live (Nonesuch) 2-discs, no slipcase, small tear on the cover of front booklet from the tray holders $7.50 Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Yesterdays (ECM) no slip case $6.50 Teddy Charles - New Directions (Prestige/OJC Limited Edition) saw cut on spine $5 Billy Harper - Blueprints of Jazz, volume 2 (Talking House) $5.50 Steve Kuhn - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, volume 13 (Concord) $8.50 Andy LaVerne Trio - Time Well Spent (Concord) w/Al Foster, George Mraz $4 Thanks for looking.

Added 5: Buddy Rich Big Band - Buddy & Soul (Pacific Jazz) 2000 issue, 17 tracks, 73 minutes $4.50 Patricia Barber - A Distortion of Love (Antilles) w/M.Johnson, A.Nussbaum, W.Muthspiel $4.50 Martial Solal Dodecaband - Plays Ellington (Dreyfus) digipak $5.50 Warne Marsh-Lee Konitz Quintet - Live at the Club Montmartre (Jazz Exchange), vol.1 (Storyville) 1994 issue, 7 tracks, 63' $6.50 David Murray - Shakill's Warrior (DIW) w/Don Pullen, Andrew Cyrille, Stanley Franks, no obi $7 Thank you for looking.

Got the discs (two days ago, in fact), Erik. Thank you.

Added 6: Alexis Weissenberg - Bach, Haydn, Schumann (Ermitage) 1982 & 1984 recordings $5 Dave Holland Quintet - Critical Mass (Dare2) $5 Horace Parlan - Up & Down (Blue Note) extra copy bought by mistake, not shrink wrapped but unplayed $5 Mark Dresser Trio - Aquifer (Crypogramophone) w/MZiegler, D.Maroney, digipak, marker over barcode $5 Son Volt - The Search (Transmit Sound/Legacy) $3.50 Chick Corea & John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band. Live (Concord) 2 discs, w/K.Garrett, C.McBride, V.Colaiuta (+ H.Hancock on one track) $8 Thanks for looking.

10 more today. Below is a list of just the new ones. Thanks for looking. Wayne Shorter - High Life (Verve) (with the longer cut of Midnight in Carlotta's Walk, at 7:18) $4 Flip Phillips - Swing is the Thing! (Verve) $2.50 Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background (Columbia) 2004 reissue, remastered & 5 bonus tracks $4.50 Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground (Columbia) 2004 reissue, remastered & 7 bonus tracks $4.50 Charlie Hunter Trio - Friends Seen and Unseen (Ropeadope/Rykodisc) digipak $4 Tete Montoliu Trio - Catalonian Nights, volume 3 (SteepleChase) $8 a few minor nicks and very light scratches, absolutely no playback problem on my three players Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben op.40, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme op.60 (Rattle/BPO) (EMI) $6 Sonny Stitt - Legends of Acid Jazz (Turn It On! / Black Vibrations) (Prestige/Fantasy) $4 Ray Anderson - It Just So Happens (Enja) w/P.Robinson, M.Dresser, B.Steward, R.Burrage, S.Davis; a few scratches and nicks on disc, no playback problem & tray shows its age (this was released in 1987) $4 Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man (Lost Highway) $3

Another update. 11 new. Thanks for looking. Below is the list of titles I added today only: Monty Alexander - Concrete Jungle. The Music of Bob Marley. The Tuff Gong Sessions (Telarc) $3.50 Charlie Hunter Trio - Mistico (Fantasy) $3.50 Nils Wogram's Nostalgia - Affinity (Intuition) digipak $7 Nils Wogram and the NDR Big Band - Portrait of a Band (Enja) w/S.Nabatov, M.Penman, T.Rainey and big band, digipak $7 Nils Wogram Septet - Swing Moral (Enja) digipak $7 Joe Turner - Everyday I Have the Blues (Pablo/OJC) $5 Under the Sign of the Sun. French Works for Saxophone & Orchestra (Claude Delangle/SSO/Lan Shui) (BIS) $7.50 Sunn O ))) - Black One (Southern Lord) $6 G3 (Satriani/Vai/Petrucci) - Live in Tokyo (Epic) 2 discs $4 (front tray insert/booklet has 2 small tears [guess where], I'd guess about 1mm each) Low - Great Destroyer (Sub Pop) $3 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote) $4.50

Another update, 21 new. Thanks for looking. Since I now sort them by price, it will be difficult to figure out which were the ones I just added so below is just this new list: Curtis Mayfield - A Man Like Curtis. The Best of Curtis Mayfield (MCI) 71 minutes $4 Barney Kessel/Ray Brown/Shelly Manne - The Poll Winners (Contemporary/OJC) $5 Common - Finding Forever (UMG) $3.50 Ramones - The Subterranean Jungle (Sire/Warner Bros/Rhino) 2002 re-issue, remastered w/bonus tracks $4.50 Bo Diddley - The Essential Bo Diddley (Spectrum/MCA) 20 tracks $4 Sheila Jordan - From the Heart (32 Jazz) $4.50 Bunky Green - Another Place (Label Bleu) w/J.Moran, L.Plaxico, N.Waits, no slipcase $9 Otis Taylor - Definition of a Circle (Telarc) $4 Bach - Unaccompanied Cello Suites performed on double bass (Edgar Meyer) (Sony) $5 Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High (Riverside/Fantasy) 20-bit K2, saw cut on spine, no slip case $5.50 Burkhard Stangl/Taku Unami - i was (hibari) $6 Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming (Columbia) 2004 reissue $4 John O'Gallagher Trio - Dirty Hands (Clean Feed) punch through barcode, light scratches and scuffed but no playback problems $4 Miles Davis - Live at the FIllmore East (March 7, 1970) It's About That Time (Columbia) 2 discs, $8 Bill Frisell - East/West (Nonesuch) 2 discs, $8 Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up (Blue Note RVG) $5 Cyrus Chestnut - Soul Food (Atlantic) $3.50 Beethoven - Piano Sonatas op.2 (Pollini) (DGG) $7.50 Death in Vegas - Milk It: The Best of Death in Vegas (Concrete/Sony) 2 discs, $4 Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (Prestige/Fantasy) Hybrid SACD, DSD $5 Bobby Previte & the New Bump - Set the Alarm for Monday (Palmetto) $5.50

14 more today (Joe Henderson, Ellery Eskelin, Myra Melford, Tal Farlow, Jaco Pastorius, Muddy Waters, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Buckethead, Primus, and a couple more). Thanks for looking.

Dear Eric, Thank you for your interest. I believe I still have both. I will check this when I get to my office and let you know (here & by pm). Best, Gokhan

Thanks for your interest & thank you for looking. Updated again today with 10 additions (W.Muthspiel, Gastr Del Sol, Meat Puppets, Greg Osby, L.Cohen, Mum, J.McLaughlin, and F.Koglmann).

Cleaned up the list, added 4 more, and sorted by price. Thanks for looking.

5 more added today. Thanks for looking.

3 new listings. Thanks for looking.

I've had that 5-disc Brilliant set since its release (for your information, the same material is also contained in the 100-disc Brilliant Russian Legends box; the performances across the 100 discs - not only by Richter but many others [including all the usual suspects], of course - are not as consistent, not surprisingly, but the set as a whole is easily worth your money, and for the most part, time) and I agree, dramatic performances that keep you listening (with interest). One other way to get some very good Richter performances affordably is the Regis re-releases. Berkshire Record Outlet will generally have a dozen or so in stock for $5 each, I believe. I asked about your tolerance to sound on historical recordings not because I think it would change whether & how much you'd enjoy the DGG box over the EMI box (& to repeat, I'd recommend the DGG box based on performance & repertoire, sound on both is acceptable, better in the DGG recordings), but to find out whether you'd be willing to try, primarily, the Melodiya and Doremi releases (you might find samples from these online, some are out of print and people ask ridiculous amounts of money for a copy, but your library might have them or you might come across regularly priced copies in stores around - which is how I've been acquiring them).

I have more than half of the recordings included in the EMI box (but not the box) and the DGG box (and I'd heard about half of the material in the box prior to my purchase) and if you are going to get only one of these I would recommend you spend your money on the DGG box. Both are worthwhile but there're plenty of other Richter recordings (of mostly older vintage, generally in worse sound because recorded live, some with enough finger slips to annoy you if you are bothered by such, and more expensive per disc than the EMI/DGG recordings) I would put above them. Do you have any repertoire in mind & how important is the quality of the recording for you, Bentsy?

Added 4 more. Thanks for looking.

Another 5. Thanks for looking.

5 more. Thanks for looking.

Added another 6 and further reduced the prices on around 1/3 of the previously listed discs. Thanks for looking.