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Hopefully TF (an old HS classmate!) got one of those. Hey, I won't disparage anyone for asking whatever price they want for something they own. But I'm also going to point it out (especially to a friend) when certain prices are over or under market. That being said, if you try hard enough you can probably find someone that will fork over $200 for the set. Nope, still in the hunt. How do I keep on missing these? ... and I check eBay often too. By the way, Jan... check your PM.

Yea, a fellow board member pointed that out to me yesterday. It would have been nice if it were a valid link. The link works for me. Sorry, I meant the actual product has not been available since at least yesterday when someone else here hipped me to it.

We'll miss ya, Bob.

Yea, a fellow board member pointed that out to me yesterday. It would have been nice if it were a valid link.

Amazing how they would do that when it had clearly stated on the page that a Last Chance item is strictly limited to one item. Must have been a data entry keying error. People make mistakes.

Exactly, Jan. How are you, by the way? Haven't chatted since we found out about the Wash days. Hope all is well. Thanks anyways, guys. Things are pretty good. Really busy with my job, but not as busy as I was when I was in grad school, teaching and consulting all at once. Are you still in SF? I may be back out there in a few weeks. I try to spend a few days there a year. Ran into Ying Sun a couple trips back, if you remember him. He's an attorney now. Right on, Jan. Yes, I am still in SF. Try to look me up if you're in town. I'll PM ya in a few days.

Thanks... Hmm, I wonder if Sony Music Dist. has some Discs 7 & 8 lying around like Mosaic does with its sets sometimes. Otherwise, absolute steal. I wouldn't count on it.

Exactly, Jan. How are you, by the way? Haven't chatted since we found out about the Wash days. Hope all is well. Thanks anyways, guys.

In keeping with my tradition of receiving jazz news in a tardy manner, I just found out this week the PN set is outta print. Hate it when that happens. It is one of the last portions of the MD catalog I don't yet possess in my collection and had never gotten around to picking up. Anybody of you guys have one to dispose of for a decent price? I tried eBay already and they are asking for an arm and a leg along with an ear too. Please PM me if you do. Doing an archive search dug up one thread with a similar request to mine, so I know I wasn't the only one. Thanks folks!

Any new tallies on how many Max sets are left? It should be a done deal in... 3,2,......

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Garth!

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/m...on-the-offense/

They've pulled the Yoshi's CD. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...NG6QQ69RE31.DTL Shamed, Yoshi's pulls CD, apologizes Club hit sour note with lack of black musicians on record Jesse Hamlin, Steven Winn, Chronicle Staff Writers Saturday, June 2, 2007 The managers of Yoshi's jazz club said Friday that issuing a 10th anniversary CD with no African American musicians was "a huge mistake" and "a major oversight." In the wake of complaints by some African American musicians and community leaders, the club issued an apology and withdrew the disc. With "Live at Yoshi's: Anniversary Compilation" off the market, the club plans to create a new recording that more accurately reflects the musicians who play the 340-seat venue at Oakland's Jack London Square, said Joan Rosenberg, marketing director for the club. Yoshi's had sold about 500 of the 1,000 CDs it began offering on its Web site last month. The disc, the first made by Yoshi's, was not distributed to stores. "We really messed up on the CD," said Yoshi's owner Kaz Kajimura. "We apologize to anyone who feels slighted by this omission, as that was never our intention." The musicians on the disc include pianist Marian McPartland, singer Madeleine Peyroux, the late guitarist Joe Pass and Latin percussionist Poncho Sanchez. Kajimura and Yoshi's artistic director Peter Williams attributed the botched CD to haste and expediency. "This was done on the spur of the moment, and we didn't have a lot of time and research to put into it," said Kajimura. Yoshi's began working on the project in late March to mark the club's 10 years in Oakland in May. Eight of the 10 tracks, from four different musicians, came from Concord records, one of the world's largest recording labels. The other two came from San Francisco radio station KFOG's archives. "That was the easiest, quickest thing to do," said Williams. "We assumed Concord would have the most music recorded live at Yoshi's." When the new CD is made, he added, it will include African American musicians recorded live at Yoshi's on such labels as Verve, MaxJazz and Blue Note. That will involve more elaborate negotiations for rights and licensing fees. "If Yoshi's is calling this an oversight, then maybe there needs to be a larger discussion about the dynamic of what jazz is all about," said Glen Pearson, an African American musician and College of Alameda instructor. "Diversity is a word that gets kicked around a lot these days. But how sincerely or honestly is that concept really being applied? Or is it just a politically convenient term to use?" Williams said race and ethnicity are "things that I just never think about when I'm booking the club. It always comes out that we have a great mix. I'm very comfortable with what we've done." Kajimura said that more than half of the musicians who play Yoshi's are African American. Orrin Keepnews, the famed Bay Area-based jazz record producer who put out classic albums by Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and many others on his Riverside label, calls the Yoshi's CD affair "an embarrassingly small deal.'' "With all due respect to the venerable Marian McPartland, whom I love and have always loved, there's nobody on that record of major current importance," said Keepnews. "The club put out an anniversary record that was thoughtless and not very well put together. They limited themselves to material recorded live at the club. You have a half-dozen things here that don't have the making of a significant or representative record, regardless of what color anybody is.'' As for Yoshi's pulling the CD in reaction to the controversy, Keepnews said: "It's become very customary when you make a big public mistake to then withdraw as much as you can. It's been going on at all the networks recently. It's childish. If you're insulted, you haven't removed the insult by removing the product. I don't think Yoshi's necessarily insulted people, but it wasn't a very bright thing to do. But I don't really think it's any kind of fatal mistake.'' Black saxophonist Howard Wiley thinks Yoshi's had no choice but to pull the CD. "I think it's the right step, to turn a negative into a positive. Let's all come to the table now and play some beautiful music together." The racial mix of musicians in this summer's Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival also came into question this week. Susan Muscarella, who is booking the festival through the sponsor, Berkeley's Jazzschool, was in a diversity committee meeting there Friday afternoon. "We're addressing the issue across the board, in all our education and performing programs," she said, calling charges of racial imbalance "unfair and ungrounded." Muscarella said the Aug. 22-26 festival is about halfway planned. "My problem now is how to book African American artists when they might think they're only being invited in response to the controversy."

Carlos Zambrano is a effin' disgrace. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270601116

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...001&sc=1000 Interesting how the title of the headline went from "BLACKS IN JAZZ DECRY EXCLUSION" to "JAZZ FANS DECRY EXCLUSION" in the space of less than a day. Did the folks at the SF Chronicle decide the original was too incendiary?

Ahhhh, quit yer whining. At least you're closer to .500 than my stink-hole of a team. You guys are even closer to .500 than my sentimental faves, the Cubs. I bet Tom Hicks is looking for a way to take Benitez off your hands. And before anyone says, "Only a fool would do such a thing," remember who we're talking about here. That's right: you read it here first. You, sir have ESP, well sorta... he's not going to Texas, but Florida. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=An4C...p&type=lgns

Thank you! Just ordered this weekend and got a shipping confirmation today. Cheaper shipping too!

Did anybody see the Rog's bizzare rant on ESPN last night? Hmm... guilty conscience? http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/reds...s_ready/?page=2 ... "Clemens became a little animated in response to a couple of questions, one of which had to do with the perception that he's a mercenary. "If I worried about what people thought and said, I would have had trouble staying in this game for as long as I have," he said. "Comments that people make that are not in the know don't affect me one bit. They do affect my family. "It doesn't pertain to anything I'm trying to do right now. When I did the press conference in New York, I think I stated fairly clearly, if you were paying attention, the different comments that were made by certain teammates that I've worked with here and won championships with here, I heard them loud and clear." Clemens ended his press conference by pounding the table and walking off when he was asked by a local reporter about some of the negative things that have been written about his comeback. In reality, there hasn't been a lot of negative press, but it seemed to strike a chord with Clemens. "If you want to be negative, be negative -- I'm not a negative person," he said. "You be negative as much as you want. If I stink and I don't pitch well out there, I know I stink. I don't need you tell me that. "I have pride in what I do. I'll pull my heart out and set it right there for you to see it. I got that from my mother, so if you want to write and these other people want to write negative . . . everything has to be negative these days. "I've always been positive in my life. It won't end. I don't want to be around negative people. So I won't associate myself with those people. So if it makes you feel good to write negative stuff, then go ahead, but you've never been in the arena. "People read your column and associate things with me that are not true. I'll answer it as honestly as I can so that 10-year-old, when he reads about it, won't assume things. You can tell how passionate I am about it. OK?"

PM sent.

Just got a mint Roach box off eBay from a seller who turned out to be a fellow Org Board member a few days ago for a shade under $105 total.

Didn't the J.J. Johnson set time out? I guess the license with Sony Music had run its course. Talk about an underappreciated Mosaic.

Say goodbye to the IASW vinyl box too! Next up... Roach set to Last Chance and sayonara?

The only two Miles vinyl sets I'll probably spring for on my budget are the w/Coltrane and the 2nd Quintet Columbia boxes when they get on "Last Chance" status.

The Miles '63'-64 vinyl set is a goner. SS1, do the honors please!

At least she won't get special treatment... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070517/ap_on_en_tv/paris_hilton