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Anita - disk #6. I can appreciate it now that it's OOP. Until now, it's just been another box set of CDs.

I figure JJ or Ory is the next ta go? ← According to the web site, JJ is still in the "Running Low" catagory - not "Last Chance" like the Ory set.

I would highly recommend "A Sure Thing" with the great tune "Hip To It".

I wonder how? I've never heard any complaints. I would think that Yoshi's is one of the better venues.

Shouldn't Sony honor their original price with the retailers, too? At least the ones that took the pre-orders. They're doing their job to get the sales and shouldn't be penalized for Sony's change of "heart".

All good points, Eric. I think it's only going to be guys like you and me, though, who will continue to be interested in Mosaic-like hard-copy box sets of music in 20 years. I don't know if there will be enough of us to support a profitable operation by then.

I've always liked their earlier stuff - up through "Oranges & Lemons". "Drums and Wires" was one of the great albums of the "New Wave" movement. I saw them a couple of times in 1980, too. Great live show and it's too bad that they retired from performing.

If anyone's still looking for a deal on this, Red Trumpet has a pre-order price of $42.99.

I only have the Dukes original LP - "25 O'Clock". "Chips from the Chocolate Fireball" is everything on one CD. From what I remember, the other stuff wasn't as good as the original album. Is this worth getting?

Too hard to say because the product itself will be totally different. I suspect that everything will be downloaded in some way by that point. I would also think that the labels will have made their entire catalogs available since there won't be a warehousing issue anymore. So, boutique collectors labels like Mosaic would be a niche market, for sure.

I saw it for over $3 in SF today.

VSOP Records today including: Pepper Adams Richie Kamuca Jack Sheldon Danny D'Imperio Eddie Costa Quintet Herb Geller Quartet Jimmy Rowles Sextet Mel Lewis Sextet Warne Marsh ... and a lot of others. BTW, the new Rollins is showing up as available for me.

I just got an "Order Status" email from CDU with the following info: Cellar Door Sessions 19 by Dav $38.49 Future Release Sep 27, 2005 ... so it looks like were "good".

Larry for me, too. Still have all of them. The only one I've even thought of selling/trading is the Carmell Jones Select set. It's not bad, just not that exciting.

Well, there HAS been a change. Peter at Yoshi's just posted this on another board: Slight change to Night of the Cookers personnel: Spaulding and Weiss are not going to appear. More information tomorrow. youmustbe was right.

Unless there's been a change that hasn't been announced, this is the lineup for the "Cookers" show: BILLY HARPER, JAMES SPAULDING, CHARLES TOLLIVER, DAVID WEISS, JOHN HICKS, DWAYNE BURNO, ROY McCURDY

Mine, too. They're showing the "regular price" now as $97.89. I think we got ourselves a DEAL!

I suspect that James Spaulding had something to do with putting this together as he is the common thread between the original and this show.

Except for the artsy-fartsy type design that they used. Still hard to read. What's up with THAT?

Nice to see all the interest in the Tolliver set. I'll probably get it even though I think I have most of the material already (I'm waiting to see the discography). I like his stuff too much to pass up fresh remasters.

Jack Johnson and Seven Steps are the same way. I agree, BAD design. I left the shrink-wrap on them because J.J. has a sticker with the track listings on the back and S.S. has an insert with that info.

I voted before I read the thread. I wasn't counting LPs. I would be in the 51-99 range (~65 disks) instead of the 25-50 group.

Night of the Cookers show at Yoshi's next weekend. BE there!

Lee Michaels "greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeazzzy"? Uh, no.