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I have a lot of new, sealed extras of several of their CD's. Contact me if interested in any.

That statement is true for countless sessions. Why did Trane replace Workman with Garrison? I've never read an answer to that, and it's not clear the way that replacing, say Art Taylor/Lex Humphries and Steve Kuhn with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner would be.

The Paul Desmond notes, also reprinted in the Desmond RCA box.

PM sent RE Alice coltrane-huntington ashram monastery Beat you to it by over an hour! Sorry. Sent huge list to Adam, didn't put it in string.

It's a lot like a weak moment, but not spelled as correctly.

Great choice, love this one. Dolphy did an amazing job on the arrangements, and Trane's playing is awe-inspiring. I agree about the originally released masters being the strongest (the original album doesn't have a weak moment on it, stone classic start to finish), but there are titles on the "complete" set ("Song of the Underground Railroad" and "the Damned Don't Cry") that are well worth having, and the set is not expensive. edited to correct week/weak spelling mistake!

Who are the good guys online, especially in Amazon Marketplace, in terms of both price and service together - who offers the whole package? There aren't any cool brick and mortars left in my area, just generic chains, and I don't want to pay an extra $5 per disc anyways. I know (and agree with) Newbury Comics, and also do well with Django's, but who else? Who offers prices within, say, $1, of Caimen and beats them in fulfillment and service? I don't find the other biggies (Import CDs, 101 CD, Amazon Fulfillment) even as good as Caimen, let alone better.

This'll get me more of Elder Clementine's wrath, but a couple things to consider. Caimen has over a MILLION feedbacks on Amazon (including 400,00 in the last year), and about 400,000 on Half. And a lot of people don't leave feedback (I don't). That means they have at least 10,000 CD's a week going out the door (figurative, Clem). Two consequences of this: 1 - you're gonna hear a lot more bad experiences (and a lot more good experiences) with Caimen than with ma and pa regardless of how good Caimen may be or how bad ma and pa may be. 2 - I really doubt the OOP thing is sinister at all. Probably more like they list their price for virtually every CD that is released, and don't try to go back and figure out when something is out of print or not, because that is cost prohibitive in their operation, which has to be running at a very small margin, as low as their prices are.

How do you tell the good guys? I know about Newbury Comics, but don't know who else I can really trust out there. I've had much bigger problems with the mom and pops (especially on grossly misgraded used discs, but also on non-delivery of new ones) than I've ever had with Caimen or the biggies. If Caimen doesnt' deliver and I request a refund from them, they give it to me. That's not been my experience with a lot of the smaller sellers on Amazon and Half.

Thx for the recommendation. Not familiar with this, but it's available for as low as $1.13 on Amazon Marketplace, so I ordered one.

Theresa records was Bay-Area based, so it is West Coast!

Agreed. "You've Got To Have Freedom" on this one is my favorite Phaorah cut of all.

He was a "guitar for hire", showed up all over the place, some memorable, most not. His late 60's/early 70's solo stuff was pretty interesting.

I'm thinking of going with that Sarah Vaughan + 2 album. Has anyone heard that one? Otherwise, Lou Rawls Live or some of the remastered Journey stuff.

I agree. Nothing more fun than giving away other people's stuff.

Isn't that an oxymoron? I end each track on 'Night of the Cookers' when Big Black starts to do his thing, go onto the next one.

PM sent on the Rava, Bartz, Franklin, Haynes, Bishop, Gibbs, Soft Machine British Tour '75

The bonus CD from Best Buy is four acoustic versions.

The twofer combining 'Libra' and 'Another Earth' is also well worthwhile. I still remember the pain of his commercial albums on Capitol in the mid-70's (saw him live during this period as a warm-up act to either Airto/Flora or Gil Scott-Heron at the Tower Theatre in Philly. Those two shows run together in my mind 30 years on). 'Home' is still MIA on CD, a great disappointment to me. I remember it being a really strong album, recorded at the Left Banke Jazz Society in Baltimore, I think that's Bartz' home town, hence the title.

Better fidelity and it would have been seen as a classic. One of my favorites as well. They were mining a different vein there. I've always enjoyed it a lot, bad sound quaility and all. Love the writing on it, and Corea plays great. As someone else here has mentioned in the past, Gilmore is underutilized, but what he does play is nice. While the bad recording does make it sound unique, it would have been even better recorded well with an in-tune piano.

If you can't get to $25, those CDs are like $5.88, so its still a very good deal. And in addition quite a few blues CDs are included as well. I took advantage of the discount on two of the three volumes of Freddie King's King recordings, which they may have called "The Very Best" but they are in reality his entire output. (Two of the three volumes are in the $5 sale, the other is a bit under $12. And I also got the complete Bobbin-King recordings of Albert King, which is a great set at a great price. So I'll offer an endorsement, as those CDs shipped very quickly when I placed my order (within a day, maybe two) and arrived fast even with Media Mail and were extremely well packed. And to top that off, you'll get a huge tabloid style catalog of other discs that are $5 each but are not available through the website anymore. Apparently they sold them all to another company, and the catalog runs the gamut of all styles of music, plus a lot of DVDs, too. Can't endorse them, yet, but I do plan to place an order some day. Oldies.com is the Collectables label website. They had a massive sale several years ago, and I picked up a ton of 60's garage stuff at $2.99 each. Order came fine - you won't have any problem with them.

"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"/"Pet Sounds"/"Caroline, No", the final three songs on the Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds', have been running through my head off and on for weeks. Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle" has had frequent spells in my head over the years.

Chewycosis. Actually, he's a good guy and I enjoy his posts. And I like that Philip Bailey album quite a bit. "Easy Lover" video is a classic.

Agreed - The version of the wonderful "Capra Black" on Last Session is incredible, much stronger than even the title track version on Harper's first album. I have great respect for Scott Yanow's AMG reviews in general, but he really misses the boat on this album somehow.

Do the right thing. But decide what that is first. Proper is doing absolutely nothing that the laws of their country prohibit. We've been through this so many times in so many threads lately. The box is an excellent value, but I find the later Atlantic recordings more to my liking.