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CDs in excellent condition. Slight damage on the box bottom right corner- a little crinkled and a couple of tears, as well as average shelf wear on the rest of the box. $100, including shipping.

All of these box sets are in like-new condition. Most of the CDs have only been in a CD drive once and not even played. At most, there may be only the most minor of shelf-wear on the boxes themselves, and of course all packaging is complete. PayPal preferred; shipping, handling and packaging cost to be calculated so prices listed do not included that. Mosaics Four Freshman: $90 SOLD Capital Jazz Sessions: $120 SOLD HRS Sessions: $60 SOLD Peggy Lee & June Christy Transcription Sessions: $50 SOLD Djano Reinhardt: $60 SOLD non-Mosaic LP-sized box sets John Coltrane Prestige Recordings 16 CDs: $160 Complete Thelonious Monk Riverside Recordings 15 CDs: $150 Chronicle: Complete Miles Davis Pretige Recordings 8 CDs: $80 Complete Bill Evans Riverside Recordgins 12 CDs: $120 Complete Wes Montgomery Riverside 12 CDs: $120 Miles Davis metal spine sets w/ Coltrane: 50 2nd Quintet: $50 SOLD In A Silent Way: $30 smaller box sets Complete Sonny Rollins RCA 6 CDs: $45 Keith Jarret- A Week at the Blue Note 6 CDs: $50 Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks 16 CDs: $150 Live Trane in Europe: 7 CDs: $50 SOLD Complete John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard 4 CDs: $30 Thelonious Monk 3 CD Columbia retrospective (this is the smaller packaging, not the longbox, though content is exactly the same): $25 Sonny Rollins Complete Prestige 7 CDs: $50 Sonny Rollins Complete Freelance 5 CDs: 40

Well yes, I feel the the effort I put into cleaning the box cancels out the less-than-stellar condition of some of the CDs, and so I can charge what I figure would be the "normal" price for a used box set of 18 CDs at $10 per disc.

I am selling the infamous Complete Bill Evans on Verve box set- yes, the one with that brown box that rusts on purpose in order to change color over time. However, I have cleaned of all of the rust with a very powerful rust cleaning agent. The result is that the box is plain silver now and is safe to touch, store, and keep the CDs in. This box is used so there are some scratches on the CDs here and there, but they do NOT effect play. Here is a list of the condition of each CD, using the following criteria: NM = Near mint, no visible scratches, or marks at all E = Excellent, one or two extremely faint marks or a a bit of dirt VG = Very Good, a couple of noticeable marks or light scratches G = Good, some light surface marks and scratchs. G/VG are the condition you'd expect to see on an old used CD by the average person F = Fair, significant surface damage P = Poor- so bad it doesn't play 1- VG 2- F 3- F 4- VG 5- E 6- E 7- E 8- NM 9- E 10- E 11- NM 12- NM 13- NM 14- VG 15- NM 16- VG 17- E 18- G Price: $180 PayPal preffered

I'm afraid I won't be able to do the BFT at all. Much of the music I was gonna use is gone due to money, change of taste, change of living situation, etc, since I signed up. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

If the women has all the responsibility of choice, then she has all the responsibility of consequence.

I just came across the Proper catalogue and am interested in them. This is the first I've ever seen of them being reported as having really bad sound. Something like, say, the Cliff Brown set looks good because I don't want all the stuff on the Emarcy 10 CD box (that "jam" session with Maynard Ferguson is painful, and I don't need those 400 alternate takes and sessions with strings and singers). As for the legal stuff, I see these in mainstream and independant record shops all the time. Hard to believe they're so flagrantly flauting the law.

I believe many theaters (and now cable stations, etc) refuse to show any movie that isn't rated by the MPAA. My guess is that giving a film any rating, even the worst thing they could come up with, would be some sort of official sanction of the film, and the MPAA understandably doesn't want to do that.

No, it kept the same name on the album. The following pieces of music were altered and renamed for The Power To Believe: Virtuous Circle -> The Power To Believe II (an improvement) Deception of the Thrush -> The Power To Believe III (not an improvement)

Anita O'Day The Mars Volta Charles Brown Merle Haggard Skip James Gidon Kremer Blue Mitchell Bill Monroe Kid Ory Joe South Uncle Tupelo Tom Waits

Oh cool, I didn't knew that was gonna be an album (don't remember seeing any recording equipment). I was there too.

Yeah but the examples I cited also have the albums available individually. Both the Miles Davis Columbia "metal spine" sets and the individual albums of the same material sell, apparently. Yes I know Miles is very popular but those sets are also particularly costly to make, I would think.

Then how can Columbia and Fantasy and Universal sell these huge-ass box sets? Yeah I know 'Trane and Miles and Billie and Evans are popular, but are the markets for an 18 CD Evans Verve set really that much bigger than an 10 CD Shorter set would be?

The Complete Blue Note 60s Recordings box sets for both Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock are packaged nicely, sound fantastic and of course have some of the finest content of music. Why have they not made more sets like this for Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Kenny Dorham, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, etc? Does anyone know if Blue Note lost money on those boxes, or do they just figure that people won't have as much interest in their other artists as they did for Dex and Herbie? I would think there would be a great demand for such boxes. Yes, most of it is available on CD, but surely there's a market for this stuff?

No junk, no soul. Hey, look at Chevy Chase. Uh... yeah... he seems like the kind of guy that might sue. I mean, he's gotta have, like, no money left. Rhode Island

Why is Dex being singled out for his addiction(s)? Other then Cliff Brown, all the greats were junkies.

Well this certainly changes my Mosaic shopping strategy. I haven't purchased any selects yet as I've been picking off the full sets, but now with the price increase I'll just have to switch to Selects.

I had a few Dex CDs before but this year I seriously dug into the man's music- ebayed me the Blue Note box and stumbled a across a sw-weet cheap used copy of the Prestige box. Man oh man this cat just has style! Very melodic (usually) and things just flow with a little kick for good measure when he's hot. The only thing I don't like is that he quotes too much.

Saw him a two springs ago not knowing much about him. Was the first date with my current gf. Went because Hank Jones was playing with him. Dug it- Jones still stole the show as expected but Lovano and the band made some sweet music together. The guy just played straight solid jazz music, something that's rare these days what with all the fusioning and the cross-over electifying mumbo-jumbo. Saw them again at Newport last summer.

Scratch that last bit- a visit to allmusic.com informs me that the old box has live stuff and that this new set is just studio, so I'll be getting the old one instead.

Looks pretty good to me, actually. I had the Parker Verve master takes box but traded it in for the compelete set because I did want to hear the alternates, but I have no interest in Billie Holiday alternate takes, so this is an attractive colleciton.

As soon as I saw how strong the Colts defense was early in the season I knew I was looking at our next championship team. I love the Pats (second only to the Giants) but the injuries are just too much. 3 rings is as fine an accomplishment as one can hope for but their moment in the sun is gone. Perhaps next year, with people recovering from injuries, they can be a force to reckoned with again. But you're not going to beat Manning and his star receivers with no secondary. More importantly, we're witnessing a hand-over of league dominance from one gracious, polite spirited team to another, while the arrogant stupid jerk hotshots are getting screwed. I love football.

Well they're certainly not audiophile hi-fi, to say the least, but the dude is still just playing up high... all the time.

Well the good thing about this session is that Killian takes the last solo on each track, so as soon as the squealing begins I skip to the next track. Did that on my second listen and it was very enjoyable.

I picked up the Charle Parker Complete Verve box set and am listening to the Jazz at the Philharmonic session at the beginning. One of the trumpet players is Al Killian, someone I'm not familiar with, and for some reason he takes the last solo on every tune. And he squeals and blasts it real high constantly, like as if he were Arturo Sandoval or Maynard Ferguson or something. And oh boy does it hurt my ears. Does this guy always play like this?