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seems that the combination US artists + European Artists + Small euro label is the big money combination...

This would be my real first good business in records collecting: my Horo's realease. Funny enough if you think I bought most of them used and nm for 5/10 euros. I wish i bought more of them.

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I had the occasion to buy the Oktav reissue. it was made by a Japanese dealer in Paris and his brother, around 2002-2003. He distributed some copies here and there in France.

Yeah, I was in his shop and thought about getting it there. I think he was selling it fairly cheaply.

Anyway the mentality of this guy prevents me from buying anything from him.

Thay guy is Sawano. Never had problems with him. I knew where he was coming from and avoided getting some of his hot items. We made several interesting exchanges.

Missed the vinyl reissue of the Shihab Oktav but grabbed the Oktav CD reissue as soon as it came out. Cost me a few euros only

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Sawano closed his Mobydisque shop on the Paris Left Bank a while ago. He is still searching for rare albums for Japanese collectors but is also now involved with real estate.

Sawano's vinyl reissue of the René Urtreger Versailles is a beauty!

I started buying albums more than half a century ago. I had the two Arvanitas Pretorias. Lost one of the covers and gave the vinyl to Arnaud Boubet as he was starting his current Paris Jazz Corner shop. Nothing much to it, Arnaud had been very helpful - and not greedy at all - when I met him when he was still selling his jazz records off one of the bouquiniste stands above the Seine River quais. That was 20 years ago!

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I had the two Arvanitas Pretorias. Lost one of the covers and gave the vinyl to Arnaud Boubet as he was starting his current Paris Jazz Corner shop. Nothing much to it, Arnaud had been very helpful - and not greedy at all - when I met him when he was still selling his jazz records off one of the bouquiniste stands above the Seine River quais. That was 20 years ago!

Funny that PJC and those two Arvanitas LP's on Pretoria should be mentioned here ...

I bought repro reissue of the Arvanitas "Cocktail for Three" album in 2000, liked it (still do) and wanted to get the other one ("3 AM") as well when I found out it was available as a reissue LP too.

An internet link showed that PJC had it on their online website. Only drawback - they would have charged about as much as the price of the LP on top of it just for shipping. A bit hefty for a single item. Any inquiries as to whether it would be possible to pick it up in their shop (a brief visit to Paris was imminent, and a friend would have been available to collect the item beforehand anyway) the reply was a curt "NO" - cannot move items from their internet stocks to the shop, cannot organize things between those two branches and whatnot ...

Very strange ... So the matter just faded away and that was that ...

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I had the occasion to buy the Oktav reissue. it was made by a Japanese dealer in Paris and his brother, around 2002-2003. He distributed some copies here and there in France.

Yeah, I was in his shop and thought about getting it there. I think he was selling it fairly cheaply.

Anyway the mentality of this guy prevents me from buying anything from him.

Thay guy is Sawano. Never had problems with him. I knew where he was coming from and avoided getting some of his hot items. We made several interesting exchanges.

Missed the vinyl reissue of the Shihab Oktav but grabbed the Oktav CD reissue as soon as it came out. Cost me a few euros only

OKCD1111_2.jpg

Sawano closed his Mobydisque shop on the Paris Left Bank a while ago. He is still searching for rare albums for Japanese collectors but is also now involved with real estate.

Sawano's vinyl reissue of the René Urtreger Versailles is a beauty!

I started buying albums more than half a century ago. I had the two Arvanitas Pretorias. Lost one of the covers and gave the vinyl to Arnaud Boubet as he was starting his current Paris Jazz Corner shop. Nothing much to it, Arnaud had been very helpful - and not greedy at all - when I met him when he was still selling his jazz records off one of the bouquiniste stands above the Seine River quais. That was 20 years ago!

Sahuano in real estate ? Not surprising.

Boubet is a nice guy. Nothing to compare with the above stated. I certainly got my best Blue Note from him, and i'm glad that he had big sucess in PJC. Its well deserved I always buy my CD's and some LP's from their site, and at their shop whenever i go to Paris. I was young poor and ignorant when i started to have interest for Jazz, and its a particular field in which i met many older know-it-all who used to explain me that they were seated in front of Art blakey at the Club St germain in 58 while i was still resting in my father's balls... Boubet never had this attitude towards young customers like me, and i had access to many fine records thanks to him. Now that i'm old :huh: rich :lol: and knowledgeable :rofl: i remember how Boubet helped me to start my collection with many fine records, that i still have, of course !

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Funny that PJC and those two Arvanitas LP's on Pretoria should be mentioned here ...

I bought repro reissue of the Arvanitas "Cocktail for Three" album in 2000, liked it (still do) and wanted to get the other one ("3 AM") as well when I found out it was available as a reissue LP too.

An internet link showed that PJC had it on their online website. Only drawback - they would have charged about as much as the price of the LP on top of it just for shipping. A bit hefty for a single item. Any inquiries as to whether it would be possible to pick it up in their shop (a brief visit to Paris was imminent, and a friend would have been available to collect the item beforehand anyway) the reply was a curt "NO" - cannot move items from their internet stocks to the shop, cannot organize things between those two branches and whatnot ...

Very strange ... So the matter just faded away and that was that ...

I took that route too and had the same problem :( The PJC website is a separate operation from the record shop even if they are linked.

Did not want to pay shipping charges when I could have walked to their website operation to pick up the item I was looking for!

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I was young poor and ignorant when i started to have interest for Jazz, and its a particular field in which i met many older know-it-all who used to explain me that they were seated in front of Art blakey at the Club St germain in 58 while i was still resting in my father's balls... Boubet never had this attitude towards young customers like me, and i had access to many fine records thanks to him. Now that i'm old :huh: rich :lol: and knowledgeable :rofl: i remember how Boubet helped me to start my collection with many fine records, that i still have, of course !

You don't have to feel bad about these older men. I'm one of them and sat in front of Blakey at the Club St.Germain in 58. Was young, rather poor and rather ignorant at the time! :g

I know how Boubet can be helpful! He is a class act :tup

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I bought only once from PJC. Three or four ECM albums. I payed all of them, but I received a parcel without one record. After my first complain about it, I got a mail back that stated that they will look into it. Never got any more answers from them. I lost 10 euros, they lost a customer. One of the few bad experience in my very short history of collector. :tdown

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I bought only once from PJC. Three or four ECM albums. I payed all of them, but I received a parcel without one record. After my first complain about it, I got a mail back that stated that they will look into it. Never got any more answers from them. I lost 10 euros, they lost a customer. One of the few bad experience in my very short history of collector. :tdown

Thats incredible ! i bought many LPs and CDs from them without any flaw. They are usually very cooperative. As Brownie said, the online shop is separated from their regular shop.

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I bought only once from PJC. Three or four ECM albums. I payed all of them, but I received a parcel without one record. After my first complain about it, I got a mail back that stated that they will look into it. Never got any more answers from them. I lost 10 euros, they lost a customer. One of the few bad experience in my very short history of collector. :tdown

Thats incredible ! i bought many LPs and CDs from them without any flaw. They are usually very cooperative. As Brownie said, the online shop is separated from their regular shop.

I had the same problem of the shop/site separation when I was in Paris. Trouble is, the site had reserved some items for me and told me to pick them up there! It was, naturally, a minor fiasco. Much later, I had the problem of paying 40 Euro for an item that they then sold to somebody else! I was credited, but it sort of soured me on the whole PJC thing... of course, up to then I had many positive experiences.

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Well, "Guilde du jazz" makes the (pressing) origin clear. I have seen at least one other copy before.

I remember having downloaded (for archiving/documentation purposes) a cover pic of this album a couple of years ago when another copy came up for sale on eBay. Well outside my price range, of course (though not quite as expensive as this time ) ...

It's the well-known "Euro-jazz syndrome" again. If it is European jazz from that time frame in decent condition and comes to the attention of bidders in certain Far East counties you as a seller will stand a good chance of getting rich quick ... ;)

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