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Not "Christmas Jazz" - Jazz for Christmas

OK! Lets tally the loot! (yes, I'm 39 going on 6) Two years ago my wife, with only minor directions on where to look, came up with a pair of NOS Phillips tubes for my cd player. This year it was strictly vinyl and I'm a happy boy sitting in a pile of shredded wrapping paper and ribon. Seven spanking new 12-inch vinyl discs (well, 14 if you count the double LPs) Good stuff!

*Miles Davis, ROund About Midnight (Somehow after 15 years of collecting jazz, I managed to never hear this record)
*Nat King Cole, After Midnight (newly reissued on Capital)
*Jazz at the Pawnshop
*Bud Powell, Time Waits
*Horace Silver, Blowin the Blues Away
*Sonny Rollins meets Coleman Hawkins
*Ben Webster - Soulville

All on nice heavy high-quality vinyl.

I also managed to find a still sealed Analogue Productions 45 RPM of Monk's Music that was present to myself (I was really good this year) but I won't mention that to the wife.

How'd you guys do?
grimace
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jfrech
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43 going on 6 here :)

Original not a re-issue, sealed, Bill Evans, the complete riverside recordings. 18 lp box set. Still had the price tag from 1983 on it ($149.99)

I was almost afraid to break the seal. But the 6 yr old took over...on lp # 3 right now.

Wow, sound rivals the re-issue 45's I have. Dead silent surfaces. (I clean my lp's with Premier, then Record Research deep cleaner then RR Wash...On a VPI 16.5). If anyone is a Bill Evans fan, this is a must have.

(Grimace, you made out pretty darn good to !)

ps, now if I could just teach her how to clean the other 15 lps :)
0thd
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Where did you get the Bill Evans? If you bought it yourself and don't mind telling, what did you pay?
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jfrech
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We only found 2 available. One on ebay from acoustic sounds, under the ebay id of sweet_sounds. bidding started around $250, I won at $527. I am not sure if they have more.

I see one more at audiophileusa.com, also sealed, asking $795. Maybe they'll deal a little, I was going to call them and make a lower offer...but one the bidding on the other.

Some may think I over paid, but it works out to $29.28 per lp, which is right there with re=-issue prices new. If you're a Bill Evans fan, sound qaulity is super, plus has quite a bit of unreleased recordings, great book, good packaging.
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