Again I read: 'Jazz has always been in the margins, with Coltrane and Monk selling 3,000 discs in their time.' or words along those lines. This belies the fact, that when you sell 3,000 records today, you're doing worse in a marketplace where much more cd's are sold than in the fifties and sixties. In Holland during the early fifties, families used to own five or six 78s, and during parties, everyone invited took theirs, in order to fill the evening. Musical information was obtained through extensive radio listening, and I suppose you knew the record collections of all your friends. So if there was one Monk recording, it was shared by an enormous amount of people, whatever they thought about the music. Today, you are chatting with people all overe the world, to be able to talk about the music you like ;-) my neighbours don't have the faintest idea what's in my record collection. Plus: wouldn't it be true that those artists selling 3,000 albums comprised far more than 3 percent of the whole gramophone output? Ofcourse, however we might nag about great gramophone recordings not yet released on cd, there has never been so much music been available to a large audience than today. So it is quite an accomplishment selling even one cd nowadays. regards, Remco