rpleshar@midway.uchicago.edu wrote
"Anyone have any luck getting that Duke Ellington 40 disc set that came out
recently? The place I ordered it from was never able to get it in stock"

    I got the set a while ago.  At approx. $2.00 per disc it was a steal.  It was hard to find since the title changed from day to day but I got it from an Amazon.com marketplace seller called cdquest.com and it was titled "The Duke: Edward Kennedy Ellington and His Orchestra" [IMPORT] [BOX SET] . 
       The quality of the music is excellent, the box it came in is barely adequate more like paper than cardboard, and the liner notes are less than a bare minimum.  Not a hint of where the tracks originated or who the players might be.  That aside it was worth every penny!