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Ahh, but that $140 is for a dinner and a show!

I received my annual bonus, so I'm celebrating.   Yesterday, I went to a record show & found some jazz LPs.   Today, I ordered a bunch of classical stuff from philadelphiamusic on Discogs: - Beethoven: The Late Quartets, Vol. 2 / Quartetto Italiano (Philips, 2 CDs) - Brahms: Symphonies 1 & 2; Serenade No. 2 / Kertész, VPO (London, 2 CDs) - Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4; Serenade No. 1 / Kertész, VPO (London, 2 CDs) - Brahms: Complete Trios / Beaux Arts Trio, et al (Philips, 2 CDs) - Copland: Symphony No. 3; Quiet City / Bernstein, NYPO (DG, CD) - Copland: Sextet; Piano Variations; Piano Quartet / BSO Chamber Players, Gilbert Kalish (Elektra-Nonesuch, LP) - d'Indy: Symphonie No. 2 / Plasson, ON du Capitole de Toulouse (La Voix de Son Maître, LP) - Dvořák: The Symphonies [Complete] / Kertész, LSO (London, 6 CDs) - Haydn: Symphonies No. 6 Le Matin, No. 7 Le Midi, No. 8 Le Soir / Marriner, ASMF (Philips, LP) - Liszt: Liebestraum, Favorite Piano Works / Jorge Bolet (London, 2 CDs) - Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony / Ozawa, Toronto SO, Yvonne Loriod, Jeanne Loriod (RCA, CD) - Mompou: Cançons I Danses; Suburbis; Cants Mágics / Jean-François Heisser (Apex, CD) - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27 / Clara Haskil, Ferenc Fricsay (DG, CD) - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 17 & 21 / Géza Anda, Camerata Academica Salzburg (DG, CD) - Mozart: The Great Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Henryk Szeryng, Ingrid Haebler (Philips, 2 CDs) - Schubert: Complete Trios / Beaux Arts Trio, Grumiaux Trio (Philips, 2 CDs) - Schubert: Sonata, D. 960; Wanderer-Fantasy / Alfred Brendel (Philips, LP) - Schumann: Scènes d'enfants; Scènes de la Forêt; Variations "Abegg" / Clara Haskil (Philips FR, LP) - Villa-Lobos: Instrumental & Orchestral Works / Cristina Ortiz, Angel Romero, Ashkenazy, et al (EMI, 2 CDs) If you look in the right places, you can find used classical music for remarkably low prices.   This entire lot only set me back about $80.  That's nuts!  

Seems outrageous to me. But I looked around and found ticket prices for the Cookers @ Scullers in Boston, late set (9 PM) May 10 topping out @ $140. So maybe $150 isn't a wild outlier in some sense, but I agree that the price is not commensurate with the location. 😆

The Dragon LP is part of the 3 CD bootleg set I have and I assume it's on this new boxed set as well.  Thanks for this info. I imagine they have made improvements and I have not put it to the test yet. We'll see I guess.... Well, no matter how good a program might be, it won't be effective in the hands of a dumbshit engineer or producer for that matter. You also have to consider that a lot of these new programs were not designed to address acoustic Jazz. If they have made improvements to the reverb removal programs, I would imagine the results would vary depending on the type of reverb (natural or manufactured) and the nature of the recording. I imagine if it is a studio recording (where reverb is added and printed) and multi track, one could go to individual tracks and remove or lessen the offending reverb. I imagine it would be harder if it is a live recording in a hall with a lot of natural reverb and just a direct mono or stereo recording. I would have to try it and see what the results are before I could make any judgements but it would be a good tool if it can be used effectively. I definitely would have given it a shot on that Sonny Rollins in Holland radio broadcast. That said, there are some producers who probably would like the reverb or would not think it was enough of an issue to address it. The Jazz industry is usually very slow to embrace change or new technology, always waiting for someone else to try it first. They were very slow to dip their toe back in at the start of this vinyl resurgence and there was a lot of you first attitude until it was crystal clear this was a thing again. It took a few years though.....