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Wanted to hear some Dexter after seeing an hour long “documentary” “Before Midnight” about the making of the film “Round Midnight.” Dexter Gordon “Montmartre 1964” Storyville cd Dexter Gordon (ts & vo) Tete Montoliu (p) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) Alex Riel (dr) Recorded at Jazzhus Montmarte 1964   Edit to add: this is one of the really good live Dexters of the period. Tete and Dexter both make some great quotes, and Bobby Timmons should be flattered. NHOP is so well-presented here and this trio makes a pocket that Dexter seems to enjoy sitting in. I find this is one of those few discs that sound better with the "Phase" in the "Out" position on my DAC.  

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'Twas a hot night, the window unit was on all night. I got six hours in and now the unit is off and I’m going to listen for a while since it’s cool for a spell. Starting off with another disc from the “Enjoying the Ride” sixtieth anniversary Grateful Dead box set, thie earliest one I’ve played yet, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73), disc 1   140×105 3.9 KB    

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😁 Certainly a nice compilation and a nice try to (re)create a period-looking cover, but with this subtitle Bear Family shot themselves right in the foot.   (Sez me, the collector not only of music but also of collectible cars, as well as "linguist" ). Some English native speakers will probably have wondered about what the "tuned cars" may be doing there in the title. To explain: In German, the (Anglicism) term of "Tuning" refers to hotting up an engine or car, whereas - as you in the US will certainly agree - in its original english core meaning, "tuning" just refers to setting up ("tuning up") an engine (or suspension, for that matter) properly so it works perfectly as it should. Bear Family rather ought to have written "Hopped-Up Cars" (to use a period term) here.  Oh well ...  True, unfortunately, but CDs need not even be located right by the window to see the booklets inside the jewel cases fade over time. My music rooom that holds most of my collection has a fairly large window (and yes, "My Window Faces The South" ). But my CDs are a good 4 meters (more than 13 ft.) away from the window at the back wall of the room (and part of the CDs are on a rack at right angles to the window), and the net curtains at the window are always drawn. Yet certain colors (red, in particular, as you say) of the spines did fade. I've noticed this particularly on the Chronological Classics CDs.  BTW, I've also noticed this on certain orange or similarly-colored LP spines. Although, as in the case of certain book dust jackets or paperback covers, I tend to put this down more to printing ink quality. Because some suffer, and some don't.