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Hey Greg, I think I know$ the answer$: A theory they may have that no alternate or additional material may lead to more $ale$ of more box $et$! I find Coleman and Shorter equally enjoyable, and equally annoying at times, in and out of Miles Quintets!

Hmmm. . . release date is aparently 2/14. . . wonder how they got 'em so fast! Anyway, they're really good lps and are going to make great cds from Water! I have mine (and the Leo Wright) on preorder from cduniverse.

Yeah, and don't some of you have "Four and More" Valentines?

I haven't really done a lot of direct comparison, and I may not for a while. I don't remember commenting on this specific album before, I may have! I think that the box set sounds incredibly good in so many ways. . . .There are aspects of the Japanese that are a little better, and I really like the minilp copies I have because I had those 12" albums for so long, it's sort of like a bit of personal history for me, and I'll probably be keeping these lp facimile Sony versions unless I really need money at some point. . . . I have found that Sony versions, even if there are Americans like Seth Foster and Mark Wilder credited, often have little things done to them that make them sound different from their American counterparts. .. . It can make you made dealing with all this. . . I don't know if I've been able to pull back before the damage was done!

I thought they were based in San Francisco?

Austin still has a number of Half Price Books. I used to like Record Exchange across the street from Dobie Mall . . . it was one of the only places I ever found jazz lps I didn't have. . . it's closed. In my opinion Austin is slm pickings for jazz vinyl til the Convention hits.

There's very little besides Waterloo Records on Lamar and Sixth St. to recommend, especially regarding vinyl and jazz. Almost every other store worth a hoot has closed. There is Cheap CDs on Lamar I guess. . . I never find any jazz I want there but then my needs may be different. . . ! For a number of reasons (one being I'm not fond of Waterloo, another that I don't have a car) 99% of my cds come in the mail.

Some chicken breast in mole sauce I baked last night, mashed potatos (yukon gold, going to be mashing them in about two hours) and green beans.

YUP. Wish some more of that Cannon stuff would be reissued.

I call it the Atlantic/Savoy because it is an Atlantic distributed and parent copy Savoy reissue. . . . Don't mistake me, the sound on this one is fine, I just happen to like the remastering of the Japanese Denon engineers a bit more than that of Paul Reid III for Atlantic/Savoy. . . .

Ron, yes I'm that Lon (that spent years 2 to 11 in Philly!) from the BN Board. What? All of us agree on the sound of a cd? Not bloody likely! I do confess that I MYSELF however prefer by an edge the sound of the Savoy Denon series to those by Atlantic/Savoy. Personal preferrences, system differences etc. make that just my choice.

Big Whell, I think that At the Organ Volume Three is a different session from about a year later than the A New Star volumes. . . .

Oblique, and Inventions and Dimensions I will be glad to have in that great RVG sound! Yeah!

Last night was excellent dinner-wise; it was the first time I made one of my wife's specialities "sofrito"--the cuban black bean and tomato dish. It didn't turn out quite as delectable as hers--I didn't quite get the tangy spiceness she does because I was being reticent. But it was delicious enough and really hit the spot over brown rice with some cilantro on top, and a spinach salad. Tonight: Bravissimo brand cheeseless roast vegetable pizza (still have a few more weeks on a low cholesterol diet to go through) with spinach salad and avacado!

Having all the alternates is NOT essential. They do differ from track to track but listening to all these in a row can be tedious. This is among my favorite Pepper however, so I'm glad to have them myself; what I do often with collections like these is program the first alternates to listen to one time, the masters another time, the second alternates the next time, etc. But you may well be served by the one cd from Atlantic/Savoy. Or those two separate older cds, which have slightly better sound (in my opinion at least).

I've gotten to hear the lps via cdr thanks to Tony, and able to compare them to the cd counterparts. The lp version of the "Mingus Presents Mingus" definitely IS stereo; the cds are mono. Odd but there you go. In general both sound very good to me. The lps seem to have a bolder and more vivid sound (as RVG vinyl in general does to my ears) and the cds have a smoother and more mellow sound to them (actually a very good match for my system). Can't go wrong with either, and even the material on earlier Candid cds sounds pretty good!

I know. . . it is hard giving up that cover. The Japanese Savoy two cd sets has even more material, and that cover, but I'm not sure how easy or hard it may be to find.

I'm sorry, I read too fast and didn't realize you were asking about specific titles. If you see them used and cheap, there were two earlier Savoy/Denon cds titled "Surf Ride" and "Two Altos" that reproduced the original fifties lp releases and have great sound!

Books. Lots and lots of books. There aren't many authors I really "collect" any longer, but there are subjects such as jazz and gnosticism that I collect. . . . Books and cds literally surround me in my private areas (as opposed to common areas) at home. And stereo stuff. . . I have too many stereo systems, because I love to hear and learn about the differences. . . . Have settled happily on a main system over time!

Thanks Hans, that's a good link and a great cd to get most of them. There is/was a two cd Japanese release that had more alternates etc. Not necessarily essential unless you're really nutty about this material!

Thanks for the tip; I had forgotten about that movie!

Well, I was specifically referring to the material that has been reissued on Atlantic/Savoy (and Savoy/Denon Japan) by Pepper. Great stuff! I'm a big fan of a lot of the Savoy label, anything by Byrd or Hank Jones or Bird or many others is well worth investigating!

There are a lot of aspects of live music (especially LARGE ENSEMBLE music!) that recordings cannot (and may NEVER) capture!

OR how the producers/Kenton wanted the band to sound on recordings?

I personally think that the Capitol engineers and equipment of the times was top notch, and the sound . . . was probably how the band sounded?