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TIFF in Toronto. They claim it was a 70 mm print. And then next week Vertigo in 70 mm.

In 1957 Hank Mobley recorded 5 albums as a leader for Blue Note. I dig all of them.That period is very appealing to me for a few reasons. One is no modal tunes, second is no boog-a-lou or otherwise commercially oriented tunes. This album is a beauty. The tune "Bag's Groove" has been recorded numerous times. The version here is one of my favorites. Bill Hardman's trumpet solo is, to my ears PERFECT. Then Sonny Clark and Mobley play ideally within this idiom.

I'm gettin it just for the Basie. I expect I already have at least some of those that but I presume this will be with better sound.

Where'd you see it in 70mm? (IIRC-- and I often don't-- it was shot in VistaVision.)

Not sure that all streams are available for download. However there are programs which will record anything playing on your computer. (I use Audio Hijack-- when I can remember how to make it work.)

Friday 12/12 - Ricky Ford Quartet at the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, CT. With John Kordalewski (piano), Tony Marino (bass) and Thurman Barker (drums). Solid two sets of music.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No.6, No.12, No.15 - Idei Biret

Finally (in 2019), an excellent book on Brubeck's music. I'm learning a lot from it. I'd love to buy more of the books from the Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz series, but the academic pricing puts nearly all of them out of my reach even for paperbacks. Other recordings featured in the series include the Hot Fives and Sevens, Goodman 1938 C arnegie Hall, Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Monk Quartet with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Mulligan's 1950s Quartets, Miles's Second Quintet, Jarret's Köln Concert...There hasn't been one since the Mulligan in 2023, so who knows if the series has been discontinued.

Digging into this treasure chest: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Disc 15

Not sure I follow your logic here. Yes, the fact that an album is available for streaming today does not ensure it will be available tomorrow. But if it is streaming, it's almost certainly also available for download too. Which makes it exactly the same as a cd: get it while you can because it may go out of print at any time.

Wow!

External CD drives are inexpensive. I had to get one when I had to buy a new computer five years ago. I had an external CD/DVD burner long before that. CD prices vary: If you are searching for rare items the price tags are astronomical. Add to that the high shipping fees and customs fees and some items I would like to have are out of my budget. I recently found a Venzuelean CD from my wish list that is only 20 bucks, but the shipping costs would be four times as high, not including import taxes. Crazy. A friend of mine with an expensive high end system including high resolution streaming simply does not want to plaster his walls with shelves. Looking at my living room walls I can see his point. And I was surprised at the enormous catalogue of his streaming service. Many rare jazz items that never saw a CD reissue. We did our evening on Cal Tjader completely by streaming. And the sound quality was better than any of my LPs or CDs. All high resolution. Only disadvantage is that often the liner notes etc. are missing.

I don't think it's a surprise that teens and recent teens prefer the new way of doing things. What surprises me is that adults have abandoned the CD. A very important aspect of owning physical media (books, CDs and DVDs) to me is that they go out of print. The fact that an album is available for streaming today does not ensure that it will be available tomorrow. Owning the physical media allows you to know that it will be there when you want to enjoy it.

Watched North by Northwest (on 70 mm!) yesterday afternoon, then followed it up with an evening screening of Wake Up Dead Man.

That was true 10 and maybe even 5 years ago, but no longer. I had to pay extra to get a computer with a CD/DVD bay in it, as this is definitely no longer standard.

Chico Hamilton, Ellington Suite (World Pacific)

I like that they're advertising Boyd Raeburn as being "modern" before both Stan Kenton and Woody Herman. That's accurate!

Stunning indeed. Quite a legacy, probably cut short. Sad. Sad

I'm looking forward to this release. Yes it's probably all available in various public domain and commercial releases but a lot of that is pretty chaotic and I despair of obtaining all the discographical details on some of those things. Mosaic does a good job of finding the best sources, cleaning up the sound and organizing the discography in a consistent manner.

An older friend of mine has a collection of LPs and a pretty decent turntable, amp and speakers. He was interested in playing some cds he had been given so I found a Sony DVD player which also plays cds and got it for him. The player cost $33 in 2021 and now goes for $44. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007F9XHBI . It's not a top quality device but it worked pretty well; this indicates that the cost of entry for working with cds is pretty low. Most PCs will play CDs no problem...

Yea, I don't see that a CD comeback is in the cards. They will be collected by some only as artifacts, and the huge supply of many of them will keep prices low. With LPs, you have analog sound that some people still value, as well as attractive packaging. With the capacity of hard drives and computers so high, CDs no longer have much value as a storage of sound. People can talk all they want about their perceptions of "real product," but the bottom line is that real product is sound in this case, plus information that can also be digitalized.

They don't really do extra material now. They are doing mostly LP reissues. They have only been releasing what was on the original LP unless they decide to go with a "complete" version. like they've done with a few sessions like Trane's "Blue Train", Rollins' Vanguard or Burrell's Five Spot material.

I just don't see this in my area. CDs are dirt cheap and plentiful in every store I go into. If they were gaining any traction, I doubt I would see so many rare CDs sitting in these bins with $5 price tags on them. I guess you could say that Jazz CDs are rising as a way for someone to acquire a large collection cheaply, but that doesn't seem to be the way it's going. FWIW, the argument that today's younger music fans aren't willing to buy equipment and have an actual stereo setup doesn't hold water when you consider that they are also the generation that has supposedly caused a resurgence in LPs.