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I have them both on CD. The first is excellent due to the vocals of Dorothy Moskowitz and the violin of Gordon Marrone. The second is less interesting. Byrd's vocals are actually an annoyance, but credit him with the project conception.

Watched last night. Never gets old for me.

David Wild lists a corrected discography for the Pablo box on his website: Track Title Box Set Dates Previous Issue Correct Dates 1/1 Impressions Paris 11/18/61 Stockholm 11/23/61 Set #2 1/2 My Favorite Things Paris 11/18/61 Rhino R2-71255 The Last Giant Stockholm 11/23/61 Set #2 1/3 Blue Trane Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/4 Naima Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/5 Impressions Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/6 My Favorite Things Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 2/1 Mr. P.C. Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/2 Miles' Mode Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/3 My Favorite Things Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/4 Norman Granz Intro Paris 11/17/62 OK Set #2 2/5 Bye Bye Blackbird Paris 11/17/62 OK Set #2 2/6 The Inch Worm Paris 11/17/62 2308-217-2 Paris Concert OK Set #2 2/7 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Paris 11/17/62 2308-217-2 Paris Concert OK Set #2 3/1 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/17/62 OK set #1 3/2 My Favorite Things Paris 11/17/62 Possibly Paris 63 1101 3/3 The Inch Worm Paris 11/17/62 Stockholm 11/19/62 #2 3/4 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/17/62 Stockholm 11/19/62 #1 3/5 Naima Stockholm 11/19/62 OK Set #1 4/1 Traneing In Stockholm 11/19/62 2308-227 Bye Bye Blackbird OK Set #1 4/2 Bye Bye Blackbird Stockholm 11/19/62 2308-227 Bye Bye Blackbird OK Set #2 4/3 Impressions Stockholm 11/19/62 OK Set #2 4/4 Swedish Introduction Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 4/5 Traneing In Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 4/6 Mr. P.C. Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/1 Naima Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/2 The Promise Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/3 Spiritual Stockholm 10/22/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 5/4 Impressions Stockholm 10/22/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 5/5 I Want To Talk About You Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/6 My Favorite Things Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 6/1 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/1/63 2308-217-2 Paris Concert Probably correct 6/2 Lonnie's Lament Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/3 Naima Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/4 Chasin' The Trane Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/5 My Favorite Things Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/1 Afro Blue Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/2 Cousin Mary Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/3 I Want To Talk About You Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/4 Impressions Stuttgart 11/4/63 Unknown (not Stuttgart) Thanks. I look forward to hearing the sonic upgrade.

I saw Westbrook Blake performed at Kings Place getting on for 10 years ago now. It was honestly astonishing and very moving. The power of Blake's words was perfectly expounded by Minton and Westbrook that night too. I'm so pleased to hear that last night's performance was equally as powerful. This is a landmark work of British music, transcending genre.

My single favorite Patton album — probably as much because of the superb lineup (Cook, Ponder, Jarvis). A really stellar date. I even bought a Japanese CD of it a number of years ago, since it’s split between two discs of the Patton Select (something I don’t often do).

The Westbrook Blake, Blackheath 20.12.25 What may well be the last performance of The Westbrook Blake by its founding cast took place last night at Blackheath's famous Concert Hall. A full house greeted the Westbrook ensemble featuring stalwarts Kate Westbook, Phil Minton on vocals and Chris Biscoe on soprano and alto saxophone. They were augmented by accordionist Karen Street, violinist Billy Thompson, pianist Matthew Bourne and bassist Steve Berry. The concert was also underpinned by the superb Blackheath Halls Community Choir conducted by Paul Ayres. Mike Westbrook appeared last on stage in a wheelchair and took up residence by the grand piano but left it to Bourne to play the instrument which he did with great aplomb. The ninety minute performance with no interval was hugely impressive not least by the vocalists. Despite being in his mid-eighties, Minton's vocal gymnastics have lost none of their power and ability to amaze. Kate Westbrook too, another octogenarian, delivered a stunning performance. Mike - now 89 - contributed spoken recitals of two Blake poems, his voice as lithe and dramatic as it ever was. He even was seen adding vibra slap percussion on one number. Minton's renditions of Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell and the grand finale I See Thy Form, were terrific and typically memorable to the point where some (including me) might regard him as the greatest vocal improviser in British jazz. It's incredible to think that I witnessed Minton singing and playing trumpet in Mike Westbrook's jazz rock outfit Solid Gold Cadillac at the late lamented Phoenix pub in Cavendish Square well over 50 years ago. Minton, unbelievably, sounded just the same as way back then. Whilst Mike Westbrook and others regard his major works as Citadel/Room 315, The Cortege and On Duke's Birthday it is undoubtedly The Westbrook Blake which stands out as a timeless and genre-crossing work, originated from the late Adrian Mitchell's 1971 National Theatre production of Tyger for which Westbrook wrote the music. It has truly taken on a life of its own and Blackheath's concert reminded us, if any needed reminding, that Mike Westbrook is the ne plus ultra of British jazz.

Heat is definitely bad for cds. Depending on the climate, the car can really be a bad place for cds. A few years back I left a Dell computer keyboard sitting on the seat in a car in San Jose, CA and the thing melted! It was all distorted. Global warming has made California's interior valleys really hot sometimes in the summer.

Those heat variations are obvious (even inside the glove compartment). Which I understand would mean that this would or could accelerate deterioration? Particularly since my car is parked outside year in, year out. Not the case here, amazingly, though. BTW, my "real" CDs (that are fodder for my car player) haven't deteriorated either. But I would not have been surprised if the already existing degradation on that CD-R had continued inside the car.

Word. My daughters managed to find every way to sabotage my day from my morning coffee, right up to my nightcap! Can't believe they both have high school diplomas and are in college. PS: After 25 years, I found a replacement copy of Blues in Trinity. They both still have no idea who Dizzy Reece is.

Interiors of cars can experience heat extremes which sort of increase entropy with regard to plastic objects.

Getting back to the problem of MUSIC CDs that have become (almost) unplayable due to background noise and distortion: If I had to figure out an IMAGE of what I guess the damage to the sonic reprodcution of those "unplayable" CDs is like it would be close to the image above. Like I said earlier, the distortion is hard to describe, it is a more or less crunching distortion that does seem to be linked to the actual music. I.e. the distortion patterns follow those of the music (that you still can hear, but in a bad way). And the strange thing is that while I do have the distinct impression that the dud CD-Rs from that recent haul I made were corrupted by problems with the glued-on label that had become detached partially and caused imbalance, the distorted noise that overlays the music sounds very much like that on CD-Rs I burnt (or had received) many years ago and assumed they had failed due to age. But these CDs never had any glued-on labels that may have become detached and cause imbalance. Just to check I went outside to my car and retrieved one of these "failing" CD-Rs. I had burnt it a good 20 years ago, found it had started to show increasing distortion (on the last few tracks) about 10 years ago, bought a new "real" CD of it for my collection and relegated the CD-R (that I'd figured was on its way out) to a corner in my car glove box so I'd be able to listen to what remained listenable on it (it's goodtime music that you can enjoy while driving for as long as the sound is OK). I had not listened to it in years, though, but spun it again now and to my amazement found that the distortion still is as it was back then: degradation starts at track 23 out of 27, increases and tracks 26 and 27 are virtually unlistenable. But no further deterioration during those pas 10 years! Odd ... But what I think I've learnt from the above discussion here is that those dud CD-Rs that arbitrarily jump, splutter and skip and then resume and/or stop altogether and on next try might not start up again at all (at least not on every CD player) are likely to be afflicted by a different kind of deterioration of the data. Isn't it?

Oh sorry I guess I gave the wrong impression. He was not intentionally breaking stuff. Kids just naturally have a way of finding out the weak points of stuff. I was pretty similar as a boy. Luckily I was in my forties when I had him 30 years ago and was mellow and forgiving when he broke stuff. Shit happens!

Jonathan Blake “Gone but Note Forgotten” Criss Cross cd An exciting session with both Chris Potter and Mark Turner 235×235 17.7 KB

Wow. I didn't know this, but why would anyone go out of their way to deliberately mess with CDs? I mean, my kids would just go the good ole' fashioned way and spill milk on my CDs and laugh, as I cried; but this thinking I don't get, like why this: "When he was small my kid was pretty good at finding the weak spots in things. He showed me that it is easy to completely wreck a cd by not putting it far enough onto the spindle and then shoving the cd tray into a pc. Another time he pulled a cd up off the spindle of a laptop when the cd tray/drawer was not all the way out - bent it seriously. If I remember right it didn't snap but was totally unusable." Wha? That's like fucking around with my car, so it doesn't start. First things first, I'd say (just me), "Stop touching my shit!" Just saying. Question further begs, why? How come? What enjoyment comes out of this? Fucking with the integrity of enjoying a CD eludes me. For example, if I (stupidly) left a CD nearby my daughters, I was playing roulette; anything near them (because they were sloppy) was at my own risk. Frankly, my kids were just slops, like, "sorry dad" as they spill milk on Dizzy's Blues In Trinity. Like, try cleaning up milk off a CD; just as wholesome as a good-ass,fun-ass, hoe-down, cleaning up broken eggs off the floor...sorry dad. That aside, like why mess with CDs otherwise? Oh yeah, keep them away from your kids.

CDs are pretty robust, generally, but they have some vulnerabilities. There is a directory area at the beginning of the data which if compromised with quite a small nick generally spells the end. It's pretty easy to mess up a cd by putting scratches and holes through the label side and screwing up the reflective layer. Steve has documented nasty issues with glue-on labels, above. When he was small my kid was pretty good at finding the weak spots in things. He showed me that it is easy to completely wreck a cd by not putting it far enough onto the spindle and then shoving the cd tray into a pc. Another time he pulled a cd up off the spindle of a laptop when the cd tray/drawer was not all the way out - bent it seriously. If I remember right it didn't snap but was totally unusable. As to vinyl - I grew up with it and I admit it used to sound amazing through the tube push-pull mono amp my dad assembled and the big tuned speaker enclosure he built. I particularly remember loving Jimmy Smith's The Cat on that rig. But I also remember the heartbreak of skips and scratches...

I highly recommend checking out the collection of Byrd's early work on New World. https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nyc-1960-1963

found this on the Lost Recordings website

Continuing a revisit of Yes material. Yes “Keys to Ascension Complete” cd 3

Zev Feldman has been trying to locate a tape of the Monterey Jazz Festival gig featuring John Coltrane with both Eric Dolphy and Wes Montgomery, but he has been unsuccessful. It is possible that the tape never existed at all, or it was misfiled, lost or stolen. There was also a gig within the time period at a club in Oakland, though no tape is known.

Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band “More Never Recorded Arrangements For Benny Goodman, Volume Two” Arbors cd