Chuck Nessa

Go Cubs!

Yankees must go away.

It might be called an root cellar in Texas Jim.

I hated that band. Skills everywhere but I hated the band. For me they were the Liberace of NY big bands. I have tons of respect for the skills and the players, just hate the result.

must be spud.

It was high school.

check post #6.

Don't know about that but the router is probably the problem. Mine is in the basement and I get signal on the 2nd floor and out in the yard.

Besides a few things in iTunes, the only material I have on drives is/are my masters. This adds up when you save transfers of all the individual tracks from 2, 3, 4, 8, 16 and 24 track tapes. All the various permutations of mixes and edits are saved in 24 bit. Have not checked the bit count but... And I have one drive at home and another at Delmark where I do most of my work.

Waited all day for someone to post this. If I missed it I am sorry. He was a wonderful player and interesting personality. He can be heard on Joseph Jarman's Song For and with Fred Anderson on Dark Day and Milwaukee Tapes.

At this point WM is an important figure in the "market". If you like him post positive things. At this time enough negative stuff has been posted. Unless he wants to give me a night at Lincoln Center I don't care. This is almost a 30 year fight against the "retro" jazz. They won and the folks not agreeing can sneak off into the corner and do something better. Please do that.

Give me a reason to read it.

Ubu is so smart.

Chuck, do you know who was on stage? I haven't been to the festival since '09. I think it must be the set by Allen Toussaint with Mark Ribot and Don Byron.

Bill Dixon and Archie Shepp playing Somewhere from West Side Story.

sigh.

This is the 85 disc set I mentioned - WOW! Much detailed conversation about the transfers in the "reviews". Not sure what transfers you have heard but to quote "in 1992 RCA/BMG released the first 82 CD Toscanini Collection. That is the template upon which the new Toscanini Collection was assembled. In 1999 RCA/BMG issued twelve 2 CD sets of Toscanini in new, 20-bit transfers. Most people thought these were an improvement over the 16-bit transfers of 1992. In 2006 Toscanini's Philadelphia Orchestra recordings were issued in new transfers. Finally in 2008 Sony Japan issued 15 CDs worth of transfers on Japanese JVC XRCDs [most of this material overlapped with the 1999 20-bit transfers]. JVC XRCDs are highly valued by collectors - I could never afford them. If you're adding this up, approximately one third of the 1992 set was re-done in new and improved transfers." I ordered before the release date and paid $74.99 delivered.

Are you saying that acquiring those 10 recordings separately would have cost you about $100 more? At least - probably $300.

Price per disc makes some of the "so-so" performances seem irrelevant. I purchased the massive RCA Toscanini box to get about 10 recordings I wanted and saved about $100 in the deal.

McCabe (as they were issued I purchased 3 Argo boxes) sounded dead/uninvolved emotionaly to me.

I think you are on to something. I think the "class system" has influence on many of your posts.

I am currently using this wonderful shot by Mark Sheldon. I hope he doesn't mind.

Byrdie Green Grant Green Green Hornet

really cool

Similar feelings to Hans. Though the later masterings are better to my ears I have not been able to cut loose of the big box yet. I have kept individual cds covering the string sessions, Bird and Diz and the (mostly) quartets.