Ron S

The Herman Capitol Herd has once again become extinct.

Happy Birthday! <---------(I know how much you love that smiley.) Seriously, though--hope you're having a great one!

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John Coltrane, "The Prestige Recordings" (Prestige), discs 9-12

Speaking of which, it sure feels like summer again around here . . . . Oh well, just some wishful thinking. Something tells me that summer blowout sale was a one-off related to the big warehouse move.

Now discs 4-6 (yeah, givin' the interview disc a spin)

Makes me glad I opted for XP on my new laptop.

Is Cindy the one who fills in those numbers? My understanding is that it's someone in shipping (the people truly in control of the world ), who merely fills in the number that's already printed on the invoice.

Charles Mingus, "Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961" (Rhino/Atlantic), discs 1-3

How stupid is that? Make unreasonable demands and get nothing, rather than negotiate a reasonable "something" based on projected sales of a jazz CD (what might that be - maybe 3,000 worldwide). Must be the lawyer representing the estate! At least someone is beginning to see the light. why are you slamming the lawyer??? He forgot to disclose he's also a lawyer WHAT???? There are LAWYERS on this Board????

they acknowledged the mistake and are sending me a postage paid return label. i have two customer numbers, one with my office address and one with my home address. i account the error to that. Did they send one to each address? If they did, it might be something to consider--keeping a set at each place.

So if you're scrupulous, there'll one more available from Mosaic; and if you're not, there'll be one more available on Ebay.

As I've said many times before, the Shelly Manne Black Hawk CDs from the early '90s, for example, are among the best I've ever heard. Many of the early '90s Fantasy issues (as well as many from other labels) have a subtle resolution and presence not found on many "new and improved" 24-bit releases. Couldn't agree more. Those CD transfers sound fine, but it would be sad if these recordings would be preserved for posterity in CD quality only. Imagine the tapes of important movie classics being destroyed or disappearing, and the only surviving copies being DVDs. True--preserving the original sources would be best. Hans (if I can speak for him) and I were just agreeing with Ray's point that the latest 24-bit CD remasters aren't necessarily superior to early '90s CD issues, and often--to our ears--don't even sound as good.

As I've said many times before, the Shelly Manne Black Hawk CDs from the early '90s, for example, are among the best I've ever heard. Many of the early '90s Fantasy issues (as well as many from other labels) have a subtle resolution and presence not found on many "new and improved" 24-bit releases.

All roads lead to Scarlett.

It is indeed, Stuart. He's posted here to clear a few things up... http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost...p;postcount=212 Could you copy/paste that here? Nonmembers of the Hoffman forum can't see that. Thanks!

John Coltrane, "The Prestige Recordings" (Prestige), discs 5-8 DAMN, what a great set! And that early '90s Fantasy sound quality is hard to beat, current technology notwithstanding. Real glad I picked this up for peanuts last year during the Concord Blowout Sale.

The Max Roach set has moved from "Running Low" to "Last Chance".

Not gonna say it, wouldn't be prudent! Hmmmmm, would you prefer that I create a separate post for each one of the 16 discs in this set?

John Coltrane, "The Prestige Recordings" (Prestige), discs 1-4

I know--there are far more items that ARE on my wish list than AREN'T. I guess it's useful if you want to give potential gift-givers access to it (not that I would--nobody ever gives ME a Mosaic ). I just used it to get a count of how many Mosaics I might actually want--and then got depressed.

Anyone else notice it? Didn't take me long to put way too many things on it.

Can you say whether we'll like them?

Any chance of getting a similar version of just Glenn's vocalizations?

The Basie box was the standard square Universal set identical to the Mosaic big boxes. Like your (tranemonk's) Farlow set (remember that one, and who turned you on to it? ).