Ron S

Thanks Ron! You're welcome. I hope you checked out the sound samples there--it sounds like a great album!

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I should be able to score some Selects in lieu of payment Make sure they're the newer, higher-priced ones.

"Should" as in they probably will? Or "should" as in "they won't, but goddamit, they should!" I hope it's the former! Should as in 'they probably will'. I was told Mosaic was using the photo. I have yet to see the booklet with my own eyes! Congratulations! And another reason for us to order the set.

"Should" as in they probably will? Or "should" as in "they won't, but goddamit, they should!" I hope it's the former!

Hmmmmm . . . . works for me.

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Mine (received two weeks ago) also has a photocopied tracklisting with a handwritten product code on the back of the box. Given that the box and booklet were manufactured in the US, the CDs were manufactured in Germany, the box was sealed in plastic and everything appeared to be brand-new, my assumption is that the photocopied track listings were used by ZYX during the manufacture of at least this particular run of these sets (they may have run out of originals, if they ever had them at all). Frankly, these track listings/descriptions of box sets often are temporarily attached with a spot of removable glue just so customers can see them in stores, and then remove them after purchase. So the photocopied listing on the back of the Monk set didn't really disturb me, given that the set in all other ways appeared factory-fresh/brand-new. I did wonder about it a little, however, but the fact that yours is the same as mine helps to confirm my assumption that this is the way they were manufactured.

Now I feel totally inadequate. I was just trying to help out until one of you manly men could.

To which I say: when's the curling?

And part of the Art Pepper Galaxy box! You tell 'em!

Do I detect a bit of thread envy?

It's a requirement--can't play Disc 3 without following it up with Disc 4 (read your user's manual ).

Maybe you don't. (I was kidding, Hans. )

Nobody cares about this stuff. When's the curling???

Not a complete list of everything that's been issued, but here's what's currently in print, if that helps.

Eighteen inches here, and STILL COMING DOWN. The weird thing was that, while I was in the chatroom last night with Soulstation1, conn_500, and Aggie87 (don't think FFA was there at the time), we had a big flash of lightning followed immediately by a loud clap of thunder here while the snow was falling heavily. At the time, I thought that maybe a power line transformer had exploded nearby or something like that. But this morning, I heard on the local news that, indeed, this blizzard had been accompanied by some rather freakish lightning and thunder.

I like him just 'cause he was from Philly.

Is the video available in full? How many tunes did they do? Wes Montgomery Discography All 5 of these tracks are on the currently available Gambit CD. That CD also contains the following 5 tunes performed by the same group on a television show in London in March 1965: Yesterdays Full House 'Round Midnight Twisted Blues Jingles and the following 4 tunes performed by Wes with Martial Solal (p), Michel Gaudry (b), Ronnie Stephenson (d), and Johnny Griffin (ts, on last tune only) on a television show in Hamburg, Germany in April 1965: Here's That Rainy Day Four on Six Twisted Blues Blue Monk It's a very nice CD. I don't know anything about the video. Speaking of that European tour by Wes, the best currently available recording from it is the "Complete Live in Paris" on Definitive: This is 2 CDs worth of a concert in Paris in March 1965, also with Mabern, Harper, Lovelace, and Griffin. Great sound and, IMO, some of the best--if not the best--live Wes available. If you're a Wes fan at all, you HAVE to get this if you don't already have it.

Yet on the early McMaster Blue Notes it says, "Digital Transfer by Ron McMaster," and not "remastering" by him. Is it possible that these were in fact straight transfers with no manipulation? That certainly seems to be what Blue Note wanted us to believe, given this and the previous statement I quoted. Is there hard evidence to the contrary?

You're still more qualified that I.

But doesn't this statement appear on the back of the McMaster? If this is true, wouldn't that mean that only Rudy altered the original studio mix, and not McMaster? In other words, ironically, wouldn't it mean that the McMaster more accurately presents the sound of Rudy's original recording than Rudy's own remastering?

Uh, guys? There's only been one Chicken Little in this thread, and I already gave him a prescription to help with that (which of course, jazzshrink, you're free to modify as the more qualified professional).

Taking a couple of these should help that:

Hey, how much is Blue Note being paid by Gatorade for that product placement???