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  2. SACD Question

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    11 minutes ago, Scott Dolan said:

    Is there a discernable difference between the MoFi remaster and the Legacy Edition? 

    And can hybid SACDs be played on a regular CD player? 

    I have the 2CD Legacy Edition and the MFSL hybrid SACD of Kind of Blue, but never compared them, so I can't comment. Others did and preferred the MFSL because it sounded warmer.

    "Hybrid" means that the disc has both a CD-layer and an SACD-layer, so yes, a hybrid SACD can be played on most regular CD-players, though in my experience some older players, from the 1990s for example, occasionally do have problems, which modern CD-players usually don't have. I have a 3-year-old Naim CD5 XS CD-player and never had a problem.

  5. This is bullshit defined.

    in Audio Talk

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    2 hours ago, Marzz said:

    I found a few positive comments - guess on which Forum :D

    Ridiculous.

    Didn't see those fortunately - the stuff I read over there is mainly about jazz and classical, pre-war blues and some 1960s rock, that's all.

  8. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    31 minutes ago, medjuck said:

    Wasn't Mosaic partially owned by Capital?  Does Universal Music now own a piece of it?  And who owns Universal Music? 

    The name of the label is Capitol, not Capital. If nothing has changed with Mosaic since Capitol was taken over by Universal, it seems likely that it is now partially owned by Universal. Universal Music is owned by Vivendi, which is based in France: Universal Music Group (UMG)

  9. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    1 hour ago, Daniel A said:

    I thought Capitol *are* the owner and Mosaic a licensee. And they (Capitol) are getting paid for each stream. I might be paying a flat monthly rate to listen, but a percentage of the total revenue is administered back to the owner, based on the number of total plays.

    That wasn't perhaps what you were after, but anyway. :)

    The Capitol label and all its sub labels, including Blue Note, are owned by Universal since the latter acquired EMI a few years ago. To prevent them from becoming too big the European Commission ordered Universal to sell EMI's classical division, including Virgin Classics, and the Parlophone label (but not the Beatles catalogue), which were subsequently acquired by Warner Music.

  10. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    55 minutes ago, CJ Shearn said:

    Ahh ok, that makes sense.  I wonder if the labels will license the material used for Mosaic sets for streeaming and such.  I remember OOP Selects on Spotify several years ago

     

    48 minutes ago, Brad said:

    I remember early in this thread someone asked about streaming Mosaics and I recall the answer from Michael Cuscuna as no. 

    It has indeed been discussed before. Mosaic's licenses are for CD reissues only, they aren't allowed by the licensing labels to sell downloads or stream sets.

  14. Mosaic's forthcoming James P. Johnson set

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    A dissenting post: I've been on the fence about this set, but eventually decided not to get it. I have the 1992 French Hot 'n Sweet CD Harlem Stride Piano, which has all the 1921-1929 solo piano tracks (no alternates) and a few band tracks, and, while I fully acknowledge Johnson's importance, the music does not really move me enough to want the Mosaic. Besides, I have all of the Bessie Smith tracks and don't care for the other vocals, the band tracks or the later material.

  21. Mosaic Records is releasing a Savory collection set

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    On ‎18‎-‎12‎-‎2017 at 0:00 PM, king ubu said:

    I know ... but it's still pretty weird to re-vamp the website in that time of the year. Maybe the downtime wasn't expected to be so long, but having the site down for several days and without any status update is not really a great idea (I saw one when had been back up and then down again, and THEN they had a message about the site being changed

    The new Jazz Messengers site is now up and running.

  22. Mosaic Records is releasing a Savory collection set

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    There was some negativity about Jazz Messengers being off-line on another forum, that's why I contacted them and got this reply within a day:

    We saw those speculating and harmful messages on the [xxx] Forum. They are clearly out of context. Luckily, we still are more than alive! The truth is that we are just renovating our website. Maybe it wasn’t the perfect time, but we had to do it eventually.

     

  24. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    This may be interesting for EU customers who get their Mosaics from Jazz Messengers, Barcelona. I contacted them about the possible consequences of the current political situation in Catalonia and they assured me there will be no problems, they will move to another region of Spain if the Catalonian parliament declares independence from Spain and the region automatically ceases to be part of the EU that way.

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