J.A.W.

Amazon.com (available December 1, price $102.98...) Amazon U.K. (no date or price yet) Amazon Germany (already available, €29.95 or about $45 / £27)

Very slow here too...

A great player, who seems to be all but forgotten. Glad you bumped this 6+ years-old thread.

That's funny, same here

According to Amazon it's an "American Jazz Classics" release. No idea if it's legit. The album was originally released on RCA.

"on CD for the first time" is not quite correct, I remember seeing European Windows on CD some years ago.

Same here, and now it's extremely slow again...

Apparently no one's read it yet

Where was this article published, other than on that website? Must have been before 1995, the year Rosenthal died.

The link doesn't work.

Amazing...

I take it you're referring to Charlie Gillett's book The Sound of the City. By the way, his name is Gillett, without the last e.

What don't you like about it?

Yes, just had some of that half an hour ago. Before it worked alright. Some of that today. Very slow. It's pretty bad at the moment, it's very slow and it's regularly timing out - again... Yes, the board's been having a bad hair day most of the day - better now, it seems. MG It's more like a bad hair week; it's very, very slow again at the moment, timing out regularly...

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago. According to AMG it was mastered by Steve Rooke. The Let It Be - Naked was perhaps one of the most disappointing releases I ever bought. It. Sucked. And that after all the anticipation. Life could be so much easier ... THe thing about Let it be Naked that is not so obvious until you buy it - is that this is not just Let it Be stripped of the Spector added sounds - these are in fact different takes of the tunes in several cases - so it's not just naked - it's different and whether you prefer the Naked versions is up to you. I would have preferred that the Spectored versions would have been stripped - but that's not what happened. The sound, on the other hand, is so much better than any version of LIB out now. You're right about the Naked version being a totally different animal - and in my opinion not a good one at that - but I disagree with you 100% about the sound; to my ears it's atrocious, with all the life sucked out of the music, and certainly not better than the "regular" Let It Be.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago. According to AMG it was mastered by Steve Rooke.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo.

Yes, just had some of that half an hour ago. Before it worked alright. Some of that today. Very slow. It's pretty bad at the moment, it's very slow and it's regularly timing out - again...

According to a poster on the Hoffman forum Terry Teachout's Louis Armstrong bio was published a while ago. Has anyone read it yet? Opinions? Publishers Weekly Amazon.com

In fact the most recent version of this title (TOCJ 8585) seems to be not so expensive, and recently released so easy to find. I've only heard the JRVG so I can't vouch for it or indeed for any of these TOCJ 8000 series. Has anyone bought any of these? Edited to add link to full list of available TOCJ in release order on hmv.co.jp. Others may find this interesting. A Japanese contact told me that the TOCJ-8XXX series uses the same 24-bit masterings as the TOCJ-6XXX series from the early 2000s, but don't take my word for it. I bought and subsequently sold many of those TOCJ-6XXX CDs; they sounded harsh and very loud to me, with reduced dynamics.

Yep, digipaks are a disaster in that respect.

Yep, got this good news from him too.

So do I.

Noise reduction does not remove "higher frequencies information" unless that's where you use it. Current software is far more sophisticated than that. I know, but to my ears the Holiday box (the big one) sounds as if it was used there (followed by a frequency bump that made her voice and some instruments sound harsh), that's why I put it like that - perhaps too simplified.