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But the projects are at least partly about the same Blue Note titles. Hoffman mastered them for 45rpm LP release for Harley's Music Matters label previously. http://www.musicmattersjazz.com/titles.html So Harley hired Hoffman to master LPs, and then a couple of months later he hires Yoshida to master the same titles for CD. This looks like unnecessary duplication of work to me, compared to the Analogue Productions way to do it for ther LP and SACD reissues http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost...mp;postcount=11 Why not ask Joe Harley about "the how and the why"?

Joe Harley and Alan Yoshida are working on the upcoming Blue Note XRCDs; Steve Hoffman is not involved in any way, this is a completely different project. There's at least one thread on these XRCDs over on the Hoffman forum, here.

There's no news about the Jamal set. As was posted quite a few times in other threads, they haven't been able to locate the tapes.

The Blue Note XRCD reissues were/will be mastered by Alan Yoshida, not Steve Hoffman.

Right, it's not. They appear to be running about 2 months behind schedule on these SACDs. Two months and counting...

My system is not bright-sounding, on the contrary, and I've heard that harshness/shrillness on more systems than just my own and I'm not the only one who has complained about it Anyway, I agree that for this kind of money it's a no-brainer, the music is wonderful.

I don't think new sets will exceed 7 CDs, because of the extra licensing cost of sets with more than 7 CDs - with the possible exception of the upcoming (?) Ellington set.

The extreme hatred for the Yankees here continues to amaze me... It's probably because I'm not an American, but I like a well-played game and I like to watch both the Red Sox and the Yankees (I probably should go into hiding right now).

Sounds promising. Good to see Mosaic's release programme is expanding its horizons

You're probably asking neveronfriday, but to my ears it sounds as if there's a frequency boost that makes the voice and some instruments sound shrill, "piercing" as I said earlier. The same material with Billie Holiday on the John R.T. Davies-mastered Teddy Wilson Hep CDs sounds much more natural to me.

While I agree that the original box is a great collection of Billie Holiday's wonderful music, I don't like the mastering. I was disappointed by the sound quality; Billie’s voice and some of the instruments at times sound harsh and piercing to my ears. Judging by other issues of some of this Sony-owned material, such as the excellent Teddy Wilson CDs with Holiday on the Scottish Hep label, which were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies, I think the Sony mastering could have been better.

Yes, according to Amazon U.K. - the sets on Amazon U.S. and Amazon U.K. have the same ASIN code.

You were younger than me then. Are you still? MG I would also disagree, I loved the Ms and the Ps, both when I was younger and now that I'm still younger than you

Which one, the mono or the stereo box?

Couldn't agree more.

Well said. To my ears both McCartney and Lennon's post-Beatles output was "not great" at best, to put it mildly

That's correct - RCA had been handled here by Decca since about 1957. The early Elvis records came out here on HMV (EMI) - Victor having owned HMV way back in the early years of the century, the two firms had a long standing relationship. Decca's capture of rights to RCA, along with its heavy exploitation of American indies on the London American label, made it a more important firm than EMI in those days. MG Yep, I remember those early RCA records on HMV and the switch to Decca. I loved Decca's "London American" imprint. Ace has recently released the first CD in their new "The London American Label - Year by Year" series: 1960. (edited to correct another error - I'm getting old...)

The Mamas & Papas' singles were originally released on RCA in the U.K., not on Dunhill, their original American label: RCA 1503 - California Dreamin' (1966) RCA 1516 - Monday Monday (1966) RCA 1533 - I Saw Her Again (1966) RCA 1564 - Words of Love (1967) RCA 1576 - Dedicated to the One I Love (1967) RCA 1613 - Creeque Alley (1967) The original U.K. albums: RCA Victor RD 7803 - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966) RCA Victor SF 7639 - Cass, John, Michelle, Denny (1967) RCA Victor SF 7880 - The Mamas and Papas Deliver (1967) I couldn't find an original U.K. release of their fourth album, The Papas and the Mamas, Presented by the Mamas and the Papas. (edited to correct a few errors) If I remember correctly, RCA was distributed in the U.K. by Decca at the time. The RCA Mamas and Papas LPs I bought in the U.K. in the mid-1960s were "manufactured by the Decca Record Company Ltd."

The Mamas & Papas' singles were originally released on RCA in the U.K., not on Dunhill, their original American label: RCA 1503 - California Dreamin' (1966) RCA 1516 - Monday Monday (1966) RCA 1533 - I Saw Her Again (1966) RCA 1564 - Words of Love (1967) RCA 1576 - Dedicated to the One I Love (1967) RCA 1613 - Creeque Alley (1967) The original U.K. albums: RCA Victor RD 7803 - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966) RCA Victor SF 7639 - Cass, John, Michelle, Denny (1967) RCA Victor SF 7880 - The Mamas and Papas Deliver (1967) I couldn't find an original U.K. release of their fourth album, The Papas and the Mamas, Presented by the Mamas and the Papas. (edited to correct a few errors)

Just read on a Dutch news site that Spanish classical pianist Alicia de Larrocha died yesterday (Friday, September 25). She was 86.

Any news yet on the upcoming discs? Or did I miss something?

I agree. Cole's playing was always interesting, Peterson's more often than not just busy and fatiguing to listen to. Peterson's sidemen were often more interesting; for instance, I got the 1951-1953 Mosaic because of Barney Kessel

Please explain.

Do you also have to pay tax on goods from the European Union? If so, you'll have a hard time finding stuff for attractive prices outside your country...

You may well be right; I don't have the stereo box yet, so I can't compare them. From what I've heard from people who have both boxes I understand that the mono remasters have more dynamic range, but that seems unlikely if they were indeed originally more heavily compressed, unless the "newly" added compression on the stereo remasters is heavier.