J.A.W.

Make that two years and almost six months (April 2007 - October 2009)

So we finally have a good Monk bio; about time

Well I never listen with headphones if I can help it. I think these Kramer releases sound so much better than any earlier cd release it's not funny. They sound like the music I remember, while the MCA ones sound like something different. I agree with Kevin; those Experience Hendrix remasters of the early albums sounded awful on my system (no headphones), maximized and very fatiguing. I sold them as fast as I could.

I second that suggestion.

The Russian pronounciation is Shos-ta-KO-vich.

I think you're right, he's looking for "West Coast Cool", not hard bop.

The Constitution of the United States and its amendments don't apply here, it's Jim who sets the rules.

Und ein ziemlich heikles Thema

There was also the wonderful West Coast Classics series that he did through Blue Note in the late 1990s. I think it ended after only a dozen titles (didn't do very well sales-wise, as I recall), but it was a fantastic set of reissues. Yep, that was an excellent series. Maybe you can do a show about it

It was also released in Japan in 1992 (TOCJ-5738).

Nils Winther

Yep, a great documentary. Hannah Rothchild did an excellent job.

She was born on November 14, 1918, so if she's still alive she's almost 91.

The mastering itself, i.e. how it was done, is more important than what was used, 16-bit, 20-bit, 24-bit, DSD or whatever.

Really? I don't see any upcoming Soul Station release on CD Pacific's site - that's the site I linked to.

A prime contender for "inane post of the year".

He decided (again) to leave the board several months ago. He still occasionally posts, but that's all. There was quite a lot of fuss about it, apparently you missed it all.

I thought about that, but it would probably hardly be noticed there, and Cindy deserves her own thread in my opnion

Many people here know Cindy as one of the very helpful people at Mosaic. She just told me she is leaving Mosaic for a new job. I want to thank her for all her help, excellent service and patience and I wish her all the best for the future.

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.