J.A.W.

Don't forget the inevitable Mr Crouch... It was a nice documentary, but I thought it rambled a bit from one album to another and back, and it stayed very much on the surface; why these four albums (Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck - Time Out, Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um, Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come) were groundbreaking was only touched upon.

Thanks for the imput but I've had bad luck ordering discs from sellers on amazon many times getting RVG Editions and/or promo/record club copies not to mention discs in worse condition than advertised. Bob That's why I always ask sellers on Amazon what exactly they are selling. If they don't reply I don't buy

Seconded!

The 1980s McMaster version is available from sellers on Amazon Marketplace.

I read on another forum that Dusty Groove stopped selling Andorran CDs and the like because they had struck some kind of deal with Universal. I don't have any details, though. Does anyone know more?

Jim and the moderators have deleted threads about bootlegs in the past, but I don't know what Jim's exact policy is.

A bit off-topic, but did you ever get a reply from the Netherlands?

Well, the final decision is up to Jim and the moderators as to what is allowed and what not.

What?? Are we not allowed to discuss any "Andorran" releases any longer then? What if something is coprighted in the US but not in other countries? Can't we discuss Classics any more for example? Is this some new policy?? Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I know discussions on bootlegs were never allowed here and as was stated in the first two posts the Rollins concert disc is a bootleg.

you are SO "out to lunch"!!! give it a rest already! What Valerie said.

A tragic accident. A great actress, she'll be sorely missed.

A friend of mine, who owns a record/CD store here, recently had a copy and might still have it. Anyway, it was priced in euros, so there'll be no deal Never mind, I just called and it's gone.

A friend of mine, who owns a record/CD store here, recently had a copy and might still have it. Anyway, it was priced in euros, so there'll be no deal

Nope, that box suffers from noise reduction. The best-sounding issues for the Decca big-band sides are the Scottish Hep Jazz CDs that were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies.

For the 1935-1939 small-band recordings I have the two French RCA Jazz Tribune 2CD-sets, The Complete Small Combinations. They're good enough for me.

I'd suggest the excellent Goodman CDs on the great Scottish Hep Jazz label, which cover the years 1935-1946. They were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies and the sound is fine.

It's on borrowed time ! Not so sure about that. Anyway, it's off topic here, so let's not discuss it further

That was last year. Today £99.95 = $139.50 / €107.90, still too much for this disc Yeah - I've noticed that the £ prices for UK vinyl auctions have been going through the roof this year thanks to the daft exchange rate. The euro exchange rate is not so daft at the moment...

That was last year. Today £99.95 = $139.50 / €107.90, still too much for this disc

Why? Lester Young's 1936-1940 recordings that are collected on the Mosaic set outclass his 1950s Verve dates, at least to my ears.

Same here

Check your system. My system is perfectly OK (Mark Levinson gear, Quad electrostatics) and I checked the CDs (Cool Edit Pro); compared with the OJCs there's added compression/reduced dynamics and boosted highs on the CDs in the box, which may account for the differences I'm hearing, but, as I said, to each their own. Edit: let's not go there again, we've had an unpleasant fight about masterings a few years ago and I don't think it'd be a good idea to repeat it.

Seconded.

Do people really like the sound on the Monk/Prestige box? Sounds harsh and loud to my ears. To each their own. I realize I'm missing the 1940s stuff, but I prefer the OJCs.

What's Armstrong's "smiling, grinning persona" got to do with his music?