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My guess is that it will be a split decision (especially on the SH board!) on whether they actually sound better, but they will sound different than what we have now. If your frame of reference is the CDs (as it is for me), I really don't think there is any benefit to getting the remasters. It will just mess with your head. The only Beatles I've heard on LP was Sgt. Pepper's. I'm happy with the sound on the CDs and that's what I listened to all through college, etc. Not saying that this project is an abomination or anything, I just don't see any value for me. I do seriously wonder if Apple is misjudging things though -- I think the target audience here is in their late 50s to 60s, and this group is really starting to wind down its CD buying. No not us on the board or SH Board but we are such outliers it is a little scary. And truly the next generation or two below me (Z?) isn't going to buy anything at all. It will be all torrents all the time. We'll see how well that works out. I guess the major question would be: Will they sound better than the Ebbetts? Though I think even these are overrated... I take it you're aware that the Ebbetts are bootlegs? Just curious

The Hoffman forum has gone crazy, 1,000+ posts on this in less than 8 hours... (sigh)

We Swedish-Americans even speak English funny, so I am sure you're correct, Hans!

Except that they pronounce "v" as "f". Everyone has a right to their own accent, don't they I'm sure the Swedes also have their peculiarities when speaking foreign languages

Didn't he post Temeuzen? Correct Where is that? North, South? I lived in Den Haag, on the North Sea twice, but never really got around except for Amsterdam, especially the last go round. Most musicians live in the 3 cities off the sea: Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam. Not all, though. Some guys I know teach in Groenegen and I was invited to a concert but it's 2 hours away and I didn't have a car. It's a pretty small country, around the land mass of NJ (which makes me wonder why it would take 2 hours anyway...). Just curious. Click on the "correct" link above and you will see that it's in the Southwest. And it's "Groningen", by the way, the city where I live. Sorry to ruin the spelling. Do you know a bass player named......ahh, s&*t I can't remember his name now. Little guy, and his brother is supposed to play guitar well. Good player, though, and he has a good band. Forget it, and sorry I misspelled your hometown's name. No need to apologize, it's an impossible name for people who don't speak Dutch. Groningen has a population of 185,000, so I don't think there's much chance I know the bass player

Didn't he post Temeuzen? Correct Where is that? North, South? I lived in Den Haag, on the North Sea twice, but never really got around except for Amsterdam, especially the last go round. Most musicians live in the 3 cities off the sea: Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam. Not all, though. Some guys I know teach in Groenegen and I was invited to a concert but it's 2 hours away and I didn't have a car. It's a pretty small country, around the land mass of NJ (which makes me wonder why it would take 2 hours anyway...). Just curious. Click on the "correct" link above and you will see that it's in the Southwest. And it's "Groningen", by the way, a city in the Northeast, about 130 miles from Amsterdam and 170 miles from The Hague; it's where I live.

I don't think that's allowed here, it's copyrighted material

Didn't he post Temeuzen? Correct

Short BBC description of the Getz/Burton date: "This concert featuring the Stan Getz Quartet was recorded at the London School of Economics and includes A Singing Song, The Sunset Dell, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, O Morro, Jive Hoot, When the World Was Young, Scrapple from the Apple and Desafinado."

Nope.

I have to agree with that. I suspect Alan Yetnob is on something of a "KOB/Chet Baker/Brubeck' kick at the moment and the documentary was pitched with that 'style' aspect in mind. Most of us have grown out of it by now ! It wasn't quite clear to me what Yentob was trying to say. Presenting Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson and Kind of Blue as exponents of 1950s "Cool Jazz" is rather far-fetched, to put it mildly. On the other hand, maybe he was trying to make the point that they represented what was "cool" (i.e. ) in jazz at the time; that would have been a more credible statement. Anyway, the documentary was a mess, but, as was said above, it had some great footage.

The footage on the Cool documentary was great, the documentary wasn't in my view. I'm also hoping the BBC will broadcast the Getz and Art Farmer/Jim Hall sessions in full.

If you mean bluesman Jimmy Rogers, he's already had similar treatment years ago: Complete Chess Recordings

Great post, Swede! The best I've seen all day

Agreed on all counts.

For someone who wasn't a blues singer (for a while he was part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene), he did a nice job in my view

The songs on the essential Elektra album Bleecker & MacDougal are: Bleecker & MacDougal Blues on the Ceiling Sweet Mama Little Bit of Rain Country Boy Other Side to This Life Mississippi Train Travelin' Shoes The Water Is Wide Yonder Comes the Blues Candy Man Handful of Gimme Gone Again

One of the great singer/songwriters of the 1960s. I second the recommendation of the Collectors' Music set The Many Sides of Fred Neil, which contains his Capitol albums Fred Neil, Sessions and The Other Side of This Life, a single and unreleased stuff, but above all I'd recommend his Elektra album Bleecker and MacDougal, which has his best songs in my opinion. Fred Neil was born in 1931 and died in 2001. AMG bio

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?