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  1. J.A.W.
    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.
  2. J.A.W.
    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
  3. J.A.W.
    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.
  4. J.A.W.
    Member "grey" (Ken Price), who sold quite a few Japanese K2s here, died a few years ago - I think it was late 2004. Ken Price tribute thread
  5. J.A.W.
    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.
  6. J.A.W.
    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.
  7. J.A.W.
    It's on borrowed time ! Not so sure about that. Anyway, it's off topic here, so let's not discuss it further
  8. J.A.W.
    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...
  9. J.A.W.
    That was last year. Today £99.95 = $139.50 / €107.90, still too much for this disc
  10. J.A.W.
    Why? Lester Young's 1936-1940 recordings that are collected on the Mosaic set outclass his 1950s Verve dates, at least to my ears.
  11. J.A.W.
    Same here
  12. J.A.W.
    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.
  13. J.A.W.
    Seconded.
  14. J.A.W.
    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.
  15. J.A.W.
    What's Armstrong's "smiling, grinning persona" got to do with his music?
  16. J.A.W.
    A merger of two sets?
  17. J.A.W.
    The Jubilee album was also released in Japan in 1991, Toshiba TOCJ-5414. Good luck with your search.
  18. J.A.W.
    The Armstrong set can now be pre-ordered
  19. J.A.W.
    You might get a quality discount.
  20. J.A.W.
    These recordings were made for Dial, Ross Russell's label. Spotlite owner Tony Williams reissued them on CD in 1995. If I'm not mistaken Tony now owns the Dial recordings. Tony Williams' Spotlite label website, Dial recordings Scroll down for the Dodo Marmarosa Dial/Spotlite CD.
  21. J.A.W.
    Correct, there were problems in that department.
  22. J.A.W.
    Wonderful set. Grab it while you can!
  23. J.A.W.
    What happened to Brownie???? He wanted to spend more time in the real world, outside cyberspace
  24. J.A.W.
    The sound quality has never been a strong point of these recordings, so I'd say go for whatever suits you best
  25. J.A.W.
    Don't have one, but sent you an e-mail with a couple of links.
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