J.A.W.

The following CDs are scheduled for release. On March 21, 2007 RKCU 2607 Jay-kohama-ikeda Sextet/East West Alliance 2500 On April 4, 2007 UCCO 1001 Elling,Kurt(vo)/Night Moves 2500 On April 11, 2007 UCCO 9001 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Saxphone Colossus 1100 UCCO 9002 Evans,Bill(p)/Portrait in Jazz 1100 UCCO 9003 Evans,Bill(p)/Waltz for Debby 1100 UCCO 9004 David,Miles(tp)/Bags' Groove 1100 UCCO 9005 M.J.Q./Django 1100 UCCO 9006 Dolphy,Eric(as)/At the Five Spot Vol.1 1100 UCCO 9007 Garland,Red(p)/Groovy 1100 UCCO 9008 Evans,Bill(p)/Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1100 UCCO 9009 Evans,Bill(p)/Explorations 1100 UCCO 9010 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Himself 1100 UCCO 9011 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Full House 1100 UCCO 9012 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Incredible Jazz Guitar 1100 UCCO 9013 Kelly,Wynton(p)/Kelly Blue 1100 UCCO 9014 Pepper,Art(as)/Meets the Rhythm Section 1100 UCCO 9015 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Way Out West 1100 UCCO 9016 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Tenor Madness 1100 UCCO 9017 Davis,Miles(tp)/And the Modern Jazz Giants 1100 UCCO 9018 Davis,Miles(tp)/Walkin' 1100 UCCO 9019 Davis,Miles(tp)/Cookin' 1100 UCCO 9020 Davis,Miles(tp)/Relaxin' 1100 UCCO 9021 Davis,Miles(tp)/Steamin' 1100 UCCO 9022 Davis,Miles(tp)/Workin' 1100 UCCO 9023 Coltrane,John(ts)/Coltrane 1100 UCCO 9024 Coltrane,John(ts)/Soul Trane 1100 UCCO 9025 Dorham,Kenny(tp)/Quiet Kenny 1100 UCCO 9026 Bryant,Ray(p)/Trio 1100 UCCO 9027 Evans,Bill(p)/Interplay 1100 UCCO 9028 Adderley,Cannonball(as)/In San Francisco 1100 UCCO 9029 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Brilliant Corners 1100 UCCO 9030 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Monk's Music 1100 UCCO 9031 Friedman,Don(p)/Circle Waltz 1100 UCCO 9032 Drew,Kenny(p)/Trio 1100 UCCO 9033 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/And the Contemporary Leaders 1100 UCCO 9034 Manne,Shelly(ds)/My Fair Lady 1100 UCCO 9035 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Plus Four 1100 UCCO 9036 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Work Time 1100 UCCO 9037 Davis,Miles(tp)/Collector's Items 1100 UCCO 9038 Davis,Miles(tp)/Dig 1100 UCCO 9039 Davis,Miles(tp)/The New Miles Davis Quintet 1100 UCCO 9040 Coltrane,John(ts)/Lush Life 1100 UCCO 9041 Coltrane,John(ts)/Stardust 1100 UCCO 9042 Burrell,Kenny(g)/And John Coltrane 1100 UCCO 9043 M.J.Q./Concorde 1100 UCCO 9044 Dolphy,Eric(as)/At the Five Spot Vol.2 1100 UCCO 9045 Garland,Red(p)/At the Prelude 1100 UCCO 9046 Haynes,Roy(ds)/We Three 1100 UCCO 9047 Criss,Sonny(as)/Up,Up and Away 1100 UCCO 9048 Farmer,Art/When Farmer Met Gryce 1100 UCCO 9049 McLean,Jackie(as)/A Long Drink of the Blues 1100 UCCO 9050 McLean,Jackie(as)/4 5 & 6 1100 UCCO 9051 McLean,Jackie(as)/Lights Out 1100 UCCO 9052 Konitz,Lee(as)/Subconscious Lee 1100 UCCO 9053 Waldron,Mal(p)/Mal-1 1100 UCCO 9054 Jackson,Milt(vib)/Quartet 1100 UCCO 9055 Woods,Phil(as)/Woodlore 1100 UCCO 9056 Getz,Stan(ts)/Quartet 1100 UCCO 9057 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Trio 1100 UCCO 9058 Flanagan,Tommy(p)/Trio 1100 UCCO 9059 Wallington,George(p)/Live at the Cafe Bohemia 1100 UCCO 9060 Wallington,George(p)/Jazz for the Carriage Trade 1100 UCCO 9061 Wallington,George(p)/The New York Scene 1100 UCCO 9062 Golson,Benny(ts)/Groovin' With 1100 UCCO 9063 Evans,Bill(p)/New Jazz Conception 1100 UCCO 9064 Evans,Bill(p)/At Shelly's Manne Hole 1100 UCCO 9065 Evans,Bill(p)/Everybody Digs 1100 UCCO 9066 Evans,Bill(p)/How My Heart Sings 1100 UCCO 9067 Evans,Bill(p)/Moonbeams 1100 UCCO 9068 Adderley,Cannonball(as)/Know What I Mean 1100 UCCO 9069 Adderley,Cannonball(as)/Things Are Getting Better 1100 UCCO 9070 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Plays Duke Elington 1100 UCCO 9071 Monk,Thelonious(p)/The Unique 1100 UCCO 9072 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Alone in San Francisco 1100 UCCO 9073 Monk,Thelonious(p)/With John Coltrane 1100 UCCO 9074 Monk,Thelonious(p)/And Sonny Rollins 1100 UCCO 9075 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Boss Guitar 1100 UCCO 9076 Kelly,Wynton(p)/Whisper Not 1100 UCCO 9077 Baker,Chet(tp)/Chet 1100 UCCO 9078 Baker,Chet(tp)/In New York 1100 UCCO 9079 Baker,Chet(tp)/Plays Lerner and Loewe 1100 UCCO 9080 Baker,Chet(tp)/It Could Happen to You 1100 UCCO 9081 Friedman,Don(p)/Flash Back 1100 UCCO 9082 Adderley,Nat(tp)/Work Song 1100 UCCO 9083 Harris,Barry(p)/At the Jazz Workshop 1100 UCCO 9084 Timmons,Bobby(p)/This Here 1100 UCCO 9085 Pepper,Art(as)/Gettin' Together 1100 UCCO 9086 Pepper,Art(as)/Plus Eleven 1100 UCCO 9087 Kessel,Barney(g)/To Swing Or Not to Swing 1100 UCCO 9088 Kessel,Barney(g)/The Poll Winners 1100 UCCO 9089 Hawes,Hampton(p)/Trio Vol.1 1100 UCCO 9090 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/With M.J.Q. 1100 UCCO 9091 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Plays for Bird 1100 UCCO 9092 Davis,Miles(tp)/And Milt Jackson 1100 UCCO 9093 Davis,Miles(tp)/The Musings of Miles 1100 UCCO 9094 Davis,Miles(tp)/Blue Haze 1100 UCCO 9095 Coltrane,John(ts)/Settin' the Pace 1100 UCCO 9096 Dolphy,Eric(as)/In Europe Vol.1 1100 UCCO 9097 Dolphy,Eric(as)/In Europe Vol.2 1100 UCCO 9098 Dolphy,Eric(as)/In Europe Vol.3 1100 UCCO 9099 Dolphy,Eric(as)/Outward Bound 1100 UCCO 9100 Garland,Red(p)/When There Are Grey Skies 1100 TOCJ 66373 V.A./Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life 2500 On April 18, 2007 UCCG 1349 Quasthoff,THomas(vo)/Jazz Album: Quasthoff(Br) Till Bronner 3000 LBCY 319 Torch/Sounds for Staying Home 2500 LBCY 320 Torch/Before the Night Is Over 2500 LBCY 321 Torch/Charm 2500 On April 25, 2007 UCCJ 9080 Akiko(vo)/VIDA 2800 UCCT 1184 Camilo,Michel(p)/Spirit of Moment 2500 UCCT 1185 Peterson,Oscar(p)/What's Up? The Very Tall Band 2500 UCCE 1085 Saluzzi,Dino(bandneon)/Dark Eyes 2500 UCCE 1086 Fort,Anat(p)/Long Story 2500 UCCE 1087 Trovesi,Gianluigi(a-cl)/Vaghissimo Ritratto 2500 MTCJ 3039 Nagai,Takao(p)/Dohja 2800 MTCJ 3042 Chia(Hibino,Chiaki)/A Gift from a Star 2800 FNCJ 5520 Khan,Steve(g)/Borrow Time 2500 WNCJ 2176 Q Ishikawa(ts)/In My Life 2800 XQBV 1006 Meschinet,Herve(fl)/Night in Tokyo 1800 XQBV 1007 Combelle,Philippe(ds)/Tribute to the Mother of Groove 1800 WNCJ 2177 Imamura,Yuji(perc)/Beat from the Earth 2800 WNCJ 2178 Sakai,Toshiyuki(as)/Fragrance of Love 2800 LXCY 6241 V.A./Shed a Little Light on Challenge Records 2415 XQAM 1503 Winters,Pinky(vo)/World on a String: Pinky Winters Sings Sinatra Live in Tokyo* 2800 XQAM 1504 Hubka,Diane(vo)/The Look of Love 2800 XQAM 1601 Jacob,Christian(p)/Styne & Mine 2520 XQAM 1602 Wood,John(p)/Blue in Green 2520 RKCJ 2029 Scene Of Jazz/Breeze of Spring 2500 On May 16, 2007 UCCO 9101 Garland,Red(p)/Soul Junction 1100 UCCO 9102 Garland,Red(p)/A Garland Of 1100 UCCO 9103 Criss,Sonny(as)/This Is Criss 1100 UCCO 9104 Ervin,Booker(ts)/The Song Book 1100 UCCO 9105 Fuller,Curtus(tb)/A New Trombone 1100 UCCO 9106 Evans,Gil(p)/And Ten 1100 UCCO 9107 Byard,Jaki(p)/Hi Fly 1100 UCCO 9108 Stitt,Sonny(as)/Stitt,Powell,J.J. 1100 UCCO 9109 Getz,Stan(ts)/Preservation 1100 UCCO 9110 Farlow,Tal(g)/The Return Of 1100 UCCO 9111 Gray,Wardell(ts)/Memorial Vol.1 1100 UCCO 9112 Monk,Thelonious(p)/Misterioso 1100 UCCO 9113 Montgomery,Wes(g)/So Much Guitar 1100 UCCO 9114 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Trio 1100 UCCO 9115 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Guitar on the Go 1100 UCCO 9116 Montgomery,Wes(g)/Portrait of Wes 1100 UCCO 9117 Sims,Zoot/Zoot 1100 UCCO 9118 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/Freedom Suite 1100 UCCO 9119 Rollins,Sonny(ts)/The Sound of Sonny 1100 UCCO 9120 Henry,Ernie(as)/Presenting 1100 UCCO 9121 Russell,George(p)/Ezz-thetics 1100 UCCO 9122 Shearing,George(p)/George Shearing & Montgomery Bros. 1100 UCCO 9123 Mulligan,Gerry(bs)/Meets Monk 1100 UCCO 9124 Thielemans,Toots(harmonica)/Man Bites Harmonica 1100 UCCO 9125 Heath,Jimmy(ts)/On the Trail 1100 UCCO 9126 Griffin,Johnny(ts)/The Kerry Dancers 1100 UCCO 9127 Griffin,Johnny(ts)/The Little Giant 1100 UCCO 9128 Mance,Junior(p)/At the Vilage Vanguard 1100 UCCO 9129 Drew,Kenny(p)/Pal Joey 1100 UCCO 9130 Morgan,Lee(tp)/Take Twelve 1100 UCCO 9131 Jackons,Milt(vib)Bags Meets Wes/1100 UCCO 9132 Adams,Pepper(ts)/10 to 4 at the Five Spot 1100 UCCO 9133 Jones,Philly Joe(ds)/Showcase 1100 UCCO 9134 Blakey,Art(ds)/Caravan 1100 UCCO 9135 Blakey,Art(ds)/Ugetsu 1100 UCCO 9136 Harris,Barry(p)/Preminado 1100 UCCO 9137 Mitchell,Blue(tp)/Big Six 1100 UCCO 9138 Mitchell,Blue(tp)/Blue's Moods 1100 UCCO 9139 Timmons,Bobby(p)/Soul Time 1100 UCCO 9140 Timmons,Bobby(p)/In Person 1100 UCCO 9141 Pepper,Art(as)/Smack Up 1100 UCCO 9142 Pepper,Art(as)/Intensity 1100 UCCO 9143 Kessel,Barney(g)/Poll Winners Ride Again 1100 UCCO 9144 Carter,Benny(as)/Swingin' to the Twenties 1100 UCCO 9145 Taylo,Cecil(p)/Looking Ahead 1100 UCCO 9146 Coleman,Ornette(as)/Tomorrow Is the Quwstion 1100 UCCO 9147 Coleman,Ornette(as)/Somethin' Else 1100 UCCO 9148 Brown,Ray(b)/Something for Lester 1100 UCCO 9149 Manne,Shelly(ds)/Swingin' Sounds 1100 UCCO 9150 Newborn Jr.,Phineas(p)/World of Piano 1100

I take it Chris removed them before he left, or did they somehow "die"?

Chris Albertson has just started posting at Steve Hoffman's Forum.

It's the same with DCC, so there's no point using MFSL exclusively as a marketing tool.

Many of the so-called MFSL CDs are indeed DCC, not MFSL. Like Claude said above, they're totally different labels.

Amen. Yazoo's liner notes generally missed the mark and weren't especially informative, but then, that's a characteristic that dates back to their earliest vinyl days in the 1960s. OTOH, Yazoo's sound mastering was the model for how it should be done. They eschewed all the no-noise/sonic cleaning nonsense that removed half the music in favor of something that sounded "clean" by today's standards....but the Yazoo enthusiast gets to hear notes and voices that are lost on other labels' efforts. I will miss them immensely if their retirement from the blues biz is true. Hear hear!

The Rijksmuseum is only partially open (see their website).

My thoughts exactly.

That's a link to the same Blindman's Blues Forum thread I posted above (post #8).

Correct. I've read it too, on various websites: Steve Hoffman Forum (see post #12 and following posts) Blindman's Blues Forum

The sad thing is that things like that really did happen at the end of World War II. How cynical can one get...

Yep.

I've seen that one quite often, though not recently. I sold mine when I got the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic set. Atlantic Japan should also reissue Worthwhile Konitz on CD, which was released only on Japanese vinyl way back in the 1970s. It's included in the Mosaic set.

I've only picked up a couple of discs that I didn't already have on CD: George Wallington - The Prestidigitator Conte Candoli & Lou Levy - West Coast Wailers The music's great, and first impressions are that the sound is OK (I've only listened to them once). I'm not going to get any "sonic upgrades" of stuff I already have on older Atlantic CDs and Rhino/Atlantic CD box sets. (edited to correct a stupid error...)

You're right, I was talking about Document (singular). Don't know anything about Documents (plural).

Ooo - that looks good. Amazon says it doesn't have everything, but I've found a track list and will compare. Thanks very much. MG I have that one. The sound SUCKS! Beware. Just as I thought. The Document CDs that I've heard all suck sound-wise compared to other CDs with the same stuff.

I have the 1987 CD and am happy with it.

Ooo - that looks good. Amazon says it doesn't have everything, but I've found a track list and will compare. Thanks very much. MG Where is that track list? Never mind. I found it on the German Amazon site. In my experience the sound quality on Document releases is often mediocre at best. If this is a Document box I hope for all buyers the sound is better than usual, otherwise I think you'd be better off with the relatively good-sounding Hep CDs.

The 1987 pressing was Japanese as well. I wouldn't be surprised if this reissue was 24-bit remastered by Universal, like most, if not all of their reissues in recent years.

The following CDs are scheduled for release. On March 28, 2007 WPCR 12588 Metheny,Pat(g) & Brad Mehldau(p)/Quartet 2680 On April 15, 2007 TKCV 35395 Kühn,Steve(p)/Plays Standerds 2800 TKCV 35396 Bollani,Stefano(p)/In the Mood for Love 2800 TKCW 32162 Saisse,Philippe(p),Ugonna Okegwo & Thierry Arpino/Piano Man: Feat. Gregoire Maret 2700 TKCW 32163 Krantz,Wayne(g)/2 Drink Minimum 2300 YZOC 10001 Smith,Rhonda(b)/Intellipop 2000

The Masters of Jazz CDs are long gone, and many of them are hard to find.

Yep, the Hep CDs (scroll down) are the way to go. They were mastered by the late John R.T. Davies.

Don't bother. There now exists a far superior alternative: Seconded!

Who mastered the Masters of Jazz series and the current Frémaux CDs?

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel just told me there are 40 sets left.