J.A.W.

The 1992 Nat King Cole Capitol 4CD-set was no-noised, and the sound suffers because of it. Bear Family's Blowing the Fuse series sounds compressed/very loud, and I don't like the sound at all - which is an exception as far as I'm concerned, I usually like their masterings. Pity, as the music is absolutely great.

Verve is reissued by Universal in Japan. Most of the POCJ-prefix CDs are 24-bit remastered. Why don't you try Amazon.co.jp and search "Jimmy Smith Universal" or "Jimmy Smith Verve"?

The Japanese retailer whose name escapes Kinuta is Hiroshi Tanno in Fukuoka City. His e-mail address is hiroshi@earlyrecords.com. His prices are the Japanese list prices. He accepts PayPal and his overseas shipping rates are very reasonable. Hiroshi can supply all jazz LPs and CDs that are currently available in Japan, and sometimes OOP items. His service is excellent.

Here and here.

Music Direct seems to have bought Red Trumpet, or at least its inventory. There's been some talk about this over on the SH Forum, here and here.

You beat me to it Amazing how many double or even triple threads on the same topic are started these days...

Happy birthday.

All I could find was the exact address: P.O. Box 1200 3260 AE Oud Beijerland Netherlands (3260 AE is the Dutch zip code)

Exactly!

Well, to my ears many of the TOCJ24s sound rotten and the graphs just confirmed what I'm hearing. But like you said, to each his own...

looing? Like this cat you mean?

The good looking version is the earlier "Blue Note Works" TOCJ; the compressed version is the later TOCJ24, not the RVG. I wonder what the RVG graph looks like. if the two versions I have of Sonny Clark's Royal Flush (TOCJ BNW [mono] & domestic RVG [stereo]) are any indication, the RVG will be a "very happy" wall of sound... How to kill the music...

The good looking version is the earlier "Blue Note Works" TOCJ; the compressed version is the later TOCJ24, not the RVG. I wonder what the RVG graph looks like.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer a short while after Christopher died. Very sad news, she was way too young.

RVG's mono masters often sound better than the stereo ones.

What bothers me most about this one is that it is pushed so loud that there is actual distortion in places. I mean, this is NOT the image of a healthy soundwave... Thanks for posting this John, it shows exactly what I've been trying to say for quite some time now. These "modern mastering" techniques are killing the music in my opinion.

And I'm the opposite , except that I don't buy TOCJ24s anymore; the sound on many of those is compressed/loud and aggressive - Walter Davis' Davis Cup TOCJ24 is a good example of what I mean, it sounds horrible, a typical victim of "modern mastering".

Sorry, but I think you can forget about that. A bad recording can't be remedied by a mastering job.

As far as I remember the original LP didn't sound very good either. It's obviously a not-so-good recording.

I didn't know these recordings had Bethlehem links...

I can't even do that - not that I'd want to...

Football as played in Europe is older than your so-called "football", so your use of " is misplaced in my opinion. Especially since in our "football", the ball is touched mostly with hands. I hadn't even thought of that...

Football as played in Europe is older than your so-called "football", so your use of " is misplaced in my opinion.

Happy birthday.

Strange, no one (including me) has mentioned Neil's very first album, Neil Young (Reprise 6317), that came out twice in 1968 - Young decided to remix and reissue the album within months of its first release. It's a bit overproduced in my opinion, but it does contain several fine songs, "The Loner" being one of them.