J.A.W.

Ronnie Scott with the Ronnie Ball Trio - Esquire (England) ESQ-303 Recorded in London on October 13, 1951 Personnel: Ronnie Scott - tenor saxophone Ronnie Ball - piano Pete Blannin - bass Tony Kinsey - drums Tracks: Close Your Eyes I Didn't Know What Time It Was The Nearness of You All of Me I'm not sure about the format (10" LP, EP)

It is. The sound's great as well.

As far as I know there's no domestic (U.S.) remaster of Exile, but there might be one in Japan.

Congratulations. It's a fact though that when you get older, your hearing will diminish, however slowly; it's part of the aging process.

Older people always have increasing high-frequency hearing loss. Some more than others, though. :( ...including me, of course (58 next month)

I'm also looking forward to the Pacific Jazz Piano Trio Select, or whatever it's going to be called.

Errr... I wouldn't be too sure of that, it's still American music...

Yep, that would be the Mulligan CJB. It's got the wrong - or rather incomplete - text both on the box and the booklet: The Complete Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Band Sessions.

The booklets aren't numbered, and the set doesn't have a Mosaic CD number like "MDX-XXX", but everything else's the same. I have the European Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Mosaic; on the inside cover of the booklet it says "This is one of a limited edition of 7,500 albums", and the CD number is B0000958-02.

Which is why I don't think, as the thread asks, "any generalizations can be said". I agree. And welcome indeed, Stew.

It's also very system-dependent. Many compressed remasters and/or remasters with bumped-up higher frequencies may sound OK on mid-fi gear, but on high-end systems the sound's often crap.

Older people always have increasing high-frequency hearing loss. Some more than others, though.

This might help.

Anyway, what's that creature doing here??

The new TOCJ24 of Happenings (TOCJ-6430) sounds great. Highly recommended.

I know you were trying to help, and I appreciate it (), but I just don't see how picking up the Japanese reissues would be cheaper than buying the Select.

And that's an understatement in my opinion.

I don't know, but the Morello session has some tasty tenor playing by Art. Nice Red Norvo contribution too. Sound/remastering issues aside, I think everyone's going to like this set. While I don't know later Pepper very well, I like this (Jazz West, Intro, Omega) period of his playing even better than the Contemporary period that immediately followed it (late 50's). With me it's just the other way 'round - errr... I believe I've already said that... I'm repeating myself now, must be getting old...

The Select is $39, and the two Japanese CDs would cost about $24 each (2,500 yen), so I don't see how getting those two would be cheaper. Besides, I've only got two of the three Japanese Peppers, so I'd have to get three 2,500 yen CDs, which would make picking up the Select even more attractive, assuming the remasterings are the same. Who did remaster the Japanese Morello and Perkins reissues, by the way?

I keep wondering where all these cheap Mosaics without boxes and booklets that are being offered on eBay are coming from... The back of a truck, maybe?

I'm pretty sure it'd be bad form to ask Mosaic if they'd sell me a box and booklet to go with my eBay discs. So I'm just gonna have to take your word for it... I don't think they do this anymore for in-print sets... only for OOP. Correct.

You've got a point. Nevertheless, I'll be picking this one up because of the additional material (the Joe Morello and Bill Perkins albums).

You'd better make that two...

The Dance sounded OK to me, but I didn't like the other two tunes. I agree with Tony's assessment of Ron Carter and the drummer, and I'm not exactly a fan of the strings thing.