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'Dance With Death' is one of the best Hill albums from his BN days. One of his very organised and also readily accessible session. Tolliver and Farrell shine thoughout but the musician I love on that album is Billy Higgins who gives a unique impetus to the date. Dance with Death is indeed one of Hill's better Blue Note albums. I agree with Brownie's assessment.

Well, if you can make good photocopies that'd be great; the copiers at my work aren't that great, so please go ahead.

It would be a much better solution to e-mail the article instead of faxing it, so if you can e-mail it, go ahead!

Jim, I've still got that issue. I'll try and make a copy of the interview at work tomorrow (might not be so easy, since it's very shiny paper) and fax it to you when I get home - just PM me your fax #.

And so is the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic set!

The Bickerton is recommended.

When we're listening to recordings, we're all looking in the rearview mirror...

I asked them about six months ago, and they told me there weren't any copies of the Lee Morgan booklet left.

Several CDs I ordered from different sources in the U.S. shipped by surface mail late August and I'm still waiting...

All the best, Joe.

That would exclude discussions about older albums/recordings.

Are you volunteering to compile an index and keep it up-to-date? That'd be B-)

It's October 1, 1:18 AM here now, so: gefeliciteerd!

I'm a bit late, but: happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Wat zeg je?

Sent you a PM.

THE CDs ARE GONE I'm selling these Japanese 20-bit Digital K2 remastered Thelonious Monk mini-LP CDs (no obi strips as shown in the pictures) for $15 each: Thelonious in Action - Riverside / Victor VICJ-60491 The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall - Riverside / Victor VICJ-60511 Misterioso - Riverside / Victor VICJ-60353 Standard mail shipping (at buyer's risk; could take weeks): $2.50 for 1 CD; $4 for 2 CDs, $7.50 for 3 CDs. Priority mail shipping (at buyer's risk): $4 for 1 CD, $6 for 2 CDs, $10 for 3 CDs. Registered priority mail is extra. Payment: no cash, checks or money orders; PayPal accepted; in the euro zone: BIC / IBAN electronic bank transfer. Unsold CDs will be listed on eBay on Saturday, October 2, 2004.

My favorites from his final years - actually, his final month - are the Milestone 8CD sets Consecration and The Last Waltz, with Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera.

According to my CDUniverse order status it's shipping now

But how much of that is due to the mastering, rather than to the "gold"? My guess would be that it's due to the mastering only. See also my post above: Many engineers bump up the high frequencies (and sometimes also the lows, hence the phrase "happy smiley EQ") when they're remastering older recordings, thus creating a less "warm" and sometimes more detailed but also more fatiguing remaster. Most if not all of the DCC remasters are "flat" (i.e. no fiddling with the EQ) and therefore sound warmer in comparison.

Many engineers bump up the high frequencies (and sometimes also the lows, hence the phrase "happy smiley EQ") when they're remastering older recordings, thus creating a less "warm" and sometimes more detailed but also more fatiguing remaster. Most if not all of the DCC remasters are "flat" (i.e. no fiddling with the EQ) and therefore sound warmer in comparison.

Some of the best sounding CDs are the gold DCC CDs mastered by Steve Hoffman; his non-tampering with the original tapes pays off very well to my ears. The sound of the gold Analogue Production CDs is also very good. Unfortunately, both series are out of print; some of the CDs are rare and therefore rather pricey.

A friend of mine, who's much more into Beefheart than I am, got rid of Grow Fins almost as fast as he had picked it up... He really, really hated it.