J.A.W.

Supposing these are RVG remasters.

...or €11.80

Yes! This disc is fantastic! Drake and Rudolph go way back and are very sympathetic to each other's playing. I thought I read somewhere that this had gone oop? It HAS gone OOP, but a few copies are still available from Downtown Music Gallery; price: a whopping $20. I assume DMG is exaggerating a bit - this is a relatively recent relase (2000?) - I remember theeir long-OOP!!!!! impossible to find!!!!!!!!! last batch ever!!!!!!!!! miracously found in Brooklin basement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zappa CDs (that can be easily obtained through zappa.com). No mentioning about it gooing OOP in Meta site (updated several days ago) either. Forced Exposure and Jazz Loft (the store you get when you click on the "credit card order" link on the Meta site) don't have it, and The Music Resource site says "temporarily out" (which is their way of saying it's OOP), so I'm guessing it really is out of print. It's still listed on the "mail order" page on the Meta site, though.

Yes! This disc is fantastic! Drake and Rudolph go way back and are very sympathetic to each other's playing. I thought I read somewhere that this had gone oop? It HAS gone OOP, but a few copies are still available from Downtown Music Gallery; price: a whopping $20.

This is beginning to look like The Son of Funny Rat

not from own experience but from reading all the raving on various boards, I'd say the Koch disks get SMOKED beyond recognition... Well, it's not THAT bad, but the Mosaics are WAAAAAYYYYY ahead! B)

You're absolutely right, it's impossible to draw the line, but buying Definitive, Proper, post-John R.T. Davies JSP (I have some JRTD-remastered JSP sets, and they're great), etc. just doesn't feel good, so I don't. Oh, and I never denied being inconsistent

but does Proper borrow? I think that is the question here. The answer is surely yes in some, but certainly not in all cases. A set like the "Swing Tanzen Verboten!" one, is highly unlikely to be a rip off of other sources, I should think, and a good buy if you want some obscure European music from Nazi times, with an interesting booklet to go with that. Other sets plainly reek of dark business, stealing masters elsewhere, going through the trouble of "touching them up" to make them sound like original, own mastering jobs. Then again I have read (here? elsewhere?) that although a Mosaic rip-off on the surface, judging merely by track title, a certain Proper set turned out to be an original remaster after all; maybe I misread though. Well, even if they've only "borrowed" once, they're out as far as I'm concerned. Same goes for JSP, Definitive, etc.

There's been some discussion on cheap labels like Proper, JSP, etc. in other threads. I choose not to buy from labels that seem to "borrow" their remasterings.

CD Connection is not always cheaper than CD Universe; for instance, the hybrid SACD version of Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners is $19.98 from CD Connection and currently $17.09 from CD Universe (though that's the pre-order sale price; it'll be higher soon), while Paul Bley's Nothing to Declare is $15.02 from CD Connection and $11.89 from CD Universe. It's worth checking out though, since it's the other way around with other CDs and, like Д.Д. said, CD Connection's shipping rates to Europe are generally lower than CD Universe's rates.

Hiroshi told me Toshiba hadn't announced (yet) who remastered this TOCJ series.

As far as I know the Japanese 2CD-set is no longer available. It's pretty hard to find at a reasonable price.

I don't think so. The "Blue Note Works" TOCJs were never 24-bit remastered, just 16-bit and 20-bit.

Now don't you know couw like's Mosaics about as much as he likes Miles? ubu You'd be surprised!

You're taking away the pressure for me to feel I need to buy this set now. This is no fun. If you want some real good music, you need to buy this set now!

Mosaic's Scott just told me there are now 172 J.J. Johnson sets left; they will probably order another batch after that number dwindles down. It will last well into 2005.

Just get the Mosaic set before it's too late...

I never found the Beatles very infectious or inspiring. I like BFS just for the song selection, which, like I said, is a nice acknowledgement of their influences. Actually, I've never really been a B fan...

Beatles for Sale is one of my favorite B albums; it's a nice acknowledgement of their influences.

Yes it will! The booklet couldn't be changed (for contractual reasons), but the new boxes will include this special foldable reading device

There are lots of Beatles songs I don't like or that leave me cold, but I really hate "Yesterday", "Michelle", "Yellow Submarine", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (talking about stupid lyrics), and "Lady Madonna". Just my $0.02...

Yep, I know. I just posted this separately to point out the "running very low status" of the set to those who still didn't pick it up... Man, I figured as much. I don't recall seeing a recent stand-alone thread for the T/K/M box. I thought, if anybody is looking for information about the T/K/M box, whether to buy it or not... they can check THIS thread and THE OTHER thread. I've enjoyed my Tristano/Konitz box very much. Get it while you can. Excellent advice! The T/K/M and the J.J. Johnson sets are two of my favorite Mosaics.

Yep, I know. I just posted this separately to point out the "running very low status" of the set to those who still didn't pick it up...

I just heard from Mosaic's Scott that they have about 50 sets left.

I just posted this in the "Running low..." thread.