J.A.W.

Thanks Kazak

It probably lurks in his archive somewhere. Wish I could take a peek...

David, I have asked Hiroshi Tanno if he can help. I'll let you know.

You can also use HMV Japan's search box; select "by cat.no.", type "UCCI9" and GO Unfortunately, deleted items such as John Coltrane's Ballads (UCCI-9001) and A Love Supreme (UCCI-9002) are no longer listed.

Yes, and I wonder why. This was discussed on the "old board". I don't remember exactly what was said, but it might be a language problem.

Yep, but the seller doesn't ship outside Germany (as is so often the case with eBay Germany auctions). By the way, the "Buy It Now" price ("Sofort kaufen") is €74.99 or $81 at today's exchange rate.

Zuma has been available on CD since 1990.

This Is Our Music - remastered reissue, sounds great English remastered version of Change of the Century - don't know how it sounds, though.

After I had e-mailed Parallactic's Brandon Evans again a few days ago I got a full refund

Weizen's back and posting - occasionally

EDT + 13 hours, so it's 2:39 AM on Sunday there now. Time zones

James Spaulding plays a lot of flute on this album, but if you don't mind that (I'm not a fan), grab it. Joe Chambers is great.

I didn't know Parallactic's pressing plant was located in Tikrit. Well, their CDs are just as elusive as Saddam...

Still nothing. Hmmm... This is not looking good... See also the last few posts in this thread over on AAJ.

Not quite - today's exchange rate: €1 = $1.08 / $1 = €0.93, and the dollar is rising fast against the euro.

That's funny, this was my reaction: I don't like many (OK, most) of RVG's remasters - I'm told his hearing is deteriorating badly - I wondered if his alleged hearing loss could have something to do with the sonic qualities of his remasters - if so, that could explain the (at least to my ears) exaggerated highs. I never thought his remastering to be fundamentally wrong, though (I know, you never said I did ); it's just not my cup of tea. As for your second point, I think you're right, much popular music does have the same sonic qualities (to my horror, but that's my problem), such as many recent Sony jazz reissues, and, since they're probably aimed at the current market, it seems much more likely to me too that that's exactly how Blue Note want their reissues to sound (or they would undoubtedly have told Rudy otherwise). I've discussed this "privately" with a few other board members, and they agreed that this might be the case.

Guess who joined on June 22, 2003...

ControTempo have never let me down; they filled all but one of my orders.

No problem here either (IE6)

Some just aren't fans of Rudy's remastering. Sure, some aren't homeruns, a FEW duds (A Fickle Sonance). But the majority are beautiful, some superb. The notion that Rudy's hearing has suffered high end loss seems pretty crazy. Well, for what it's worth, one of Rudy's Dutch relatives told me about his (alleged) hearing loss. If it's true, I haven't the slightest idea if it has any impact on his work. All I know is that I don't like his Blue Note remasters (it seems I disagree with Chuck here); like I said on other occasions they give me a severe headache, and that's not what I would call "enjoying music". Oh, and by the way, my hearing's fine: I recently had it checked by a specialist, and it's still in excellent condition despite my age (I'm 56)

Yep, it is the Douglas material. If my memory serves me right, Fuel2000 is a Universal imprint; at least it's distributed by Universal.

Lon, Just go to the right-hand bottom of any page of your thread. There you'll find "Moderation options": select "Delete this topic", click on "Go" and Bob's your uncle (so to speak )

You could always go hunting after 78s...