J.A.W.

No, I don't have it either.

Why not turn up the volume? They don't sound bad.

Any further news yet on Bootleg #2, such as a release date?

Sounds good.

I mentioned that one in post #3 Thanks for the info, Flurin.

It's not listed on the Concord site (they own Milestone.) Just checked the various Amazon sites; according to Amazon Italy it's been available there since March 22 and it's only 19 euros plus change and shipping. It seems to be an Italian Concord release. There are other Concord boxed sets on Amazon Italy, like an 11CD Eric Dolphy set with his Prestige/New Jazz recordings for 33 euros.

A funny guy indeed. He'll be missed. BBC obit

That's not quite correct, the UA material was reissued on CD in Japan a few years ago. It's now OOP. Anyway, the Mosaic is a great set.

He needs to be dealt with in The Hague. We don't want him

Sad news.

I'm aware that you and many others here are not exactly fans of that site, but I thought I'd post the link anyway for those few who might be interested. I hope this doesn't turn into another Hoffman board bashing thread.

Discussion about these on the Hoffman board Org board member Claude, who isn't posting much here anymore, is taking part in the discussion over there.

Stateside was originally a U.K. label, indeed owned by EMI, that issued American recordings, hence the name. It was formed in the 1960s and it's now mainly a reissue label. I had quite a few Stateside LPs back in the 1960s.

It's a great set for people who are totally into Braxton's Arista stuff, but I returned it, it was "too much" for me.

I honestly can't remember how good or bad my TOCJ sounded, but, as I said above, I liked it better than the later Japanese reissue. I got rid of the Fresh Sound a long time ago.

Yep, I did, quite a while ago. I haven't listened to it in ages, but if I remember correctly it sounds like many TOCJs from that era and I liked it better than the later reissue Lon is referring to. Your mileage may vary

Thanks for the additional info, Flurin. I might try that 2CD-set. I'm not a Heifetz fan, so I'm going to pass on that one (my late parents loved Heifetz, back in the 78 era, something I never understood. To my ears he's too "perfect" and lacks emotional depth. Oh well.)

Larry, I'm not going to recommend any versions, since our tastes are usually very different. The reason I'm posting here is that I found a DG 2CD-set with Gilels/Kogan/Rostropovich in Beethoven's Op.97 (the Archduke trio) on Amazon. I have no idea if it's the Moscow recording from 1956, though. There's also a 5CD-set on the Doremi label with Op.97 by those three, but, judging by one of the reviews (scroll down), it might well be that a lot of noise reduction was used which could have affected the music badly.

PID is a distributor.

There's even less effort than that, since the discography is on the same page as the bio. Correct. You can either scroll down or click on the link under the artist's name.

Is it just a change in interface with no loss of information? I haven't spent much time on it yet, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the new interface to work in a way that gives the information of the old one. The old AMG gave a career retrospective for each artist, including a chronologically displayed discography that included in and out-of-print albums. Compilations were catalogued seperately. It was still vastly incomplete, of course, but still a valuable resource, particularly when a serious and knowledgeable reviewer was involved. I don't yet see how to retrieve all of that with the new interface. I hope that there is some way. It's very simple - take John Coltrane, for example: under his name in the top left-hand corner you'll find the link to the discography, which is still chronological. On the discography page you can choose between "main albums", "compilations", "singles/EPs" and "DVDs and videos" at the top right-hand corner. Click on a title on the discography page and you'll get the review - for what it's worth I don't see the problem.

Same here

A complete Henderson set would have been nice, but, as Chuck said, the band was frequently a mess, so the set would have been pretty uneven.

The idea of a Henderson set dates from years back and the set was abandoned long before the Mingus appeared on the horizon, and also before the Webb/Fitzgerald plans took shape if I'm not mistaken.

There's a link to HMV Japan in post #2 and they're also available from CDJapan at 999 yen or about $10 each, plus shipping.