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Well, in fairness, there WAS an excellent but short-lived set from (European) Sony-RCA on their 'Columbia Original Masters' series from about 2008. It is in excellent sound, about 100 tracks on 4 CDs, but now fetches collectors prices. Not much good to you maybe... That was indeed an excellent set, with good sound.

Nothing beats the superb quality of the Mosaic, including the relatively good sound. I expressed some doubts about the sound on the earlier discs earlier on, but after repeated listening I must admit that those doubts are unjustified. If Hans says it sounds OK, then.................it sounds OK You're probably kidding, but please don't take my word for it, I was just expressing my opinion. Let your ears and preferences decide.

Nothing beats the superb quality of the Mosaic, including the relatively good sound. I expressed some doubts about the sound on the earlier discs earlier on, but after repeated listening I must admit that those doubts are unjustified.

Filmmaker and writer Nora Ephron has died. She was 71. NY Times obit

I don't view this place as close to paradise at all, actually. I'll just bow out of these kind of threads in the future. I know there's lots of behind the scenes venom. And I know that a lot of attitude I see from moderators stems from that and also sometimes by humor that doesn't come across to me that way. I'll keep my complaints and annoyances to myself as best I can. Not paradise in an absolute sense (on the contrary, there's indeed a lot of venom), but paradise compared to the moderation on many other boards.

Larry did speak for me too here. I've replied by PM to Lon's last post.

Don't know and don't really care. That's no excuse for flinging crap at the walls. Besides, he is aware of the politics/religion forum, could reasonably assume that there might already be a King thread there, thus no mystery. Finally, and speaking only as the annoying moderator I am, if someone locks a thread I've started, the first thing I'd do is think what reasonable cause there might be for this rather than make accusations. If SS is sincerely puzzled, he could have asked a simple question. Maybe you should figure it out before you start flinging crap at the walls. That is pure bullshit. And here we go again... Why don't you apply for a job as moderator, so we can start flinging crap at you. Sheesh. I'm out of here.

So members can say anything they like to a moderator, while a moderator should watch his mouth. It doesn't work that way, at least not for me; attitude from members and harassment in PMs drove me away.

It's very easy to see who's a moderator - they have "Staff" or "Super Moderator" (Rolf) under their handle in the left-hand column of each of their posts and their "group" below that is "moderator", for everyone to see. There's nothing like that under my handle, so the conclusion is simple: I'm not a moderator. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or brain surgeon to understand that. Good grief... As for you "attitude" remark, well, I don't think it'd be wise to go into that. My last post: regarding the attitude: Larry wrote "Some search you did there." That's attitude. I've seen moderators bitching about what a pain in the butt duplicate threads bring/are. Why not just let them lie? How are they such a cancerous evil? People who search seem to do fine. People who don't search, don't search. How about the attitude of the original poster? If there's anyone who introduced attitude here, it's him. By the way, he's been conspicuous by his absence in this thread; I noticed that he visited the board several times since he posted it.

Good idea, except for the PM part. More work, and if the thread starter can't figure it out by then, no PM probably is going to wake that person up. Also, PM exchanges tend to get too personal in my experience. As a psychoanalyst who had stroke and recovered from it said to a colleague who asked why, if had recovered, he had nonetheless retired: "I can't handle the hostility." In a somewhat similar vein, I just ran across this in a new book by Charles Rosen: "When I was writing a review of Alban Berg's correspondence, I remarked to an elderly and very distinguished psychoanalyst, Sophie Lazarsfeld, that I was surprised by how many of Schoenberg's students seemed to enjoy being so badly treated by him. She replied: 'I have no time to explain this just now, but I can assure you that there are a great many masochists and not nearly enough sadists to go around.'" Larry's right about PMs getting personal. I got more than I care to remember when I was a moderator; it was one of the reasons why I quit.

It's very easy to see who's a moderator - they have "Staff" or "Super Moderator" (Rolf) under their handle in the left-hand column of each of their posts and their "group" below that is "moderator", for everyone to see. There's nothing like that under my handle, so the conclusion is simple: I'm not a moderator. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or brain surgeon to understand that. Good grief... As for you "attitude" remark, well, I don't think it'd be wise to go into that.

And another thing: this criticizing of moderators on the public board by members who, unlike moderators, bear no responsibility for the board at all, has irked me for years. If you don't agree with any decisions made, get in touch with the moderator(s), if necessary via the report button, but keep it civil and don't post (often personal) attacks on the public board. Just my 2 cents.

Nonsense, if he had done some research or if he had asked me before posting his allegation, he would have known that my moderator days ended more than a year ago and that I couldn't have locked his thread. His ignorance is no excuse for his false allegation, which I don't take lightly - as my earlier post well shows.

How about verifying stuff before posting something that's not true?? Get your facts straight and don't post false info about me - I am not a moderator anymore (I resigned more than a year ago) and did not lock your thread; I couldn't, even if I wanted to. The only thing I did was post a link to the earlier thread about Rodney King's passing; that thread was posted in the Politics/Religion forum. The link isn't broken, but if you don't have access to the Politics/Religion forum you can't see the other thread.

Earlier thread

Actually, she was 91 when she died.

Sad news and sadly forgotten.

If I remember correctly Sam Rivers' A New Conception was available for a short while in Japan as a bonus CD with the purchase of a number of other CDs in the "Blue Note Works" series.

I take it you are referring to noise reduction on your Hendersons from Joe Bussard 78s.

Still available: Buy them all and get 10% discount (before shipping) CD jewel cases are not graded, some of them have scratches and/or cracks. The artwork is generally in Exc condition. Mercury Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Sharpshooters - Mercury PHCE-1054, with obi (1985); $32 condition of CD: M- Rare impulse! MVCI series from 1991 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - impulse! MVCI-23050, no obi (1991); $16 condition of CD: Exc (tiny scratch that does not affect play) Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - impulse! MVCI-23029, with obi (1991); $18 condition of CD: M- Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins on impulse! - impulse! MVCI-23024, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- small sticker on front of jewel case McCoy Tyner - Nights of Ballads and Blues - impulse! MVCI-23028, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- 20-bit K2 mastered impulse! CD Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard - impulse! MVCJ-19063, with obi (1998); $18 condition of CD: M- Capitol Toshiba CD Sal Salvador - Sal Salvador - Capitol TOCJ-5375, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- Blue Note (not BN Works) Lee Morgan - The Sixth Sense - Blue Note TOCJ-5736, no obi (1992); $17 condition of CD: M- Blue Note Works CDs Lee Morgan - Lee Morgan Indeed! - Blue Note TOCJ-1538, with obi (1995); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Lee Morgan - Lee Morgan, Vol.3 - Blue Note TOCJ-1557, with obi (1996); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Lee Morgan - City Lights - Blue Note TOCJ-1575, with obi (1996); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Shipping and payment: $2 per CD to Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States Please note that I do not ship to countries that are not listed here. Payment by PayPal only; no cash, checks or money orders. Questions? Feel free to PM me, but a PM with a question doesn't secure the item unless it’s explicitly reserved. An item that is not claimed within 24 hours of my reply will be sold to the next buyer. I won't be able to mail the discs until next week.

I agree; to my ears most Toshiba releases since 2000 that I've heard sounded increasingly horrible, LOUD and harsh. Sadly true, but they are at least clear at lower volumes. Not many of these titles are new to CD... Harshness and the loss of dynamics are not undone by lower volumes.

I agree; to my ears most Toshiba releases since 2000 that I've heard sounded increasingly horrible, LOUD and harsh.

The Stan Getz CD is gone and I've added a Cannonball Adderley CD. Still available: CD jewel cases are not graded, some of them have scratches and/or cracks. The artwork is generally in Exc condition. Mercury Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Sharpshooters - Mercury PHCE-1054, with obi (1985); $32 condition of CD: M- Rare impulse! MVCI series from 1991 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - impulse! MVCI-23050, no obi (1991); $16 condition of CD: Exc (tiny scratch that does not affect play) Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - impulse! MVCI-23029, with obi (1991); $18 condition of CD: M- Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins on impulse! - impulse! MVCI-23024, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- small sticker on front of jewel case McCoy Tyner - Nights of Ballads and Blues - impulse! MVCI-23028, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- 20-bit K2 mastered impulse! CD Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard - impulse! MVCJ-19063, with obi (1998); $18 condition of CD: M- Capitol Toshiba CD Sal Salvador - Sal Salvador - Capitol TOCJ-5375, no obi (1991); $17 condition of CD: M- Blue Note (not BN Works) Lee Morgan - The Sixth Sense - Blue Note TOCJ-5736, no obi (1992); $17 condition of CD: M- Blue Note Works CDs Lee Morgan - Lee Morgan Indeed! - Blue Note TOCJ-1538, with obi (1995); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Lee Morgan - Lee Morgan, Vol.3 - Blue Note TOCJ-1557, with obi (1996); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Lee Morgan - City Lights - Blue Note TOCJ-1575, with obi (1996); $15 condition of CD: Exc, looks buffed Shipping and payment: $2 per CD to Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States Please note that I do not ship to countries that are not listed here. Payment by PayPal only; no cash, checks or money orders. Questions? Feel free to PM me, but a PM with a question doesn't secure the item unless it’s explicitly reserved. An item that is not claimed within 24 hours of my reply will be sold to the next buyer. I won't be able to mail the discs until next week.

A Story Tale was reissued in full on Clifford Jordan's Mosaic, which is an official release on Milestone, owned by Fantasy at the time; it also has Jordan's album Starting Time. Amazon U.K. Amazon U.S. Thanks Hans. I have that CD but had forgotten that "A Story Tale" was included on it. So...I guess I bought the double Fresh Sound CD for just the ONE album. Ah well....... Any idea what the source for Breezin', the first album on CD1 of the Sonny Red set, could have been? Fantasy never reissued that one on CD, nor did Concord.

A Story Tale was reissued in full on Clifford Jordan's Mosaic, which is an official release on Milestone, owned by Fantasy at the time; it also has Jordan's album Starting Time. Amazon U.K. Amazon U.S.