J.A.W.

Same here.

According to the first edition of the Cuscuna/Ruppli Blue Note discography the three tracks ("Up Tight", "Cry Me a River" and an incomplete take of "Latin Strain", all with a certain Edwin Swanston on organ) that were recorded on July 20, 1959 were rejected. As for Easy Living, I have the 1987 U.S. CD with eight tracks, including "I've Got a Crush on You", "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" and "Easy Living".

I have the John Hardee and 2 Ike Quebec CDs in this series. They're great and cover the long OOP and insanely expensive (if you can find it) Mosaic set. Blue Note released TOCJ-66010 in the United States as Edmond Hall's Profoundly Blue in 1998 and TOCJ-66007 without the Josh White tracks as The Port of Harlem Jazzmen in 1994, with 19 tracks. The latter was also released as a Mosaic LP, of course. I am posting the U.S. releases for those who are interested in the music and can't find the Japanese CDs or prefer the American ones.

The entire contents of TOCJ-66011 plus the 6 James P. Johnson tracks on TOCJ-66014 were issued on the The Blue Note Jazzmen 2CD-set in 1998.

I noticed that one of the discs I don't have, TOCJ-66014: the Ben Webster collection, has 19 tracks. I have 2 tracks with Benny Morton and 5 tracks with James P. Johnson. What are the other tracks and have they ever been issued on domestic (U.S.) CDs?

You put in a zero too many. These are the correct catalogue numbers: TOCJ-66006 Melancholy Boogie Woogie and Piano Classics / Various Artists TOCJ-66007 Summertime / Sidney Bechet and The Port of Harlem Jazzmen TOCJ-66008 St. Louis Blues / Sidney Bechet and The Blue Note Jazzmen, Volume 1 TOCJ-66009 I Found A New Baby / Sidney Bechet and The Blue Note Jazzmen, Volume 2 TOCJ-66010 Profoundly Blue / Memorable Sessions With Edmond Hall TOCJ-66011 High Society / Jamming In Jazz with Blue Note TOCJ-66012 Low Down Blues / Art Hodes' Back Room Boys TOCJ-66013 Shine / Art Hodes' Five and Seven TOCJ-66014 Victory Stride / Swing Sessions Featuring Ben Webster TOCJ-66015 Blue Harlem / Ike Quebec Quintets and Swingtet TOCJ-66016 Topsy / Ike Quebec Swing Seven TOCJ-66017 Tired / John Hardee Swingtets

The expression ad nauseam comes to mind... I think there was one, but it was deleted at some point.

The Jazz Age! And that Jazz Age ended only nine years (and a bit) ago...

Everything you listen to on 78, LP, CD or whatever medium comes from the past and is therefore historical

For us metric Europeans: that's about 23.77 meters.

Some of the tracks on the Blues Images CDs also appeared on Yazoo, but the sound on Blues Images is often better; in some cases they were able to use better 78s as sources.

Lovers of pre-war blues and the Yazoo label might be interested in this. Blues collector and researcher John Tefteller issues a blues calendar with a CD each year on his Blues Images label. The CDs that came with the older calendars (Vols.1-8) are now available separately, the most recent one (Vol.9, 2012) currently only with the calendar. The CD transfers and masterings were done by Yazoo owner Richard Nevins and the sound is as good as it can be. Both the calendars and CDs are highly recommended!

So, Yazoo has, I guess, effectively closed shop. But thanks for the heads-up on the Blues Images label — I hadn't heard anything about it. Any discs you'd recommend and/or like from this label? John Tefteller, the owner of Blues Images, issues a CD with his blues calendar each year. The older CDs (Vols.1-8) are available separately, the latest one currently only with the calendar; they're all "Yazoo quality" and very highly recommended. I have just posted a thread on Blues Images.

Correct. The last release was The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. Owner Richard Nevins decided to stop releasing Yazoo CDs. He still does the transfers and remasterings of John Tefteller's excellent Blues Images CDs, though.

It's also good to remember that this is not the case. D.D. is from Russia, so he knows what he's talking about.

Um... it's Dakota Staton

Same here.

Already being discussed in an earlier thread.

Considering the really out-of-this-world reputation that JRT Davies enjoys (rightly so IMO), what would be the (technically valid and justified) point in applying additional noise reduction? No doubt JRT Davies in his mastering did go as far as he could in restoring fidelity and reducing noise without sacrificing range. Maybe those more familiar with the finer (technical) points of how to ideally remaster recordings from the 20s could set me wise? Some of Davies' masterings were found to be too noisy.

Are these the 1923-26 solo recordings? 1923 and 1924 solo piano recordings, on Gennett and Paramount. I'm guessing that you already have J.R.T. Davies transfers of this material on Retrieval? I just listened to them tonight. They don't sound like Off the Record transfers, but they don't sound too bad to my ears. Maybe a little too much noise reduction? Retrieval applied noise reduction to some of the masterings J.R.T. Davies did for them. I have no idea if that's the case here too.

The Lonehill itself was a copy, as they didn't have access to the original sources.

Amazon U.S. Amazon U.K.

These 1962 and 1963 recordings weren't even in the public domain in the European Union when Lonehill released them; maybe they were in Andorra, where Lonehill is officially based. Anyway, I have the 2 Fuel 2000 (that's the name of the label) CDs that were released by Universal in 2001 and 2002, Conversations and Iron Man. They were licensed from the owners of the rights. Just checked Amazon U.S. and U.K., but they seem to have vanished.