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I think this was not mentioned for the CD version: "Cut direct from analogue stereo tapes by renowned mastering engineer Noel Summerville and pressed on 180g virgin vinyl, “Hum Dono” has never sounded better. " Of course the key word "original" is missing... So, since most probably the original master tapes are still missing, perhaps they refer to a fully analogue transfer from a pristine original LP to an "analogue stereo tape" and then cut to vinyl (without converting it first to a hi-rez digital file), perhaps?

Nothing is written in english for this matter and I do not have the remix. However, I can say that I am very impressed by the interplay in the session. And Charles Williams' bass solos at Coleman's "The Sphinx" are a wonder (I was not prepared to listen to such sound in a BN record). If this CD had not been mentioned earlier in this thread, I would not have purchased it. Thanks! Alex

Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin' sounds wonderful - I am embarassed to say I never had it in any other format. It sounds wonderful - very natural - great transfer. But beyond all, the session is a treasure - but you know that..

Many thanks for your time checking it. Alex

Speaking of concerti, she is unique with Prokofiev's 1st and 3rd piano concerti (the former with ex-husband Dutoit, the latter with Abbado or Dutoit), Ravel's one in G (her peak with Abbado), her own favorite Schumann Piano concerto with Chailly in Leipzig (DVD or Blu-ray) and Rachmaninov's 3rd again with Chailly. Also the Tchaikovsky one with Kondrashin (Philips) is perhaps the best ever captured. Her Beethoven with Abbado are strangely heavy-handed and finally not interesting. However, the live experience of an Argerich concert is a formidable event to treasure. Unpredictable encores and finally a genuine feeling of real music-making. She once proposed to perform Rachmaninov's 3rd at the ancient Roman Theatre below Acropolis and the Parthenon, but her fee could not be met by the promoters. A shame. In her latest 3-day residency in Athens as Argerich and Friends, she offered her fees to the upaid - due to Greece's financial collapse - musicians of the Athens Camerata orchestra (renamed as Armonia Atenea when they play with period instruments - they have recorded various praised CDs under George Petrou for Decca lately). What a personality!

I did the same!

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP. Is it the same with any of yours? BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up. Alex

Friday 3/27: DAVID MURRAY TRIO in Athens!

This japanese DSD 2014 "SICP-3988 Gigi Gryce & Don Byrd / Jazz Lab [Limited Pressing] [Priced-down Reissue]" is a wonderful session that I did not happen to know.

By coincidence I was playing the normal 1997 / Capitol Pacific Jazz cd of Buddy Rich "Mercy, Mercy" and it is such a thin sounding transfer. I wonder if the one to be issued in May in Japan will be a better transfer http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-90138.

Just back from Jordi Savall, Pierre Hantai and Diaz-Latorre doing Marais, Couperin, Forqueray etc.

By the way, has "Charlie Parker - Bird With Strings Live At The Apollo, Carnegie Hall And Birdland" [Columbia JC 34832] been issued on CD? The Rockland string sessions are very fine.

I have this on the way from CD Japan. Should be here this week. Sony Japan also reissued Summit Meeting At Birdland. Is it in the same league as One Night In Birdland? It seems that One Night at Birdland was recorded on 30 June 1950, and Summit Meeting at Birdland on March 31, 1951 - May 9, 1953.

Thanks!!

Alex is my name - "Veteran Groover" is my "grade" which is also shared by anybody here with similar posting activity as mine.. :-), and welcome. I second your question too. Alex

Sure, Crystals was in the same MINI-LP US/EU Verve series as was Attica Blues.

The list: UCCI-9240 Africa Brass John Coltrane UCCI-9241 New Thing at Newport John Coltrane UCCI-9242 Ascension John Coltrane UCCI-9243 Transition John Coltrane UCCI-9244 Living Space John Coltrane UCCI-9245 San Ship John Coltrane UCCI-9246 First Meditation's +1 John Coltrane UCCI-9247 Homme John Coltrane UCCI-9248 Meditation's John Coltrane UCCI-9249 Cosmic Music John Coltrane UCCI-9250 Jupiter variations John Coltrane UCCI-9251 Stellar Region's John Coltrane UCCI-9252 Interstellar Space John Coltrane UCCI-9253 Percussion Bitter Sweet Max Roach UCCI-9254 Seoul trombone Curtis Fuller UCCI-9255 It's time Max Roach UCCI-9256 Inception McCoy Tyner UCCI-9257 Reaching Force McCoy Tyner UCCI-9258 Woman with a black saint and sin Charles Mingus UCCI-9259 Point of departure Gary McFarland UCCI-9260 Illuminating Nation! Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison UCCI-9261 Till It The Way It Is Paul Gonsalves UCCI-9262 The Great Roretsu Alexandria UCCI-9263 Today, and Tomorrow McCoy Tyner UCCI-9264 Continue blues of truth Oliver Nelson UCCI-9265 Fire Music Archie Shepp UCCI-9266 On impulse Sonny Rollins UCCI-9267 Gypsy '66 Gabor Szabo UCCI-9268 Let It Go Stanley Turrentine UCCI-9269 Live in San Francisco Archie Shepp UCCI-9270 Spell binder Gabor Szabo UCCI-9271 Sound Pieces +2 Oliver Nelson UCCI-9272 Waiting game Zoot Sims UCCI-9273 Three Four Shepp Marion Brown UCCI-9274 Girl Talk Shirley Scott UCCI-9275 Sorcerer Gabor Szabo UCCI-9276 The Magic Of Juju Archie Shepp UCCI-9277 Greenwich Village of Albert Ayler Albert Ayler UCCI-9278 Heavy Sounds Elvin Jones & Richard Davis UCCI-9279 Rural Still Life Tom Scott UCCI-9280 New Glass Albert Ayler UCCI-9281 Kama Pharoah Sanders UCCI-9282 Di Awakening Ahmad Jamal UCCI-9283 Spirit Dance Michael White UCCI-9284 Love of World Galaxy ~ supremacy Alice Coltrane UCCI-9285 Attica Blues Archie Shepp UCCI-9286 Chapter One Gato Barbieri UCCI-9287 Love-in-Ass All Pharoah Sanders UCCI-9288 Vista Marion Brown UCCI-9289 Club Date Yusef Lateef No Greek Cooking, again...

I have that SACD. SACDs sound better than redbook cds, I haven't compared the redbook layers. But the Warner Japan cd sounds very very good imo. Scott, all I can say is that I was surprised by the improved sonics, and decided they were significant enough for this important muisc to collect the Japanese cds. I think it's a larger improvement than you may think on my system and with my ears, but only your listening could define that for you. And nothing to worry about if you have the music, I just enjoy these comparisons and having improved sound. Lon, I have the 2007 Atlantic 60th WPCR-25109 mini-lp "The Shapes of Things to Come" CD carrying the "2006 24 bit" remastering - is it possible to identinfy if the recent 1000 yen Warner/Japan carries the same remastering? For identification purposes, the DR values of the 2007 mini-lp cd as above are as follows: foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2015-03-14 20:25:45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Ornette Coleman / The Shape of Jazz to Come +2 WPCR-25109 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR12 -0.01 dB -14.83 dB 5:01 01-Lonely Woman DR11 -0.01 dB -13.80 dB 4:23 02-Eventually DR14 0.00 dB -17.64 dB 9:07 03-Peace DR14 0.00 dB -17.44 dB 6:53 04-Focus on Sanity DR12 0.00 dB -14.77 dB 6:49 05-Congeniality DR12 0.00 dB -15.23 dB 6:07 06-Chronology DR12 -0.02 dB -14.58 dB 5:55 07-Monk and the Nun (Bonus Track) DR12 -0.65 dB -17.07 dB 3:55 08-Just for You (Bonus Track) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 8 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 757 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================ and the peaks are as follows:

I have that SACD. SACDs sound better than redbook cds, I haven't compared the redbook layers. But the Warner Japan cd sounds very very good imo. Scott, all I can say is that I was surprised by the improved sonics, and decided they were significant enough for this important muisc to collect the Japanese cds. I think it's a larger improvement than you may think on my system and with my ears, but only your listening could define that for you. And nothing to worry about if you have the music, I just enjoy these comparisons and having improved sound. Lon, I have the 2007 Atlantic 60th WPCR-25109 mini-lp "The Shapes of Things to Come" CD carrying the "2006 24 bit" remastering - is it possible to identinfy if the recent 1000 yen Warner/Japan carries the same remastering?

Thanks for mentioning them. For the past years all my cdjapan orders include one or two from these Atlantic/Warner Jazz/R&B 1000 yen releases. Joe Turner's 3 Atlantic recs arrived yesterday [and they do sound great] along with Champion Jack Duprees' masterpiece "Blue from the Gutter" [never reissued on CD by Atlantic I think]... But back to Ornette now - order or not order? We know the answer.

Voila: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charade-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B0087U5P7I/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A24RMKLH6TKL88

Has this Mancini 2014 box set mentioned before? THE PINK PANTHER (1964) / THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER (1975) BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) / CHARADE (1963) HATARI! (1962) / OKLAHOMA CRUDE (1973) WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DADDY? (1966) / HIGH TIME (1960) EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (1962) / DARLING LILI (1970) GUNN (1967) / WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE? (1978) TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967) / ARABESQUE (1966) THE GREAT RACE (1965) / ME, NATALIE (1969) THE PARTY (1968) / VISIONS OF EIGHT (1973)

Lon, you did it again... Mercy...

Dear Flurin you will not escape. All these juicy shm-cds are a click away... Alex

a PM will do it.