David Ayers

Too funny... epic... just got lost in that. Good job i didn't have an article to finish today. Oh wait...

Uhh... just checked my order status... seems they cancelled without even telling me...

Shut up and get in the car!

Hey! I'm going to win and we are GOING, that's final!

Thanks for the link. I entered the competition so if I win you can join me in Dresden (uhhh - assuming either of us can get there...)

Anyone notice that selected ECM albums which were available on Spotify are still visible but are now unavailable? Also a heads up that five Freddie Hubbard 70s albums (Skagly, High Energy etc) have just gone up on Spotify.

Oh, falseness can take many forms, you know...

Listening to Siwan now on Spotify. Modal, multi-traditional, large role for the (I believe) Algerian singer Amina Alaoui. She's good and the close recording helps create an intimate intensity. Slightly generalised 'world music' effect perhaps, as often with these ventures.

Ah! Yes I see these have now caught on for data storage. I wonder how many commercial music releases there are in this format though...

I just found this from Steve Lake on - uhhh - another forum:

Did anybody mention the 8cm CD yet? Plays in some standard players but has no dedicated device. My previous CD player played them, my current SACD player I doubt it - but hey I do have one (only one, it was free) so maybe I'll pop it in... and no doubt mess up my player! Um, nobody has yet risen to my claim that CD was a false dawn? Or that downloads will disapear without trace? Y'all got me on ignore....?

Keep the thread here. The code is useful and some links work. Just ordered a copy of Pepper VV with free shipping to UK at under $20.

Miles Davis got bored with jazz and stopped playing it. Aren't the limitations of jazz quite apparent? In any case, as far as I can tell jazz lives beyond even its merits. Is there a major city where it can't be heard? Is there a record store without a single jazz CD? Isn't it widely studied and imitated? Oh and on dance, if you don't want folks to dance don't play in a constant tempo. Then they can't.

As well as Schoof, Resonance [see my other thread in Reissues] upcoming ECMs include: Jan Garbarek Group, Dresden: In Concert [2 CD] Stefano Bollini, Stone in the Water John Abercrombie, Wait Till You See Her Anouar Brahem, The Astounding Eyes of Rita Keith Jarrett, Paris/London - Testament [3 CDs - not sure if these are new or a repackage] There is also a 4 CD reissue of the Corea/Burton recordings 1972-79 called The Crystal Silence

Well yeah, but the three 3 CD sets you mention are of disks that already sold well. The Schoof won't give the same kind of return I would have thought and in the present climate must be a bit of a gamble. I'm looking on the positive side with this one!

Thanks for checking. Looks like just two tracks missing. That should mean that the two discs are pretty full so that is a positive. I wonder if we might see the three Globe Unity titles on JAPO given similar treatment? I wrote ECM to suggest this some time back but strangely they didn't reply...

An unexpected surprise: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resonance-Manfred-...t/dp/B002I9SBZ2

Yeah I suspected as much... I never bought Cellar Door but I carefully re-auditioned Live-Evil and decided that even that was too much. Miles' fusion is quite over-rated, IMO. I find Bitches' Brew boring and there's only two tracks of Cellar Door which I care for, but I'm with you on JJ which I acquired recently and would easily put at the top of the Miles fusion tree. You are re-opening old wounds, my friend.... Box sets I no longer groove to? I've got a fair few box sets and I mainly like them, but I'll say the ones that rarely come out are the ones where I was already totally familiar with all the material. So what should be my favorite box - the Ornette - rarely gets opened. Not just that I am familiar with the music (maybe I moved on) but the tracks are not in album sequence and the whole thing seems to be taken from second generation masters where tracks left over from classic sessions had the stereo reversed to make the follow-up compilation LPs more consistent, but the engineers of the box haven't dared to re-reverse them (OK what I mean is they probably never noticed) so that in the now re-assembled sessions the sound stage is occasionally disconcertingly reversed on the stray tracks. That and as ever with Atlantic remasters which are mainly from LP masters the sound is not too good.

Hi Andy. Good to see you here. What are your interests? YOu'll probably notice before long this board has a 50s/60s centre of gravity....

Like others I don't feel enthusiastic about ordering things that might not arrive for months. I'm also running a bit cold these days on Mosaic booklets. Yes they have good photos, but the texts are often written by people who are not musically literate, although they may have an obsessive discographical knowledge. I just don't enjoy reading that stuff and I wish Mosaic could do better. The sample notes posted on the website these days are generally putting me off.

Um, there are more kinds of dance music than that, I think, even if you only include the U.S.A. And I should know, I used to be a good amateur musician...

Thanks. About what I thought. Decisions, decisions...

My reading of the site says "Metal part and lacquer transfers" but vinyl test pressings have been made for years (at least from the early '50s) from original metal parts. Whatever the case, they would use the best available sources. If you want to know about lacquer transfers, that's another techie question. Depends where you are looking it seems. I have this: "we've located the original metal parts and pristine vinyl test pressings". I guess it does mean what it says. The material on the set comes up to 1945 or so. I guess I am unclear about the use of vinyl pre-LP.

How does the mastering of He Loved Him Madly and Calypso Frelimo in the box compare to the Get Up With It 2 CD issue? Only these two tracks interest me, in this set. I currently have them on vinyl but not CD. I'd get the box to secure immaculate versions of these tracks, maybe, but I am happy with the versions I already own of the rest of the music in the set. Thanks for any input!