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That's not McQueen's house. The LIFE magazine caption notes it was taken in Palm Springs Bungalow -- hence McQueen bringing his portable suitcase record player.

Miles Davis and Steve McQueen, Monterey, CA 1963 © JIM MARSHALL, 1963 https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photo/default.aspx?photographID=1653 "Here's Miles Davis talking shit, probably about some chick, to Steve McQueen backstage at the Monterey Jazz festival, 1963" Looks like McQueen had a KLH Model Eleven

So if they wanted to save money and reuse a glass master, why not reuse the same direct to plate artwork negatives from the early 90s? If the booklet was redone, how do we know they didn't remaster the three titles? How do we know they weren't remastered in the late 90s / early 2000s campaign, but never commercially issued until now.

Far left. Under Sinatra Basie: Looks like John Coltrane's My Favorite Things.

If they are not spending any money, will the three in question have the purple border Columbia Masterworks packaging?

How many titles can be seen? Can anyone make out the others? Kind of Blue Sketches of Spain Atomic Basie Meet the Jazztet (Art Farmer) MJQ at Music Inn with S. Rollins Sinatra Basie

I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the CDs in the "Original Album Classics" series are straight reissues of older CDs, in other words, they're not new remasters. If so, that's disappointing. Looks like the suits at Sony may have concocted a price bundling approach, which includes the objective of depleting new old stock CD inventory from the late 80s / early 90s "purple border" Columbia Masterworks era.

Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Count Basie. Unseen 1963 photos. Caption: "Steve is a jazz lover — he takes his portable stereo with him wherever he goes," Dominis wrote in his notes. Pictured: At the Palm Springs bungalow, McQueen puts on a record, with LPs by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Frank Sinatra and Count Basie scattered at his feet. From: http://www.life.com/image/ugc1034972/in-gallery/41172/steve-mcqueen-20-never-seen-photos

Amazon has a 5 CD set (individual albums) -- being released in November 2010 by Sony Masterworks. A Sony "bundling" pricing strategy to exact higher margins in the waning days of CD sales by packaging CDs together. Anyone know if these are new remasters? Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-5-CD/dp/B0042FU4IC Some have been remastered before (Brubeck Plays Brubeck and Brandenburg Gate) . But in the case of Jazz Impressions of New York, I wonder if they will use the "purple cover" master works reissue from the early 90s or if they have remixed it newly and have restored the original album artwork. Anybody know? I think Jazz Goes to College and Gone With The Wind were part of the purple cover late 80s or early 90s remasters. So could these titles be newly remastered? The exterior of the 5 disc box slipcase tends to suggest the original album art may have been restored on the individual CD packaging.

Exactly my impressions upon listening to my copy of this record (RVG edition CD by EMI). I really cannot make out anything that could really be called "SEVERE flutter" during the vast majority of the tune. A slight raggediness (which may be intentional?) in the way some instruments sound here and there but nothing distracting and no discernible change of fidelity vs the subsequent tunes on the CD. (And my ears cannot possibly have been damaged that badly by listening to too many French DMM pressings of BN's? ) I realize it is frowned upon in circles that probably consider themselves particularly "enlightened" to speak out against what would be considered the "accepted wisdom" of BN-ism but honestly, to me all this is "much ado about not all that much". Maybe these characters ought to tune in their ears to a hefty dose of CD remasters from the 78 rpm era where you often just cannot eliminate all the hiss, pops and crackles without flattening the sound. That would teach them a lesson about music that is worth "listening through" a wee bit of surface noise any time! Folks, Harley is producing a reissue--not putting a gun to your head. If you don't want his sonic restoration of a classic Blue Note don't buy it. Why all the acidic invective? MGM restored Gone With the Wind on Blu Ray, but no one is forcing you to replace your subpar 1985 Betamax tape with a remastered version?

I disagree. The 2009 Audio Wave XRCD of Soul Station, for example, is a night and day improvement over the compressed, poorly eq'd and quasi-mono blended RVG remaster CD published back in 1998. Harley's work is valid. Buy or don't buy. He's simply providing a great product and more consumer choice.

They could call the hybrid "A Pretzel for My Father." What's up with all the crankiness and negativity (by some people, not all)? Harley is just providing a restoration of a historic recording. No one is forcing folks to repurchase this restoration. Personally, I like the song enough to purchase the restored version on XRCD should it be issued in that format.

You can also buy a new sealed Lp. It was reissued on CD and Lp this month:

Great news from fans of Horace Silver. Joe's post on the Hoffman forum: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=5579459&postcount=526

Jazz Raga (Impulse 1967) was reissued on CD and Lp this month: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/462-jazz-raga

Thanks for the heads up. Looked at the listing on Amazon. No record label mentioned that's reissuing this. Could be a Fresh Sounds (Spain) needledrop bootleg for all we know.

Are these reissues of the RVG remasters or the NON RVG remasters from the early to mid 1990s?

Has Mel Brown's The Wizard seen a CD release? If not, any chance of one in the future? Chicken Fat was reissued a few years ago, and the Japanese reissued Blues For We (an Lp inferior to The Wizard).

Gabor Szabo's More Sorcery Impulse Lp has not been reissued on CD in the U.S. Three songs from that Lp ("Los Matadoros," "Corcovado" and "People") were recorded at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, hence Impulse opted to add those three cuts as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of The Sorcerer, thereby putting all the Boston Jazz Workshop masters on one CD. However, that decision has apparently kept the More Sorcery Lp from being reissued on CD in the U.S., and orphaned three songs recorded live at the Monterey Jazz Festival: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "Comin' Back" and "Spellbinder." Does anyone have a full setlist of all the songs Szabo performed at the Monterey gig? Any chance More Sorcery, along with unreleased Monterey performance, will see a U.S. Impulse CD reissue?

I wonder if some of the Lou Donaldson Argo/Cadet masters burned up or got water-damaged in the 2008 Universal fire:

What's Brubeck's current position on Columbia reissues? Is he actively squelching all these titles from CD reissue by Sony/Legacy? Or has the CD reissue market imploded and the label doesn't see a significant margin on these titles?

An interesting discussion on the labels impacted by the fire: http://bsnpubs.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2968320&trail=15

"Fortunately, nothing irreplaceable was lost," said Ron Meyer, chief operating officer of Universal Studios.

"Fortunately, nothing irreplaceable was lost," said Ron Meyer, chief operating officer of Universal Studios. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/01/studio.fire/

With due respect, I think you've misread the quality of the performances. Ramblin' and Something Personal are tour de force mid-1960s jazz.