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I was hesitant to post this information here, but considering how important Hiroshi was to some of us I decided to share. Hiroshi suffered a stroke during the fall and lapsed into a coma. A couple of days ago he passed. I got this information from a mutual friend. My thoughts go to his family, and I will always cherish the music I got to hear at the time only because of him.

Do they even have hands?

As a sideman, his appearance on Chick Corea's 'Tones for Joan's Bones' is an eternal favourite. The way he is driving the band colors that album. Another superb date with Corea is Bobby Hutcherson's 'Total Eclipse'. He wrote several good tunes for the Hutcherson/Land group; my favorite is 'Ungano'.

This is really strange. Every copy I have ever seen of this album has been warped. I had to return a copy one time as it wouldn't play without skipping. My current copy plays tbrough, but it doesn't look nice.

What is the situation regarding the rights to these recordings? The Chet Baker Onkel Pö date is on Spotify with a 2017 Delta music production credit ((c) 1978 NDR), but also in a separate version (exact same tunes) with "(c) (p) 2019 Chet Baker Estate LLC", and in yet another version which is a total rip-off of the NDR release, which has "(c) (p) 2017 Jazzline". Can I choose whether NDR or the Baker estate should get the 0.01 Euro's worth of royalties?

A year ago this was ridiculous (and maybe it still is) but lately I have seen several King pressings of Blue Note titles go for far beyond $100. This is not madness, but amusing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334315356328 It would have been an interesting concept, but the album title is wrong.

Oh, yes, that's true!

Yes, this is a fine album. He had almost ten years s a sideman behind him at this point. I am trying to imagine how it would have sounded if it had been recorded at the RvG studio.

I am almost done cataloging my LPs on Discogs. It has the functionality I need. When I started buying CDs in the late 80s I created physical cards for every item. Then I switched to a paper based list, just to document where and when I purchased them and how much I paid. 20 years ago, I switched to Excel, though I might eventually go all Discogs. I rarely buy CDs these days. And (luckily) I never kept track on how much I have spent on LPs!

"These new cassette buyers are part of the digital music generation, Stepp explains. But the problem is that digital music has an inferior sound, because the files are so compressed. [...] " Producers of digital recordings continue to strive for the harmonics cassettes can capture."

I am not so sure all of these will be repressed. Those of you who have followed the full thread are aware of the problems with some titles, especially early in the run. Many people didn't care or notice, but they could potentially risk an increased number of complaints if these titles were released again. And remastering them again is surely out of the question, especially if there is some tape damage involved. These releases are not worth this kind of money. If you want the titles on vinyl, there are other good sounding versions that are less expensive.

Clare Fischer 'So Danco Samba', Japanese King pressing.

But Coltrane *is* playing on these tracks, right?

Double quoting does no longer work, but I meant Bill Nelson's post.

I suppose the comment on sound quality was a joke. But regarding bootlegs, it appears that Crown sometimes seems to have had access to orpginal Pacific Jazz tapes, so I wonder what the deal between the companies was. The reason for my conclusion regarding tapes is the information in this thread: where it seems as if tracks were released on Crown before the same versions (unedited, stereo versions for instance) had been released by Pacific Jazz themselves.

I just did a search, and found that Chuck has sighed 58 times in these forums. Only two times before 2011, but two times already this year. You're welcome to share what would cheer you up.

I see the CD as an inconvenient storage device for a handful of digital files, coupled with either a jewel case that often cracks or a digipak where the holder often breaks. The only thing it does better than a cloud file storage is that it comes with a booklet. Despite several shortcomings in comparison with the compact disc, the LP is nicer to handle and look at as an object, and comes with more authenticity for anything released before the early 80s. The CD revival will not match the LP revival by any means, I think. I disagree with the author on this point, however: "They were less glamorous than vinyl, less cool, less tactile, less sexy, less magical." When the CDs arrived in the 80s, they seemed to have a lot of "magic" to them.

Colored vinyl, eh?

Just listening through some recent purchases from Japan. King pressing, though it has VAN GELDER stamp in the runout, so presumably they did use stampers from the US. Maybe I shouldn't say that The Singers Unlimited never sounded better than here, as this is the first or second album they did, but that's how it feels to me. A bit unusual to find an MPS album reissued on the Columbia imprint. I have also a German pressing, but wanted a spare copy as I am not happy with the remastering of this album on the "Magic Voices" 7 CD box. This one has some good early Cedar Walton. And I always like Jaspar.

This thread also got me interested in seeking out more 60s Paul Bley! It seems as if there were actually two different versions of "The Floater Syndrome", and this one has all 15 tracks: https://www.discogs.com/release/2985218-Paul-Bley-With-Steve-Swallow-Pete-LaRoca-The-Floater-Syndrome

There are many varieties over here. Those that perform best in tests - both in terms of durability and Ra value, but also among the cheapest - are usually IKEA LED bulbs.

This is a good budget alternative that has served me well: https://www.amazon.com/Spin-Clean-Record-Washer-MKII-Complete/dp/B002UKSZUU

As a piano player, I'd like to think that you'd probably play it with crossed hands (if at all). The range is almost only half of a standard piano.

Oh, you got Multidirection in there! Been looking for it forever. Let me know if it doesn't appeal to you.

I suppose he was asked to. I found this clip from some Parker tribute: