Daniel A

Astonishingly, all the 2011 MPS reissues are already out of print. I realized this when trying to get a copy of 'Faces' which is nowhere to be found.

I don't know about regulations in the UK and elsewhere, but over here there is a recommendation that the surface temperature should not exceed 27 degrees Celcius.

Agreed. I'll take the Miles albums (and unofficial recordings) recorded with Wayne during 1964-69 over the Wayne BNs, easy. But I like the latter a lot too. I really don't want to set Shorter's BN:s against his recordings with Miles. For me, his own albums help to define what Blue Note was about in the mid 60's and - regardless of what could have been in other company than "BN regulars" - make me understand (a part of) his musical universe. I think I voted for 'Adam's Apple' when this thread appeared. I had to think for a while and probably considered 'Etcetera'. The more "theme-improvisation-theme"-based structure of the BN:s (compared to Miles' live recordings) offers my limited mind better insight into his compositions. For me personally, they also create a "mood" like only the finest and most engaging recordings I've heard do.

One of the LP:s my father used to play at home was 'Study in Brown' by the Roach-Brown band. I could recognize that album already in my pre-school years. Although it wasn't until my teens I started to explore jazz on my own 'Study in Brown' helped to define what jazz is for me and it still holds a special place in my heart. I think it's amazing to realize how specific musical experiences in my youth is affecting my tastes in music to this day.

Still, I know of people who have lost their homes and entire belongings through fire, at least one friend has lost his entire record collection through theft. Eventually it will become evident just how reliable the cloud is, but I'd still say you're safer with two different cloud storage services than with two hard drives. That said, I'm hanging on to all my CD:s and LP:s, but that's because I love the feel of an album rather than anxiety over potential data loss.

Well, there's always streaming of course.

Everybody will have to decide for themselves, of course, but I believe my data is safer in the cloud. Pick a multinational company that's making a huge profit (Google, Amazon etc) and therefore is unlikely to go out of business and I think your data is safer than on any consumer end storage unit. Just compare the number of people that has lost anything in a hard disk crash to how many who have had their email accounts wiped out because of a technical failure of the provider. I believe the first group is considerably larger. Backups of the rare stuff in the cloud and the rest through a streaming service - I'd say that's less risk of losing the music than on scratchable LP:s or breakable CD:s.

Actually, I believe that for a majority of people under the age of 40 "the cloud" already seems like a far much safer place to store personal stuff like photos and documents, compared to their local hard drive. Since those people also have stopped buying CD:s, they will basically have to choose between the convenience and perceived safety of a streaming service or the obstacle of downloading.

Do you have Spotify in Italy, Porcy? I don't do download, stick to lps, and unavoidable cds, so I didn't know but from my computer spotify home page is in italian, so I presume it exists over here. Spotify isn't downloading, it's streaming. It's the future!

Actually, it was described as "hidden". This thread has obviously run its course. Moderator, please close immediately!

No congratulations since 2007?! Well, I wish you a happy birthday 2013!

I'll look at a bookshop nearby to see if there are any copies. If there are, I'll post a few pictures of the book. Adlibris (who has the best price so far at 249 SEK) offers free shipping within Sweden. If someone abroad has trouble ordering the book I could always order it and send the package further at actual cost.

Actual shipping cost for 2000 g within Europe would be around 24 Euro (225 SEK), almost as much as the book itself. Let me know if I could be of any help.

Jan Allan, probably Sweden's finest jazz trumpeter and who is still playing wonderfully, is perhaps most well known abroad for his recordings with Lars Gullin. During his early carreer as a jazz musician he usually brought a camera with him and took thousands of pictures. His son talked him into going through the negatives that mostly were never developed and last week a 256 page book with some of them was released. It seems like a very nice document of the Swedish jazz scene and guesting stars of the 50s. His wife's site has a few of the photos: http://www.annallan.se/Ann_Allans_hemsida/Jans_fotobok.html The title is 'Jan Allan minns sitt femtiotal' (Jan Allan remembers the 50s) and the book is being published by Brombergs in Sweden.

Happy birthday, MG!

Happy birthday, Marcus!

Titles previously reissued only by Collectables are much better in this recent series, at least the few I've sampled.

Thanks for the link! So I take it the OBI strip and Japanese print is just a marketing thing to make these look exotic.

Can these be anything else than unauthorized copies? Why would they print booklets in Japanese in the EU? I wouldn't have thought that Warner Japan had the rights to manufacture and distribute this material outside of Japan.

Cassettes...?

I've noticed this kind of holes on some CD:s from the 80s. I always thought it was a manufacturing defect, although it seems that the built-in error correction of the CD player normally is able to handle it.

Re: "collection of songs": Well, there are exceptions like Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage' which is a kind of concept album.

Good advice from Big Beat Steve. When it comes to Japanese reissues those from King clearly has an edge over the Toshibas.

I agree, Hans. But I think some of those dates subsequently reissued in the Connoisseur series fared better then. Otherwise I would have thought that there was a problem with all of these (LT series) session tapes, like only EQ:ed tape copies remained or something like that.

The physical shop is really a great place. I can't comment on the web branch as I haven't used it. If lobbyman wants to work on his credibility I'd suggest posting on other matters than the JM shop and Andorran reissues. Welcome, BTW!