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I have always had private (Sony) Android phones (never owned an Apple product), though I have had work iPhones for the last seven years. Given iPhone's reputation, I've always been surprised of how much slower it is to text on an iPhone compared to every Android phone I've tried. Me and my (iPhone user) brother did a kind of "competition" where we texted a given message to each other. Android was much faster every time. 🙂

As Kevin says, maybe it's because it's that time of the year. I've used DHL for shipping from Japan many times, and it has always been quick and reliable. But a package (from Japan) which was scheduled to arrive here today is now stuck in Germany, with only the following information available: EVENT CATEGORY 15 Dec 23 10:27 AM - Shipment is on hold - LEIPZIG,GERMANY Further Details - DHL cannot move the shipment or attempt delivery due to a local issue. Next Steps - Shipment will be moved or delivered once the issue is resolved. Please continue to monitor the progress online.

Astonishing that it seems she was born in 1943. She wrote a lengthy piece on John Coltrane in a 1959 issue of The Jazz Review, including several solo transcriptions (as well as the liner notes to 'Coltrane Jazz' in 1961). Link: https://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/JREV2.9.pdf

Ron Carter's sound on the CTI albums (literally hundreds of them) is unique and his playing is terrific. Obviously he is using a pickup, and the sound anything but "acoustic" but it sounds so much better than how most other basist came out in those days. Not sure whether that is thanks to Rudy Van Gelder, Creed Taylor, Ron Carter himself - or all of them - but in addition, the bass is always way up in the mix without ever sounding out of balance. CTI albums featuring straight ahead grooves are also very instructive if one wants to study Carter's wonderful lines with their sometimes unexpected intervals, always rhythmically and harmonically inventive and with perfect timing. I am not especially attracted to Carter as a soloist and I tend to avoid anything that features piccolo bass. But as a rhythm section player is among the very best in my opinion. I have played this cut 5 or six times during the last days, just because I am so captivated by Carter's bass lines; 15 minutes of sustained inventiveness.

We could make a deal and delete all of them? 🙂

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I am pleased to see this reissue! A nice counterweight to the Blue Note albums of Hutcherson/Land. The feel is a bit different, the overall style is slightly more conservative and Land is a bit more in the spotlight. This album has gotten quite expensive; cheapest copy of any version is $60 at Discogs. (I got my Japanese LP for 2500 Yen - 20 USD - from Hiroshi Tanno back in the day).

Tonight I have played these:

I voted for Atlantic, given that also the 1960 live recordings with Miles are included (1959-1961). I have still not "understood" the last 1.5 Impulse periods. I hope to do some day.

That's curious, I just had the opposite impression the other day. I listened to both mono and stereo versions of "Bud Shank & the Sax Section" and found the mono version hotter and more in-your-face. It was easier to hear the voicings of the sax section in stereo - which was a plus on this particular album - but I also found the stereo version softer and overall more pleasant-sounding. But on this topic, I've found that some Pacific Jazz albums do sound shrill, while others are more balanced. Clare Fischer was usually awarded with good sound.

I have all of Hancock's Blue Note albums on LP except that one, which is especially expensive (low numbers pressed initially?). I have even considered getting the Applause version, as it still has the original picture (the reissue cover on Blue Note proper is a failure in my opinion): How's the sound on the Applause LP?

Thanks, Kevin (and everybody else for your reminiscences). Maybe I even heard this story before here at the forums. It seems that Applause Records might be out of business, but that their "licenses" have been acquired by this 43 North Holdings company. https://43northholdings.com/labels/and-sub-labels-in-2016/ For what it's worth, they also claim to own the rights to a couple of other jazz-related labels, like Vault, Skye and Hep Jazz. Quite an interesting list, actually: https://43northholdings.com/#label-grid But they are keeping up with the spirit of the original Applause Label in terms of production standards: the Jazz Crusaders album is apparently a vinyl rip which plays back at 45 rpm instead of 33!

I suppose all of us know of Applause Records, which reissued a number of Blue Note and Pacific Jazz albums on LP and CD with botched covers and poor sound. I can't recall why, but I am under impression that they were not bootlegs, but somehow relied on some sort of licensing deal. I thought this ended years ago, so I was astonished to find a Jazz Crusaders Pacific Jazz album on Spotify, in terrible sound, featuring the ugly Applause cover, and with the following note: (c) (p) 1969 (c) Applause Records (TM) a division of 43 North Broadway LLC. What was/is the status of Applause Records?

When looking for the cover of the original 10" LP release of City of Glass, I learned that Laurindo Almeida made his first recordings with the Kenton band. I would consider him an A-lister, but not as a west coast jazz musician of course.

I'm really attracted by the looks of those. Good too see that omni-directional as a concept lives on.

Thanks! When I got these some years back, I stopped thinking about upgrading. Maybe they lack the crisp treble of the best modern speakers, but I am more than happy with the overall sound. Each speaker has a 10" downwards facing driver in a bass-reflex enclosure, a 8" midrange and four cones for the treble range. They were built some time between 1966 and 1970.

Absolutely wonderful. I'm running a couple of active tube-powered speakers. The tubes are hidden within the cabinets, but you can just about see them through the ventilation holes.

Somehow a very captivating cover. I would have wanted to be aboard that train. How's the music? And what about "Volume III"? I'm playing this: 1966 US Stereo pressing. I have this both in mono and stereo versions. The mono is cut louder and sounds almost as if it has some extra reverb. The stereo version is better if one wants to enjoy Bob Florence's nice arrangements for the sax section, one of his better efforts. All in all, a very enjoyable album which I have listened to many times over the years. Is the second guy from the left on the back cover really Bill Perkins?

This is the most refreshing take of "On Green Dolphin Street" I know of. (And also the most extreme use of compression on the drum track) Never fails to make me happy!

The theme for Mannix is great. It has a feeling of that "1960s optimism" to it (though I'm too young to know first hand myself) and a kind of mixture of suspense and luxury which applies to some of the great movies/TV series of that time.

Nice to learn this after all these years! Ever since first watching this movie in the early 90s I was always astonished by the dry, close-miked recorded sound of the drums (for instance in the "roof scene") which sounded several years more modern than 1971.

All brutalist buildings do not appeal to me, but I would not dismiss something just because of the style. Some well known examples are large and overwhelming structures, but brutalist architecture can also be medium or small size. I like the former Czechoslovakian Embassy in Stockholm, located on a quiet street of town houses and smaller (but exclusive) residential buildings. Its size aligns with everything else on that street, but the very architecture is a good counterweight. I have always associated it with a piece of 1970s HiFi equipment.

Very good, congrats! As for myself, I have this moped from 1969 with a 50 cc motor which makes alla of one (1) horsepower! One might push it to 40+ km/h, but it rides better around 30.