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I tend to like the tracks featuring Tootie Heath better than those with Bernard Purdie. Anyway, "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" is a classic and one of Herbie's better tunes.

Nice to see Hubert Laws' "Morning Star" on CD! I've never heard him play better than on the title track of that album.

According to this page, 'Books LLC' is a company which is publishing Wikipedia articles in book form... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100606233435AAQ1Fds I'd rather read the Organissimo forums in book form!

Jim and the band, thanks for these ten years. I wish you all the best for the future. I never had the chance to catch you live, but your site and these forums have been important in helping me to broaden my musical horizons.

Of course I've no idea what the name really was, but several discographies give the name as 'Spotlite Lounge', for instance Peter Losin's Miles Davis Discography: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=581101 EDIT: There seems to have been a club run by Clark Monroe at 52nd street in New York in the 40s called 'Spotlight Club'.

Sadly, Hank didn't even live to be 57 years old.

Looks tasty, or... maybe not? Happy birthday Agustín!!

Does it read 45.14 or 74.14? Either way, the total of 350.14 is wrong.

$49,86 in 1966 would be around $335 in today's worth. But what about "Wife: $200"?

Side "T"?

It should be noted that supposedly additional titles have been deleted, as True Blue said that they had been able to secure a quantity of "many" of the deleted titles, not all of them, and then went on to list those still in stock.

This seems to indicate that additional titles were deleted as well. Any idea which they were?

I wish you a great birthday Bertrand!

Those I can think of are: Dedication (1974) Flood (1975) Herbie Hancock Trio (1977) Tempest in the Colosseum (1977) Direct Step (1978) A couple of others were initially only released in Japan, but have had US release since.

The owner of this message board has expressed his view on how he'd like the offering/looking for section to be used. Why not respect that? I don't think that the idea of "freedom of speech" is applicable on a privately owned web forum. As has been stated, the overall tolerance level here is high when compared to most other places.

In what way did the comments in question here add transparency about what's available?

I fully agree with Brad's post, and I find the idea to start a poll about this slightly ridiculous.

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Thanks again, Hans. I just recently got the Complete BB Sessions box along a few others from the "metal spine" series. A friend who'd found he'd quit listening to physical CD:s gave them to me. I haven't heard the Bitches Brew album in its entirety and would like to approach it by listening to the original mix to start with. I grew up with the "alternate" version of 'Miles Ahead' and still haven't etirely gotten used to the correct version, which I only heard some six or seven years ago. Don't want to go through that again if it can be avoided. But maybe the difference between the BB mixes isn't that big?

I suspect the Wilder mix was used in that box. Just checked the accompanying book and as far as I can see it says nothing about the mixes that were used. Haven't listened to Bitches Brew in the box yet. I've now compared the two versions I've got - The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions and The Complete Columbia Album Collection and they appear to be two different masterings. The latter is much "quieter" (= less compressed) and there are differences in the balance between instruments. For what it's worth, the production credits at the very end of the book for the 70 CD set says "Mastered by Mark Wilder and Maria Triana at Battery Studios, NYC". Late EDIT to say that I had confused the graphs; they show the left channel of the track 'McLaughlin' from the Complete Columbia 70 CD box (upper) and the Complete BB box (lower):

I'm sorry if this is common knowledge, but I thought the original mix was on "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" 4CD set. Is it not? No, it's the Wilder remix. "Miles Beyond" article about the making of The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions Hoffman forum thread about the upcoming sets (with several participants from this forum ) Thanks, Hans! I've got one observation and two questions: If they are now re-releasing the original mix, I wonder about the validity of the following statement from the "Miles Beyond" article: The questions: What mix was used in the Complete Columbia Album Collection from last year, and how does the non-Japan CD reissue from ca 1990 (which is said to have the original mix) fare in comparsion with other versions?

I'm sorry if this is common knowledge, but I thought the original mix was on "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" 4CD set. Is it not?

Actually I had no Idea this was out. Thanks for bringing it up.

What Claude reports regarding defective discs is correct. Whether it holds up for non-damaged discs is debatable. One suggested theory is that some CDRs are more easily read by audio CD players and do not stress the built-in error correction as much. It's up to someone to do some blind testing with a variety of discs to see if it holds up, but I suspect that too few people are enough concerned to bother. It tells something that those who claim to hear a difference seldom offer statistically significant blind test data. In the world of HiFi - always ask for blind test results. Otherwise there is no reason to take claims too seriuosly.

It should be noted that peak normalization doesn't necessarily make tracks sound equally loud. "RMS normalization", which sets the average sound level, is usually more successful for that purpose. (Slightly off-topic, if you'd like to smooth out the sound level differences between FLAC:s when playing back the files without having to alter the data, check out "Replay Gain": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain )