Daniel A

I believe that the latest Collectables reissue has all of the original 'Tones...' album, as well as the two bonus tracks from the same session and two Corea compositions from a Hubert Laws Atlantic LP (it even fits on a single CD). But I've been hesitant to order it as I've had really bad experience with some of Collectable's "remastering" efforts in the past. I have the old CD reissue with just the four original tracks from "Tones" and would really like to have the two other cuts from the session. I can only hope that they will be included on the WPCR-13194 reissue. From this listing it appears to have 8 tracks, so it seems that it could actually be the case. Collectables released the Hubert Laws album on which 'Trio for Bassoon, Flute & Piano' and 'Windows' were orignally - included on 'Inner Space' because they are Corea compositions and includes Corea as sideman - but the sound quality was the worst I've encountered on any commercially released CD, at least with post-1960 studio material. I made a burn from my own LP instead which sounds 10 times better. That was encouraging information. Thanks, Late! I think I'll have to try this reissue of 'Inner Space'. BTW, I found the thread you mentioned here.

??????????????????? What's it like? I got this today and has so far only listened to it once. The unfamiliar themes are a great plus. While they are not particularly challenging or otherwise exceptional, they are fun to hear because you can be sure you haven't heard them before. And maybe there's just a slight east European tinge to some of them. Harold Land has one or two strong solos, Feldman is predictably fine on vibes. Zawinul (who plays piano on three tracks) sounds faceless and not too interesting. Solid support from Frank Butler. To sum it up; the album's a bit uneven, but there are a couple of tracks I probably wouldn't want to be without. The sound is slightly bass-shy but otherwise of surprisingly good fidelity.

Updated today. Has anybody had experience with Japanese reissues of 60s Atlantic (and related labels) material? Collectables are not always doing a great job with the sound. I was thinking of this one: WPCR 13194 Corea, Chick / Inner Space(SHM CD)* 2580

It doesn't load for me either, but it was still in my IE cache:

Victor Feldman 'Your Smile' (Choice Records, 1974) A somewhat uneven but occasionally beatiful affair, with Tom Scott in atypically jazzy form.

Interesting! Keep us informed, by all means! It's stored on "digital sound cassettes". Let's hope it's not on DCC; it would be difficult to find a playback unit...

Victor Feldman 'Soviet Jazz Themes' (Ava Records, mono, 1963) Nice group with Carmell Jones and Harold Land, among others.

Does anyone know what Zweitausedeins charges for EU shipping these days? Their website says that foreign shipping rates are quoted by telephone...

Mine's GXK- Guess they're both good!

There's a post from Brandon Burke regarding Technics SL-1200 here which I agree with.

This is one of those albums I've been looking for, but it always seems too expensive. Worth the top dollar?

Is there a misprint in the discography for the Akiyoshi/Tabackin set? The title track for the album "Long Yellow Road" is listed as "Yellow Brick Road". http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.a...;copies=3%20CDs

I've got both "Replica" and "ordinary" King issues of Herbie Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage', and while it was some time since I compared them I don't think the difference is that great between the two. So personally I don't worry that much if original tapes were used or not as long as the result is good - or even great - sound. Interesting information, though. Where did you learn this?

Maybe the thread title could have been a little more specific.

Is this the one with a black and orange cover? My father had this LP. Can't really remember much of the music except I thought it sounded like "old jazz", but I liked his version of "All the Things You Are". For some reason I decided to put it on my parents' answering machine as outgoing message. They were not enchanted.

Too bad that tone is reduced to a rubber band in a cardboard box on the RVG (except for the trio track). It seems that Van Gelder did not always record bassists (or other musicians, for that matter) in the same way. Compare how Ron Carter sounds on earlier Herbie Hancock albums with 'Speak Like a Child', where the bass sounds quite a bit thinner.

Victor Feldman 'It's a Wonderful World' (Vee-Jay, mono, Japanese pressing) Trio recording from 1964 with Monty Budwig and Colin Bailey (plus Bill Perkins on two tracks).

From one Daniel to another - happy birthday!!!

Conversion would only make sense if you've got to have them in MP3 format for some reason (for example if your portable doesn't support WMA), as the files would have to be de-encoded from WMA and then re-encoded at the risk of additional compression artifacts.

As I understand it, modern CDRs are designed for high speed burning, so using too low speed will increase the risk of failure as the laser will cause "bleeding". Many PC burners nowadays have anything below 8x disabled. The practical upper speed limit would probably be the hard disk and RAM speed, rather than the actual burning of the CDR. I'd think that you could safely try 16x burning.

I know, this is but one step away...

Predictably, the sound is very fine and the surface noise is at an absolute minimum. Only quibble: there is a faint noise at around 9 kHz (I checked it with frequency analysis software). It's not audible during the actual music, but can be heard at the end of the fade outs. Probably a tape machine problem. I don't know if this is on the original album (I've got a CDR of that somewhere). Not by any means a problem, but I thought I should mention it.

Sound clips available here: http://www.igorbutman.com/ as well as this quote from DeJohnette:

The Bernstein estate is holding up everything. A friend of mine did not get the permission to re-score Candide from symphony to wind orchestra. Boosey & Hawkes said "Well, had Lennie lived, things would probably have been different, but..."

That's what we're doing!