Daniel A

You could always buy it again... Safe to say you won't get any competition from me on eBay for that title.

Nice!! I've just spun Herbie Hancock's 'Empyrean Isles' (Blue Note/King) I think this is such a great album! Sometimes I find it even better than 'Maiden Voyage' and think of it as perhaps Hancock's best. Hubbard never sounded better and Tony Williams is marvellous! The sound is splendid as well, with the piano much more prominent than on most Blue Note albums. Next: Freddie Hubbard 'Ready for Freddie' (Blue Note/King)

This thread makes an interesting read (although I'd love to hear what the stated "misinformation" is). I thought I should post here that I just compared a couple of different editions of the same album. Nothing relevatory - the results are in line with what has already been said here. I made A/B comparsions between four pressings of Bobby Hutcherson's 'Total Eclipse'. Sound-wise, I would rate them as follows: - BST 84291, original US Liberty (1968) - GXK 8140, Japanese King (1979) - CDP 7 84297 2, US CD release (1989) - BNJ 71078, Japanese Toshiba-EMI (1985) The King pressing comes close to the original. Perhaps somewhat of the presence is lost, but the vinyl is quieter and the treble is clearer. I played these LPs on two different turntables (Thorens TD-125 and Technics SL-1210); the sound was slightly different but the ranking the same. The CD (remastered by Malcolm Addey) sounds actually rather good (or at least as good as this somewhat reverbant recording can be made to sound). The big disappointment is the Toshiba pressing, which sounds muted and undefined. I once had a French DMM of this title, but sold it years ago, so I can't comment on the sound of that. I would also like to add that I've got several very good-sounding Toshiba LPs with BN-xxxx catalog numbers (pressed in the early 90s), as well as a couple of BNJ-xxxxx which do sound fine. Perhaps further comparsions will reveal if the BNJ series (mid 80s) are more likely to be hit-or-miss. A link to this site has been posted in some other threads I think, but it has a good (though not complete) list of Japanese Blue Note LP releases: http://microgroove.jp/bluenote-jpn/

Bobby Hutcherson 'Total Eclipse' (King, white label promo)

The value is not strictly related to the medium, but I would not pay as much for a CDR with a life expectancy of, what, ten years as for a real CD which most probably will last much longer.

The link is apparently too long for this forum software. Try this: http://tinyurl.com/yr3fpa Tinyurl.com is useful in cases like this.

I'm not sure that album is by the right Big Black. http://petdance.com/actionpark/bigblack/press/rocknames.php

Jimmy Smith 'The Cat' (Verve, Deutsche Grammophon pressing)

George Russell 'Ezz-thetics' (Riverside, mono)

If you want the pronoucation to be as close to Norwegian as possible (he was of Norwegian ancestry) the emphasis should be pretty much equal on both syllables; Stor [like "tour" with an "s" in front of it and a rolling "r"] - dal ["d", about the same "a" sound as in "grandpa" and then a kind of soft "l"].

You forgot vinyl. I think the vinyl listening will be within that single non-PC/MP3/whatever percent. Of course, there will always be a collector's market for LPs, but I think prices will eventually fall on vinyl, too.

As far as I can tell it's all jazz, but it includes oddities like play-along records.

...on the other hand, the kind of people hanging around this kind of internet jazz forums make up less than one percent of the population today already, so...

In a few years time there won't be any new CDs available at all anyway, so we'd better get used to it... Prices on scarce CDs will go up for some time, and then drop when not even most collectors will bother anymore. I think that in ten years 99 percent of all people in the western world will do their music listening from a computer, a hard drive device or from the next generation of data storage media.

Clarke-Boland Big Band 'Sax No End' (MPS/Basf)

Happy Birthday, Chris!

The Shin-ichi Iwamoto Hank Jones disography (only including dates up to the year of 1989) lists over 970 sessions!! Regarding the Savoy solo album it really deserves to be reissued. I'm glad I found the 1970s reissue in a 0.30 euro bin(!) a month ago, as my Savoy original is getting rather worn.

So it was not about plastic players?

There are several good plastic alto players from Sweden... Johan Hörlén, Per "Ruskträsk" Johansson (not to be confused with the tenor and clarinet player Per "Texas" Johansson), Peter Fredman, Håkan Broström... More well-known is perhaps the late Rolf Billberg.

I finally found this one at a good price: "4 in Perspective" with Kenny Wheeler, Fred Hersch, Norma Winstone and Paul Clarvis; a 1999 concert released on Clarvis' Villiage Life label. This is simply a wonderful album! Hersch and Wheeler is such a good match. I suspect this is the kind of CD that will be very difficult to find within a few years. As noted in another thread Wheeler (or Hersch) fans are advised to check out this one.

Leroy Vinnegar 'Leroy Walks' (Contemporary/Vogue) Some nice Carl Perkins on this one!

Stanley Cowell Trio 'Close to You Alone' (DIW) No clothing stylist is given for the cover shot. General cover design credited to "DIW Design Room"...

Alas... Got the box from 2001 back in the day.

According to this site (which of course is known to have been wrong at several instances) the last title released both in mono and stereo was Elvin Jones 'Puttin' It Together' (BLP 4282), which - like 'Introducing...' (BLP 4276) - was recorded during the Liberty era.

Aaah, must spin some Clarke-Boland soon! Now it's getting too late and I can't find my headphones... I always avoided those French MPS pressings because it often appeared that the covers somehow didn't look as good as the originals. Probably the vinyls are quite all right.