Daniel A

Porcy, check out these threads (a bit old, but...): Bruyninckx A-Z completed Bruyninckx or Lord?

Great info Reinier, since I was planning to order the individual CDs!

Yes, I also think it's boring. I actually traded it back to the record shop after one day.

Does this analogy hold? If my favorite spy novel author writes a cookbok - do I have to like, or even read, that?

Welcome back, brownie! The trick with Caiman seems to be to only order titles which are known to be in print. Caiman can list anything as "In stock" on Amazon marketplace, but if it's an OOP title they will not have it, but charge your credit card anyway and then you'll have to ask for a refund. Usually no problem, but if there's currency conversion involved there will always be a slight loss.

Le=the, if that's what you mean.

Thanks, Reinier!

Anyone know what this is? Cat.no. is in sequence with UCCJ 3018 "From Miles" and UCCJ 3019 "Monk's Mood, so perhaps more of that (according to Reinier trios with Gomez/DeJohnette and McBride/Ballard).

This is likely to occasionally cause scratches. When the disc is loaded, the surface of the disc is in contact with the loading mechanism. If done right (reliable software for extractning, high quality CDRs etc.) you will not hear any difference. A decent alternative could be a HTPC with a good external D/A converter (for best possible sound). That way you could play back anything you want directly from the hard drive. No, it sounds reasonable enough. I apologize for the totally humour-free answer.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hiccups

Depends on what you think of Evans on the Fender Rhodes, there's plenty of that. He often switches between the instruments within most of the tracks. Mostly good playing, perhaps sometimes a bit hurried. I never regret getting this, but I think there's greater Evans elsewhere.

Still curious about this:

A DJ and record collector I met (he had tenths and tenths of thousands of LP records in his home) claimed that the best jazz record he had ever heard was some Dudley Moore album.

It's as good as it ever got! The sound is a lot fuller than he got on "The Prisoner" - it can't just be the miking, can it? I agree with felser about "The Prisoner", BTW. I think "Rotunda" and "Prisoner" make up a great pair of recordings, and ever since having them on the same cassette tape I sometimes go directly from one of them to the other. But I have to say that the latter is marred a bit by badly rehearsed ensemble playing. (Try "Firewater")

'Tell Me a Bedtime Story' is wonderful, I think of it as one of Herbie's best compositions. It really has a special vibe to it. BTW, is there any other recording of Henderson playing alto flute, or even flute? There's a big difference between the tracks with Bernard Purdie and those with Tootie Heath. I can see why Purdie was hired for a couple of the cuts, but I much prefer Heath. The groove he gets on 'Bedtime Story' is amazing.

This might not be the right Internet forum for this type of question, but frankly I don't know who else to ask, and you know I trust you guys... I would like to archive a bunch of old VHS recordings before they fade away completely (and my VHS machine stops working). I want to record the videos on my PC and then create DVDs which could be played in an ordinary DVD player. I will need some kind of software for capturing the signal and processing it for the DVD format. The easiest way to go about would of course be to get a standalone DVD burner. However, these are generally not very user friendly when it comes to editing, input of track titles etc. and ideally I would like to see some solution where I can record the signal uncompressed, and subsequently set a quality/compression which will allow me to fit a given program length on one DVD. I'm thinking there could be some kind of software which enables me to change several compression parameters - much like LAME with a good frontend does with MP3 compression. Is this possible? And what will it cost me...?

About those tape boxes... The handwritten listings of the contents seem to indicate that the tapes have complete LP sides in album order, and since the tunes were recorded in another sequence at the session, it would appear to someone who indeed don't know anything about this - like me - that the tapes are edited in some way.

All of the above, except I didn't even like it at the time. And I don't remember the Marni Nixon vocals.

From one Dan to another... Happy Birthday!!!

Welcome to the forums! Allthough the AMG review doesn't say so, it was in the Byrd/Adams Mosaic set (now out of print). I would think that MP3skyline's legal arrangements are dubious, like many other things offered from Russia in this manner, but what would I know?

I believe Michael Fitzgerald thought that too many posts were lacking in substance and that serious (discographical) discussions were not gaining enough reponse.

AfricaBrass went through some difficult times job-wise two years back, and I suspect that he has other things on his mind, although it's worrying that he has not replied to messages from anyone around here since then. Dmitry relocated from NY a year ago and may be occupied on his new location.

I sent a mail to Lars Sjösten and he confirmed that it is indeed him and Roman Dylag and that the location is Molde, Norway.

It's hard to identify the pianist from that angle. This is how Sjösten looked around 1970: Judged from the playing it could be him.

And not Carlsson. Rune Carlsson, Roman Dylag, Krzysztof Komeda and Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski: