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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:

I guess there are reasons for you wanting to terminate your membership, and I think it should be done if it's not too difficult, technically, but I suppose it would be troublesome if you want your posts to go away as well. I hope all is well with you, though.

I learned that they were at least allowed to release them on pre-recorded compact cassette, so I bought a couple for my car stereo... but, alas, they were all 8-track cartridges.

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I suppose he can't really help the order being cancelled. "Cleopatra's Needle" was the first CD ever I've pre-ordered from Japan. FWIW I think it's decent, but a bit hyped-up. It's still listed as 'in stock' at Amazon.

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I wish you a great one!

DEEP made many feel uncomfortable and was generally an unpleasant guy.

Are they better then the Riverside? Yes! The Riverside solo session (it came out on Milestone actually, didn't it?) is fascinating, but has a somewhat improvised, unplanned feeling... while "Alone" is different... I agree completely. Evans are sometimes almost painfully exposed during the Riverside sessions, and while listening to that may be a moving experience, I feel that the he performs much better on the Verve sessions. I never thought of that (don't have the album at hand right now, though), but I specifically remember the sound on the alternates from the first CD edition. I thought they sounded as if they were played through a tube amp with bad tubes or something... too much middle, weak treble, ringing distorsion. The sessions (with countless splices and overdubs) were recorded at Van Gelder's, no? Read somewhere Evans did not like Van Gelder's piano sound.

One alternate of "A Time for Love" (in my opinion by far the best take, albeit very slightly marred by some occasional "ringing" sound from the microphones, tubes or something else) was left out on the VME, presumably due to the usual time restictions, the VME is close to 80 minutes. However, this longer version of "A Time for Love" was also on the first CD release from the late 80s, so you'll get everything which has been released from these sessions if you have both single CD releases. I think these solo sessions were the best Evans did, better than the more talked-up "Conversations/Further conversations" sessions

I would assume that the producer's rights have expired (50+ years since the recording was released). Still, the copyright in the compositions lasts for the autor's life +70 years.