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I think at least the Quincy Jones (a nice, but ultimately lightweight album) was, but there are a couple of other releases as well. CDUniverse gives October 9 as "street date"; Verve's website has them as "upcoming" on both September 18 and October 9, but a search in the catalog will only come up with the old reissues, or even none at all. http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/buzz.aspx?bid=37 9.18.2007 Diana Krall - The Very Best Of Diana Krall - Verve Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Stanley Clarke - Children Are Forever - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Hamburg - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy And Bess Gato Barbieri - Ruby Ruby - Catalog/Reissue - A&M Jazz George Benson - The Shape of Things to Come - Catalog/Reissue - A&M Jazz Gil Evans Orchestra - Out Of The Cool - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Jimmy Smith - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Miles Davis - Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud) - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Oscar Peterson Trio - Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Quincy Jones - The Quintessence - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ramsey Lewis - The 'In' Crowd - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Sarah Vaughan - Live at Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Stan Getz - Getz Au Go-Go (Live) - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Wes Montgomery - Goin' Out of My Head - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 9.25.2007 Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters - Verve Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Ella's Playhouse - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 10.9.07 Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Lifeline - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Stanley Clarke - Children Are Forever - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Quincy Jones - The Quintessence - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ramsey Lewis - The 'In' Crowd - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! RAMP - Come Into Knowledge - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! 10.30.2007 John Coltrane - Africa/Brass - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Ballads - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Coltrane - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! John Coltrane - The Impulse! Albums: Volume One - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! 11.6.2007 Charlie Haden Quartet West - Charlie Haden: The Best of Quartet West - Verve David Liebman, Roberto Tarenzi, Paolo Bendedettini - Dream of Nite - Verve Dion - Son of Skip James - Verve Forcast Steve Tyrell - Back to Bacharach - Verve 1.10.2008 Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith - Catalog/Reissue - Verve 1.22.2008 Lizz Wright - TBD - Verve Forecast TBD Bajofondo - Mar Dulce - Verve Clifford Brown - The Complete EmArcy Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Michael Brecker - The Very Best Of Michael Brecker - Impluse! Ella Fitzgerald & Gordon Jenkins - Invite You To Listen And Relax - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess - Catalog/Reissue - Impulse! Ella Fitzgerald - Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles Vol. 2 - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Ella Fitzgerald - Live At Mister Kelly's - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Bill Henderson - With the Oscar Peterson Trio - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Billie Holiday - The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Beverly Kenny - Born to Be Blue - Catalog/Reissue - GRP John Klemmer - The Very Best of John Klemmer - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Charlie Parker - The Complete Verve Master Takes - Box Set - Verve Mel Torme - Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Beatles Song Book Compilation - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Top Ten Tracks: Jazz - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Various Artists - Top Ten Tracks: Smooth Jazz - Catalog/Reissue - GRP Dinah Washinton - Dinah! - Catalog/Reissue - Verve Zucchero - The Best of Zucchero - Verve

I think "Study in Brown" is the best Brown/Roach album. It has it all.

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.

While Tatum sat at the Disklavier? Maybe it's no match for Tatum, but I've tried a Disklavier, and didn't think it was like playing a real piano.

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.

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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.