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It was years since I listened to this album. Unfortunately, from what I can remember the cello is unbearable. There was a thread about this on the BNBB, but I could always say it again: When Ron Carter is playing the cello I can hardly understand anything of what he's doing. Now, when he plays the piccolo bass, that's a completely different matter...(cough)...

I agree with Marcus that it would be a stretch to say it sounds like "eye" and "toe". I'm not really good at English phonetic transcription, but how about "Ah-ihr-tooh"? And "the speaker in the clip" - might I guess that it is señor Marcus himself?

Thanks a lot, Claude! Just ordered it from French Amazon Marketplace.

...and from CDUniverse! Thanks for the recommendation; I'll get these!

Thanks Flurin, I had no idea their catalog was shrinking like this. I'm fortunate to have a couple of the albums I listed, but I'm sure many other titles have disappeared as well. A pity about Fingerpainting; I've been thinking of getting this for several years.

The Wynton Kelly Left Bank live recordings with Mobley (1967) and George Coleman (1968) have been available as Fresh Sound CDs for a couple of years. Recently I happened to notice a few recordings I hadn't previously heard of: Freddie Hubbard 'Fastball: Live at the Left Bank' Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Benny Maupin (tenor saxophone); Kenny Barron (piano); Herbie Lewis (bass); Freddie Waits (drums). Recorded live at the Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, Maryland on April 23, 1967 Freddie Hubbard & Jimmy Heath 'Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank' Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Jimmy Heath (tenor saxophone); Gus Simms (piano); Wilbur Little (bass); Bertell Knox (drums). Recorded live at the Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, Maryland on June 13, 1965. Has anyone around here heard them?

This is maybe old news, but it seems as if Universal is quietly deleting CD titles. I was trying to get a copy of the McBride/Whitfield/Payton album "Fingerpainting", but could not find any online store who had it. Then I went to the album entry at the Verve site which has links to Tower and Borders, but it was listed as "unavailable". I checked a few other albums at random; for example these are all still listed at the site but seem to be discontinued: Nicholas Payton 'Nick@Night' Christian McBride 'Number Two Express' Bobby Hutcherson 'Skyline' McCoy Tyner 'What the World Needs Now' Donald Harrison 'Noveau Swing' Donald Harrison 'Free to Be' Kenny Barron 'Other Places' Kenny Barron 'Wanton Spirit' Probably this is the case for several other albums as well, but there seems to be no easy way to find out which they are, except for trying the Tower, Amazon and Borders links for each album. I guess they will only be available on iTunes from now on.

On the cover of Mel Lewis' A&M album "Mel Lewis and Friends" (1976) the score for 'A Child Is Born' is included. The note at the bottom says "Copyright © 1963 D'Accord Music". Could it really have been copyrighted as early as 1963?

Thanks for bringing the thread somewhat back on topic, Kevin. Naturally, it's quite up to everyone to decide how much time they want to invest in setting up ripping/encoding software. However, as has been pointed out, it's not too difficult to get EAC/LAME going. If only sound quality is of importance a lossless format is the way to go. But the most common reason for encoding audio is the need for reducing the file size as much as possible while retaining a chosen quality level. There are better formats than MP3, but for many (me included) hardware support matters too. My portable player plays OGG, which is a more modern and efficient format, but I also have an MP3 player in my car, and sticking to one format is more convenient for me. And if MP3 is the format of choice, LAME is the best codec available. Regarding ripping, there's probably no audible difference between different rippers for most undamaged CDs. Personally, I wouldn't want to use use anything but the best software available since it works reasonably fast as well.

For those who want to keep up with the latest improvements of the LAME encoder, but who haven't visited Hydrogen Audio or some similar forums of late: For a while there has been a new LAME version out with slightly faster encoding speed and supposedly giving somewhat better audio quality. Check this thread at Hydrogen Audio : http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=28124 Recommended version of LAME is 3.97 beta 2, available here http://www.free-codecs.com/LAME_Encoder_download.htm In short, the alt-presets for VBR (variable bit rate) encoding have been replaced with ten different presets, ranging from -V 9 (lower quality) to -V 0 (highest quality). The recommended commandline equivalents of the old alt-preset standard are now: -V 2 --vbr-new (stereo) -V 2 --vbr-new -mm (mono) -V 2 --vbr-new --lowpass 15 (FM stereo recording) (The -b previously used for setting the minimum bitrate is no longer needed)

Wikipedia entry on Bluetooth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth

My guess is that more gigs will always be on the horizon. The recent video iPod's poor use of the front space with a square and small screen makes me think they will hastily lauch new models, and new models will always have to offer greater storage space not to become obsolete too soon.

Thanks for the link and the somewhat discouraging info, Claude. I pretty much knew what to expect in terms of sound-quality, but at this price I think I'll swallow that. It's not easy to find these albums (this) cheap in some other form, and I hope to just about get my money back if I'd like to trade some of these in somewhere. I'll get back with information on the proceedings.

Shipping rates: Domestic International

Just ordered the following: Soundtrack / In The Soviet Union - Charles Lloyd $3.98 Oh Girl / Somethin' Sanctified - Young-Holt Unlimited / Slide Hampton $3.98 Journey Within / Charles Lloyd In Europe - Charles Lloyd Quartet $3.98 El Juicio / Life Between The Exit Signs - Keith Jarrett $3.98 Do The Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove - Herbie Mann $3.98 Straight Ahead - David Newman $6.98 Soulero / Law's Cause - Eddie Higgins Trio / Hubert Laws $10.48

On oldies.com some of the Atlantic reissues from Collectables Jazz Classics are on sale; a bunch of them, many of which are twofers, are only $4 apiece. http://www.oldies.com/browser/clearance.cf..._audio-cds.html Not the easiest website to navigate, but if you select category "Jazz" on the left you're able to browse the jazz titles that are on sale. Good prices on a couple of Charles Lloyd, Jarrett, Mingus, Fathead albums etc.

Same here today, but I experience the time out problem with profiles almost all the time.

Generally it seems that HMV Japan, for instance, is roughly representative when it comes to what is in print/available.

Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea how I should go about to get hold of these recordings? Are they only available from sfjazz.org? http://www.sfjazz.org/store/categories.asp?cID=10 This definitely looks like something I'd like to hear, but the SF Jazz Shop only offrers shipping to the US. Inaugural Season Live (2004) SF Jazz Records Disc One School Work Una Muy Bonita Lonely Woman When Will The Blues Leave Peace Happy House Disc Two Lingala Rise And Fall March Madness From Darkness To Light Disc Three Of This Day's Journey Wages Overground (Invocation) Fred Sanford Went To Spain To Siesta Miguel Zenón, Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Josh Roseman, Bobby Hutcherson, Renee Rosnes, Robert Hurst, Brian Blad 2nd Annual Concert Tour (2005) SF Jazz Records Disc One Moment’s Notice Naima Africa Crescent 26-2 Love/Dear Lor Disc Two Love is Enough (Rosnes) Scrambled Eggs (Payton) Half Full (Redman) Hmmm….(Smith) Sega Games (Penman) 2 and 2 (Zenon) Psalm for Peggy (Hutcherson) Development (Harland) Joshua Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Renee Rosnes, Miguel Zenon, Matt Penman, Isaac Smith, Eric Harland

Fast typing here! And unison advice from me and Hans as well!

Maybe he's uncomfortable operating in those genres. Anyway I gave him the catalog numbers and it didn't seem like a problem. That was two years ago.