Daniel A

I've missed the story on this, why is it infamous? Ifamously hard to get?

Start with this:

I didn't even realize that myself!! After these sessions Duke didn't sit on Rudy's piano chair until December 7, 1966 when he recorded "Sweet Honey Bee". And guess who was playing tenor...

I agree with you, Tom. That was a mismatch of sorts. One thing I've been thinking of, which may be without any significance but I thought I'd mention anyway: When Ike Quebec died in 1963 Pearson took over his A&R at Blue Note. From that point, these are the Blue Note sessions where he played piano during the following two years: Johnny Coles 'Little Johnny C' (July 18, August 9, 1963) Grant Green 'Idle Moments' (November 4 & 15, 1963) Bobby Hutcherson 'The Kicker' (December 29, 1963) Rejected Grant Green session (February 12, 1964) Grant Green 'Solid' (June 12, 1964) Duke Pearson 'Wahoo' (November 24, 1964) Several of the non-Pearson led dates have been described by posters here as "in reality a Pearson date", or in similar words to the effect that Pearson seemed to have a lot of influence on the date as a whole. Perhaps he just took his A&R role seriously. But anyway, that makes me think that Person might have had something to say when the group was chosen for this particular rejected session as well. Therefore, it seems all the more odd that Gilmore would be picked for the sax part. Is it possible that he stepped in for someone else?

In what kind of format are these downloads available? MP3, WAV or something completely different?

I type really slow - two posts were made meanwhile! I think the confusion regarding the number of discs stems from the fact that the two concerts were initially available on two double-LP sets, and the four CD box contained one CD's worth of extra material.

The Dragon CD release (cat.no. DRCD 228-4) was always 4 CDs, I believe. Contrary to what has been stated sometimes it's still available, for example from swedishmusicshop.com http://www.mic.stim.se/cda/CDs.nsf/wwwcds/...FB?opendocument The price for the 4 CD set is 55 USD, and international shipping for 1-5 CDs quoted as rather modest 6 USD.

Perhaps not a special PC, but the success of copying - or sometimes even playing - such a disc is higly dependent on CD/DVD drive of the PC, or, for that matter, DVD player. Here's a couple of earlier threads on the subject: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...3&hl=protection http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...3&hl=protection

The two disc set Claude mentions is one of the most affecting live recordings I've heard, and I think it surpasses the Stockholm set in this regard. I have not heard the Giuffre set ( ) but I can imagine Coltrane's playing really perplexed the audience. Poster Brownie was there I believe, I think I remember his talking about the atmosphere at that concert in an old thread here.

Makovicz is brilliant, and his entry in the series is almost above average. That said, the standards are high, and there are several others which I consider as equally good. As John, I found the Cedar Walton set less interesting. However, the Hank Jones is excellent and Joanne Brackeen is terrific on the standard tunes (but I don't care much for her originals). Walter Norris is underrated I think, and his Maybeck solo are sometimes a bit similar in style to Makovicz. Anyway, it's one from the series that I think stands out.

FLAC should be entirely lossless, as long as you're not adding any options which alters the WAV file in any way before compressing it. A good guide found here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=16146

OK, in short: what format are these downloads in?

Does anyone know what kind of compression rates and -formats itunes are offering? I couldn't find sufficient information on their website.

The thing I'm most concerned about is not the possible unability to make copies, but the risk of slight scratches making the discs unplayable, plus the mentally discomforting fact that deliberate data errors have been introduced. I have still not bought any copy controlled discs of any kind. I order my CDs from the US if I want a BN title, but I can definitely say that I'm buying less BN CDs nowadays.

This sounds odd, if you mean you're playing the audio CDs on your DVD player too. If they sound better after having been converted to WAV format it appears that your DVD player does not handle MP3s well. There might have been a thread here (probably more than a year ago) which brought up this problem.

I did not get this mail, it might have been sorted out as spam. Did it say if they did have any special musicians in mind?

Thanks for the info, Cliff! And nice to see a new face here! Welcome!

Now when you mention it - wasn't there an album a year ago where this was the case, album length forcing BN to drop Copy Control from the European version?

A bit weird in places - as excessive use of some kind of dog toy on one of the tracks - but nice to hear anyway. Regarding his studio albums of the 70s I agree that 'Flood' is splendid - it was actually the first Hancock album I got, so it's kind of special for me because of that. Anyway, the playing is good all round, even from Maupin which I always thought was the least interesting figure in that band. 'Thrust' is the other one I think is thoroughly entertaining. (Never cared much for the B-side of "Headhunters") JSngry wrote: I agree with you, with the possible exception of "Sunlight". That album has its moments, although it's not when Herbie reaches for the Vocoder Mic...

In my opinion "Hi Frequency" is more enjoying than "Consequences", which seems to suffer a bit from placing McLean to much in the BN formula of the day (one groove-type-tune etc.), but I appreciate Consequences bein reissued anyway. Hopefully "Hi Frequency" will come out too, either this time or in the future. Re: the Cox albums. I don't think we'll see a twofer anyway near the 80 minute mark again, as I believe then there wouldn't be room for the Copy Control extras on the discs for the European market.

There's a 1971 live recording from Nice available here: http://www.darkfunk.com/latest_shows/latest_show/?id=93

Though Triangle appears to be out of print, confusingly it is still listed on the JMS website (follow the link in my post above regarding Improvise pour France Musique). I'll send them a mail and see if it somehow can be ordered.

"Time After Time - The rejected takes"?

This does not look good. There are in fact more cases of members "disappearing" - for whatever reason - than those brought to general attention lately. Shrdlu, for instance, seems to have suddenly stopped posting in November last year. And unlike shrugs he remained very active up to that point.

It seems that nothing was ever shipped from the auctions ending in January. He had flawless feedback until a month ago, then got 40 bad or neutral in a row. Most alarming is this feedback, submitted by the same user for 20+ auctions: