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Liner notes: Uncredited as brownie said. Does the Mosaic Select say who produced the session?

A quick scan (sorry for sloppy pasting):

Yes!

Thanks, Bill! I'll look out for these for sure.

Bill, those Manne-Hole discs do sound interesting. Who else were playing on them besides Bunker and Burton?

Mosaic directing complaints to its distributors is an unfortunate development, but I assume it has to do with the nature of the agreement between them. I once came across a faulty disc in a Fantasy box set (the Joe Henderson Milestone box, discs mastered by the dreaded ZYX plant). The set was purchased used here in Sweden. After an email to US Fantasy I got a prompt reply: "We have never encountered this problem before, but send us the faulty disc and we'll immediatly mail out a replacement for you". Two weeks later I had a (US manufactured) replacement disc in the mail, and it had apparently been sent out even before my defective disc had reached them. I was impressed with how they handled it.

There are also some interesting comments from Minasi on his website: http://www.domminasi.com/discography.htm

* Dom Minasi: Time's Tales by John Chacona, January 2004 *

I had "When Joanna Loved Me" once, and I'm afraid it's among the lesser productions from the 70s Blue Note era. From what I can remember, cheap-sounding strings and clearly un-inspired playing. I hope that wasn't too nasty?

Alone (Verve, 1968). His most successful solo recordings, in my opinion. That's the one I'm returning to most often.

How come there's no Milestone discography? It was a realtively major label, allthough of course some releases appear to be very hard to find these days. EDIT: Like the previous poster I was confusing labelography with discography. It would still be intereseting to know, though.

At $38.66, it's highly unlikely that the analog inputs of that device could be of more than passable quality.

b3-er, we miss you.

b3-er? I don't think he's posting here anymore....

I'm sure there must be someone with a more solid answer around here; I don't even have the album in question. But from what I remember of the liner notes, which I had a quick look at in a shop several years ago, Hank had already undergone surgery for lung cancer at that time. He was even quoted with some sad joke about that playing with a leaking horn almost killed him, or something to that effect. I'm not sure if it was the original liners/original issue, though.

For several reasons, but mainly because we lacked an Internet connection for almost a year, I didn't post much here from last spring until a few weeks ago. I don't know anything of the reasons some posters seem to have deserted the forums - I didn't catch up with the 100+ pages of new posts, but rather jumped right into the current discussions - but the atmosphere here seemed to me pretty much the same as before. So whatever has been going on recently, I can say as a semi-outsider it's all back to normal now. Or should I say "normal"...

For some people that might be an aternative. If you plan to listen to the music on a MP3 player (portable, car stereo, DVD player etc.) MP3 is still the choice. BTW, be warned that Microsoft's wma format is inferior, though hardware support is icreasing.

For some reason most often Christmas songs.

Just to check out this revolutionary theory, I'm going to go right into the living room and get that Dave McKenna LP I've never cared for anyway and give it the full sponge treatment.

Can't help you with the dates, I've been trying to find out more about these myself. According to a record shop owner I had correspondance with recently the contents of the Gulda set would be: Music for 4 soloists & band (1965) Vienna Revisted (1969) The air from other planets (1969) It's all one (1970) As you like it (1970) The long road to freedom (1971) Musicians of our time (Vol. 1) (1972) Musicians of our time (Vol. 2) (1973) Musicians of our time (Vol. 3) (1973) which would be his complete output on MPS. It didn't seem as if it was possible to preorder at this stage. As it is said to comemorate Gulda's would-be 75th birthday, which is the 17th of May, something would have to happen rather soon.

Four rather obvious choices: Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Hank Jones Martial Solal and then: Renee Rosnes I can seriously recommend those not familiar with Renee to check out some of her Blue Note albums (alas, the best ones are deleted).

The program gives me a choice between "Actual" speed, and then a bunch of speeds from 4x to 24x. Should I choose "actual" or 24x? Also, how should I set the extraction/compression priority and error recovery settings? They're both set to "medium" now, but I wasn't sure if that was the default. "Actual" for some reason seems to mean "The speed you picked last time, whatever that is", so if you've selected a lower speed for a problematic disc earlier, just switch back to highest possible speed, which in this case is 24x. Regarding the extraction/compression and error recovery settings, just put the cursor over the respective drop-down menu, and a fairly explanatory info box will appear. I'd say that "medium" should be a good setting in most cases.

How did you make a copy without having to rip the CD first? On compact cassette?

Ahmad Jamal 'Tranquility' (ABC quadrophonic pressing...)

Those are the worst for playback too. A CD player reads at constant speed, much like the CDR drive does in "Burst mode". If the data stream is broken - a few samples are perhaps not readable due to a scratch - the CD player may mask the errors so well that you can't hear anything wrong. However, if you want to create a copy of the CD (or make an MP3 file) you must have a continuous data stream. In secure mode the software tries to get the missing samples again and again, causing - in the worst case - infinite extraction time. Burst mode will make the CDR drive work more like a CD player, except that there is no hardware error correction. Scratches along the radius are much more likely to cause problems than other scratches, even for a audio CD player, because they may make several samples in a row unreadable, whereas a diagonal scratch only damages a few each turn of the disc.