Head Man

Well ......... ninety-nine anyway.

... and almost certainly has!

No, don't give on that one...keep it on your "must have" list!

Did you report somewhere else?

Was that cover knitted by someone?

Dated?........that's state-of-the-art.

Billie Holiday to Hollywood via Ted Curson and the new wave.......Wow, that's some career. PS I'd forgotten he was the drummer on Ted Curson's "Tears for Dolphy"...must dig that one out and play it again.

Is this the Joni Mitchel boxset that you say has been remastered, felser? I have a copy of this set - produced by Rhino & 2012 release (10 discs) the discs come in mini LP sleeves & gatefold where the original LPs had this -> better quality than the OAS series sleeves though the print is still minuscule Didn't come with a booklet & no details re remastering but it's not part of the OAS series Don't have earlier JM CDs (only vinyl) so can't make a comparison but generally I'm very happy with the SQ Thanks, Romualdo, it's just that I have all the albums in the set already, bought when they were first re-issued on CD many years ago and wondered whether the copies in this boxset would sound any better. I get the impression from the little I've managed to find elsewhere that they probably don't. The Mitchell CD's were remastered at some point following their initial CD releases, there was a second round of CD releases that had the HD remasters. I suspect that the box may be that second round of remasters, but they sound great to me, better than the original CD's. The Neil Young CD's were not doubt the remasters from that massive CD/DVD/Blue-ray project he did, and also sound great. The mastering on this series of boxes is head and shoulders over the OAS series, jumps out at you night and day. Ah, so they might sound better then. Thanks for that, felser. The boxset is going pretty cheaply at Amazon so I might just buy it.

Is this the Joni Mitchel boxset that you say has been remastered, felser? I have a copy of this set - produced by Rhino & 2012 release (10 discs) the discs come in mini LP sleeves & gatefold where the original LPs had this -> better quality than the OAS series sleeves though the print is still minuscule Didn't come with a booklet & no details re remastering but it's not part of the OAS series Don't have earlier JM CDs (only vinyl) so can't make a comparison but generally I'm very happy with the SQ Thanks, Romualdo, it's just that I have all the albums in the set already, bought when they were first re-issued on CD many years ago and wondered whether the copies in this boxset would sound any better. I get the impression from the little I've managed to find elsewhere that they probably don't.

Is this the Joni Mitchel boxset that you say has been remastered, felser?

Wow, is that what is sells for now?......nice record, though!

Where's this, Cyril?

If I could understand Japanese, then the notes with my CD re-issue might say the same......

Nicely put, Leeway. I've gone from "playing only" to "playing occasionally" from my Blue Note collection over the years. When I first bought Blue Note albums it was still possible to see and hear most of the artists playing live, but as the years have gone by and the artists have gradually died, then I find the albums now resonate less with me. Plus, I suppose, there is so much MORE music to listen to now.

This series of re-issues by Sonorama is excellent. This is the latest.

My BRUYNINCKX discography says Copenhagen.

I would have thought that Johnny Trunk at Trunk Records would have already re-issued these if the masters were available. An interesting candidate for re-issue though....

Better late than never......

My contribution sent.....

Decisions....decisions....decisions...

Thanks for that Dana. I found a thread over at Hoffman that suggests that both the original Atco and MFSL re-issues sound fine and that the 2xCD (mono & stereo?) doesn't. I guess I'll go for a MFSL copy if I can find one at a reasonable price.

.... who's Sid McCoy?

.......I presume it's the MFSL version in mono...... ...or is it?

You're right about "Mohawk"...I missed that one. I'm not that keen on "Jazz Realities"

Regardless of the provenance of these releases, it's all essential music so my advice would be to go for them. These four albums are probably the pick of the bunch from the Fontana series and have never (I think) been available on other labels. Some of the others such as the Dollar Brand and Paul Bley are available as re-issues on other labels such as Black Lion. Like Jason says above, they're likely to be copies of the original Japanese re-issues so should sound fine. Even the Japanese re-issues are not the highest of fi. If you already have either the original Japanese re-issues or the decent sounding CD-R copies from DMG then why bother.