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Shouldn't this be in "recommendations"? It will go under in misc very fast, I'm afraid... also, you kind of forgot Incus, didn't you? Got very few releases from these labels so far... Paul Rutherford's "Gentle Harm" being the most recent one - and that's a terrific disc! Definitely need to check out more!

Got hold of the VJC Carnegie Hall Concert by Ellington (Jan. 13, 1948) - fantastic! And that's the cue... "Fantazm" with Carney on bass clarinet! Wow!

guess I gotta get it again, then

one of our neighbour's late cats - she sure dug her jazz (more that she dug dogs)

Yes indeed! Was "Troppo" previously out in the impressed/re-pressed series? I remember mine having very lousy print and shabby info... Vocalion does better usually (not at home to check though.

All threads are equal, but some threads are more equal than others.

Same here.

Très intéressant!

Oh, I see - sounds weird...

Yeah! Any memories about what bothered Gilson, brownie?

The John Lee was around for ages... the second looks more like a politician's wife than a blues singer, but I might be biased... who is she?

What the COULD/OUGHT TO do is this: The GRP CD is fine enough, but missing several tracks.

That's two of us. My Grado SR80s aren't all that comfortable, but with all my traveling, headphones are really my only option. (I wonder how many people here understand the reference to Pantani?!) Well, I thought it was okay to make that reference in light of the recent Contador-thread... you know, when I was still cycling I started shaving my head (still do, though usually not as short as I did back then) and the other kids called me "Elephantino" As for my headphones... a quick search on the net tells me they cost twice as much here as in $$-land... I'm using them right now and sound is really pretty nice to my ears. I'm no audiophile, so there's that... I prefer listening in a room anyway, even if it's just at low volume.

A Mosaic Select would be cool there, too! Just as with Lateef!

I've got one pair of fairly cheap Sony headphones (meaning this isn't a thread I should post in at all) but my ears are too Pantani-like to be suited to long hours of headphone-listening anyway... (Sony MDR-V150, in case anyone cares... got to buy what's around in the 0.378 stores that carry such stuff here...)

Also got a mail that the replacement for the Murray box is on its way! That was faster than anticipated!

Well, it would definitely slow down some... but frankly I don't see why average speeds of 40 km/h make it more attractive than, say, 36 km/h.

Sorry about that - and thanks for sorting it out!

Just remembered that I do have one of the digipack-originals: "Live at Birdland" (I had one of the Impulse Masters editions with the accidentally shortened take of "Afro Blue" and hence upon finding out got the Originals edition). It says indeed: "Mastered by Kevin Reeves at Universal Mastering Studios-East". I wonder what "Originals" J.A.W. was talking about - I always assumed the boxes to contain the very same discs that were also sold separately. Same for "Crescent", btw, which I also just found... must have bought it because I love the album and it can't be listened to in original sequence in the quartet 8CD-set... time to listen to that one again!

Got shipping confirmations for the four new ones from amazon.fr!

But remember: after all, Dumbledore is gay

So the boxes DO contain DIFFERENT remasterings compared to the Originals? This is getting to be confusing... as for the design: indeed some of the "Originals" digipack-reissues of (especially) Impulse albums do look splendid, while the jewel case packed discs in box Vol. 4 don't look nearly as nice.

r.i.p. Jef Gilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPCXsGKnhY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=375qcQ5oSyU

Yeah well, there's lots of money in it... so legalize all dope/ing and see what goes. Let them gladiators kill themselves in the arena!

I guess it's all "Originals" nowadays - unless you go the Japan route. I also think (but am not sure) I've seen some single discs in store from the more recent boxes - jewel case packed originals. Boxes #1-3 were Originals, too, yes? Just done by Universal instead of their boutique-outlet Hip-O, and packed in digipacks, correct? Haven't really followed all of this too closely as I've got my Trane... wouldn't mind buying box #5 if they ever fix it.