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Oh, and another thing: I played the whole Hamp Jam Session from that marvellous box last night... why didn't they let Mosaic do that one, as had been planned? How fast do things change in this effing cold business world?

Yes, ok, but (my emphasis above): how, without access to any master tapes, without decent engineers who remaster these tapes, and - call me anal - without original cover art, too? Of course in the end it's good if the music's out, but the Andorrans are pirates of some kind, even if within Europe their actions are legal. I don't like that. About a year ago when the Verve LPR digipacks turned into jewel case releases with crappier sound in europe it seems, than in the US (remember the Lateef Psychicemotus discussion), I was already afraid of a change to worse, even when back then it only meant the establishment of two new (Europe-only? I think so) series instead of continuing the VMEs (very fine reissues, if you ask me - far too few, of course, but still good ones!) and LPRs. Anyway, just today I bought two marvellous Freshsound 2CD sets, one with the Gellers' albums from 54/55 and one with the marvellous Savoy recordings of Eddie Bert. Let's give them big for this kind of work, and fegh the cheapo pirates (although to be honest Lonehill is improving the presentation and liners, I must admit).

Happy Birthday!

What does that exactly mean? Were the Gold Series digipacks produced/released by Freshsound or did they just distribute them?

Downloading right now, thanks! These should do fine if they're decently encoded!

Merry turn-your-kinds-into-greedy-little-materialist-monsters, everyone Seriously, I wish everyone here only the best!

Very sad news. I'll play some later today. Thank you for all the music!

Happy birthday!

Sorry, but that cover is plain ugly! Did they fire the Roques guy and let some kid do it? Dig that font! Yuck! I hope the disc is good enough to deserve better!

Pure Genius Vol. 1 - there never was a Vol. 2, right? Beautiful music!

Found there's a conversion thing in iTunes - I add the MP2s to the iTunes library then go right click, convert, and the resulting files are exportable. No idea what kind of conversion is done, but at least I can play the files not on my computer only and decide if I need audio discs of them or not.

yup, I must have missed this being talked about, too, sounds good! another good one:

you know, myself being such a sorry-assed lazy fat king, smartass is indeed quite a compliment!

Sure, smartass... Only my notebook might fry me and the whole house... but maybe you can come by with your SR-71, transcode the files and then fly the back again?

Yes, I know I can do that, but that takes quite a bit of time...

That suggests it just won't work Too bad that fm stations have their digi-streams in MP2 format, then! Thanks for finding that! Can anyone confirm it won't work at all? Or is there any way around it?

so I got my own ubupod today (30GB, for free, higher entities commanded... I had no influence - not without reason I'm called the humblest king on earth... ) Now: is there a way to copy MP2 files onto that thingie? Tells me it wouldn't work without giving a reason. I re-installed the latest version of iTunes before, so that can't be the reason. Is there a plugin or something similar I can install to make MP2 files run? And if so, where can I get that? Oh, and I'm on Windows, I assume that does make a difference... Thanks for any help!

Thanks for that link! Strange that it says 8.99€ in the title but the discs are all 9.99€! So here's the list, for later times, when the link won't work anymore: Chris Connor - At the Village Gate (Roulette) Jon Hendricks - A Good Git-Together (Pacific Jazz) Julie London - Around Midnight (Capitol) Sue Raney - All By Myself (Capitol) Dinah Shore - Dinah Sings, Previn Plays (Capitol) Dakota Staton - Dynamic! (Capitol) Sarah Vaughan - Sarah + 2 (Roulette) Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (Roulette)

I have to agree with this. I'm glad I got it for my collection but if you can't find it for a decent price, just wait for it to be reissued. It's not worth spending $55 for. I agree with this, too. Next time I see it in a sale, I'll pick up a copy to offer here, wasn't aware it was that rare! It kept popping up in Blue Note sales now and then over here.

fegh lager, with capital F! Why don't people (not even 5 year olds that you'd assume to be innocent!) prefer a good beer over that crappy lager you get everywhere? hell, world gone wrong!

Thanks for clarifying about that 3CD set - looks tasty! I have some of this on compilations (Dexter's Properbox, I think), but not nearly all of it!

Didn't find any list, but there's plenty of others - I saw at least six or seven in a store a few months ago but wasn't sure if there hadn't been a thread about them already... If anyone has a list, please post it!

No big trouble over here... she can't really relate to the obsession of collecting, and she doesn't really care much for jazz (but if it's something nice, say some Evans or Hank Jones, Desmond, etc, she won't be bothered). We went to a few live gigs together (Aberzombie, as she still calls him - boring gig with great Joey Baron, virtuoso Feldman and dead Johnson; Rabou Abou Kabou, Stenson & Irene Schweizer solo accompanying some films...), but she doesn't really care for it. Anyway, we don't argue about it, mostly she just leaves me alone (I leave her alone, too, when she's reading piles of stoopid crime novels...)

Got this one. The Kletzki and the Reiner were the only others they had. The Gatti is OOP since 2002 (after having been in print a mere 3 years), and the Mengelberg is so long OOP that it wouldn't even show in their system any longer. No serious store over here carries the Brilliant Classic boxes, but I might have to look for that one for my own pleasure. That box would have been overkill for my mother (I also got Chailly over Kletzki because of sound, in the end... she's not deep enough into this stuff to really go lengths and listen to various versions, and I figured she'd prefer one in very good sound).

This here's a great compilation of early Teddy: Definitely worth looking for (although again, some of it has been reissued over and over, so you might have half of it already).