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I received a notice about bonus points from CDJapan which says the points expire in 90 days. preserve decorum and order something. It's the only decent thing to do. In that case, these 300 new customer points must expire sooner than normal. Ordinarily points expire after 1 year. See the following link. By the way, you also get 300 bonus points every year in the month of your birthday.

To appreciate the lunacy of this package you have to watch the YouTube video. http://youtu.be/lfotDIJL040 The Complete Studio Recordings (Exclusive "CHROME DOME" USB Version) $185

Only £15.82 at amazon.co.uk. A new low point?

Ambootia Darjeeling first flush.

True Detective marathon. Watching first six episodes again this week. More literary references: link

This Centuries-Old Musical Instrument Sounds Exactly Like Super Mario

I think these are probably re-issues of titles in the Jazz The Best series. These feature Japanese DSD remastering from 2007. Selected titles are put out there again each year in limited editions. Dolphy's Five Spot Vol.2 was last re-issued as UCCO-90079 in 2012, now it is given UCCO-90248. This mastering was first released in 2007 as UCCO-5047. That last code is actually in the matrix ring of UCCO-90079. Bobby Timmon's The Soul Man! released as UCCO-9932 in 2010, now it's given UCCO-90265. Eric Dolphy's Memorial Album UCCO-9307 in 2008, now UCCO-90254. With the recent Coltrane SHM series, Universal Japan re-released four titles in the Jazz The Best series at the same time. These featured the over a decade old K2 remastering. Note that Five Spot Vol.1 is not scheduled for re-release in May. This might actually indicate it is about to be re-issued as an SHM instead, since it is part of the New Jazz 8200 series, NJ 8260. Five Spot Vol.2 and Memorial Album are part of the Prestige 7200 (7294) and 7300 (7334) series respectively, and so still some time off as SHMs.

I'm familiar with those sites. Your Japanese is obviously better than mine. I make these lists for my own benefit. I might as well post them here.

I was hesitant about the Japanese Solid releases, but I've been listening to the three discs I got again over the last two weeks, and apart from being a bit loud, these are good value. They have no excessive treble. The only nineties Bethlehem disc I got certainly was poor sonically.

The 7400 series? That could take a while, even at the current rate.

Yes, and they're already releasing titles from New Jazz as well, like Mal/4 (New Jazz 8208).

On 19th March, with Barbara Lea's Lea In Love (originally Prestige LP 7100), the whole of the Prestige 7000 series will have been made available on SHM CD.

Thanks for that link, Lon. I'm making a list of titles released so far. I'm pasting it into The list will be finished later today, and, like the BN list, I'll try to keep it up to date once more titles are announced.

I like the eighties Atlantic Jazz discs best for the Coltranes. Prophet Hoffman endorsed them on his board, and this was good advice. That board has its uses. Sidewinder -- on my system, the Lloyd discs in particular are all noticeable improvements on the Collectables CDs. Some of these sessions (Soundtrack, for example), might not have been recorded well in the first place, so even with an "upgrade," they are okay at best. The Collectables CDs are consistently poorly mastered, so I have welcomed these Japanese Warners as replacements, even if they aren't in the same league as the recent Japanese BNs and CTIs. I had no real beef with the sound of the Lloyds I got besides them being loud. The music just didn't do enough for me.

Aggressive German Shepherds can be a nuisance as well in an urban environment. These dogs are so powerful that I've seen owners bracing themselves to hold on while their dogs seemed madly intent on shredding my Retriever to pieces. Their dogs mature and they struggle to handle them in public. One problem with out of control Pit Pulls is that the anti-socials who own them often have a pal who breeds them. No leaving it to the experts. In the wrong hands such dogs clearly are lethal. And why is it that so many alcoholics or drug addicts who live in dilapidated conditions and feel a little lonely take such loaded guns for companionship? Exactly the kind of people who feel rules are there for everybody else but not for them often feel attracted to these breeds. Dominating and controlling such loaded guns with the safety off gives them great satisfaction. At least my 'boring', loveable, affectionate, fun-loving Golden Retriever is not bred to kill and go straight for the throat.

Interesting. Can't really say I hear treble boost in most of those i have. The Blakey-Monk and Mingus clearly show a treble boost on my system, especially when compared to the Passions of a Man box set and the following release of the Blakey album. I think you mentioned somewhere you can easily adjust the highs on your system so it is possible for you to enjoy most modern remasters? I did not plan on ever discussing these Warner Japan Atlantic discs again, so this is likely the last time I will reply to this thread. Sorry, I didn't see this post before. You're absolutely right, there could well be a treble boost on these that I don't notice as I have the treble dialed back considerably on my system as a default for CD, and if it's REALLY bad I'll notice it, so I guess that was an inaccurate statement on my part. I guess with the adjustments I've made these don't present an uncomfortable level of treble for me, and are an improvement over the earlier US versions I have in my opinion. I thank my lucky stars every day for the treble cut circuit on my amp placed right before the speakers, adjustibly shunting high frequency to ground outside the signal path. I avoid many of the problems that tone controls present and still can tailor the top end, which I am very sensitive to. I also can scal back the ribbon tweeters on my speakers and do. It makes cd buying easier for me. I've picked up a few of the Coltranes in this series and am enjoying them, especially the two mono discs. Despite the 1999 US Blakey pictured above being better than the first US release (which reportedly had balance problems, everybody being on the left except Monk) there are other problems on the 1999 release which I hoped would be absent on the new mono disc. In my ignorance I concluded these problems were present on the stereo tapes. Unfortunately, the mono CD displays similar damage/limitations of the source material. This coupled with the to me noticeable treble boost made this Japanese disc a great disappointment. It's a shame because a 2007 Japanese DSD remaster of Saxophone Colossus (presumably made from tapes the Japanese were sent in the distant past) showed less of the damage to the source material than the recent RVG. Would these Japanese Warner titles have been remastered from true mono tapes? Were the Atlantic sessions recorded separately in both true mono and stereo, like Kind of Blue for instance?

Happy listening.

I wish Mosaic hadn't used a bubble mailer to ship my Andrew Hill Select. Jazzmessengers used far better packaging when I ordered the Tyner Select last month.

I spun Worktime again earlier today, and had similar sentiments. I'm glad to hear the Monks are also excellent. With a little luck the first two Monks will be here tomorrow.

http://youtu.be/oF2E3eHlxOY I pre-ordered the Terry Pollard using some frequent shopper points on the basis of this clip.

Jimmy Ponder - Solo: Live at the Other End £2.99

I ordered this today.

Why the brains of dogs and humans are more similar than you think.

For a couple of years now, it has never been the case that there wasn't at least one email in my inbox of a yet to be delivered jazz order.