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"I've read it high as a kyte, I've read it stone cold sober, but ... "

It's hard to find the jazz related topics, though. I registered, but under a different username. My postcount is still 1.

Really, another uptight music forum?

I've come to prefer Edition II primarily because it's the artists preferred take. It has been the first track on all CD releases both in the West and Japan (except The Major Works) and the solos have become very familiar in a good way. I should select Edition I the next few times I play Ascension.

Here's a list of planned titles (from CD Japan). Confirmed unreleased material in red. The list will be updated as new titles are announced. Blue Note, the masterworks 2013-10-23 John Coltrane - Blue Train (TYCJ-81001) Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (TYCJ-81002) Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (TYCJ-81003) Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (TYCJ-81004) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (TYCJ-81005) Art Blakey Quintet - A Night At Birdland, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81006) Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard (TYCJ-81007) Miles Davis - Miles Davis, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81008) Lee Morgan - Candy (TYCJ-81009) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (TYCJ-81010) Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (TYCJ-81011) Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (TYCJ-81012) Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (TYCJ-81013) Hank Mobley - Soul Station (TYCJ-81014) Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (TYCJ-81015) Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81016) Bud Powell - The Scene Changes (TYCJ-81017) Miles Davis - Miles Davis, Vol.2 (TYCJ-81018) Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (TYCJ-81019) Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles (TYCJ-81020) Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time (TYCJ-81021) Milt Jackson - Milt Jackson (TYCJ-81022) Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81023) Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins, Vol.2 (TYCJ-81024) Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81025) 2013-11-20 Lee Morgan - Lee Morgan, Vol.3 (TYCJ-81026) Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings (TYCJ-81027) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Messengers At The Cafe Bohemia (TYCJ-81028) Jutta Hipp - Jutta Hipp At The Hickory House, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81029) Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban (TYCJ-81030) Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown Memorial Album (TYCJ-81031) J.J. Johnson - The Eminent J.J. Johnson, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81032) Paul Chambers - Bass On Top (TYCJ-81033) Horace Parlan - Us Three (TYCJ-81034) Hank Mobley - Dippin' (TYCJ-81035) Jimmy Smith - A New Sound, A New Star: Jimmy Smith At The Organ, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81036) Ornette Coleman - At The 'Golden Circle' Stockholm, Vol.1 (TYCJ-81037) Kenny Dorham - Round About Midnight At Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (TYCJ-81038) Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin (TYCJ-81039) Wayne Shorter - JuJu (TYCJ-81040) Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (TYCJ-81041) Lee Morgan - The Cooker (TYCJ-81042) Jimmy Smith - The Sounds Of Jimmy Smith (TYCJ-81043) Horace Silver - Song For My Father (TYCJ-81044) Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (TYCJ-81045) McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (TYCJ-81046) Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music, Vol.2 (TYCJ-81047) Thad Jones - Dertroit-New York Junction (TYCJ-81048) Art Blakey Quintet - A Night At Birdland, Vol.2 (TYCJ-81049) Joe Henderson - In 'N Out (TYCJ-81050) 2014-01-22 Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye (TYCJ-81051) Blue Mitchell - Bring It Home To Me (TYCJ-81052) Donald Byrd - Mustang! (TYCJ-81053) Larry Young - Of Love And Peace (TYCJ-81054) Sam Rivers - New Conception (TYCJ-81055) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Witch Doctor (TYCJ-81056) Stanley Turrentine - Easy Walker (TYCJ-81057) 'Big' John Patton - That Certain Feeling (TYCJ-81058) Stanley Turrentine - The Look Of Love (TYCJ-81059) Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now (TYCJ-81060) Reuben Wilson - On Broadway (TYCJ-81061) Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud! (TYCJ-81062) Andrew Hill - Grass Roots (TYCJ-81063) Duke Pearson - Now Hear This (TYCJ-81064) Don Cherry - Where Is Brooklyn? (TYCJ-81065) Donald Byrd - Fancy Free (TYCJ-81066) Hank Mobley - The Flip (TYCJ-81067) Elvin Jones - Poly-Currents (TYCJ-81068) McCoy Tyner - Expansions (TYCJ-81069) Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (TYCJ-81070) Wayne Shorter - Odyssey Of Iska (TYCJ-81071) Elvin Jones - Genesis (TYCJ-81072) Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (TYCJ-81073) Bobbi Humphrey - Flute-In (TYCJ-81074) Lee Morgan - The Last Session (TYCJ-81075) 2014-02-24 Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisors (TYCJ-81076) Larry Young - Contrasts (TYCJ-81077) Blue Mitchell - Heads Up! (TYCJ-81078) Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage (TYCJ-81079) Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever (TYCJ-81080) Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper (TYCJ-81081) Jackie McLean - Bout Soul (TYCJ-81082) The Three Sounds - Coldwater Flat (TYCJ-81083) Eddie Gale - Eddie Gale's Ghetto (TYCJ-81084) Stanley Turrentine - Always Something There (TYCJ-81085) Elvin Jones - Ultimate (TYCJ-81086) 'Big' John Patton - Understanding (TYCJ-81087) Horace Silver - You Gotta Take A Little Love (TYCJ-81088) Jack Wilson - Song For My Daughter (TYCJ-81089) Andrew Hill - Lift Every Voice (TYCJ-81090) Stanley Turrentine - Another Story (TYCJ-81091) Reuben Wilson - Blue Mode (TYCJ-81092) Thad Jones - Consummation (TYCJ-81093) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs (TYCJ-81094) Ornette Coleman - Love Call (TYCJ-81095) Elvin Jones - Coalition (TYCJ-81096) Reuben Wilson - Groovy Situation (TYCJ-81097) Jimmy McGriff - Black Pearls (TYCJ-81098) Bobby Hutcherson - Head On (TYCJ-81099) Bobbi Humphrey - Dig This! (TYCJ-81100) 2014-06-25 Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Quintets (UCCQ-5001) Tina Brooks - Back To The Tracks (UCCQ-5002) Stanley Turrentine - Comin' Your Way (UCCQ-5003) Ike Quebec - Easy Living (UCCQ-5004) Jackie McLean - The Jackie McLean Quintet (UCCQ-5005) Stanley Turrentine - Jubilee Shout! (UCCQ-5006) Freddie Hubbard - Here To Stay (UCCQ-5007) 'Big' John Patton - Blue John (UCCQ-5008) Sam Rivers - Dimensions And Extensions (UCCQ-5009) 'Big' John Patton - Memphis To New York Spirit (UCCQ-5010) Sonny Clark - Blues In The Night (UCCQ-5011) Kenny Burrell - K.B. Blues (UCCQ-5012) Grant Green - Matador (UCCQ-5013) Sonny Clark - My Conception (UCCQ-5014) Grant Green - Gooden's Corner (UCCQ-5015) Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique (UCCQ-5016) Jackie McLean - Tippin' The Scales (UCCQ-5017) Curtis Fuller - Two Bones (UCCQ-5018) Grant Green - Oleo (UCCQ-5019) Hank Mobley - Poppin' (UCCQ-5020) Stabley Turrentine - Z.T.'s Blues (UCCQ-5021) Hank Mobley - Far Away Lands (UCCQ-5022) Lee Morgan - The Rajah (UCCQ-5023) Grant Green - Born To Be Blue (UCCQ-5024) 'Big' John Patton - Boogaloo (UCCQ-5025) Grant Green - First Session (UCCQ-5026) Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet Featuring Sonny Clark (UCCQ-5027) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Drums Around The Corner (UCCQ-5028) Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game (UCCQ-5029) Freddie Red - Red's Blues (UCCQ-5030) 2014-10-22 Horace Silver - Blowing The Blues Away (UCCQ-5031) Jackie McLean - Swing Swang Swingin' (UCCQ-5032) Donald Byrd - Fuego (UCCQ-5033) Horace Silver - Horace Scope (UCCQ-5034) Hank Mobley - Roll Call (UCCQ-5035) Horace Parlan - Headin' South (UCCQ-5036) Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special (UCCQ-5037) Hank Mobley - Workout (UCCQ-5038) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic (UCCQ-5039) Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off (UCCQ-5040) Grant Green - The Latin Bit (UCCQ-5041) Dexter Gordon Go! (UCCQ-5042) Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones (UCCQ-5043) Joe Henderson - Page One (UCCQ-5044) Stanley Turrentine - Hustlin' (UCCQ-5045) Freddie Roach - Brown Suggar (UCCQ-5046) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Free For All (UCCQ-5047) Lee Morgan - The Gigolo (UCCQ-5048) Larry Young - Unity (UCCQ-5049) Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee (UCCQ-5050) Elvin Jones - Puttin' It Together (UCCQ-5051) Lee Morgan - Charisma (UCCQ-5052) Duke Pearson - Merry Ole Soul (UCCQ-5053) Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (UCCQ-5054) Ronnie Foster - The Two-Headed Freap (UCCQ-5055) 2014-11-19 The Incredible Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby (UCCQ-5056) Donald Byrd - Free Form (UCCQ-5057) Herbie Hancock - My Point Of View (UCCQ-5058) Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares (UCCQ-5059) Stanley Turrentine - A Chip Off The Old Block (UCCQ-5060) Grant Green - Idle Moments (UCCQ-5061) Hank Mobley - The Turnaround (UCCQ-5062) Larry Young - Into Somethin' (UCCQ-5063) Freddie Roach - All That's Good (UCCQ-5064) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Indestructible (UCCQ-5065) Stanley Turrentine - Joyride (UCCQ-5066) Grant Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand (UCCQ-5067) Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around (UCCQ-5068) Freddie Hubbard - The Night Of The Cookers, Vol.1 (UCCQ-5069) Freddie Hubbard - The Night Of The Cookers, Vol.2 (UCCQ-5070) Lee Morgan - Cornbread (UCCQ-5071) Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple (UCCQ-5072) Lee Morgan - Delightfulee (UCCQ-5073) Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo (UCCQ-5074) Duke Pearson - The Phantom (UCCQ-5075) Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner (UCCQ-5076) Lee Morgan - The Sixth Sense (UCCQ-5077) Jackie McLean - Demon's Dance (UCCQ-5078) Grant Green - Alive! (UCCQ-5079) Donald Byrd - Etheopian Knights (UCCQ-5080) 2015-03-25 Dizzy Reece - Blues In Trinity (UCCQ-5081) Freddie Redd - The Music From The Connection (UCCQ-5082) Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame (UCCQ-5083) Tina Brooks - True Blue (UCCQ-5084) Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd (UCCQ-5085) Duke Jordan - Flight To Jordan (UCCQ-5086) Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop (UCCQ-5087) Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis (UCCQ-5088) Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (UCCQ-5089) Stanley Turrentine - Dearly Beloved (UCCQ-5090) The Three Sounds - Here We Come (UCCQ-5091) Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance (UCCQ-5092) Sonny Clark - Leapin' & Lopin' (UCCQ-5093) Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul (UCCQ-5094) Donald Byrd - Royal Flush (UCCQ-5095) The Three Sounds - Hey There (UCCQ-5096) Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! (UCCQ-5097) Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (UCCQ-5098) John Patton - Along Came John (UCCQ-5099) Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly (UCCQ-5100) Johnny Coles - Little Johnny C (UCCQ-5101) Herbie Hancock - Inventions & Dimensions (UCCQ-5102) Joe Henderson - Our Thing (UCCQ-5103) The Three Sounds - Black Orchid (UCCQ-5104) Art Blakey - The Freedom Rider (UCCQ-5105) Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land (UCCQ-5106) Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point (UCCQ-5107) Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer (UCCQ-5108) Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff (UCCQ-5109) Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata (UCCQ-5110) Donald Byrd - I’m Tryin’ To Get Home (UCCQ-5111) Joe Henderson - Inner Urge (UCCQ-5112) John Patton - Oh Baby! (UCCQ-5113) Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (UCCQ-5114) Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (UCCQ-5115) Sam Rivers - Contours (UCCQ-5116) Tony Williams - Spring (UCCQ-5117) Andrew Hill - Compulsion (UCCQ-5118) Don Cherry - Complete Communion (UCCQ-5119) Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe (UCCQ-5120) Ornette Coleman - The Empty Foxhole (UCCQ-5121) Jack Wilson - Something Personal (UCCQ-5122) Booker Ervin - The In Between (UCCQ-5123) Lonnie Smith - Think! (UCCQ-5124) Donald Byrd - Slow Drag (UCCQ-5125) Grant Green - Goin’ West (UCCQ-5126) Lonnie Smith - Turning Point (UCCQ-5127) Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand (UCCQ-5128) Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd (UCCQ-5129) Marlena Shaw - Marlena (UCCQ-5130)

Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul has just been announced. And it's a prequel. Better Call Saul

The price on amazon.co.uk has just increased by a little over £2 to £40.39. Amazon.de price still €43.99. Amazon.com now $115.21. I wonder what the low point will be. I pre-ordered from the German site.

And his contribution to the interview/concert film of Miles' Isle of Wight performance. What a dick. No more Stanley Crotch for me as well.

There's a review up on allaboutjazz.

"So What."

http://youtu.be/KrdZPmRm8MA

If your goal is a less flawed sound quality, you will often sadly have to resort to Hybrid SACD and 24bit/192kHz FLAC files without being an audiophile. Even if good is good enough, the CDs a lot of labels put out are crap.

Track 1, Catfish. Part of Andrew's first recording after his first association with Blue Note ended. A very haunting tune, it stayed with me for days after first hearing it. Lots of energy and momentum, quite complex, rewarding of repeated listening. This is why I sort of worship Andrew Hill.

I'm currently secure ripping my CD collection to FLAC for archiving. Switching primarily to (24bit/192kHz) FLAC files will require new audio equipment I suppose. The real distressing aspect of this is that these files aren't legally available to music lovers outside of certain localities. Just look at HD Tracks (e.g. Blue Note). The files themselves might not be DRM-ed, but that is a small comfort.

If I see as much as a single groove outside of the inner ring area I'll want my money back!

Both the mono and mono backup tapes were lost. The stereo backup is what has been used for all reissues since 1992. According to Mark Wilder, Columbia's practice at its 30th Street studios in 1959 was to use four tape decks simultaneously: a prime mono deck and a mono backup, for mono LP release; and a prime three-channel deck and a three-channel backup, for stereo LP release. The mono tapes have since disappeared. The backup three-channel tapes (the ones we heard) were sent to the vault, where they rested untouched from 1959 until 1992. http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/206fifth/index.html

It all depends on the quality of the remastering. I'd have to hear these first before I decide to spend money. Round About Midnight was a mono recording, right? So that will likely be the same sound as the Complete Columbia Album Collection. And Milestones has just been released as a mono Hybrid SACD by MoFi (together with Round About Midnight).

Two international news agencies are at the centre of a row over self-censorship after withdrawing an unflattering photograph of the French president, François Hollande. link

Universal must have licensed the Ascenseur pour l'échafaud soundtrack to Sony for them to recreate the original Jazz Track album for this specific release.

He was not on suicide watch.

As I understand it he was held in seclusion. Unless that would have changed, my guess is he did not fancy a lifetime of solitary lockup due to the nature of his crime. From the BBC: A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, JoEllen Smith, said: "He was housed in protective custody which means he was in a cell by himself and rounds are required every 30 minutes at staggered intervals."

From the liner notes of the 2000 US/EU CD (page 14): Coltrane's preferred take of the piece appears first. There has heretofore been some uncertainty about which was actually recorded first. Assuming that the complete versions were the only takes of the piece recorded, that matter would seem to be resolved by the "take two" slate attached to the Edition I performance. That slate appears on this CD in the 0 index (the pause) before track 2. Wikipedia's information could be based on the liner notes to this CD. So, it seems to be Bob Thiele's memory from a 1968 interview against the actual tapes.