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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.

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Won't a single shipment incur heavy import duties in the US?

My BN/SN collection isn't that extensive, but imo the early studio recordings generally do not sound as nice as the later recordings. These limitations are in the recordings themselves. The new remasters make both early and later recordings sound (even) worse (harsh & hot treble). So, there is a significant improvement in the (studio) recording quality around the time of the David Murray Octet album Home (November 1981) over Ming (July 1980, same recording studio) and earlier Murray albums like Interboogieology, Sweet Lovely, early WSQ. The later studio recordings I've heard generally sound warm and pleasant in the original masterings (e.g. David Murray's The Hill & Body And Soul, Anthony Braxton's Monk disc, Andrew Hill's Shades and Verona Rag). The live recordings I've heard are more problematic.

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