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Congratulations.

The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (Mosaic, MD6-181) CD 1 now. The outer box says MQ10-181 instead of MD6-181. I guess that's either a misprint or the box was a leftover from the vinyl edition?

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Ugetsu: At Birdland (OJC 24bit remaster) Great remastering work by Joe Tarantino.

That's a great bargain. The mastering by Joe Tarantino, however, is uncharacteristically loud, imo. You can't crank this up like you can OJCs. Very irritating. His work on the Coltrane Fearless Leader box from just after is much better and not tiring at all. I once saw one Amazon reviewer mistaking this Miles Davis box for RVG remastering, too lazy to read the booklet, but going by the loudness alone I cannot blame him. Every thing else by Joe Tarantino I like (16bit OJCs, 24bit OJCs, box sets, etc.).

I'll try the Alban Berg. The Busch is an old mono recording with out of tune sounding strings, right? I first heard the G major quartet in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors. I wonder what recording Woody used.

This splits the first and later movements over the two discs. Unacceptable to me.

What's your favourite performance of Schubert's string quartet no15 in G major?

Artemis Quartet: Schubert String Quartet No.15 in G major

Miles Davis On the Corner (MFSL, Hybrid SACD)

The Rivers is a great set, but three out of four albums have been released in improved sound on SHM-CD at the time of Blue Note's 75th anniversary. From memory, the first album as contained in this set does not sound all that different from the 24bit Connoisseur. The book contains mostly reproductions of the original liner notes.

Now also on offer at JPC and Amazon as an import. No sign of a domestic release yet, I think. https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/wayne-shorter-emanon/hnum/8695226 https://www.amazon.com/Emanon-Wayne-Shorter/dp/B07F9G56V5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532172324&sr=8-1&keywords=emanon+wayne+shorter

Yes, like you said, great performance and sound is better than comments on the original Steeple Chase CD release would have you believe.

Clifford Jordan Quartet Half Note (THCD-520) Steeple Chase 45th Anniversary 24bit remaster

Yes, just drums, piano, and bass on L'Interrogatoire de Julien (5:17).

That's why I waited for Criterion to release their DVD in 2006 before even listening to it. On the other hand, this new edition sounds so handsome, both with (disc 1) and without (disc 2) reverb, that the images won't be missed. The booklet also contains many excellent photos, two essays (Franck Bergerot & Ashley Kahn), a glossy cover, 58 pages in all, so if you are already familiar with the movie, the new packaging will do just fine as a substitute imo.

See here: https://www.ibs.it/combo-66-cd-john-scofield/e/0602567802136

According to one Italian site this will be released on Blue Note.

John Scofield's new quartet album Combo 66 will be out this September. The SHM-CD has one exclusive bonus track like for Past Present. Piano Gerald Clayton Bass Vicente Archer Drums Bill Stewart http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCM-1248 Tracklisting 1 CAN'T DANCE キャント・ダンス 2 COMBO THEME コンボ・テーマ 3 ICONS AT THE FAIR アイコンズ・アット・ザ・フェア 4 WILLA JEAN ウィラ・ジーン 5 UNCLE SOUTHERN アンクル・サザン 6 DANG SWING ダン・スウィング 7 NEW WALTZO ニュー・ワルツォ 8 I'M SLEEPING IN アイム・スリーピング・イン 9 KING OF BELGIUM キング・オブ・ベルギー 10 RINGING OUT [ジャパン・ボーナス・トラック] リンギング・アウト

Probably. It's the kind of music you can pick up at the local record store at your convenience.

I bought the Criterion DVD twelve years ago as I wanted to experience the music as a soundtrack first. It also had a bonus feature on the music. I only picked this up as a Japanese SHM-CD recently, and the new French CD is much better. I never heard the previous EU and US releases, but I honestly cannot imagine them sounding better. The Japanese CD has now been demoted to beer coaster, but one of Super High Material.

I was not as enamoured with this as last week on arrival.

John Coltrane Sun Ship (SHM-CD, UCCI-9204) The real deal!