erwbol

Six months of autumn suits me fine. What would a Dutch landscape painting be without significant cloud cover?

I am happy with the Complete Africa Brass and Complete Village Vanguard sets myself.

It made me feel the writers are stupid.

The Schlippenbach Trio will play the Bimhuis on 4 December. I look forward to experiencing them live.

The Originals CDs are all more compressed, loud and harsh than the 2011 SHM-CDs. Cosmic Music is not the best sounding late Coltrane SHM-CD (the two tracks with Coltrane), but it is an improvement over the Originals, and this new budget release copies the 2011 mastering. At these prices from CD Japan you can't go wrong with the following titles which all copy the 2011 mastering: UCCI-9243 Transition - John Coltrane UCCI-9244 Living Space - John Coltrane UCCI-9245 Sun Ship - John Coltrane UCCI-9246 First Meditations - John Coltrane UCCI-9247 Om - John Coltrane UCCI-9248 Meditations - John Coltrane UCCI-9249 Cosmic Music - John Coltrane UCCI-9250 Jupiter variations - John Coltrane UCCI-9251 Stellar Regions - John Coltrane UCCI-9252 Interstellar Space - John Coltrane UCCI-9253 Percussion Bitter Sweet - Max Roach UCCI-9276 The Magic Of Juju - Archie Shepp UCCI-9285 Attica Blues - Archie Shepp UCCI-9288 Vista - Marion Brown

Last week: Max Roach & Cecil Taylor - Historic Concerts (Soul Note) Last night: Art Tatum, Ben Webster - Group Masterpieces (Pablo, JVC XRCD), mint, bluenotesound auction on eBay.

Next sunday The Sun will scream: Secret 2015 interview tape shows Lou Donaldson teaching Nazi salute to Christian McBride

What about parking an x amount of Euros in your PayPal account? Most online stores accept PayPal, Amazon being the exception.

I tell myself I keep watching True Detective to bear witness, but the real answer is that it's obviously my programming, and I lack the constitution for suicide.

I recently bought a copy of its sibling 3 Phasis from an amazon third party seller and was shipped a CD-R. New World Records has started using these CD-Rs for back catalogue titles without informing their clientel what is and isn't on CD-R. The copy of Cecil Taylor Unit I bought was a real CD. I got a full refund for 3 Phasis and bought a near mint second hand copy on Discogs instead.

Have her put your new headphones on.

I felt the first drops of rain a few minutes ago while walking the dog. Showers and thunder will likely take a few more hours. I'll be having a few Jopen Adriaan myself, beer from Haarlem following a traditional 15th century recipe from the time Flanders imported beer from Holland in huge quantities.

Already quite a bit of wind here in the vicinity of Haarlem. Temperatures are dropping and the sun has been partially blocked by cloud cover for at least two hours. Are you further inland?

They sort of have a signature sound, like the Audio Wave XRCDs have theirs, so any of them might do to give you an idea if you wish to purchase more. I think they have a very seductive, addictive sound. One of the most seductive is Grant Green's Matador, never released as a RVG, of course, but much better then the early nineties McMaster. My advise would be to get a few of your favourite titles on SHM and either proceed further from there or don't. (An album like Horace Silver's Song For My Father would not be a good candidate as the source material is compromised, though the SHM is an improvement.)

That's why a recent Guardian article about a journalist who had discovered a stack of old LPs in her new apartment and had decided to acquaint herself with more of the output of these artists, in this case Billie Holiday, by buying more old degraded vinyl at bargain prices equally annoyed and amused me.

It's over 30˚C. If your place of work has airconditioning that might not be such a bad thing.

Koot en Bie - Ouwe Lullen Moeten Weg

I believe if Barca sign Pogba he won't be able to make his appearance until sometime in 2016, so he will initially stay at Juve on loan. I could be wrong on this.

People who don't know better will think there are LPs in there, so you're actually very hip with these around. You could even discuss the latest newspaper article about the thrill of collecting old cheap vinyl over a cup of tea.

And what of: Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh Jazz Snob Eat Shit

Although for Andrew Hill's first four Blue Note albums the best versions on CD are still in the Mosaic box mastered by Malcolm Addey. Audiophiles are, of course, likely to have purchased the Music Matters vinyl or the HD Tracks downloads, and others might simply not care.

Nice to hear that the Three For Shepp I also bought is better than the domestic version. That one is long OOP and I could not find a copy for a reasonable price. Three For Shepp is a 20bit K2. Some of the Coltrane 20bit K2s also sound a bit better or no worse than the 90s Labson 20bit US/EU digipaks (At The Village Vanguard Again), but not by a huge margin imo. The last of US/EU digipaks from 2000 (Interstellar Space, Kulu Se Mama, New Thing At Newport, Ascension), however, are by Kevin Reeves and were much better than their predecessors. Indeed the Japanese budget 20bit K2 of Kulu Se Mama from four years ago is not as good as the domestic digipak from 2000. Likewise, I expect the New Thing At Newport from this new budget batch to sound worse than the 2000 domestic digipak. Ascension could be a later Japanese remaster, and thus the exception among the remasters that predate the 2011 SHM editions. I have an edition from 2005 which I slightly prefer to the 2000 digipak.

Did your VR glasses just add the word Greek to Page's location "the windmill erea"?

Reminder to self to dig that one back out ! That's one of those that never made it to CD? Discogs only shows three volumes of vinyl.

Yes, don't they charge the same low amount for a single CD as for a box set?