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That's strange that everyone's mentioning problems with the right channel. My RVG shows no such problem- at least on all the tracks that are more than 2 instruments.

It's the pre RVG Japanese version, so all you RVG haters will love it. $20.00 plus shipping.

My first concert of any sort was the Beatles in Cleveland, OH in Aug. 1966. First jazz concert was the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early seventies, can't remember the year, but they were playing stuff from the Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire. both concerts were fantastic.

Actually I don't think it's so odd. I adore Stitt, but I have always found this one to be oddly unsatisfying. It doesn't make my top 10 Stitt recordings.

It's the Leonard Feather book in hardcover and the book is in mint condition. The dust cover is torn up a bit. Looking for $25.00

I like this Jonathan Kreisberg and his Nine Stories Wide cd on Criss Cross.

"Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" is the Chick Corea date on Solid State. It has the gatefold cover. ($20.00) "Andrew!!!" Hill of course, is a blue note from Liberty Records and features John Gilmore on tenor. ($25.00) Both LPs are near mint. Shipping is extra, but if you're in the NYC metro area we can meet.

the one with Ben Webster - love that one.

Dr. J, I assume you have the Getz cd entitled "The Master" where Getz and Dailey team up again, but this time it's with other musicians too, don't remember whether it's a quartet or quintet date. I like this one too. Different feel than Poetry, but very good.

I like this one too, it's not my favorite Horace Silver, but I like it a lot. I think Horace Silver is seriously underrated!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on this one Dr. J. It's one of my favorite Getz cds and I also think it is close to the top of my all time duet jazz cds. I just love this one and I am surprised it's going out of print.

RDK and Kevin I'm sure you guys know more about this than I do and you raise some interesting points about dynamic range, etc. All I am trying to say, though not very well, is that I notice that my stereo sounds better with the volume dial turned up about halfway than it does turned up to only about a quarter of the way. When the system is turned halfway up it sounds much better: it's not just a volume issue, I get more soundstage, more space between the instruments, more fidelity, etc. than when it is turned down. So in that sense, it appears to me that louder to some extent is better. My sense was that maybe RVG by setting the volume higher on the recordings was getting some effect like this.

I think what Morganized is trying to say is that there is no question that the RVGs are set at a louder volume and I think that in general louder sounds better on most systems and that it is very hard to make a fair comparison between versions unless you have some device that is able to exactly match the volume level. I don't have such a device and find it difficult. That said, I have compared the Sweet Honey Bee RVG to my earlier version and I prefer by a tad the RVG. It is not a radical difference but somewhat better.

I like Jim Hall too. One of my favorite Jim Hall moments and a Sonny Rollins moment too is from The Bridge. After Hall's solo on "Where are you" he plays a chord expecting Rollins's return with more of Sonny's solo, but Sonny comes in so, so late, agonizingly so, you wonder if Sonny was rushing back from another room. The reality is more probably that Sonny is just showing his mastery of stretching the time. But does Jim Hall get flustered, lose his place or stumble at all? Not in the least. 2 masters in action.

Update on above, apparently Mingus 1968 is not out of print, but the Oslo concert apparently is. So I change the Oslo video to $25.00 Mingus 1968 is $20.00

this is a great 1966 interview of Bill by his brother and it includes a lot of discussion about Bill's ideas on jazz and music in general, a bit of theory thrown in. It's got a bit of narration by Steve Allen and also Bill plays some of his tunes like "Very Early" and "Time Remembered". It's unlike anything about him I have seen. $20.00

These are out of print on not on DVD 1) Charles Mingus Sextet (Oslo Norway 1964 with Eric Dolphy,Johnny Coles, Clifford Jordan,Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond) $20.00 2) Mingus 1968 (directed by Thomas Reichman) (features club performances including John Gilmore and Charles McPherson, interviews and Mingus getting evicted) $25.00

I bought this cd some time ago and although I am a fan of McLaughlin's, I have to say that I was disappointed. I found the orchestral piece to be a bit on the bombastic side and the guitar quartets sound a bit on the "lite" side to me. My 2 cents.

Well I am glad some people bought Montreal Tapes with Joe Henderson and that the discussion has begun, but I disagree with the criticisms of this Cd. I do not hear that Joe's playing diminishes when Foster and Haden comes in on "Round Midnight" as Dr. J. finds. I also have no problem with Al Foster's playing on this record as JSngry does, but I am no expert on drummers. The more I play this one, the more I like it. My apologies to anyone who bought this and feels I overpraised it.

I think his best album, as someone already said, is "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" followed closely by the "Crystal Silence" album duets with Gary Burton (the studio one, not the live one) and "Tones for Joan's Bones" and then the first Return to Forever album (that's the untitled one I guess) with airto, flora, clarke, and farrell. I think these 3 hold up well today, but god he made a lot of awful ones.

OK FFA, I am not nearly as eloquent as a lot folks on this board, and you yourself gave a very nice review. I guess I am trying to support this Cd and urging others to get it because, like you, I think it is a great performance. As for my impressions, as I said in my initial post, the personnel (Charlie Haden, Al Foster) is the same as the marvellous "An Evening With Joe Henderson" that came out on Red and that is the obvious Cd to compare this to (although as you said, it brings to mind State of the Tenor too, except that's Ron Carter). One key difference from "An Evening With" is the recording quality in that Montreal has much better sound. Another point is that the tunes are a bit longer on this new one- a couple of the four tunes around twenty minutes-but not boring at all. Although it is a Charlie Haden cd, JoeHen gets most of the soloing space and so it seems like his cd to me and, as you said, these are masterful performances if you like JoeHen, including another "Round Midnight" which stands up well agains the Live in Japan and At the Lighthouse versions. But I should add there are good, lengthy solos by both Haden and Foster. What can I say - I have loved almost every Henderson Cd, except Porgy and Bess and that Big Band one. I don't find him to engage in the pet lick or rote behavior any more than any of the other greats and so that is not an issue with me- all of these great solosists sort of develop a language so to speak. Not that anyone's reading this........................................................

Scientists are reporting a strange phenonemon. Apparently, planet Joe Henderson's orbit has altered, taking it further and further away from the Organissimo Sun. A shame.

I have the Conn or Rare Groove or whatever it was called that came out in the 90's. I have seen on this Board or the BNBB people saying that the new RVG may have used a much better master. Does anyone know?

this is all great guys, but I hope somebody wants to discuss the Montreal Tapes!!!

Hey posters on this thread, It's awfully lonely on the Joe Henderson planet, isn't it?