Steve Gray

I did use Tidal but have switched to Amazon HD. I think the user interface of Tidal is slightly better but as a Prime user, amazon is cheaper and I fell the sound quality is very good. The only real problem I have with these services (and especially Amazon) is the number of public domain issues. Search for any jazz album recorded before 1962 and you will find dozens of PD versions and it can be difficult to pick out a genuine release.

Elvin Jones as well https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ginger-baker-elvin-jones/

The sonata performances are on the decca box linked above. I have the Brilliant issue and think it is wonderful. Another good set is Annie Fischer on Hungaraton. Don't particularly like Kovacevich in this repertoire. Kempff mono set is wonderful too.

Here is a relevant thread from 2005 on the previous CD issues. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/22777-tubby-hayes-reissues-on-fontana/

Mastered for MQA! Ugh! However it appears they have now found the master tapes which is good news. I believe some previous issues were needle drops. (not sure which ones off hand, perhaps Mexican Green)

No, they are just 10 or 20 years younger than the ones voting for the 70s

Are they WAV files by any chance?

Album artwork can be stored in various places. Personally I attach it to the music files but it can also be stored in the 'Album Artwork' directory. I think it goes there if you buy from iTunes or ask iTunes to find artwork. I don't use this feature so I am not completely sure. If your iTunes directory was empty then so would have been the Album Artwork directory so if you only copied over the .itl or .xml file you would indeed lose artwork. For what it's worth I upgraded to Mojave with zero problems, in iTunes or anything else.

That's interesting about the artwork. I would have thought you might have GAINED about 5%. They recently introduced a bug where if your artwork was not perfectly square it would not display. That bug is fixed in the iTunes in Mojave though. Are you sure you don't have an iTunes update waiting for you somewhere?

I have a copy of that Dolphy jam on CD somewhere, I will have to try to find it. IIRC it is recorded abysmally I saw that Coltrane/Gillespie tour in Walthamstow, London.

I have only just seen this thread. I was at the LSE gig. I was at UCL at the time and George Foster was running the Jazz Club there. My feelings pretty much match George's. A friend of mine, also at the LSE gig, found himself in a lift with some of the band including Beaver Harris. When the lift went up, Beaver made a comment something like "Rocket to the Moon..."

RIP. I feel Just A Little Overcome

Ignoring British Trad group LPs .... Lester Young - Pres and Teddy. The English version, which was different from the US version and had one track from Jazz Giants 56 for some reason. Bought in November 1961, I was 14.

I am only referring to the ones linked to in the first post of this thread and the Doug Watkins.

Maybe something to do with RVG losing his hearing as he got older.

They are "Leader" discographies I believe.

I would love to hear your views on the alternative take of "Lady Be Good'. How does it compare to the issued one, which to my mind is one of the very greatest of all jazz solos.

Thanks for translating that for me. I can't find anything in Volume 1 or 2 to explain their philosophy of what to include. I wasn't expecting them to include every broadcast/live recording in the later years but I assumed the early recordings would all be there. I was taken in by the title "The Complete Louis Armstrong".

RIP Allen I was going to see him on Sunday in London

I have been buying these as they have been issued. I have only just realised that some early tracks are missing. There are quite a few missing on Box 2. e.g. Broken Busted Blues by Clara Smith There appears to be some discussion about this on the Fremeaux website but of course it is in French and I don't understand the point they are making. I tried google translate but It didn't really help http://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=816&Itemid=13 Does anyone know why these tracks are missing.

In my opinion that is very harsh on Someday My Prince Will Come.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31061037 OOPS: Just noticed this is already being discussed in the Radio section

My route into Jazz was initially my father's Humphrey Lyttelton records, quickly followed by Acker and Chris Barber in about 1960. RIP Acker.

Oops, I missed that whole discussion. (Previous post now deleted.) I don't blame you, it has a very unhelpful title.

See this thread