Steve Gray

Available again J.U.N.K. However, given that this is on Hallmark, it probably does sound like junk.

For anyone toying with the idea of buying this ... I have the FiveFour release of Chappaqua now. The sound is fine, the notes state that it was licensed from Sony. Clocks in at 79.57, so a tight squeeze. It's good to hear it again, I haven't played LPs for many years.

FiveFour are part of Cherry Red records. Here are other albums they have released FiveFour Cherry Red also recently produced this Charles Lloyd reissue that didn't get talked about here as far as I know Charles Lloyd

Available again next week ... UK Amazon

The Monk sleeve was first by a long way but I am not too sure they are all that similar anyway. It has been pointed out before on this board that the Dylan sleeve was designed by Reid Miles.

Jay Electronica & Kate Goldsmith

What, this one? Disco 3000 2CD set

As far as I know Ace never released Sun recordings. U.K. label Charly issued lots of Sun material, but had to withdraw their releases because they turned out not to be legit. Rhino in the United States and Bear Family in Germany released CDs and boxed sets with Sun material that were legit. Looking at their website, Charly are still issuing Sun material. I have no idea whether they are legit or not. On the other hand, Charly used to issue Chess material but had to stop because of legal issues.

Canon (and no doubt others) have scanners which come with an attachment that holds negative strips. The one I have separates out the individual photographs on the strip and generates multiple image files, which greatly reduces the amount of effort involved. I am not sure they all do that, some might produce one image that you then have to split off yourself into the individual pictures.

New JSP Box available soon. Looking forward to this. I knew there were some sessions not currently available in the JSP sets (e.g. the Larry Adler session) but I had no idea there was this much Amazon Link

Instead of a Logitech Squeezebox, how about a Logitech Squeezebox Radio. It's also an alarm clock, acts like a normal bedside radio but music is acquired via the net, not AM/FM Squeezebox Radio

As a further disincentive to buy this, I am fairly certain that this is missing a track each from 'When Farmer Met Gryce' and 'Nica's Tempo'

Seems as if it was posted on the Blue Note site on May 26th. Just goes to show how seldom members of this board feel a need to visit the Blue Note website nowadays. RIP Ruth

Indeed. Especially given the existence of this Hawkins compilation "selected by Sonny Rollins". First track - Picasso Ultimate

This amazon review implies that the new PD set does provide better sound quality on "Presents" Amazon Review

It could be because of what we have been discussing, that the current CD issue of "Mingus Presents Mingus" is in very poor quality sound. Try to get hold of the "Mingus" CD which contains "Stormy Weather" from the same session but in much better quality sound. Sorry, I now see you have "Candid Dolphy" which also contains "Stormy Weather"

Just to be clear here, it is only "Mingus Presents Mingus" that has poor quality sound.

Has anyone actually bought or heard this set yet? It still isn't clear to me whether or not this uses the superior mono tapes of the quartet session. I was just listening to my playlist of the complete quartet session and 'Stormy Weather' is so superior in sound that I feel I need the rest of the session at the same quality, even if it is not in stereo. (Incidentally, 'Stormy Weather' is in stereo so there must be a story as to why the rest of the session is only available in such wretched stereo quality) I currently own the standard Candid CDs of these sessions.

My Chess R&B Discography by Les Fancourt gives :-- Bo - Vocal/Guitar The Duchess - Guitar Jesse James Johnson - bass Billy Downing or Edell Robertson - drums Jerome - Maraccas

This should be the first entry in the new thread - "Album Covers showing men with big hats"

RIP Ray Long time Collets habitue here from about 1965. I found Ray a little aloof but I was very young then and I guess to him I was a mere whippersnapper. I used to love the English local newspaper cuttings they had on the wall, usually about small-time law breakers, who just happened to have names like Lee Morgan.

BN T-Shirts at UNIQLO I regularly shop at Uniqlo and I know from personal experience that any normal person requires XL. Can't find any of the ones I might want here in that size.

Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening.

I think of Randy in terms of 'Randy's Records In Gallatin Tennessee' I still have a few of his mail order catalogues from the mid 60s. Bought a lot of STAX singles that way. RIP Randy Wood.

I found the sound got better (less harsh) around disk 5. Hope you will find the same thing. I just played disc 5 and the harshness was still there. I'm now listening to track 6 on disc 6 and so far the sound seems a bit better on this disc. [edit] The sound on disc 6 is indeed better than on the previous 5. Great music! I was just reading the liner notes and I noticed that it states that the session with 'Love is like a Cigarette' which is at beginning of Disk 6 was the last one recorded on wax blanks. From the next session on, acetate blanks were used.