Brad

The author has come under fire for sexual assault allegations and the publisher has stopped shipping and promoting his book.

I caught the last couple of minutes of his appearance. He doesn’t look good.

He’s being honored tonight at the NEA Jazz Masters, together with Henry Threadgill, Terri Lynne Carrington and Albert Tootie Heath.

I would add that they have also licensed Blue Note to Music Matters Jazz and Analogue Productions (although I don’t know if those licenses have ceased and these companies are now just selling remaining inventory) so perhaps Universal doesn’t want another player in the mix.

From speaking to Scott it seems they made a mistake. It should have said 1963-1966 but they don’t plan to correct it. My guess is that’s the slick (if that’s the correct term) have already been printed.

Thanks. I talked to my dealer today and he said that, considering that my CD player was 20 years old, he said it was probably time for a new one and wouldn’t be surprised if it quit soon. He suggested either a DAC or a new player, either the CDS50 or the Rotel 1572.

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Thanks Lon. I will look into the DAC. I’ve taken a look online and understand a little more about how an external DAC can improve the DAC that’s in the CD player.

I have a HDCD Rotel player. Will upgrading to a SACD player make any incremental difference for CDs that are non-SACD. I have an integrated amp, Arcam A75, if that makes any difference.

You hope so.

When I purchased my system (about 20 years ago; time flies), Lon was very helpful in helping me put it together with a dealer (who I still use).

It was from 2017 at the Jazz Standard. The two top songs for me are Too Damn Hot and Pilgrimage, with Alicia Olatuja.

The way it works is that to sell you have to give eBay your bank account info. Once you get paid, eBay will deposit the funds in your bank account. This usually takes place two or three days after you get paid.

The size is the problem unless they can think of a way to chop it down.

Yes, the BN leader sessions from the 60s and there’s a lot of them. Maybe the problem for Mosaic is that it would be a big box and they’re worried whether it would be too expensive. Conceptually, it’s not much different than the Henderson box, just more of it. What about a Blakey box from the 50s. Wouldn’t that be popular?

I’d be surprised if we don’t see a Morgan 60s set in the next year or so.

For sellers, eBay went to their own system but for buyers it’s still PayPal. I have no idea how this works. They’ve been doing a phased introduction so maybe PayPal will be completely dropped in time. I haven’t see any extra fees. It’s just how a seller gets paid that has changed.

Back in January I asked Scott about vinyl and this was his response: “As for vinyl, we do have a passionate number of LP buyers but not enough to warrant release. We tried with our 3000 series and not enough sold. We have to be careful these days with what we issue!”

Agreed, since the set isn’t even out

There seem to be quite a few comments already. I don’t know if this is the norm.

I now have hearing aids and they make a significant difference. Good to hear about the AP SACD. I lost out on Ike’s Blue and Sentimental on eBay but noticed AP had a SACD.