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The irony is that she never reproduced, so whatever her genetic traits were that made her so admirable didn't get passed on. No such thing as a free lunch...

I found that RCA 6-LP box for $5.99 (new/sealed) in a cutout bin in Albuquerque back in 1981. Those were the days! I see nobody's recommended the late-70s live date where he plays "Giant Steps", "Moment's Notice", & "Recorda Me" along with some old(er) favorites. That's long been the one that I credit with opening my ears (and mind) to just how bad a m-f Lionel Hampton really was. He doesn't sound "lost" by this more harmonically advanced material, nor does he affect "modernistic" devices that don't sound organic to hei. He just plays the shit the same way he plays everything else - inventively, effortlessly, and highly fluently. For somebody of hie generation to be able to do that over those changes is no small feat just from the standpoint of making your vocabulary fir the demands of those harmonies, which move in ways not conducive to typical "Swing Era" phrasings. It was hearing this stuff back in the day that made me realize that Lionel Hampton has always had big ears, a big spirit (demented as it sometimes got ), and, most of all, a willingness and abilty to just play music - any music - well for the sheer joy of playing it well. The closer I listened to the older stuff, the more I heard how advanced he was for his time, and the more I listened to his later stuff, the more I heard the serious chops and thought that he brought to all but the most extroverted extravaganzas. In short, in spite of all the extracurriculars, Lionel Hapton was a serious player. Hamp spent a lot of his career & energy playing the showman, and I think his reputation as a serious musician is to this day underestimated as a result. Oh well. People hear what they want to hear how they want to hear it for the reasons they want to hear it that way. But make no mistake - Lionel Hampton was a baaaaad muthaphuquer!

Well, some do...

Yeah, but you got Louberta Weatherton. I couldn't make up a name like that if I tried. Yet.

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What kind of sidemen are you looking for. Hamp's about the same no matter what, always a lively, inventive, & very skilled player, so it comes down to that, really.

Hell if I know. And I've tried it on another lo-res file (from a different source) w/no improvement. Who knows what all's going on in the 0s & 1s?

Then I must have supernatural powers of wish-fulfillment, because the difference between the lower & higher bitrate files is real... As I tried to say above (but evidently wasn't as clear as I should have been), this is NOT a matter of "retrieving information" - that is impossible. HOWEVER, you can run an algorithm designed to make a compressed file sound better to a human ear. It doesn't necessarily sound the same as the original lossless file (except for by extraordinary conincidence), but it can sound less harsh and more full. And that is what happened.

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Then I must have supernatural powers of wish-fulfillment, because the difference between the lower & higher bitrate files is real...

Have the cones gotten brittle with age? I would think that would be the only concern.

You honor somebody by releasing something against their wishes only if you do it after they're dead.

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Jim, I've wondered the same thing, because if you open an MP3 in Goldwave, it doesn't open instantaneously like a wav file does, but it will say "Processing Audio Decompression". So if its "decompressing" doesn't that mean that some audio quality is being restored? I've wondered about that myself.

Sort of. You can write code that removes harshness and makes a small file sound more pleasing to the ear, but (except for extraordinary coincidence) it isn't the same data that you would have in a lossless primary source file. Interestingly, astronomers were working on very similar problems when the data recording systems in the Hubble failed in the mid 90s. Edit - my typo rate has increased by about 100-fold over the past couple months - WTF? No, I wasn't looking for/expecting lossless sound, just an improvement, of which I got a notable one. So you're saying that if the downloaded file isn't enoded/protected in such a way that prevents it, then something like GoldWave can take a crappy sounding MP3 file and improve it simply by saving that file at a higher bit rate?

This is probably a stupid question, but are bit-rates of MP3 files fixed once you download them? Or is there some sort of algorithm to the process that allows for bits to be "restored" at some point? I ask because the other day I was toying around in GoldWave w/a podcast that had been downloaded as a 64kbps file. The music was really good, the sound not so good, and I wanted more. So out of GoldWave I saved the whole thing as a 320kbps file and damned if there wasn't a marked increase in highs and overall clarity. I'm sure that not all MP3 files are going to be as malleable as a downloaded podcast, but is this truly possible, that you can take a lower quality source file and manually make it sound better through math? Or did I just get lucky somehow?

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Regulation BAD!

I have no memory of such an issue, although I suppose it's possible that such an item came out waaaay deep into the days of the Milestone "2-fers" & I overlooked it due to the originals still being readily available.

Just got to hear the 2-CD release, & other than a version of "Sanctuary" that rapidly turns into a mindless shuffleboogie feature for Santana, I enjoyed it immensely+ . Recommended, and pretty highly too, although admittedly after only one lsiten.

None of the Ping material has been reissued.

That's what they say.

I know what you mean, but...if this is a 45 on a smallish label, the recording & the EQ-ing might have an effect on what comes out of the speakers in terms of percieved tone. Might...

I assume you mean #5 & 6: no. And I was hoping you might be able to nail the sax player, who's not credited. MG Well....it frequently sounds like Fred Jackson as Fred Jackson sounded on Face To Face. Could it be?