Teasing the Korean

The local B&M store has a couple of these Colubmia "Original Album Classics" for great prices. All stuff I have on LP, but it's a cheap way to get the CD versions. They are sealed. Does anyone know if these sets contain the bonus tracks that appear on the individual titles, or do these simply have the LP content?

So I take it this session is in stereo on both boxes? I've had the mono LP for ages and was really disappointed when I got the stereo CD; the bass is buried.

So it sounds like, if I want alternate takes, I should get the "complete" set, but if I want to recreate the album experience, I should get the "Album" set. Trouble is, I want both, but will probably buy only one or the other... Thanks for the replies!

There appear to be two Monk box sets. The Riverside Albums set has 16 discs and no bonus tracks. The Complete is on 15 discs. Can anyone answer these questions: 1 - Does the Complete include alternate takes? 2 - Does either set retain the original album track lineups and artwork? 3 - Is the mastering any better or worse on either? Thanks in advance.

Look behind things and under stuff.

Happy birthday! What a career!

At these prices, hell yes! It's getting close to what it was like for buying vinyl in the late 80s/early 90s.

Oy vey! My wife just played a whole set of groovy 70s orgasm instrumentals on her radio show!

It's a good show. Obviously for a more generalist audience, but Amy asked the right questions that would interest both aficionados and casual listeners. On a related note, did anyone see the 50th anniversary Uhuru Afrika concert in New York a couple of years ago? I love that album...

It's the February 20, 2012 show: http://www.democracynow.org/

talking about when he was MUCH younger! There's an early Mercury album cover where he looks like Satan. It's has a dark-red background and he has this evil grin.

Budget labels from virtually all decades had imperfections. If you have any Crown albums, there are always little bubbles in the vinyl. In my experience, vinyl starts to get bad in the early 70s with certain labels, not with others. from the mid to late 70s, it was almost always pretty bad. MCA and Capitol were the worst. Despite some of the negative claims about Dynaflex here and elsewhere, to me they were never as bad as Capitol and MCA. I have a Dynaflex "Mr. Lucky" that sounds amazing - it is my go-to copy of that album. It seems to me that most of the mid- to late-70s jazz twofers on labels such as Milestone and Prestige were decent. Verve pressings from that period are another story though. By the early 80s, pressings in general seemed to get better and remained so until CDs took over. Vinyl from the revival era is dicey, in my experience.

And those names often show up for contractual reasons, such as the ABC Paramount Kenyon Hopkins albums that were released under The Creed Taylor Orchestra, because Kenyon Hopkins was contracted to Capitol.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/showbiz/soul-train-founder/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Not to change the subject of the thread, but I have bolded and italicized the key word in this sentence. This version of the story was peddled by a particular musician with an axe to grind. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

I bought a whole bunch of Gary Foster and Clare Fischer albums on whatever the hell that small label is for a buck a throw several years back. I still haven't made my way through all of them.

Love his woodwind arrangements on Cal Tjader's "Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brasil" and Shearling's Bossa Nova LP. Also, I love his Braziian and Latin LPs for World Pacific. I generally check out when he starts looking like Carl Wilson, not that there is anything wrong with looking like Carl Wilson. RIP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16756139

Here's a pic, one year later...

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica at Miles Cafe, May 2011.