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Hey, sorry, I did (or thought) I replied!! Got both. No obis, but all inserts.

Kulu Se Mama sold, Africa Brass on hold.

On the same label, a new McCoy Tyner recording will be coming this year, apparently a trio date. Yay!!!

Selling the following John Coltrane titles, Japanese mini-LP 24 bit remasters, all mint: Africa/Brass Crescent Quartet Plays Kulu Se Mama Expression $10 each plus shipping (should be about $3.50), paypal preferred. Thanks!

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Tapscott now spoken for, as well as Willis Bar Wars and the Bill Barron - thanks!

Housecleaning time to create some space on the shelves! Lockjaw Davis Cookbook V.2 French 24 bit remaster, super sounding $12 Phil Ranelin The Time Is Now Tribe reissue, nice stuff $10 Willis Jackson Bar Wars original Muse $10 Houston Person The Talk Of The Town original Muse $10 Houston Person The Party original Muse $10 Houston Person & Teddy Edwards Horn To Horn hot session, original Muse $11 Houston Person Basics original Muse $10 James Spaulding Songs Of Courage original Muse $10 Bill Barron The Next Plateau unsung great, original Muse $10 Bennie Wallace Disorder At The Border new release Coleman Hawkins tribute $10 Duke Ellington Soul Call Verve digipak $10 Eddie Harris Steps Up Steeplechase $10 David Murray Big Band Now Is Another Time $9 JAPANESE IMPORTS: Horace Tapscott In New York 2006 remaster trio with Art Davis & Art Taylor $15 Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison A Message From the Tribe rare Tribe reissue $16 Shipping is at cost, usually $4 for 1 or 2. Paypal preferred - thanks!

I've had the 24 bit Japanese Outback remaster for some years now, it is superb.

I don't see what the problem is. Mosaic Contemporary is a great idea! There's lots of stuff from the 70's not yet resissued, and unjustly ignored. Obviously, more of the CTI catalog is on tap. Good King Bad is pretty good, so is Beyond The Blue Horizon. Super Blue is a great date, unjustly overlooked. Hubert Laws Afro-Classic may be dated now, but has it's charms. Hope they do some of the CTI Joe Farrell dates - Outback is the equal of many of the perennial warhorses, and there's many others. Ron Carter's Spanish Blue deserves another spin, as do some others. Maybe they will hit on the unreleased gems from the Milestone catalog - some of the mid 70's Rollins, Tyner, and other unreleased stuff. Gotta be better than the limp "Keepnews" series. Hope they hit some Atlantic also - there's a great Yusef Lateef live date (Keystone) not yet reissued. And plenty of others - there were a bunch of Billy Harper dates in the 70's yet to be reissued. Hope they do well and keep them coming!

Some people are going to be critical no matter what, others don't have equipment good enough to bother. Personally, while I don't find the Prestige RVG's as huge a revelation as the RVG Blue Notes, they are still coming out gnerally as the best representation for most titles. The Saxophone Colossus is not an upgrade over the XRCD, nor does it pale in comparison. The Burrel/Coltrane blows away the XRCD. The Lush Life is less bloated and artificially warm than the DCC and has far greater depth and timbral diversity. And so on. The fact that the Earland, Lateef, McDuff and quite a few others were released at all is cause for big celebration. At this point in the domestic BN RVG series they were still sticking to rehashing warhorses for the boomer market. All in all - keep them coming. Looking forward to the Roland Kirk and Tadd Dameron in May, maybe the Booker Ervin.

Looking for the latest Miles Davis "On The Corner" Japanese mini-lp SICP-1227 if anyone has one for sale or knows a source - thanks!

With about 9 hours to go, it stands at $1,004.99... Now up to $1,259.99 with less than 4 hours to go... That's about $420 a CD... Ouch... It's likely shill bidding falsely pumping the price up. Ebay's new policies favor shill bidding.

Offering the following mini-lp Japanese CD's: STAN GETZ "In Europe" new , sealed with obi $14 STEVE LACY "The Straight Horn Of Steve Lacy" mint, no sales strip $14 MILES DAVIS "ESP" DSD Mastersound mint, no sales strip $12 MILES DAVIS "Miles Ahead" DSD Mastersound with 4 bonus tracks, mint with no obi sales strip $12 WEATHER REPORT "Black Market" SBM Mastersound, mint with no sales strip $14 SOLD! WEATHER REPORT "8:30" SBM Mastersound, mint with no sales strip double CD $21 SOLD! ALSO offering a nice 24k gold CD Count Basie "Basie Jam" tube remaster by Bernie Grundman, mint, $20 Shipping is generally $4 to $5 nicely packed. Thanks!

Yes I recommend this 2nd Caravan album too. However, and back to the original topic.... I bought the remastered Softs Third album and although it is sonically different to previous CD releases, and also has better packaging and of course the live bonus tracks at the Royal Albert Hall, I can't help wondering just how the original Third album was recorded. The sound, even remastered from the original tapes is so poor - relatively speaking to today's recordings - that it sounds like it could have been recorded on a cassette player although it obviously wasn't. What I really want to know is why. Is it that the original master tape has been allowed to degrade to a point of no return? I'm sure other material from that time period from the CBS / Columbia vaults wasn't ever allowed to degenerate like that, eg Dylan. Maybe it's because Soft Machine was a hybrid jazz-rock group and unclassifiable it went into the miscellaneous vaults. Judging by the length of time it has taken for Third to be remastered (35 years) this might be the case. I would be very interested to learn if any of the other Softs remastered CDs are an improvement. I know I was disappointed when I purchased the CD of Softs Six several years ago. Very poor sound. I hope that was at least has been improved as it made Jazz album of the year in the Melody Maker about 30-odd years ago. It has been known for many years that the master tapes to Third are lost, only poor later generation copies are around - and the recording was pretty crappy to start with. As to the others, I haven't heard, but the Japanese DSD versions from last year were excellent, so I doubt these could be worse.

Despite sharing reservations over he necessity of a "Keepnews Collection", I have to agree that the Henderson is WAY overdue!! The problem is that the main domestic audience still buyng CD's is very conservative and doesn't venture too far beyond the old warhorses, generally dismissing anything after the late 60's. Proble with that is there are tons of GREAT sessions from that period still not properly reissued. McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Pharoah Sanders, many others did their best work during that period. So if more of that stuff comes out I guess the series will be justified.

Damn ! No doubt that will also affect the Vancouver trio gig. Here's wishing Andrew the very best. Unfortunately Andrew Hill has been suffering from terminal lung cancer for some time and my thoughts are with him.

Yes, sure, YOU are the expert! The timings on every website - every discography - in the liner notes - all wrong, according to you! Thanks you Mr. Expert!!! Are you sure that's EXACTLY 2 seconds? Could it be 2.4? or 1.8? Can we really have a discussion of this!!! Like I said...WHO CARES??? And why do you feel so threatened that you need to do some name-calling?? Rock on.

Uuuhhh...no, I don't think I will !! The track on the new Japanese issue truncates at 3:27 - It is listed on AMG as 3:58...as well as on the box set and online discographies. It's listed on the original LP (and times out) a bit less likely due to some dead air. It's more than 2 seconds, but anyways, who cares?? IT'S A MASTERING ERROR AND I AM WARNING PEOPLE AWAY FROM IT!! OK - got it? ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HEAR A CLIPPED ENDING - buy it. THOSE WHO DON"T LIKE CLIPPED ENDINGS - avoid. Simple? Hmmmmm...now that I think of it - it might actually be 19.5 seconds...or was it a flat 19...or 20.25???

Actually, since they are priced at 1000 yen, you can buy them direct from Hiroshi or other Japanese retailers for under $10 and get shipping often cheaper than US domestic to boot.

No Michael, it's not thread crapping, that is when a rather gross hijacking of a thread for an unrelated agenda occurs. I don't find RVG's truncate the highs, quite the contrary, I find they are incredibly open on top. Some stereos can't handle that, though. SACD is a dead format. It was dead from the start pretty much, but now is really only a minor format that will see some classical titles and the odd audiophile disc released, nothing of a more general nature. Someone below mentions that, like the mastering personality's site, this site could be considered a particular band's 'vanity site'. Very true, however, that is where the similarities end, as this board is very lightly moderated and not even slightly censored to protect or promote the host personality, and there is little of the group think and cultish aspects of that site. Anyone care to start a Beatles Remastering thread?

Agree! Life's too short to waste time obsessing over (meaningless) A-B comparisons of multiple masterings of a title. Sure, audio mags tend to be cheerleaders and not terribly critical. But so-called audiophile websites tend to be massive group think follower exercises and not any more reliable - witness the tossing around casually of terms like "compression" and some people's obsession with older issues of titles (as advocated by some on a particular engineer's vanity site). Enjoy the music, for heaven's sake. The RVG's on Prestige are bloody great. On a really good system - and yes, I'm afraid I do have such - the depth, detail and realism are simply astonishing. Rudy's still one hell of a lot better than any armchair critics on an internet chat site.

Actually, they are for the most part a very big sonic upgrade. I was very surprised by this. Recommended to all except those in sonic degrade mode stuck in the "early issues are better" myth. BUT...generally the pre-1960 stuff - I've tried Pyramid, Fontessa and a few others - doesn't really offer much improvement on the earlier K2 issue. AND...the Bags & Trane issue has a terrible mastering error truncating the tune Stairway To The Stars by about half a minute - so avoid that one!

I have to admit, I find the responses on the link provided to be pretty laughable, and typical of the internet. Here's a few winners: "I am at a loss as to how to even contact them" You have to try email or telephone, both easily found. Telepathy and wishful thoughts will not work. "I th,ink they have their people put false positive feedback on amazon.com" That would be pretty expensive as you have to order something to do that - for which Caiman get charged by Amazon. Besides, if they are doing that, they could obviously do it much better. "once they have "shipped" they can/will no longer cancel an order." Wow. That person's has a firm grasp on the obvious. "I have never felt so completely raped in a transaction." Lynda, it's a CD girl! Get a life!! For the record, Caiman - like dozens of other sellers on Amazon and Ebay - is a virtual store, it has zero stock. That really means absolutely nothing, it's very common today. What they DO have is a fairly efficient network of suppliers whose inventory is linked together and it is that inventory that is shown online. If the supplier's inventory isn't up to date - Caiman is not either. It doesn't take a genius to figure that if there is a virtual seller with thousands of titles there is no physical location. There's nothing wrong with dropshipping. There's nothing wrong with not keeping stock yourself. What there is often an issue with is the accuracy of the stock listing and the occasions where stock is listed without ANY supplier showing stock - and also, if the item is rare or OOP and a supplier's stock shows 1 copy, it is likely that is an error. Sure, Caiman could be a hell of a lot better and should be. But it shouldn't be too hard reading through the feedback to figure out how Caiman operates and how to use it, everything one needs to know plainly stated. 1. Caiman is outstanding and dirt cheap for commonly available, in print items. They get them easily and ship reasonably quickly (within a week usually). 2. In print and commonly available imports, particularly U.K and even Japanese, are usually easily obtainable within a week or so. If they can't get it, it may very well have gone OOP recently - which is typical of Japan. 3. If it's a rare OOP import, particularly Japanese, there's a good chance they will not be able to get it. a few easy steps to take here: - send them an email and ASK first!! If you don't get a reply - don't order. - if you simply are so hot to order, if it still hasn't been sent after a week or 10 days, cancel it. It should be noted that Caiman provide a very good online tracker that tells you if it has shipped. So there's no magic or science here - you can easily check. Second, Caiman will automatically refund cancelled orders through Amazon or Paypal if the item hasn't shipped. As noted earlier, nothing "sinister" here, and I'm far from a Caiman apologist - I've cancelled my fair share of orders because they had no stock, and I've received tons more at great prices. If the buyer exercises a minor degree of common sense and caution many successful transactions can be had, and although it's disappointing to not receive a CD, plenty of people need to adjust their perspective - it's a CD, for god's sake, not the end of the bloody world. Life WILL go on.

EVERYTHING is the 80's was less than spectacular! But generally, I agree, although the new Tolliver disproves that. BILLY HARPER - now there's a guy who still has lots of great music left in him. We need more Billy Harper!!

How much better is the Japanese remaster? Do you have the LP to comapre it to? I ask because the American CD is "ok", but David Lee's cymbals & George Cables' Rhodes on "Poinciana" sound "clean", but dull and lifeless. I still go back to the LP for that album, simply because those two sounds have a "life" there like few things on record, ever. Lee's cymbals in particular still give me the goosebumbs. The Japanese K2 is tons better. Next Album is a great record, unjustly neglected.