robert h.

I suspect the link posted for the Harper "Capra Black" is selling CDR's copied from the only known CD reissue - the Japanese CD of several yars ago on the Bomba label. I have a copy, it's not the greatest remastering job ever done, but it's serviceable, and who gives a hoot when the music is so very great. I pray every day for new Billy Harper music. Hopefully soon. I wouldn't put Capra Black at the top of the Billy Harper Greatest Hits list, though. Somalia is just killer. If Our Hearts Could Only See is right up there too, so is Soul Of An Angel. The earlier Steeplechase titles, particularly Destiny Is Yours, are excellent - the 3 volume Live In The Far East suffers from variable sound - and are CRYING out for remastering - but the performances are overwhelming. As a Billy Harper side note, it's sad that so many of his very best recordings remain unissued on CD, with no hope of resurrection - the Baystate titles like The Believer, Love On The Sudan, etc. - the MPS Trying To Make Heaven My Home...the recordings with Max Roach - Live In Tokyo, Live In Amsterdam - prayer might help, but I think it would take a miracle. Let's hope for some new BH soon.

Looking for a few OOP JRVG mini-LP - Horace Silver, Song For My Father Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil Jackie McLean, New & Old Gospel Fair price paid, thanks for any help!

Looking for a few OOP JRVG mini-LP - Horace Silver, Song For My Father Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil Jackie McLean, New & Old Gospel Fair price paid, thanks for any help!

Looking for a few OOP JRVG mini-LP - Horace Silver, Song For My Father Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil Jackie McLean, New & Old Gospel Fair price paid, thanks for any help!

Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud is IMO the better date, purely for the tunes, and the LP hangs together better as a statement. Also look for Universal Conciousness. Pharoah - the masterpiece is Jewels Of Thought. Thembi is excellent, Elevation is a killer, and Live At The east is outstanding. Tauhid is difficult, Black Unity I never liked, some of the later stuff gets cheesy and new-age-y like Love In Us All, Wisdom Through Music.

Guy Burger...DUH...where miles discovered Holland and McLaughlin is IRRELEVANT to what HOLLAND and MCLAUGHLIN had been listening to...playing with...jammin with...in the UK. Does your book tell you anything about what they were into in England? Can you do some thinking on your own that's not in your book? Sheesh, what a waste of time.

LOL! It's amusing to see people popping out of the woodwork with their egos. Bev thinks it's a major revelation that I'm putting forth my own opinion, she seems to think that's news. Of course it's my opinion, where did I state otherwise? Does that mean she shouldn't post anything here, because it's all her opinion? Ridiculous. I meade no demands, but again here we have another who feels threatened when her favorites are knocked and comes out swinging. She tells me to "play who you like, not who's important" - if she read my post, she could hardly think I am listening to who is important - in fact, it's exactly that which I am knocking - too many listeners only follow the pack - the "important" ones like Yes, Genesis, Moody Blues, ELP - and never get to the ones out of the arena mainstream - Gong, Cressida, Fruupp.... Bombast is fine, but when the bombastic payoff is all there is, it becomes hollow. So what, Yes had silly lyrics? That's in response to the guy who claimed they were great songwriters,the asshole "dude". We agree. Was Miles not influenced by the British scene? Please, let's be real here. He imported two key players from that scene, McLaughlin and Holland! What do you think they had been listening to? Rick Wakeman?!!

Jazzdog, guys like "alicefron" who think they are cool calling people "dude" and get so threatened they resort to the impotent bullying of calling someone "asshole" (hey, it takes real guts to call someone asshole on an internet board, huh?) as just so stuck on their narrow, old fashioned corporate music they get very threatened when someone challenges their limited brain-bandwidth. I'm with you. I listen to Genesis occassionally (the pre-Duke stuff), I think the YES ALBUM is the peak of that band (let's face it, the lyrics from that point on get pretty juvenile, the music bombastic - but Alice likes juvenile) and even ELP (the first is still the best). I doubt people like Guy have ever heard Nucleus or Soft Machine. If he looked at the dates, he would understand. I suspect that even McLaughlin cringes at Mahavishnu now. I could hardly confuse what Yes and ELP are doing today with anything, I haven't bothered to listen to any. Too much great stuff to deal with. As always, it's only the most closed-minded and stuck in the past old folks who have a problem with someone challenging the status quo and trying to open up their minds.

It continues to amaze me how American audiences have such limited, conservatives tastes. This discussion, centering around bands like Yes, Genesis and a few others, is a case in point. Yes, Genesis, ELP, the Moody Blues - those bands are AOR-prog, the Celine Dion's of prog rock, bands as subtle as a sledgehammer, formulaic and always headed to the grand bombastic gesture so loved by American audiences. In fairness, the Hackett-era Genesis were not that bad, and I agree with those who point out that Hackett absolutely defined Genesis - not Gabriel. Limiting one's view of prog to those bands is not only wrongly defining what prog is, it misses the true innovators of prog and the essence of what prog was, and is - an underground British phenomena that still thrives today. In England, concerts today by Yes and the other "big" names are virtually ignored by local audiences, they are tourist attractions, akin to the long running theatre such as Lion King and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Here's what prog is really about, the bands who define it: Caravan, Camel, Egg, Cressida, Fruupp, Khan, T-2, Fantasy, Stackridge, Indian Summer, Van Der Graaf Generator, Family, Jonesy... There's a subtle British charm, a whimsy, a sense of humor, an experimentaism, a lightness of touch - that all characterize true prog. Who would sing about a golf girl dressed in PVC except Caravan? Who had a three-mellotron front line attack other than Spring? Who defined living on the outside fringes - and directly demonstrates the link between prog and punk - other than Van Der Graaf? Prog is still alive today, witness the outstanding new Camel CD (while dinosaurs like Yes are nothing but an oldies act), the new Soft Works CD, Allan Holdsworth's new live trio CD. Prog melded with jazz too - while many North Americans credit the bombastic, and shallow, bands like Mahavishnu and RTF with jazz rock, it was bands like Soft Machine, Nucleus, Keith Tippett, and others who people like Miles were clearly listening to - and influenced by and on. On the vocal side, the David Clayton Thomas version of BS&T comes across like a Vegas act alongside their contemporary British brass=rock band If - who truly swung and rocked at the same time and are simply loads of fun. Please, don't keep yourselves stuck on rewind. The true prog is out there and waiting for you to discover it.

The new JRVG is THE definitive version, the detail, tonality, and depth are totally riveting. The TOCJ is pale by comparison. All the color and impact are there on the RVG. The TOCJ is black & white.

100% right. Audiophiles tend to be VERY conservative in their music. And to have very narrow range to their tastes. Witness how often the same stuff gets recycled over and over. And none very adventurous.

Greg Maltz will buy it. It's slim pickings for the desperate, particularly if they are engaged in a one-man boycott of CD. The Spandau Ballet isn't the hot news for Greg, though. That's the upcoming SACD of Shania Twain's Up. Tge ramp up is continuing!

Yes, I got Newk's Time. It's generally outstanding, the only somewhat - slightly- maybe weaker spot is Surrey With the Fringe, a drum/tenor duet, where I felt there was a more distant feel to the tenor that made this track sound like it was recorded at another session. This has always been the case with this track, so I guess that's just what the tape is giving. The RVG shows just how much this is a Philly Joe record as well as Rollins, the cymbals are very impressive, Rollins bottom end is huge and his tone is wonderful. A very nice upgrade, with the one track only being a probably unavoidable letdown.

Outstanding. I really haven't heard a JRVG that I didn't love, although A Night In Tunisia has been rightfully panned for poor sound quality. Judgement easily trounces the previous domestic issue. I've been listening over and over to Mode For Joe, which absolutlely stomps all over the TOCJ. A really huge surprise both musically and sonically is Donald Byrd's two volumes of At The Blue Note Cafe, very hot soulful tunes, great sound, reminds me of how great a bari player Pepper Adams was. His tone on the JRVG is reproduced fantastically. I picked up seven titles in this first batch of the new JRVG series, overall, I think these are the best work RVG has done so far, it seems he has perfected his technique, and that's good news, because this final series feature some of the very best titles BN ever did.

Well Greg, I know the subtelties of inductive vs. reactive loads will be lost on you, you will defend your misconceptions to the end. But it still doesn't work, I know - I owned a pair of Nautilus for awhile, not only couldn't I drive them properly, I couldn't stand the bright hard tweeter - and the tone was average at best. Thankfully they are long gone No, I don't need SACD - a marginal improvement for mid-fi systems, but for people living on the bleeding edge - a waste of time. I had a turntable when you were still dancing in your bedroom to the Partridge Family, I guess since you've had a turntable for about a year now you feel part of some "club" that gives you some unfathomable superiority? Please behave here, Greg, and you won't alienate people everywhere else you've gone, as Jazz Inmate or whatever. It's about music here, not your personal agenda. Boasting that you have the 'second-best system here' isn't in that book on "How To Make Friends And Influence People" that you keep receiving anonymously in your mailbox.

Ah - Greg-boy - we know you're not "new", most people know the tone of your posts from elsewhere all too well. As to your 'system', even B&W will tell you that you are running the Nautilus far too underpowered and cannot possible get an even response, your sound is horribly undernourished and unbalanced. Sorry for the news flash, argue all you want, but you can't change the laws of nature or get a B&W to sound anywhere near right with less than 50wpc - and you really need 100 to get it right. And before you start thumping your chest about "second best system here", get your ego under control. You can't come anywhere close to EITHER of mine, and I have FAR from the best.