Bluerein

BTW why don't you guys have the Mosaic?

To make people consider this you should add the older Japanese cd has all the tracks from the session and the JRvG just the 10" LP's tracks. So 2 tracks more!!!!!!

Good possible it was a digipack (one of the first series which had these) There was also a Ornette Coleman (red sover with a mask) in these series.

I rather like the (OOP) version by the Wiener Philharmoniker under Dohnanyi. The is a Decca/London CD from 1996. It also contains the Piano Quartet in G minor, op.25 which is orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg.

Just finished listning to the second disc of the London Symphony Orchestra Vol.1 & 2 CD set. Not really convinced yet. Some interesting lieces but also some cheezy ones. I'm not a Zappa fan to begin with so maybe that's the thing. Disc one grabbed me more but of course repeated listning will help as well.

Swinging Swede: exactly!! Thanks for strucuring my thoughts and putting it in propper English! And Dan: keep on looking for "mistakes" in my writing!

What I meant was these were not issued by regular labels during the day's they were recorded. But of course if you count reissues on "labels" who leased the masters as a real lable issue be my guest.

Aggie: those are not official (as in issued by a "label") recordings but private or radio tapes issued by Horace himself.

This is the Miles box I won't play ever again. All these overdubs and rubbish. Get the remastered single cd's and listen to the MUSIC not the crap from the studio.

Filemaker is also in a Windows version. Luckily I've been using it (on a Mac) since 1988 and have upgraded ever since. My collection is completely in these (like Christiern). To start something like that now would be impossible (12000+ cd's). Indeed especially handy for classical music.

If you want jazz vinyl, better go to Jazz Center in the Hague. Bertrand: I'll keep you posted on the tunes!

Lon: the 5 cd set is a cheap reissue from Somy/BMG Europe. The mini LP's look nice but are not like the Japanese ones we're accustomed to. Nothing about the remastering but since the have the bonus material from the latest cd versions I suspect these to be the latest remasterings. Very good value in Europe.

Not really a bummer! I've got tickets (of course). Maybe a good time to enjoy a bit of culture in Amsterdam.......

My guess is they have the same remasterings as in the 4000 series. That series was just finished so it's logical they've used those.

same here, thanks a lot.

Don't get the "Expanded" Tommy Flanagan Overseas DIW CD. The 3 extra tracks are so badly recorded you don't want to listen to them more than once. Especially since they are more alternates. The regular (and previously issued tracks) do sound marvelous.

but still lousy sound......Indeed a nice package but such a bad sounding tape/disc isn't going to be sounding well. Maybe Andrew and the XR remastering treatment can do some wonders here......

Thanks Andrew for you comments. Always nice to get some more inside information on these kind of things....I'll listen to the free download and let you know what I think.

Uh Huh was also released in Japan on a TOCP CD (popular marketed). We'll see the McCan as well in the future (if BN/EMI still excists).

not yet, but who knows in a very near future anything is possible.....

Riverrat: you're not quite right here. Of course you could copy the red book layer of the Rolling Stones SACD/hybrids to your computer. Also there is a digital out standard for DSD signals. I forgot the name but it's a sort of telephone socket connection. Of course only the upmarket players have this (and then not all as well).

Disky is a re-issue (repackage) label. Chewy means a real subsidary in the days next to the main label. This BN didn't have (didn't need to, imo).

Thanks for the input. But if I want only a photo book is the Over Time the better choice?

Hello all, just wondering which Milt Hinton photo book I should have. I've found 3 on various sites (none cheap by the way). Over Time, Bass Line adn new one Playing the Changes. Any help would be appreciated.

Maybe it's a drummers kind of thing....I also like the cd very much.