Kevin Bresnahan

Not that it matters a whole lot, but where is it written that Gearbox is paying the artists for these recordings? I believe that this recording is technically in the public domain in the EU, so there is no reason that Gearbox would have to contact the estate or make any payments. I'd be pleased to find out that they do.

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars' "Modern Jazz a la Lighthouse" (LAJI-01) looks like this: Here's a tiny picture of the cover to Howard Rumsey's "West Coast Rarities": And here is the backer:

Regarding Tyrone Washington's "Natural Essence" - have you sampled the music before paying big money for the CD? I've owned it twice and dumped it twice. I just don't find it very good.

Did you ever get this CD or your money back?

Because Puccini died in 1924, Belden believed that Turandot was out of copyright. Unfortunately for Belden and Blue Note Japan, it was completed by Franco Alfono, who died in 1954, so it is still under copyright until 2024. The Puccini estate did not give Belden permission to issue his Jazz version of Turandot, so until 2024, it will remain out of print.

I was told that they didn't sell well at all. I got the impression from talking to Cuscuna that they were historically poor sellers. In the end, I doubt that he was given any "atta boys" for reissuing these titles. Personally, I think they got caught up in that pressing plant theft where tons of certain titles showed up in all the stores with saw cuts. I remember when they were issued, there were more copies on store shelves with saw cuts than ones without saw cuts. It's hard to get good sales on a new CD title when the market is flooded with cheap saw-cut promos.

While I am not a fan of this saw solo, the version on the US CD with it edited out sounds stupid without it. If they wanted to edit it out, just cut the whole section.

Venus Records has also issued some titles as CD-Rs. I was browsing a used CD bin one day and saw a few cheap Venus CDs. I pulled them out and found out why they were so cheap - they were all CD-Rs.

There was a big problem at a CD pressing plant. I believe that the pressing plant closed and they threw out the CD stampers, making it expensive for Mosaic to re-press certain titles as they would have to re-cut CD masters at another plant. I know that the Stuff Smith set got caught up in this but I don't about any other titles.

Yes, that's true - but this still has to have given a juror "reasonable doubt" that the "she said" part of this trial was believable. I could never sit on a jury for one of these trials. As a father of 2 daughters, I hate to think of a man taking advantage of them like this - I want to throw him jail. On the other hand, as a man who has seen a woman lie about an encounter simply to get a man arrested, I hate to think of a woman taking advantage of anyone like this - and I'd want to see her thrown in jail. Then there's that reasonable doubt thing... again, it's tough to try a "He said, she said". There's usually little to no physical evidence, which is usually necessary to convict. It all comes down to who is more believable. You know, it doesn't matter what the denizens of this forum think. It's done. He's guilty in court.

Dan - don't interpret this as a defense - but Cosby never acknowledged using quaaludes to drug women prior to sexual encounters without their consent. The media has made it out to be that way, but if you read the actual statements, he often stated that the women consented. These "he said, she said" trials are tough to try in court. I personally think he did rape these women but I did not hear any testimony at this trial, with this woman, that would remove my "reasonable doubt", especially after hearing the testimony that she told a friend she could sue him for big money by lying.

"In a criminal case this evidence is admissible only if the probative value of the evidence outweighs its potential for unfair prejudice." And the judge allowing this testimony into evidence likely gives Cosby a better chance for his appeal. I thought it was a strange move by the prosecution. It's almost like they set themselves up for a "Well, we tried" defense if the verdict gets thrown out during appeal. My guess is they thought it was the only way to get a guilty this time.

According to the news reports coming from the trial, several defense witnesses, one of whom successfully got the last trial to end in a mistrial, were prevented from taking the stand this time. Conversely, other accusers were allowed to take the stand this time - something I thought was a big no-no in the US justice system.

They have the rare Hank Mobley Quartet date here: https://www.amazon.com/Hank-Mobley-Quartet/dp/B00W6IQ5GW/ref=sr_1_25?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1525283625&sr=1-25&keywords=CM+BLUE+NOTE&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011 It's missing the 2 alternate takes found on both US CD issues (Mosaic box & BN CD). Why? Wait - Donald Byrd's "Byrd In Flight" is missing 3 additional tracks found on the CD release. Why are they doing this?

Thanks David - my CDs arrived yesterday. Now I've got to find the time to listen to them all.

Yes - my point exactly. Ford demonstrated that they had no intention of working toward 54.4 MPG. There was no way Ecoboost was going to get them there. Smaller vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles are what they needed to do. Ford has improved their fleet average quite a bit in the past decade, but they wanted to be allowed to sell trucks, bigger trucks and huge trucks because they are easier to sell, have bigger margins and require no engineering skills to make. Screw the economy. Screw the environment. Screw our reliance on oil. They just want to make money. FWIW, most car companies are no different. Toyota sells a lot of trucks so that even though their product line is filled with vehicles that get over 35 MPG, to as high as 54 MPG, their fleet average is only 25.1, a little over Ford's 24.83. So Toyota is happy too. Who knows - maybe Toyota will make this announcement next? Look, I get that the CAFE MPG standards were going to be tough to meet. But it seems like many car companies, Ford in particular, had no intention of even trying. They've been crying "Woe is me" since the day these standards were announced. At the same time, Volvo announced that their entire line will be electric or hybrid electric by 2020, including their SUVs. Go Volvo. They get it. I'd like to add something here too... During the last surge in gas prices, I lost count of the times I had people come up to me as I filled up my Toyota Prius and ask me how I liked my car and how many miles per gallon it got. Again, if gas prices spike, people will regret that they have to gas up their land barge.

BTW, the gold plated CD from Analogue Productions of this title sounds incredible. It's too bad it's so damn expensive these days.

"The Soulful Moods Of Gene Ammons" is found on the CD, "The Gene Ammons Story: Gentle Jug". Ebay listings here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/The%20Gene%20Ammons%20Story:%20Gentle%20Jug?rmvSB=true

That could be true, but the reason for this is that Ford has done little to enter the fuel efficient car world. They licensed Toyota's hybrid system and their resulting hybrid casr/SUVs weren't very good compared the other car makers' hybrids due to their poor implementation. When your sedans only get 26 MPG highway, it's pretty easy to make a crossover that gets the same. The current administration's decision to relax the MPG standards let Ford off the hook for their inability to make very fuel efficient cars. Yes, they have improved their trucks' MPG, but even with their improvements, at best they're still half of most hybrid cars. At the rate they were going, there was no way they were going to be able to get their fleet average up to 54.4 MPG. I wonder if these market trend analysts ever consider how these trends are influenced by the automakers' own advertisements? After all, the number one selling beer in the US is Bud Light. That must mean that this beer is the beer everyone wants, right? It has nothing to do with the bombardment of advertising aimed at making this so. No way!

The usual ubiquitous one original member (Mick Box - guitarist and founder). A lot of these ghost bands touring today really bug me, especially if the band doesn't have the original lead singer. Uriah Heep died in 1986 when their lead singer David Byron died. You don't see a band on tour today called "David Bowie" for a reason.

FWIW, my wife & I are on our 6th Toyota in the past 20 years, with 4 of them being hybrids and one of those hybrids being a plug-in model - my current ride - a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. In the summer on my 63 mile commute, I average over 65 mpg by combining hybrid gas with pure electric driving. Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Chevrolet, Volvo, BMW and other car companies have all committed themselves to making higher mileage cars by turning to hybrid gas/electric cars. What did Ford do? They licensed Toyota's hybrid system and dropped it into the Focus and Edge, in the process jacking the price up thousands of dollars beyond the regular gas-propelled model. I think it was clear that Ford was doing this to plod along toward compliance with CAFE standards. They failed to market their hybrids, failed to stock them at many dealers, failed to work to control the costs (making them tougher to sell) and in general, everything in their power to keep Ford hybrids from ever being a "player". They probably didn't care if they sold 10 of them a year - they only seemed to make them for the sole reason of raising their fleet average. As much as I am a fan of "Buy American" as anyone (and two of our Toyotas were made here), a part of me hopes that this backfires on Ford forcing them to have to get back to making more fuel efficient cars and less trucks & SUVs. As Jim mentions above, Ford's insistence on catering to the "monster truck" fanbase, is not only causing problems for other drivers, it isn't doing anything for our environment nor, when you come right down to it, our economy. These huge trucks burn gasoline in large quantities. If I had a Ford F250 instead of my Prius, my commuting gas costs would quadruple (at least). Taking a price of gas at $2.70, my commute cost would go from $5.20/day to $20.80/day. That's $104 a week and almost $5,000 over a year. I'm too lazy to comb through the web for the environmental reasons this sucks. I would hope everyone here already knows this anyway.

They seem to have a short memory. During the last spike in gas prices, when they shot up to almost $4.00 a gallon, a lot of people dumped their gas-guzzling SUVs and started buying more fuel efficient cars. I know someone who picked up a 2 year old mint Ford Explorer that cost almost $50K new for around $8K. If this happens again, their decision to focus on these poor gas mileage trucks & SUVs may backfire. [/NO POLITICS INTENDED/] And BTW, this is a direct result of the new administration (no names please) rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards two weeks ago. If the CAFE MPG standards were still in place, there is no way that Ford could do this as their fleet's average gas mileage will not come anywhere near the old federal standard of 54.4 MPG by 2025. [/NO POLITICS INTENDED/]

You like vinyl and that's fine. Vinyl playback adds coloration to the music and many people, myself included, like many of these audible additions. There really is no need to try and attribute your preference for vinyl to any perceived shortcomings in digital. If your digital music file was created from a vinyl source, all of the shortcomings inherent in the vinyl playback would be perfectly replicated - if done right. It's not a digital sound signature that you don't like - it's vinyl's sound signature that you do like. Regarding jitter - at a demo of an external DAC, I participated in a jitter listening test. I could not hear it's effects. I understand that it's a technical problem that could affect the analog conversion, but after my listening experiment, I doubt that this digital conversion artifact is one of the reasons you find yourself preferring vinyl. BTW, vinyl playback may be continuous, but it is anything but smooth. Look at that scratch coming up! I think this article describes the differences between DSD and PCM very well: https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/usa/en/blog/what-dsd. It describes that standard DSD equates to about 24 bit/88.2 kHz PCM. I also like the quote, "If anyone says that DSD is ‘better’ than other formats, the numbers don’t necessarily support that". This is even more true if the mastering engineer butchers the input signal.

Not in the case of SACD. Unlike this MQA CD and HDCD, SACD does not use PCM to convert the analog signal to digital. The conversion is DSD, which theoretically has much more resolution than PCM. How this additional resolution is used is all that matters. Digitize crap and you going to get perfectly reproduced crap. This is true regardless of the medium used. Cut a record from a crap tape, you're going to get a crap record. Cut a cassette from a crap LP source, you're going to get a crap cassette. This is not new. I was in a record store the other day and saw someone yank an old Applause LP off the shelf and stack it in his pile for the trip to the cash register. I had to laugh (unfortunately, out loud). He must've thought i was insane.