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Sound is fine on the US cd of this one. I don't agree with Yanow (I don't read critics anymore, they're welcome to their opinions, I don't always know how to evaluate them and I just don't waste time). Not unispired. MAYBE a little "another good night". . . Not groundbreaking. But glad to have it. LOVE Cannon.

Hope you're feeling better! Celebrate a bit when you do! Many happy returns!

Jim, you and I are nearly the same age within months, and I had a similar experience. I came to On the Corner after digesting Filles, In A Silent, Miles at Fillmore and Bitches in an eleventh grade frenzy after returning from Swaziland and being totally totally weirded out by antyhing that was on the radio or in the cars and livingrooms of the Ohio town I had been jammed squarepeg into round hole. The Africanness you mention before was the thing that drew me deep in. I kept playing this over and over and over and the onion layers came out and cleansed my senses. Hell, I don't understand it per se still but I learned stuff about this recording. When I picked up an electric guitar a few years later and drums a bit after that I kept trying to get the rythmic layers in there to sort of osmosate into me. It influenced me in a number of ways. I do feel it had a behind the scenes influence on some of the more popular (than OTC and most jazz) music of the eighties and nineties, I dont really hear/didn't really hear any earlier. Eno has said that GUWI (esp "He Loved Him Madly") was an important influence on his work from '81 on, so I bet OTC was in the mix, YOU KNOW he would have checked it out. Regardless of whether OTC or later recorded and unrecorded 'lectric Miles this stuff had an impact. A bass player named King Wilson I worked with briefly at the close of the eighties was into this, he was looking for Al Foster and Mtume to form his less complex darkgroove stuff he though he wanted to do in '88. I had fun listening and talking to him about this Miles stuff because I didn't see many people into it. Anyway, my life is richer for OTC and GUWI, I've never quite been the same since I found them in high school then college.

Brownie is probably enjoying his lp and hasn't touched the cd!

OTC and GUWI are da schitte. I remember hearing resonances of these lps in music percolating here and there in the eighties and nineties. Your ears prick up and recognize bits of what you love. They totally stand the test of time for me. I've lived with these since they came out! I can't imagine life without them! Here's one more prayer along with Jim's for an OTC box set eventually.

I think I read that it was Prince who vetoed the Warners box and Warners didn't want to do a box without the stuff on which The Artist Formerly Known As played. Four cd version WAS released promotionally and didn't have any Prince material thereon. Too bad it didn't happen in the marketplace, but we didn't miss TOO much as the contents weren't that thrilling (imo). It would have been interesting to hear the Prince stuff, I'm sure that is out there in bootlegland.

This is DEFINTELY the one I would get (would love to, might in a year or so): http://www.decware.com/newsite/CSP2.htm Reviews of this on the Decware forum are very positive. My whole main system is from Decware and I love the stuff. . . .

John, I finally have all the Dick's Picks AND Downloads from the years I'm interested in (from the beginning til when Brent walked in and changed stuff imo). Just an amazing series of recordings. We're so lucky that the Dead were archiving themselves, let alone all the great fan recordings. Anyone wanting to warm up for the new David Crosby remaster will find a great live version of "Cowboy Movie," "Triad," and five other tunes including a KILLER "Deep Ellem Blue" by David with Jerry, Phil and Mickey here: http://www.gdlive.com/xtras/Crosby-Garcia-...-Lesh-12.15.70/

West 42nd Street is also available on eMusic. Too bad that There Goes the Neighborhood is not. I think I prefer Neighborhood myself. . . man those Dameron cuts rule.

Not my favorite Norvo. My favorite Norvo cover! I really found the Bailey Mosaic to have some exceptional Red Norvo band sides!

Late, the live session (J) are the same 16 bit transfers that were used for the individual cds, the rest of the set is 24 bit McMaster. Here's what the production notes in the set say: Remix engineers: Rudy Van Gelder (G-I), Malcolm Addey (J) and Peter Doell (K-M) Mastered using 24-bit analog-to-digital resolution by Ron McMaster, except session J mastered from 16-bit digital mixes. Theoretically McMaster did the mastering of those tracks, but the transfers are Addey and they basically sound the same to me as the individual cds.

Four Miles equals six Trane. Secret formula of the jazz illuminati.

I really like the Family cds. Transformer I find fascinating, following one tune through development as a solo piece and then several live quartet versions. The Stockholm and Paris have very good performances and quite good sound. The NY has inferior sound to the others but a great performance. I bought all these when they first appeared (in fact I preordered them) and I'm glad I did.

Get "Wizard of the Vibes," the Milt Jackson RVG on Blue Note. For me the Blue Note recordings are the ursource. . . I'm always finding treasure deep within. You should have them all to qualify as a Monk nut. Also the side of the Savoy lp under Gigi Gryce's name with Monk on piano, reissued on by Savoy as "Nica's Dream" is an intriguing one to have.

I know it's been fixed because at one point there was an address to send in for replacement, I did, I have the replacement disc. I don't think there is any way to tell . . . if you can find out when a store received a disc they're selling that would be telling. . . .

I have a pair of Bose "Companion IIs" that I think sound amazingly good. They will crank for dvds, etc. And have a rich sound. Yeah Bose, I know. They do make some good models, and I honestly have gotten 100 bucks worth of enjoyment out of these, don't think they're overpiced. Bought a Monster Cable connector between laptop and speakers which was also a significant purchase.

I like this one a lot. C'mon with a cd or two I say! But then I want his entire output on cd. C'mon! He's one of my very favorites.

Until his new age period, there's hardly a Teefsky I don't like!

I'm sure that you can, though I don't use Windows Media Player and couldn't tell you how. I have all my downloaded files on an external hard drive, all my iTunes is directed there, I just had to consolidate my library and create a file on the hard drive, then delete the file on my laptop.

Cool! Thanks for posting.

Nice furniture fabric!

Bet that is some good stuff. The Monday remix of the Herman is da shitte times two, really a great piece of work by all concerned!

Tjobbe, those Graham Colliers are worth hearing!

I haven't heard the Definitive. I got a really good preorder price on the Columbia and replaced my King Jazz cds etc. with it. I'm a Billie nut and I had to have it. . . and I'm glad I do have it. I think the sound is very very very good. I'm not equipted to do 78s, so this works for me. A really fine job in my opinion. If the Definitive sounds really good, hold fast. Brooks' notes etc. are nice, but liner notes and blah blah blah from the annoited cognoscenti mean less and less to me these days. If they mean more and more to you, they're there on the Columbia.

Yes, with Bobby Jones. . .I like that Enja too and he did great work with Charles.