jazzbo

If you REALLY want to record and then erase tv shows. . . I would pay a bit more and get one of the models with a hard drive copying system. Copy to the hard drive, watch, erase.

With dual layer DVD + discs (the - discs don't come in dual layer) you can supposedly get 14 hours total capacity. Quality of the image is going to be a bit compromised. . . . I haven't tried it. I have been doing burns of 60 minute, 90 minute or 120 minute lengths, the quality of the image and sound is very good at these "speeds."

I'm with you. As great a job as RVG has done on the early recordings for the label, I'd love to see RVGs of all the Hodes material. It's wonderful stuff! Cool artwork on the originals too!

Liner notes are okay. Not exhaustive. But sufficient. (I'm less and less a fan of liner notes. Only about a half dozen a year are really great. Last great set of liners I read was Chris's for the Basie Mosaic set.)

The iTunes are clones of the Japanese releases. Quite a deal in my opinion for the price.

Many more happy ones!

Actually the best sounding versions of the Charles material I have heard is on the Nighttrain label (legitimate owners of the material, really careful remastering). I sold my Fresh Sounds box when I heard that!

I now have this Sony VCR/DVD Recorder and am quite happy with it, RDR-VX515. One touch dubbing of vhs to dvd or vice versa. Uses + and - media. Picture quality is good. Maybe not the best, but definitely suitable for my use and in its best quality mode as good as the source tape at least as far as I can tell on my old Sony 17" tv and my laptop. Reads all cdrs, dvdrs, mp3 cds, etc. The sound is really great, the best sound I've had from a dvd player. Transferring a lot of jazz stuff on vhs that I really don't watch much but can and will now, on my laptop, or can play them for sound in my Sony SACD/DVD player in the main listening rig. One really nice thing for me is that I was able to remove three other machines from the system with this one: my vcr, my Toshiba dvd player, and a Philips cd recorder I was using as a transport to feed my HHB Burnit cd recorder. This one machine does all that I needed from those three. Here's the circuit city page: http://www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/oid/128220...DetailReview.do Listening right now on my main listening rig to a dvdr of the Randy Weston live at St. Lucia vhs tape I had. Sounds great!

One of my discs of the Plugged Nickel box set has the appropriate Miles matrial on it. But the silkscreening was applied OVER the silkscreening of a Mariah Carey cd! Miles might have gotten a chuckle out of that. . . .

Me too. . . half.com had an even cheaper copy!

You just know a big belch is just a moment away.

They swear they are not going to reissue the box set (I believe them, after all they're not part of this administration), but are going to sell the four original nights as digital downloads.

Flurin, Ros: Thanks. Lon. . . puny nickname. . . placing higher than the real thing! Don't even get me started on "Lonnie"! (Lonnie in my experience is usually a nickname of Alonozo). I've only ever encountered "Lonson" in my family. . . it was a name that ran from uncle to nephew as either Lonson Earl or Lonson Butler. . . . Skipped a generation just before me and in recompense there are two of us in mine!

I sort of lost touch with him via email over 2005. I hope he's healthy as a horse . . . .

Well, I don't have the right plug in to view that page. . . but I can't imagine mine (Lonson) was ever very popular, let alone in 1955!

I hear ya! They chose just absolutely the right tempo for one rendition on the set! I've been listening to some of the "Acid Tests" acquired thanks to a pointer from Orchid Doc to this page: http://www.gdlive.com/xtrasshn/acidtestcompilation/ Damned interesting "genesis of the Dead" material. I really like the sound of Garcia's Guild guitar on these. . . and his playing is just so cool blue! Pig was definitely a front person there.

I'd really like to hear more RVG'd Cannonball Capitols. Man, the JRVG I have is excellent!

When the series was young, they had a bit in Stereophile about it (I was still reading that rag then) and they mentioned RVG using dcs equipment (not shabby stuff at all!)

Wow, that's interesting. . . not sitting through that much Pigpen. In the past I hadn't been the biggest fan of the man. . . . But in my opinion he really shines brightly on these nights, I'm really digging his contributions to this release.

Nat's is my fave.

Sue me. I like the clarity and dynamics of the RVG sound; it seems to suit my stereo fine and I like the choices they've made. I hope they get to more early Blue Note material, and to the titles mentioned here, and the series doesn't run out of steam (as the Prestige RVG series begins).

Ah, much ado about nothing! I never could find the origiinal lp of that one, so a substituted take doesn't really get me all riled up. Nothing Phil does has. Blues in Orbit. . . what a great reissue. Sounds 98% as good as the Mobile Fidelity SACD and has a lot longer running time. . . !

The Ayler is a very good release (now incorporated into the Ayler box set from Revenant I believe). BUT in my opinion it's nothing like "Ornette on Tenor" in nature.

Ausi le mien.