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Those Water reissues of the two Gales are among my favorite reissues of the last few years, in the top twenty. GET THEM GARY! Job very well done! Excellent music!

It's pretty amazing. If you love that California blues of the forties and fifties it's a joy from start to finish. It may be too much of a good thing. . . there's not a TREMENDOUS amount of variety. But man there's knockout music. Good remastering. Great booklet.

I've been watching it and sort of enjoying it. At the same time I think it's STUPID in a way that Alias is stupid (it's all just my opinion and how the stuff hits me with its "tone") and I'll probably stop watching it soon. Dave your theory sounds an awful lot like Phil Dick's "UBIK" or "Maze of Death". . . and I don't think network tv is ready to go there. . . .!

I have the compilation. . . if you like the material on that from this group, you'll like this, and the sound is "better" (crisper and clearer).

This one is great, and the latest reissue has great sound. Heck, I even like the bass player on this, and I don't always like that guy!

Personally I feel it's high time for more late forties early fifties stuff . . . Art Hodes would be fantastic!

Many more happy ones!

It's got some really good Eddie on it. . .imo.

Personally I don't like to mess with the material much as far as noise reduction etc. and I like the stand alone burners a lot. Marty, one alternative if there are audible indexes and it is a bother and it's very important for them not to be there: an unindexed burn.

Hmmm. . . "better way" . . . . The Ayler material is available elsewhere on discs that were (I believe) properly licensed. (I've always seen these as two separate volumes til the Lonehill). The Dexter Gordon and Carl Perkins sessions were previously available only on Japanese cds (again, two separate ones).

That really should be the case, silence with an index between tracks, when there is simple indexing involved; there will be an audible pause insert if you have to actually pause the recording for any reason (turning over the tape, etc.) BUT I have noticed that some machines read these indexes with a slight pause. I have three cd players at home; two of them play these with no interruption, one plays them with a slight pause. (It's the oldest, but I'm not sure that is the factor). That's all I know.

Personally I'm very happy with this set. They may have been able to shift jams around and reduce the total number of discs to four, I honestly don't think they could have kept sequence and made them fit on three, I may be wrong. . . but it's nice to have complete "Jams" on a cd, and the sound is FANTASTIC. I've had lp burns of this material, but they're very nicely remastered here, with a booklet that is well put together.

I bought an HHB this year after doing some research and I LOVE it. You can use PC blanks (you can use the audio ones as well, but you don't HAVE to). You have excellent input gain adjustement, balance for both digital and analog in, can do fades in or out, and really nice sounding converters (both ADC and DAC), and you can defeat or add copy protection to your copy, etc. It has been wonderful to use and has performed flawlessly. You can run in an analog, cd or DAT signal (it won't recognize a dvd signal). Claude, there are two ways to add track indexes on a standalone burner: manually or automatically. In almost all instances however. . . manually. You click a button (depends on the make and model, some you press the "advance track" button, some the record button, etc.) and an index is inserted. If you use automatically. . . it tends to add indexes a plenty, not necessarily where you would like them to be. . . .

I agree there. . . I would rather have Jack on drums on those that I have as well! Nice Jarrett though!

I'm not sure if Kirk Felton has done the Coltrane box remastering (could be I just don't remember it so) but the remaster IS pretty good. I think that there are individual K2 remasters that are better sounding by a bit, but it's a matter of how you personally wish to deal with buying items for better sound potential. If there is indeed a Japanese box set of the Coltrane material, and it were all K2 or digital K2 remastered (and not just a Japanese pressing of the US remastering), again it would be your personal feeling about buying items for better sound potential. . . .

I do too, it sounded better to me now than in the sixties. . . . And he has quite a range for a 74 year old!

Hell, there IS no babes thread! Damn! We have babies instead. I don't have any of the vinyl from Venus, but judging from the great sound of their cds the vinyl probably sounds wonderful. I love the Wilen and Shepp titles I have. . . . I have a few others that the music doesn't quite move me as much. . .

I have a Swingtime cd of Hit of the Week material. . . highlights. There's some good stuff on there and some items that only the mother of a novelty item could love. . . .

Was it (as were a few other sessions) changed from "unissued" to "rejected" in the most recent discography?

Charles, very good observation about he collective aspect! Mike, glad you made it to the show. I don't quite agree about the influence on Jackie, and especially about the influence on Miles (Don Cherry, yes, Ornette on trumpet, no) but I'll think it through more. . . . It was definitely a night to remember!

Oregon chai? That's like American beer! (That is like making love in a canoe . . . fucking close to water!)

The second bassist was Tony Falanaga. It was amazing. We had excellent seats, right of center, fifth row from the stage, and the sound was great with exception of the baffling around Denardo which was a bit too extreme; I know why they did it (so as not to overpower the sound of the two bassists, and Denardo is not the subtlest of drummers), but wished they had had a shade less baffling; it immasculated the lower end and midrange sound of the drums. Ornette thankfully only did two short violin solos (I'm not really a fan of his left-handed bowing!) and did some very nice trumpet and predominantly played alto (I couldn't tell if that was a Grafton plastic alto or a white enameled brass alto. . . couldn't get a good enough look at the right side where the differences in the key and pad mechanism are visible). He played wonderfully, with a full and warm sound. Both bassists were played exceptionally well. We were on Greg Cohen's side so we heard his bass so fully. Tony's bass was a little less audible presence-wise but we could see and hear him okay. His arco lines are really something, mirroring Ornette's melodic statements with an almost telephathic manner! I'm not disappointed it wasn't Charnette at all. . . . What surprised me was how calm and collected and humble Ornette was. I had expected him to be a little edgier. Much of the music he played was very "deep blue" for the most part, a lot of very plaintive and reflective material, a few uptempo items that he seemed to choose to use to soar with floating melancholy between the two basses and the ride cymbals. . . quite emotional and quite moving music. My friend Dave Laczko, former Tower Austin jazz buyer, was thanked by the introducer of the concert (forget his name, he works for the Gov's Commission on Music and Film) for helping to make this happen; he has been bugging the UT jazz productions booker to keep trying to get Ornette ever since Tower opened in 1991apparently, and knows this woman well; Dave was sitting right next to me and was totally unaware he was going to be thanked---it made his year! I'm sure nearly every die-hard jazz fan in Austin was there; quite a lot of these knew who he was. A great moment! I was hoping to also connect up with Joe Milazzo from Dallas but his cell phone number he gave me never did answer and I didn't see him in the crowd (there WAS a crowd, a good thing). . . . That was my one disappointment of the evening.

Or to my thinking the truth of the matter may be . . . it doesn't really matter!

Aric, Jim is playing around with the name "Bill Evans." The Bill Evans that Liebman recommended to Miles is a sax player who played in a later band. And Yusef Lateef ("Gentle Joseph") was given the birth name of William (Bill?) Evans.

Just found this thread too, and have nothing to add except that I'll be thinking about all of you, and hoping for the best, and I counsel as much patience as possible. My wife was ill for several years before there was a proper diagnosis and treatment; I know that there is little comparison between her case and your wife's, your wife's condition is going to be found and treated much earlier, but I do know the value of patience.