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I compare them directly several times and then sell or give away the one I don't prefer. I've been retired 12 years (in a few weeks it will be 13) and I have time. To me comparing an LP to a cd is apples to oranges. I'm not big into LPs and I won't pay big dollars for one, and my system sounds much better on digital material than LPs--that's where I spent the money--so I'm only interested in collecting Blue Note on cd. Others have different priorities. Priorities are great, life and leisure are built upon them. I don't think anyone needs to explain why they won't buy this set, or will. There are only going to be 2,500 copies, if that--Mosaic seems to have decided what they are going to do as far as lease limits and I think it will help them survive. I'm glad they might survive.

In part many new transfers have been used for recent releases from Universal Japan and the US and they do sound really good, to me and on my system better than earlier cd releases. With Addey adding his expertise to the mastering the Mobley set sounded even a bit better. So the claim has meat to me, and there's potentially more great sounding discs in the future (or not).

And today Fred told me that they are actually "revamping" the site.

Yes. Surprise!

Now available for Pre-order. https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=271-MD-CD

Yesterday my Dad and his four children were in the same room together for the first time in over a year. Was a good time . . . as good a time as one can have gathered around a hospice bed. On the way there and back I played two Houston Person cds: "Opening Round" "Legends of Acid Years"

The former I would say.

Jordan makes me ashamed to be an Ohioan.

Tranemonk is really mistaken as it has been about six years since the last (third) Armstrong set was released I believe.

Rickie Lee Jones "Pirates" Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD This woman can write songs.

Chet Baker "Sings and Plays from the film " Sony K2HD cd

"Sidney Bechet and the Blue Note Jazzmen, Vol. 1" Toshiba Blue Note cd. Bechet on clarinet is always a gas!

Gerry Mulligan "California Concerts, Vol. 2" Toshiba Superbit Jazz Classics cd.

Flying Lotus "Until the Quiet Comes" cd

Nancy Harrow "Wild Women Don't have the Blues" Candid/Solid Records Japan mono cd. What a band! Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank Bass – Milt Hinton Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Tom Gwaltney Drums – Oliver Jackson Engineer – Bob D'Orleans Guitar – Kenny Burrell Piano – Dick Wellstood Tenor Saxophone – Buddy Tate Trombone – Dickie Wells Trumpet, Leader, Arranged By – Buck Clayton Vocals – Nancy Harrow

Just pulled this out to listen to soon. Right now Sathima Bea Benjamin (with Duke Ellington, Ray Nance, Billy Strayhorn, Dollar Brand et al) "A Morning in Paris" Enja cd This is a unique, to me amazing session. Produced by Duke Ellington when he was empowered by Reprise Records Sathima was inspired by her husband Dollar's presence and the amazing support of his bandmates on bass and drums, and the appearances by Duke and Billy on piano are also inspiring. And Ray Nance's pizzicato violin is wonderful. The engineering is also top-notch: one sounds as if one is right there in the band, the piano sound is full and resonant and every nuance of Samitha's unusual phrasing and commanding control and presence is revealed naturally. One of those discs that you don't dare play too often so that its mystery and beauty can be surprising each and every time.

Glad I didn't steer you wrong!

Finally I got a shipping notice! Looking forward to this one more than usual--this is among my very favorite Armstrong.

Well, I picked up most of the 2 cd sets that Muzak released of Black Lion and Storyville material. . . Monk, Konitz, Jackie & Roy, Sims & Brookmeyer, Webster, Gordon, Griffin. . . these sessions never sounded better imo.

Me too.

From Bud Powell to . . . Baden Powell "O Universo Musical" 2 cd set, disc 1

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That one I'll pass on. Surround sound. . . no thanks. And I can do my own planing at home with my great Uncle Sud's planer I inherited.

Bud Powell, with Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clarke, "The Essen Jazz Festival All Stars" Disc 2 of this recent Japanese two cd reissue . . . sounds better than ever. Bud Powell "Strictly Confidential" 2 cd Muzak Japan cd You're welcome. The two I have released after this are even better.

I agree that is a funny aspect of the review. I have alternates already of this material and enjoy hearing the alternates so that hasn't steered me away from this set, and I'm a big Armstrong fan so it's just something I have to have. We should see sets in hands soon.