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Aretha Franklin “The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967–1970” Atlantic 2 cd set, disc 1 The Plangent Process really brings out subtle magic in these singles. Wow.

Aaron Parks “Big Little III” Blue Note cd This is helping to chill me out.

Kevin Gray.

Ike Quebec “The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions” Blue Note 2 cd set, 2025 As one would expect, sound is great.

She was my first love and fascination, an exceptional person, yes. I have been lucky to find love since, and with someone who understands love does not die. Now it is great that there are just wonderful memories.

On to my OG LP of Joni Mitchell “Hejira”

This week marks 18 years since my first wife Helen passed from lymphoma and MDS. She was so brilliant and kind and beautiful--a great loss to lose her at age 52. I'll never forget her. Here is a photo of her smiling so happily from her stay in Chile the summer before I first met her on our first day at the University of Chicago.

A cold fall mrning. Typing is hard with Memphis piled on me in the listening chair! I'm online less. . . a good thing? Starting off with a revisit to [s][/s]Gerald Clayton "Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard" Blue Note cd

A cold morning – 40! Starting off with The second half. Wow. On to Stan Kenton"Contemporary Concepts" Capitol cd

It rained all day yesterday. Today, beautiful temperature and no rain. Memphis the American Bully was so happy that we took a flashlight walk and enjoyed the sounds and smells. Two deer crossed in front of us and he was so good, just sat when I told him to and took it all in. This dog surprises me with his demeanor. Got in the mail yesterday a cd that I am listening to, a sort of hard rock fusion band covering Thelonious Monk called "Brillian Coroners." A dynamic and intriguing listen.

It's not really different with the SACD or Redbook. We may be hearing the same things, and they matter more or less to one or the other.

Since I was spinning LPs and had pulled some more Barry Harris ones out of the shelves I spun “Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron” Xanadu LP and then Barry Harris “The Bird of Red and Gold” Xanadu LP

I'm with you on both counts.

I play this material often enough. . . I DO enjoy Miles here, and there's lots of Herbie to like as well. An interesting point in time for the Quintet.

Well I continue to be confused. The listing that I bought this from said that it was released in 2012. I bought it in 2013 from someone who said he had just picked it up and compared it to the original Japanese set, sounded the same and so put it up for sale. I got a great deal. Everywhere I look though shows it was issued in 1995. Maybe other copies were found and re-released in 2012. We could not have conversed about this particular set as I didn't own it til 2013--we my have conversed about the original Japanese set which I ALMOST got--I had it pre-ordered through Tower Records Austin, but Tower decided to stiff the Austin store and never sent them any of their promised copies. So I was SOL til the US release, and was really excited to get the gold cd Japanese set, which really sounds good.

Well I would not myself say that this set has been completely invisible for thirty years. Japan reissued their version of it on gold cd after the US set went out of print, and another company released more than half of it as an LP set; individual and 2 cd versions have been reissued separately and as part of the "Complete Columbia Album" box set. Much of the music has been bouncing around. I too would not recommend this to a jazz novice. . . but I also don't think it's that inaccessible to someone who is on a jazz journey.

“Barry Harris plays Barry Harris” Xanadu LP Great piano sound.

I'm listening to a disc from the SACD set now. It's true that the soloists are mic'd more directly and "louder," but the bass and drums don't seem "deeply buried in the mix" to me. . . it sounds like many a real club performance I've heard where the horns are mic'd more than the rest of the band. Certainly studio recordings of this Quintet have bass and drums more prominent.

Love this one. A warm and drizzly morning! Going to be a rainy day. I’ll dream away when I can. Starting off with a re-listen to this disc from yesterday as it sounds SO good and the system is warming up with it nicely. “The End and Everything After” Jangeun Bae Trio 170×152 16.8 KB On to MIles Davis "Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel" Tower Records/Sony SACD set disc 5

Who's picking a fight with you? I am just not convinced your "memory" of this is at all accurate. You are a champion of accuracy, so am I. I may be wrong that there was not a complete run defective disc, but I see no evidence that there was. That cdjapan description is for the SACD set that Tower Records released and repressed. One can ASSUME that Sony themselves reused the same Redbook master that was used for that set for the new cd set, and that they also used the same Mosaic Records tapes for the LP set, but. . . that's not necessarily the case, and record labels don't always do logical things. I think further information may be needed to have concrete results.

The set came out in 1995. I have a really good memory and I don't believe this idea of a defective disc was discussed on the Blue Note Board or anywhere else I was present at the time.

I NEVER have heard or read that mentioned, nor did a search some up with anything.

I never heard of nor experienced a bad disc in the set.

Dexter Gordon “Complete Trio/Quartet Studio Recordings” Steeplechase box set, disc 4 500×500 24.6 KB Includes some beautiful sounding soprano sax playing by the Long Tall one.

Another warm, lovely morning. Starting off with Sun Ra and his Arkestra “Supersonic Jazz” (Expanded Edition) disc 2. Some of my favorite Ra, unreleased material.