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Listened to a 24/192 file (via DVD-R) of Hank Mobley's "Soul Station." Sounds good, but this album ALWAYS sounds good. Followed by Antonio Carlos Jobim "Tide" Japanese Verve cd.

Stan Getz "Getz au Go Go" Verve cd

Just ordered my Dad's latest book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1083001590 Co-authored in '67 with his Amharic tutor Fisseha Demoze when he was an Assistant Director with the Peace Corps and we lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The only known translation of numerous Amharic proverbs into English. Now both seniors my Dad and Fisseha worked together to get this polished up and published and it went on sale today. I'm so proud of my Dad. He has published a biography of my great great great great great grandfather David Tannenberg, colonial organ builder, and four books on Civil War era figures, three of whom he was the first to research in depth, and two books on ministers and ministering. He has one massive biography still to publish, it's completed, but he hasn't yet found a publisher for the 800 page biography of Father Taylor of Boston. I hope this last one does get published. He's 87 now and its his fondest wish. . . .

I am familiar enough to know that a) in the current climate of cd production it won't be "marketed as both" by this label, and that b) this is far less a sound track album than it is a Coltrane session and marketing and covering it as such is a far more profitable proposition. And that is what the label decided to do. Buy it or not as you see fit. I'm looking forward to it.

My comment shows I don't consider this a "soundtrack album". . . that's all. A soundtrack album to my thinking should have music included on the film, this omits much of that, really has only a little to do with the film when viewed as a recorded session to be released for the first time. Regardless, were I Universal and had a chance of marketing a disc of a recording session of music that was partially included in an obscure Canadian independent film as the "soundtrack album" to that film, or as newly remastered and released material from the John Coltrane Quartet, there is no way I would choose the former, especially as my last similar project sold very well.

But this is not the soundtrack album to the film, as it does not include the other material and contains more Coltrane than the film does. I think selling it as a Coltrane album makes much more business sense as well. And additionally there's no empirical reason Impulse! would have this tape to lose.

Me too. Just noticed it's on amazon.com for a 27th September release.

Freddie Roach, "Good Move" Blue Note Japan 2019 cd. Blue Mitchell and Hank Mobley in the front line. This one has been out of print on cd for. while.

Bennie Green "Soul Stirrin'" Blue Note 80th Anniversary reissue CD from Japan. I've always loved this session and Gene Ammons adds so much to this one. Sound is great on this reissue.

Now, Eddie Gale "Black Rhythm Happenin's" Blue Note Japan 2019 cd. I've always loved this record, and it sounds very good on this release. Elvin Jones! I like the Water Records cd as well.

From the article it appears that "Naima" was at least presented in its entirety in the film: Coltrane had first recorded "Naima" five years earlier, for the Atlantic album Giant Steps. His quartet had played it often in live settings, but this is a studio version, and a truly excellent one. It plays in its entirety, all four-and-a-half minutes, as Claude and Barbara make their opening statements.

Okay, that's true. . . . Doubt those masters were used in these Originals series, could be wrong. That said, I have the Burrell, and don't think any of the mastering comes from an RVG release.

Yesterday I got a box in from CDJapan with the August 14 batch of 80th Anniversary Blue Note cd reissues. Listened so far to: Lou Donaldson "Gravy Train". . . this is a great date with great tunes and Lou's horn sounds glorious. Lonnie Smith "Drives" . . . .funky and driving bottom end on this one. Horace Silver "Serenade to a Soul Sister" . . . nice sound, Turrentine and Cobham especially are standing out in the current presentation my system is delivering.

I don't buy soundtrack albums but I'm surely going to buy this one. Cover depicted online seems okay to me, and I bet the sound will be excellent. Can't wait to hear what Trane did with this material in '64. Did he play it safe, or be all '64 Quartet with it? I think it will be mono.

The Kenny Burrell can't be all RVG as there weren't RVGs of them all.

Interesting song choices for '64. One criteria for their choices was probably authorship I suppose.

CDJapan has this on SHM-CD for preorder but that is the only place I see so far.

SOLD . . thanks.

Sorry to hear about the hearing Kevin. I'm downsizing my collection though I'm still listening as much as possible, and as I'm retired it's a good chunk of time. And I've invested in a system that really makes listening immersive and a deep pleasure. My problem is space and storage and spousal . . . lack of interest. I know that I have more than I'll ever listen to with frequency though I want to continue trying. It's silly for me to have a storage unit to house books, cds and instruments. So I'm attempting sales and have had some success. I found a young collector new to jazz who has been buying lots of duplicates I have, and if that continues it will be very helpful, and I'll soon be moving beyond duplicates and seldom visited items and hopefully making cuts that "hurt" more, getting over those, and going further. Wish me luck. I'm still going to try to sell what I can.

Jovino Santos Neto, "Piano Masters" Adventure Music cd Followed by: "Mel Torme at the Crescendo" Bethlehem cd. I'm not a huge Torme fan but I do like most of his work for Bethlehem a lot.

I have the following SACDs I will bundle together for sale, 110 dollars for the lot, media mail included within the continental USA (US sales only please). Telarc SACDs (all Surround except astericked*) Mahler, Symphony No. 6. Benjamin Zander, Philadelphia Orch. Vivaldi “Gloria,” Bach “Magnificat” Martin Williams, Boston Baroque Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati SO Ravel, Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati SO “Tango” La Elegia de Quienes No Son, Rudolph Werthen, I Fiammingha Stravinsky, The Firebird, Robert Shaw, Atlanta SO and Chorus Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, Lorin Maazel, Cleveland SO Mahler, Symphony No. 1, Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis SO and Chorus “Timbrando” Meridian Arts Ensemble* Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Lorin Maazel, Cleveland O Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati SO Other SACDs: Mozart, Youth Symphonies, Vol. 2, Marriner and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields SURROUND, Pentatone Mozart, Symphonies Nos. 5 & 29, Marco Boni, Concertgebouw Chamber O, SURROUND, Pentatone Prokofiev, Tcherepnin, Crumb, Pieter Wispelwey, Rotterdam Philharmonic O, SURROUND Channel Classics Ravel, Retrospection, Delan Lazic, SURROUND, Channel Classics Haydn, Basecwicz, Dvorak, Szymanowski Quartet, SURROUND, Avie “Romantic Music for Brass” Center City Brass Quintet, SURROUND, Chandos If interested, please email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com. Thanks.

Premium Mix has sold.

Listened to Joe Henderson "Four" on Verve, material recorded live at the Left Bank Society with the Wynton Kelly Trio, Verve cd. Man this is good. Then for something completely different I put on Candido, "Beautiful" -- 80th Anniversary cd reissue from Blue Note Japan. And to keep in the spirit of single word titles, I'm spinning Airto, "Identity" Warner Japan cd.

Even better deal for US buyers https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Kept-Complete-Artists-Recordings/dp/B07TKNGCZ8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Promise+Kept%3A+The+Complete+Artists+House+Recordings&qid=1565794363&s=music&sr=1-1

Santana "Lotus" 3 SACD set from Japan, disc 1.