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Well, from the title I wouldn't expect it to include the solo and trio sides.

My collection is out of hand. I do cherish my recordings, but I now have to pay to store a third of it, which my wife feels is ridiculous and I have over the last few years realized that it is. I've begun downsizing. I sold a few hundred duplicates the last few months and that's a beginning but still . . . a drop in the bucket. Wish me luck altering my behavior and succeeding in downsizing.

Oh boy.

Okay, an answer from the engineer for this set from the Hoffman board: Those Decca holdings were donated by MCA to the Library of Congress several years ago -- 1998, I think, but don't quote me -- and the infamous Universal fire that everybody is so atwitter about had zero impact on our set. Metal parts have been largely non-existent since the 1950s, but seven songs have surviving metal parts today, and we used existing digital transfers for six of them, and existing analog transfers (of metal parts that no longer exist) for several others. We avoided transferring from 78s unless there was absolutely nothing else available, such as for the single version of Sweet Lorraine. I think this is the best the Decca tracks have ever sounded, but I am admittedly both biased and maybe a little "too close to the project" to feel otherwise. The tracks are all speed/pitch-corrected, which may be a little jarring to those who are used to hearing them off-speed, as they have appeared on many past releases.

I read it antagonistically as well. And neither of the contributors are regulars here and may not have seen the questions. I've asked about the Decca material at Hoffman's and will post here any responses.

It's a nice one. This one is also very good:

Hank Mobley "Soul Station" XRCD. Been a long time since I spun this one; last time it was the mono version on Platinum SHM-CD

Music on that Armstrong is excellent as well! Right now Thelonious Monk "Monk's Dream" Mobile Fidelity SACD. Did a brief comparison between this and the ORG SACD. Both sound good. I think I'll be letting the ORG go though.

Another of the 80th Anniversary Blue Note cd reissues from Japan, Horace Parlan "Up & Down"

Tamba Trio "Tamba Trio" Elenco

New cd from Japan

Those were excellent, I love the music of the first two decades and wish they would reissue them. However I don't agree that the Japanese are reissuing "mega sellers." They are reissuing a lot of titles that have been out of print for a long time and a lot of just regular titles, not "mega sellers" alone.

Hadda Brooks "Jump Back Honey: Complete Okeh Sessions"

Grant Green "Green Street" Blue Note Japan

Re-listened this morning to the 80th Anniversary Blue Note Japan cd Leo Parker "Rollin' with Leo" because it sounded so nice and mellow yesterday. Now on to another 80th Anniversary Blue Note Japan cd, Art Blakey "Holiday for Skins, Vol. 1" -- a stereo percussion spectacular.

Interesting. I find it a fascinating listen and have listened to it many tines.

So who are you asking? Why not email Resonance. . . since only Jordan Taylor who posted in this thread might have an answer, and he's not responding to you, I think he just dropped by once.

Okay. I'm sticking to my guns that Mosaic would be likely using the same available sources. I'm interpreting this less critically than you seem to be I guess. Perhaps Jordan Taylor (above) may chime in here. From all the other Resonance releases I have I expect this to have excellent sound quality.

Looking at the info the engineer provides above, if 85% or so are from tranacription discs and the second biggest source is from 78s, my guess is that Resonance has done what Mosaic does and would have done.

More info from the mastering engineer of this set Matt Lutthans: . . . the CDs were mastered separately from the LPs, and with much care to not brickwall, smash, or funk-up in any way. They turned out very well, to my ears. Regarding the needle drops aspect, because tape did not exist (at least in North America) at the time of these recordings, everything here stems from a disk of some sort or other, and at some point has been transferred (either to analog tape or to digital) from an original disk source. That's just the nature of the beast with pre-tape recordings. •78 RPM shellac disks ("78s") -- these were only used in this set when there was no alternative (when nothing resembling a "master" exists). Only a handful of tracks are from shellac 78s, almost all in new transfers. •The vast majority of tracks here (I'd guess 85%????) come from 1930s and 1940s *original* 33-1/3 RPM 16" VINYL transcription disks, which are generally of much higher fidelity than 78s, with far less surface noise -- pre-microgroove, with a groove more akin to a 78, but on vinyl at 33-1/3. Some sound extremely good and "hi-fi"-like. Dozens of these tracks are in brand-new transfers. A few tracks came from dubs of metal parts, tape backups of no-longer-surviving disks, etc. -- that sort of thing is hard to completely avoid in a set of this scope -- but the above two bullet-point categories account for, I'm guessing, a solid 90% of the content. It's a very well-sourced set. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/nat-king-cole-hittin-the-ramp-new-early-period-set-from-resonance-in-november.862252/page-2#post-21715614

Info here: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/nat-king-cole-hittin-the-ramp-new-early-period-set-from-resonance-in-november.862252/#post-21709331

Steve Robinson is the only one I know of.

Well, Resonance mentions transcription sides, and to be honest I think an additional 80 tracks would be sufficient for the other material. We'll see I guess. I'm in. . . I'd love to have all this in one place.

Thanks for that info j.

I have all 5 of those too, they sound great and have great music. (Wish the mini LPs were a little different but it's a minor quibble.)