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I don't think Clarke is responsible for what I don't like about James' playing.

Me too. Can't ever be enough of that trio.

Nah, for me it's his playing. . . it's just not my cup of tea.

"Basel 1980" has very good sound and very nice playing. Larry Willis makes the date for me. I never quite get and enjoy James "Bumblebee" Stafford* and his playing, but he's not offensive here. . . . *I always call him that because once in a phone call Danny D'imperio referred to him In that manner and I get a chuckle out of it.

Been an in-law event weekend, haven't listened too much but everything that I have listened to sounds great! Have spun: Duke Ellington "Piano in the Foreground" Milles Davis "Collecter's Items" Stan Getz & Chet Baker "Stockholm Concert" Disc 3 Lou Donaldson "Midnight Sun" Milt Jackson "Bag's Opus" Walt Dickerson "Lawrence of Arabia" And now playing: Woody Shaw "Live in Basel 1980" disc 1

I thought the film was great fun. I didn't take it "seriously" and wouldn't suggest that mindset going in.

I agree that it's the worst sounding of the box sets. Sheesh.

Chris was a fascinating person. Chris will be missed. So many artists and historians and producers and critics of jazz have left us and are leaving us.

Right, and the Japanese kept that uniqueness, imo more so than the few that the US released on cd with different covers. I think I have almost every one in that EMI Japan released in that series, it was exciting to see each batch of releases.

Yes, and they kept a unique mastering sound for this series, more "chunky" than the usual Japanese Blue Note sound of this decade.

Gosh. Sad news. RIP Chris.

Flurin it's not one of the SHM-CD releases, it's an "LT Series" cd release from EMI Japan before the label "moved" to Universal. It was pre-SHM-CD Blue Note.

Now on to Kenny Dorham "The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia," the 2 cd RVG edition from Japan, disc 1.

Been playing around with speaker placement, speaker isolation and DAC operating system firmware today. A bit of audiophile fun with good results. Listened to: Lou Donaldson "The Scorpion: Live at the Cadillac Club" Blue Note Rare Groove series cd and Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks "Test Pressing" RSD LP and Duke Ellington "Ellington Indigos" Columbia mono LP finally, this excellent cd Helen Merrill "You and the Night and the Music" Gitanes Jazz cd

Personally I think that's Don Cheadle.

Well mastering makes the biggest difference in Redbook cd playback. And I really like Addey's work, so I am expecting a nice improvement on all these sessions. Not all of these appeared on SHM-CD this decade. The Japanese "Third Season" for example is not an SHM-CD. By the way, SHM-CD is not really a "process" so much as its the use of a different material for the disc itself that the information is "pressed" onto. I think the material MAY make a difference but what many may be preferring in the Japanese releases' "sound" is the mastering.

They list it on the set's discography, even showing the Japanese cd release.

I was going through my Blue Note cds and discovered I had two copies of this Connoisseur Edition cd and figured I might as well listen to one of them! Frank Foster "Manhattan Fever" Followed by Jimmy Smith "At the Organ, Volume 1" Japanese RVG edition lp-facsimile cd. The way the system sounds today this one just leaps out of the speakers.

No air checks, just studio work. https://www.discogs.com/Lester-Young-The-Complete-Clarinet-Works/release/9591797

Carmen McRae "Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics" Columbia cd Followed by: Lester Young "Complete Clarinet Works," Cabu 2 cd set

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet "Shades of Blue" SHM-CD from Japan

Bobby Hutcherson "Happenings" Blue Note Japan RVG lp facsimile cd edition.

I don't think Zev sleeps, except perhaps on international plane flights! He is the president of Resonance, he is now working for Blue Note and he's done some excellent work for Verve. For his sake I hope he can slow down a little. . . no, he needs to keep up the great work. I'm definitely in for this set.

Paula Morelenbaum and the SWR Big Band "Bossarenova." Wow, great sound and interesting arrangements. . . and that gorgeous voice.

Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gal Costa "Rio Revisited" Japan Verve cd This is an excellent video performance as well. I love this late band of Jobim's--his wife and son and daughter-in-law and wives and girlfriends of the rest of the band, a traveling family having wonderful fun. The joy of playing together and traveling together comes through.