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It's a sound system that works. I've been buying mostly Japanese cds this decade.

The LA Revival series was from this last summer. I have a few of these new UHQCD and they sound very good with the exception of the McLean and the Hutcherson which sound as if they use the previous US mastering and may sound a bit improved because of the UHQCD process but don't sound as good as say "Idle Moments" which sounds amazing.

That worry occurred to me too. We'll see. I hope so.

If you grab a tube in use or recently used, especially a power tube, yes, they are hot and can cause burns. But I have never had an amp that made a room hot or gave off a lot of heat when standing near it. I lived in Texas in non-central air housing with one of the largest power tube amps I ever had for a spell and never felt it was adding heat to a room.

Well, keep us posted. I'm predicting you are really going to enjoy the amp with your Betsys.

Stefan, did the 45 amp arrive yet?

A generalization that doesn't ring true for me is that you can't listen to tube amps right away. . . I can with mine.

Same is true for Plays Fats Waller as for Plays W. C. Handy I believe. This set (hope it is made) will have some very good material, old and new.

I guess I have a very different experience than others with tube amps. I grew up with my Dad's tube system, which had a little hum, not a lot of heat really, EL34 based Dynaco amp plus a tubed preamp and tuner. Then I tried to get into solid state but never really liked it as much. I returned to tube sound with a 1959 EICO integrated amp, EL84 based, about 10 watts per channel. A bit of hum, a bit of hiss, full-bodied rich sound. I then moved to Decware amps. . . their 2 watt, then their 6 watt, then their 25 watt, and now I have a 3 watt pair of mono blocks in my main system and a 5 watt amp in a second system, both with tube preamps. Speakers are 93db omnidirectional/directional speakers. No hum, no hiss, no heat that I or my wife worry about (and believe me she would). Many who listen say they don't sound like tube amps. . . they certainly don't sound like the "classic" tube amps I grew up with or first owned. To me they sound very much like the best of solid state and tube sound in one. And I've had very good luck buying tubes online, even on eBay. My system has really been "dialed in" by using another tube component, an eq unit that really allows me to compensate for room anomalies and mastering differences to an extent and tailor the sound in a very pleasing way. I've had a few audiophile friends bring over their solid state amps and they just don't do it for me. I'm very happy with the great sound I have, especially with excellent sources (the pre and amplification show me the quality of a source. . . I've gone through a number and somehow have afforded the best I've heard). Eager to hear your impressions of the 45 Stefan; I'm using a very different output tube type in mine, SV83 or 6P15-EV, Russian tubes pioneered for video use, very fast and clear.

I think all Ambassador Satch material that could be included was in the previous box--recorded in a theater with an invited audience, and additional applause added for the lp. This box will have studio material from Plays W.C. Handy, Plays Fats Waller, et al. From this page of Ricky Rickardi's blog is the information below: http://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2017/11/in-loving-memory-of-george-avakian.html And there WILL be more tributes. Maybe this isn’t the right time to formally announce this but Scott Wenzel and I have already gotten the ball rolling to do another Mosaic Records box on Louis’s Columbia STUDIO albums of the 1950s and 1960s. Yes, if you’re curious, it will contain tons of bonus tracks and previously unreleased material from Handy, Fats, the “Mack the Knife” session and more. We want to really start working on it in 2018 and the plan has always been to release it in 2019, The Avakian Centennial. We hoped that George could see the finished product but hell, the man lived it, and now we hope to make it the ultimate tribute to the work he did with his hero and his friend, Louis Armstrong.

The Columbia set already done was live material. This proposed one is not thirties but the later studio material.

http://www.vintagecornets.com/html/echo_cornets.htm

I really like this set. I've gone through the whole set so far twice. For no particular reason I think that I like disc 4 best. . . at least at the moment.

It's titled "God is More than Love can Ever Be" and is on Cosmic Myth Records.

I would like to point out that there are at least two "Real Gone" labels. The one that Dusty Groove is involved with, "Real Gone Music" is more recent and is a legitimate company that licenses titles for release and does a very good job. The other I know of is a PD label that does not license source material not release cds with great sonics.

PM sent about the O'Day.

Right. May be new mastering on some material.

From CDJapan Tracklisting DISC 1 1 VILIA (TAKE 3) ヴィリア (Take 3) 2 VILIA (TAKE 5) ヴィリア (Take 5) 3 UNTITLED ORIGINAL 11383 (TAKE 1) アンタイトルド・オリジナル11383 (Take 1) 4 NATURE BOY ネイチャー・ボーイ 5 IMPRESSIONS (TAKE 1) インプレッションズ (Take 1) 6 IMPRESSIONS (TAKE 2) インプレッションズ (Take 2) 7 IMPRESSIONS (TAKE 3) インプレッションズ (Take 3) 8 IMPRESSIONS (TAKE 4) インプレッションズ (Take 4) 9 UNTITLED ORIGINAL 11386 (TAKE 1) アンタイトルド・オリジナル11386 (Take 1) 10 UNTITLED ORIGINAL 11386 (TAKE 2) アンタイトルド・オリジナル11386 (Take 2) 11 UNTITLED ORIGINAL 11386 (TAKE 5) アンタイトルド・オリジナル11386 (Take 5) 12 ONE UP. ONE DOWN (TAKE 1) ワン・アップ、ワン・ダウン (Take 1) 13 ONE UP. ONE DOWN (TAKE 6) ワン・アップ、ワン・ダウン (Take 6) DISC 2 1 SLOW BLUES スロー・ブルース 2 THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL ゼイ・セイ・イッツ・ワンダフル 3 LUSH LIFE / Johnny Hartman ラッシュ・ライフ / ジョニー・ハートマン 4 MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE / Johnny Hartman マイ・ワン・アンド・オンリー・ラヴ / ジョニー・ハートマン 5 AUTUMN SERENADE / Johnny Hartman オータム・セレナーデ / ジョニー・ハートマン 6 DEDICATED TO YOU / Johnny Hartman デディケイテッド・トゥ・ユー / ジョニー・ハートマン 7 YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL / Johnny Hartman ユー・アー・トゥー・ビューティフル / ジョニー・ハートマン 8 AFTER THE RAIN アフター・ザ・レイン 9 DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM Dear Old Stockholm 10 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU (LIVE AT THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL. NEWPORT. RI. 7/7/1963) I Want To Talk About You (Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, 7/7/1963) DISC 3 1 MY FAVORITE THINGS (LIVE AT THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL. NEWPORT. RI. 7/7/1963) マイ・フェイヴァリット・シングス (Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, 7/7/1963) 2 IMPRESSIONS (LIVE AT THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL. NEWPORT. RI. 7/7/1963) Impressions (Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, 7/7/1963) 3 THE PROMISE (LIVE AT BIRDLAND JAZZCLUB. NEW YORK CITY. NY. 10/8/1963) ザ・プロミス (Live At Birdland Jazzclub, New York City, NY, 10/8/1963) 4 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU (LIVE AT BIRDLAND JAZZCLUB. NEW YORK CITY. NY. 10/8/1963) アイ・ウォント・トゥ・トーク・アバウト・ユー (Live At Birdland Jazzclub, New York City, NY, 10/8/1963) 5 AFRO-BLUE (LIVE AT BIRDLAND JAZZCLUB. NEW YORK CITY. NY. 10/8/1963) アフロ・ブルー (Live At Birdland Jazzclub, New York City, NY, 10/8/1963) 6 YOUR LADY ユア・レイディ 7 ALABAMA アラバマ Also available as a 5 LP set.

My sets arrived today Chris. Beautiful sets, well-packed. Thanks!

How many more times will I buy this material? One more time at least.

PM sent about 4 Mosaics Thad Jones - Complete Blue Note/UA/Roulette - MD3-172 - $35 Blue Mitchell - The Complete Blue Note Sessions - MD4-178 - $50 Curtis Fuller - The Complete Blue Note/United Artist Recordings - MD3-166 - $35 Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams - The Complete Blue Note Studio Sessions - MD4-194 - $50

Hi Doc. Yeah, I knew of that set, but it has dried up. . . discogs won't let anyone buy or sell it any longer either. I did what I shouldn't have last week: bought a used copy of the Big Blue. I should get the live material on a flash drive and I'm hoping I can get that onto cdr.

Amazon has a copy for more than we would like to pay.

On hold. Sold to digital guru Ted Smith.

I'm offering for sale the Arturo Toscanini "The Complete RCA Collection" box set from 2012. In near mint condition. I bought this when released, listened to a few discs, and it has sat on a shelf since, so I'm willing to part with it for someone who missed it's brief period of availability. $175 including media postage to a continental US address. PM me or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com if interested. Thanks!