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"The Leon Thomas Album" Flying Dutchman Records, CD

Louis Armstrong and the All Stars "Satchmo 1956" Decca Records, Universal Japan SHM-CD The cymbals sure are recorded hot but it works!

I don't have the Connoisseur release from Legacy but do have the original LP release and the earlier US cd with the different cover. Nice stuff, I like Betty, early, middle or late (and especially in the evening!)

One Blue Note often leads to another. Sonny Rollins "Night At the Village Vanguard" Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD.

Lee Morgan "The Procrastinator" Blue Note SHM-CD

I rewatched WestWorld HBO on blu-ray. Brilliant TV.

Lonnie Liston Smith "A Song for the Children" Columbia/Sony Japan CD

Must mention the excellent sound on this reissue. Spacey yet precise, atmospheric without gimmicks.

Jim Hall "Concierto" UHQCD from King Records of the RVG remastering of this CTI title. Have to admit it sounds good. There's tiny little bits of music that come across "better" on these UHQCD discs that make it worth buying my favorite titles again. . . . I do enjoy listening to different releases of the same title. That's just me.

This session by Lateef and Farmer has a 'seventies funky oddness to it but I really dig it. Lateef really was such a capable writer and leader and I LOVE his sax playing. This is the latest King Records cd release from Japan. Yusef Lateef "Autophysicpsychic" on CTI. Followed by Disc 3 of Michael Cosmic "Peace in the World"/Phill Musra Group "Creator Spaces" cd reissue on Now-Again Records.

What xybert said. I doubt that there are master tapes in the hand of this label. And putting these in chronological order is something easy to do to entice or confuse and to infer original sources. I haven't gone back to the Dragons to take a look but the other takes are probably there in those volumes. Fresh Sound also put out two four cd sets of Gullin material. . . another possible source. Hey if it sounds great, that's awesome!

I haven't heard this one. Warner Japan also reissued these two titles from Gullin on 24 bit cds this decade and they sound excellent. . . this could be "remastered" from those I suppose.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Analogue Productions SACD Followed by Wayne Shorter "Juju" Blue Note Universal SHM-SACD

Drums – Paul Humphrey, Ray Pounds* Electric Bass [Fender] – Chuck Rainey Electric Guitar – Arthur Adams Organ [Electric] – Charles Kynard Producer – Bob Shad Trombone, Bass Trombone – David Roberts (5), George Bohanon Trumpet, Flugelhorn – James Kartchner, Jerry Rusch* Charles Kynard, "Your Momma Don't Dance" Mainstream/Solid Records Japan CD FUNKY

This new Japanese Ultimate High Quality CD of Antonio Carlos Jobim "Stone Flower" CTI (RVG mastering).

Interesting new SHM-SACD from Universal Japan of Herbie Hancock's "Speak Like a Child" Blue Note. Very dynamic. . . but otherwise sounding a bit like an RVG mastering to me. (Which is not a terrible thing for me, I'm one of those few who have few problems with the RVG Editions). I have swapped out power tubes in my amp and am playing with my new Decware ZROCK2 so I don't have the cleanest "slate" at the moment for evaluating sonic character.

Johnny Hartman "The Voice that Is" Impulse! Analogue Prouctions SACD

Analogue Productions SACD . . .sounds amazing.

Grant Green, "Feelin' the Spirit" Blue Note RVG Edition Japan mini-LP

The title track will get your weekend started. Flora Puriim "Open Your Eyes You Can Fly"

Thanks for all your hard work on this reissue Mr. A. Wow.

Herbie Hancock "Empyrean Isles" Blue Note SHM-CD followed by Woody Shaw "International Trumpet Guild: Live"

Bobby Hutcherson "Four Seasons" Timeless Records cd (with George Cables, Herbie Lewis and Philly Joe Jones)

I met Chris Matthews a long time ago when he was a volunteer in Swaziland when my Dad was Peace Corps director. He was perhaps humbler then. . . .