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I'm listening to Elvin myself as sideman on this excellent Joe Henderson date:

I have been buying all the Basie and Joe Williams and Teagarden and Glenn and a few other discs in the new Warner series and rely like the mastering. Very clear and "quick" sounding. Nice frequency balance. I hope they continue with the Roulette and Roost and Jubilee catalogs!

The new SHM-CD from Warner Japan. Man these Warner Japan SHM-CDs sound great.

I hear you. . . but that universe doesn't exist. In the first bloom of my manic collecting in the 'eighties I might have thought so as the compact disc ramp up included the reissue of so many titles. . . but this century jazz returns to unpopularity it seems, and even less so for me when I have moved from Austin to rural North East Ohio. In my day to day life I don't encounter anyone in person who has a passion for any of the music I have a passion for. It's hard to even imagine a universe where Mosaic profited and prospered.

I don't want them to end, I share their passion. I've bought every set in their catalog for a decade with the exception of vinyl Miles Davis sets that I now wish I HAD bought. And own most of the sets from the previous catalog of the label. I'll support them til I can no longer if they are around to support. I hope they are.

This is a great point. Mosaic started off as the little record company that could where the big labels couldn't. It worked for a long while. And the mission made sense for a long while. Now the whole industry has experienced a huge change and Mosaic is swept along with the waves of change, less structurally sound to weather as is. I think most of the mission is accomplished, a lot more than when a certain president stood on an aircraft carrier deck and made a proclamation. One original owner is gone, the other has slowed down other efforts outside of the label and is of a retirement age. The company is not a little independent any longer, and yet being half-owned by a major still doesn't help them morph into a 21st century company offering non-physical products. It's no shame if it doesn't go much further forward, I'll still treasure my many sets and view the company as a fond favorite.

The new SHM-CD from Warner Japan. Boy is this beautiful music. . . and well remastered.

New Sony budget reissue 2 cd set that features 2014 DSD remastering. Sound is very good.

New Sony budget reissue 2 cd set that features 2014 DSD remastering. Sound is awesome.

Yes it sucks royally. I feel for my niece Louisa because i lost my wife nearly ten years ago (will be ten years this October) and we were both 52, too young. But I had 18 years with my wife, not 18 days, and I had two years battling the disease to get used to the idea . . . this last bout, the only one with her in his life, lasted only two months. I hope one day they find a cure. Won't be in our lifetime.

Yes, she's an excellent dancer. . . so sad lately though, she lost her husband to his third bout of brain cancer (he had cancer at 16, at some point in his twenties and then finally 32) and they were only married 18 days. Cancer sucks. . .

My niece Louisa dancing in NYC on Sunday in a dance dedicated to her late husband Johnny Cathcart.

And so the hook with this new one is that the stereo is mixed with both modernity and the mono mix (as representing Beatles' input) in mind. It's pretty successful in my opinion. But no one who has lived with the album for decades. . . needs it.

The SHM-CD

I love this recording!

The Blu-Spec CD2 issue. Gosh this sounds good today.

I thought it was an entertaining season myself. Not quite as good as the other two in many ways, but worth watching, especially once you got into the second half. Interesting article: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/22/15833772/fargo-finale-recap-season-3-review-somebody-to-love

Sad morning. My beautiful and talented 26 year old niece, a dancer and dance teacher in NYC, married on June 4 her one and only love, a talented film documentarian of 32 who had battled brain cancer twice in his early life, and right before the wedding had begun treatment for a brain tumor a third time. Radiation had failed to halt its growth and chemo had begun. . .but he passed away last night. Sad that they had so little time together in a new life. I know her heart is broken, they found each other, were so sillily in love, the good happy love, and now it's extinguished. I reached for this, even though his mother called him Johnny.

I've always enjoyed the "sound" of this one too. Record sounds this way as well.

This week it's "Spanish Mary" from "Lost on the River: the New Basement Tapes"

The SHM-CD