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Thanks for straightening that out, it's been a while since that cd has seen the light of day.

Patience. I think there's more to come.

They are tying in to the Newport Festival which will have a 60th anniversary tribute of some sort to the reknown '55 festival appearance by Miles that led to his Columbia signing and subsequent huge fame. I am puzzled by the '69 full appearance here but at least it was a DVD before and is CD here--not everyone transfers audio from one format to another (I sure don't). And perhaps a full release of the '75 is planned and this is just a teaser to represent that part of the Newport related material. As for what is holding them back. . . my guess is two main factors. One. . . CDs are just not a priority the way they certainly were twenty years ago when Miles CDs were huge news and huge promotions etc. And two. . . I suspect the family has different ideas than the record label and also their pecuniary ideas seem to offer little incentive to the label.

I don't know why this would rule out anything! I think it's a good idea. After two volumes of 'lectric Miles, they came up with a catch all concept to cover a 'fifties, 'sixties and 'sixties string of shows, something for everyone. Sony doesn't care if stuff has been out on bootleg before, that's the point of this series, to encompass bootleg material. And there's plenty of other stuff from '71 to '75 that can be used in future sets. I have more than one hundred bootlegs myself and there are many many shows in great sound that could feed this series for more than a decade. We just have to see if Sony can keep their reissue department and the estate interested.

Hope it's a great one!

Many happy happy returns!

There's supposedly more to it, including one of the discs as a DVD. From a London member at the Steve Hoffman forum: Looks like this definitely contains Newport 55, Dietikon 71 (one or both sets?), and New York 1 July 75. As for the rest, apparently there's something from Berlin and something from Summer 69. Newport 69 & Berlin 69 (DVD) have already been released but I assume one or both will be on there.

Next release: I didn't see this one coming: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/miles-davis-at-newport-a-four-disc-set-coming-in-july/?_r=0

No, that's not what I am saying. What I will say is that I listened to this cd a few times while doing other things and did not hear anything that made me think this was an LP transfer, it sounded better than the two earlier cds I had, and I really like it.

Well, this SHM-CD is the Redbook copy to get then as it sounds best here to me, few lp artifacts to draw attention to themselves. A great Blue Note album however sourced.

I have it. and have spun it a few times, haven't sat down and given it a real analytical listen. I have no way of "confirming" its source but to me it does not sound particularly like a needle drop. If it is, it is better done than the two previous cds.

Japan has a system that works well for their market, and little interest in other markets. . . . I don't always understand what they do, don't have enough information, but they have a strategy and implement it well.

http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Album-Collection-Glenn-Gould/dp/B00UOFCNOC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1430258699&sr=1-1&keywords=Glenn+Gould+Complete

Your own ears are your own confirmation. If it sounds better to you, it is better for your listening.

Good news! Looking forward to this one.

Bernie Grundman transfers feature bonus tracks on the US released cd sets from last year fyi. Personally I doubt these new reissues use new masterings. . . .I think you're going to discover a lot are RVGs or the earlier 24 bit masterings that appeared before the 75th anniversary series that many have complained about. Doesn't seem as if anyone here has a Blue Note Japan connection. Perhaps someone could query Michael Cuscuna.

I just love these Parker novels.

I agree, there is music here that will languish in obscurity longer, and shouldn't.

I don't have answers to that. Bernie Grundman seems to be transfering the master tapes into high resolution digital. Some of these seem to be sold as high resolution downloads. The Blue Note releases from the US last year (Miles, Monk, Brown, Coltrane) seem to use these transfers mastered by other engineers. There are some who believe that these transfers are used by Japanese engineers to master the SHM-CD releases from Japan.

I happen to like RVGs for the most part, they sound like real music to me more often than not (as opposed to the TOCJ warm record sound). But I do really like these SHM-CDs.

Yes, that was a good finale. Lots of balls up in the air! Now watching The Shield Season 5. Surprising how much I like that show.

I have a Patton and a Roach that I did a brief comparison on when they arrived. The new cds have a crisper, more detailed sound, and a more spacious sound stage presentation. They lack that warm presentation many like in the early Japanese series (and that I find a bit dull). I think if you in general enjoy the kind of qualities that recent Japanese remasterings bring to Blue Note and other labels you would consider the new ones a small step up. If you particularly like the TOCJ sound as many do there probably isn't a real need to buy the new ones.

They should have gotten Pee Wee Marquette for half a motherfucker of an lp.

With the Jazz World celebrating 100 years of Lady Day's birth, and when no new musical material seemed to be possibly added to the singer's large and wonderful output, Uptown Records presents this collection of 2-CDs devoted to Billie, on which various previously unknown broadcast recordings come to light. The subtitle speaks about Holiday's impossibility to work in New York clubs during most of those years, due to losing her cabaret card (a document issued by the New York police) because of her problems with drugs and alcohol. The broadcasts present her in various different venues, in America and abroad, and with a diversity of accompanying musicians. But what's most remarkable here, as it couldn't be otherwise, is Billie's voice. The program presents new versions of songs from her usual repertoire, but also a few rarities, such a 1948 Los Angeles reading of her classic but not so often recorded “Strange Fruit” (that program also includes the rarely heard “Maybe You'll Be There”), and a 1949 version throughout and sound quality is quite good considering the rarity of these documents. An amazing discovery. CD 1 Shrine Auditorium Concert, Los Angeles, December 14, 1948 [1-6]: Billie Holiday BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) BOBBY TICKER (p) JOHN LEVY (b) PHIL HAVER (d) [7-13]: Red Norvo All Stars RED NORVO (vib) NEAL HEFTI (tp) HERBIE STEWARD (cl, ts) JIMMY ROWLES (d) ROBERT "IGGY" SHEVAK (b) ROY "BLINKE" GAMER (d) [14-18]: Billie Holiday with Her Trio & Red Norvo All Stars RED NORVO (vib) NEAL HEFTI (tp) HERBIE STEWARD (cl, ts) JIMMY ROWLES (p) ROBERT "IGGY" SHEVAK (b) ROY "BLINKIE" GARNER (d) BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) BOBBY TUCKER (p) JOH LEVY (b) PHIL HAVER (d) CD 2 [1-2] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p) The Frank Brookhouser Show, WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, January 30, 1951 [3-10] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p), RED MITCHELL (b), ELAINE LEIGHTON (d) “Jazz Club USA” Tour in France, Palais de Breaux Arts, Brussels, January 24, 1954 [11-15] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p), JIMMIE WOODE (b), MARQUIS FOSTER (d) The Hit Hat, Boston, MA., March 7, 1954 [16-18] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) Band Perssonel Not Identified The Steve Allen Tonight Show. NBC-TV, NYC, February 10, 1956 [19-22] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CORKY HALE (p), JULES MERTAU (b), BOB NEEL (d) Stars of Jazz TV Program, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1956 [23-24] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), PAUL QUINICHETTE (ts), CARL MARK (p) SAM SAFFINI (b), DOMINIC SIMONETTA (d) NBC Monitor Broadcast from Mister Kelly's, Chicago IL, March 24, 1957 TRACKLIST CD 1 01. Good Morning Heartache 02. Lover Man 03. You're Driving Me Crazy 04. Maybe You'll Be There 05. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone 06. Strange 07. Russian Lullaby 08. Bop ! 09. Sealed witn A Kiss 10. Medley: Embraceable You / Unidentified Bass Feature 11. Laura 12. Adios 13. The Man I Love 14. My Man 15. Miss Brown to You 16. Them There Eyes 17. No More 18. I Love My Man CD 2 01. Lover Man 02. Miss Brown to You 03. He's Funny That Way 04. All of Me 05. My Man 06. Them There Eyes 07. I Cried For You 08. Don't Explain 09. Fine and Mellow 10. What A Little Moonlight Can Do 11. Blue Moon 12. All Of Me 13. Tenderly 14. Them There Eyes 15. Wollow Weep For Me 16. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 17. Steve Allen Interview 18. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance with You 19. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 20. I Love My Man 21. My Man 22. Sign Off 23. Good Morning Heartache 24. You Better Go Now

Hope it was a great one Mark! Many happy happy returns.