jazzbo

Watching Spartacus final season, and about to watch the third season of Luther (all four episodes on the DVR!) Been watching Hell on Wheels as well, which is an entertaining AMC show.

I do too.

I find the balance is often poor on live tracks but it must be vastly more encouraging for the musicians. That can be true, but for me if the music is strong, balance issues take a back seat. The Monterey cd that I mention in my first post is very well-recorded.

I agree. Love that SACD.

Good news.

The Beehive owner seems truly resistant to reissuing, I'm sure there have been a few opportunities and we've never had any cds or even lp reissues. I'm not holding my breath!

I agree John, this seems shockingly risky in some ways, but it is a new direction that Mosaic can go, seventies small label jazz that hasn't had a big US cd presence. If only they could do a Beehive box!

Curious about why not "live." Some of the live is the best.

Lately I've been listening over and over to this one: Very satisfying. Nice stereo sound as well. This is my absolute "go to" All Stars disc, I can't get enough of this one. The first All Stars I ever owned on LP, and have two cd and one SACD editions as well. This one just has a great joyous groove to it, a working band having fun in the studio.

Nice.

They have already done some of the lps in mono and plan to do the remainder. Not as a box set though, at least not yet.

They have released some vinyl already and are planning to release the remaining vinyl. But no vinyl in this "box set." Haven't heard anything about how the vinyl grooves are cut. I would guess in a conventional manner or someone would have been squawking about it.

I'll have to try and listen again, been a while since I listened to this (really good) Japanese cd. Good possibility it is a Wurlitzer. I had one of those, the only musical instrument I've ever had stolen (but it was an inside job by a roommate on his way out and I didn't have it very secure from house members). Miss it. When you really pounded on that sucker it rang out!

I skipped the '90 but I'm in for LOM.

That would perhaps be the best bet. What's remarkable is that I can't even recall such an early recording of a electric piano that sounds like a Fender Rhodes. Were they (Rhodes pianos) even manufactured by 1961? Yes. From wikipedia: 1946-1965: Harold Rhodes subsequently founded The Rhodes Piano Corporation and introduced the Pre-Piano at NAMM 1946.[6] In 1959, Rhodes entered a joint venture with Leo Fender to manufacture the instruments under a company named Fender & Rhodes. The partnership lasted for six years with the model marketed as the Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, a 32-note version with only the low range of the piano, accounting for the bulk of the sales. The Fender Rhodes Celeste was a similar keyboard covering the midrange of the piano, and electric pianos with tube amplifiers were prototyped at the time. The Piano 73 would become known as the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, with an amplifier cabinet used as a base for supporting the piano keyboard.[5] I agree thought that it's unusual to hear one on recodigns of this vintage. Usually I hear Wurlitzer sounds on those.

Possibly Haygood Hardy?

That's how I understand it too. I have a mono button on both my preamp and my phono preamp.

As Hans says, you won't get a pure mono signal, and you won't get the mono mix. Flurin, shouldn't be a problem. With mono lps you can often get less surface noise played with a stereo cartridge but a mono'd signal.

Not the same thing.

Well I have a few beat up copies of a few of these in mono and in my opinion the mix and sound is overall great, I'm looking forward to this. Maybe they are milking the collectors but that's their job to sell records, and this is an interesting way to get more Miles (who sells) out there. And it's not exorbitantly priced especially from amazon europe.

Right now the total including shipping to the US is about 55 dollars.

Check out the amazon.co.uk price if interested in this set, much cheaper than amazon US.

Lon, Thanks... when you say "B Stock" does that mean used? According to PS Audio a new P300 is now around $2500. Thanks Bebop. Of course the 2500 "P300" is not a P300 but a newer more sophisticated model. The model that I got for 1000 was a "B Stock" Power Plant Premier, which was also a more sophisticated model than the P300, listed for 1995, and is no longer made.