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Try the new version of "Abbey Road", I think you will be pleasently suprised. I purchased "Abbey Road", "The Beatles", "Revolver" and "Past Masters", and they are all a great improvement over the original 1987 CD's. Id love to hear "A Hard Day's Night", "Revolver" and "Seargent Pepper" in mono, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend over $200 to get three CD's I want, and 11 that I don't. Well it's less than eleven, but I know what you mean. I would not be at all surprised if mono editions are released separately in the next year or three. I would say that the new stereo versions of "The Beatles" and "Let It Be" are also excellent and should tell you right away what care went into ths mastering and restoration in this series.

I have a large print of the cover art of the Miles Davis and Gil Evans Columbia Studio Recordings box set ("won" when the set first came out, sent a postcard in to Columbia and was shocked to actually receive this) and I have six wonderful drawings by former member (well he doesn't post any longer) Don Van Selus, all gifts from Don and beautiful! Don's darawings are jazz portraituures (Roney, Shorter, Ellington, Hubbard, Green and Peterson) done from photographs. My late wife had the Miles-Gil print framed . . cost me 300 plus! But it's beautiful.

1. Did you grow up in a household with classical music around you? Yes, definitely. My father played lots of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart. . . and Gershwin. And P.D.Q. Bach. This is the primary reason I've come to classical. 2. Did you learn an instrument and experience classical music that way? No. . . . I learned an instrument as unconventionally as possible and never applied it to any classical music. 3. How does classical music relate to your love of jazz? A secondary interest, a primary interest (with jazz in second place) or part of the seamless web of music? Part of my general interest in music, it falls behind jazz, and blues, and classic rock and Brazilian musics.

Cool, you got some good stuff.

Evan, get as many of the Rearward reissues of Sahib Shihab as you can.

Sounds mighty fine to me, too! There's lots of great Jimi amidst the Douglas produced material. Some of this has been officially released since then without his "substitutions," etc. More will follow I'm sure. IN MY OPINION you can't go wrong, material wise, with any of the official releases. And I like them sonically; they at least mirror the LP mixes, and to my ears and on my system they sound great.

I've seen ITMFL, 2046 and Blueberry Nights and love them all. Great selections of music to augment the wonderful cinematography. And all those beautiful women!

Well, they have done these about once a decade. So quit whining.

Copied this, about two friends, to send to a third friend. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33566

No skipping on my copy. . . .

Yes! The illustration is perfect for this!

I want one. . . .

You're not supposed to think that hard! The road to hot guitar playing!

Just got my copy in. I'm going to put aside what I'm reading (The Neandertal Enigma) and I never do that.

Mine too. I expect mine today.

Many happy happy returns Marcello!

Thanks for sharing. You're looking well Chris.

I know you meant Hackensack. Thanks I did.

Some already have theirs. JETman tells me the remastering sounds GREAT. I may get mine later today, but most likely tomorrow.

Listening to disc 1 now. Mating Call sounds better to me on the RVG, but sounds good here, this session sounds to me as it always did. It IS a slightly different sounding album than some of it's contemporaries. There is less depth to the sound than some other Englewood Cliff recordings. The other discs in the set should sound better.

Well, it will be interesting to hear what Sony will do with these in the Legacy series. My guess is that they may not please either of you.

Well I never listen with headphones if I can help it. I think these Kramer releases sound so much better than any earlier cd release it's not funny. They sound like the music I remember, while the MCA ones sound like something different.

I like it. I think you will too.