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No. Wrong Betty. Bette. You can purchase the MP3 versions of these already on amazon.

This is Sony's repricing and phasing out (deleting) of the titles that are left in their Legacy series. This album was NOT remastered after 1992. In fact, I gave up waiting and bought a Japanese version. The Weather Report albums Weather Report, I Sing the Body Electric, Live in Tokyo, Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Tale Spinnin', Black Market, Heavy Weather, 8:30 and Mr. Gone were all "DSD remastered" according to CD Japan (scroll down to "description"). I have two of those remasters, Mysterious Traveller and Tale Spinnin', and they were both "DSD remastered" by Mark Wilder at the Sony BMG Music Studios, NYC. As far as I know Mr Wilder remastered all the albums mentioned above. I didn't check if any of them were released in the United States. Some of the Weather Report albums were indeed remastered for release in the States. Heavy Weather, Tale Spinnin' and Black Market among them. I believe there were 6 in total. A check of each album at Allmusic.com should reveal which ones have more than one release year. Yes, but not with DSD mastering. They sound good though.

Cool! Will be fun to get these; I ordered mine from CDuniverse.

I'm confused (I'm often confused). Is this from the same session? As far as I know this was the only material previously released from the sessions. On Roulette, under Billy's name.

Great stuff!

I know my life has "oooled" in general but over the last decade I really have lost a "spark" for Austin. I'm here because my friends and the person I love are here, but to be honest I'd relocate if that weren't the case. This is not the same city I used to be excited about. It's not as affordable, nor as easy to get around in, nor as entertaining a city as it was in the eighties. Still, I'm sure to a visitor it can be a gas. I have enjoyed Dallas when I've been there, which may have been due more to the great company I enjoyed there than the city itself, though I do enjoy the museums immensely. That goes for Houston too, the museums are great. Houston was colored by my situation: I spent a lot of time there with my late wife for her treatment, it was not fun, at all, in that aspect, living in an "extened stay" place for over 15 months, trying to keep my job in Austin by "telecommuting," being a caregiver and a husband at once. And in Houston I kept feeling that there was little more than asphalt and concrete. . . Austin and Dallas seemed to have planned more green in the mix. Not sure what you would make of this bebop, but hope you have fun in Texas. Hopefully it will be coller for you from here on in.

Thanks to Mike Weil posting a cover image, I discovered that there are two new Betty Davis releases on the horizon. "Is This Love Or Desire", a never before released "fourth" album from Betty, will be released by Light in the Attic Records on October 6, 2009. Also on that date a reissue of "Nasty Gal" will appear. I'm stoked. Betty Davis has some clothes! http://tondro.com/RagsImages/Jul1970-13-14-15-16-17.pdf

Royalties go to a great cause, in perpetuity. I've preorderd one. Interested to hear it. I hate Xmas albums, but maybe not this one(?)

I prefer "Rubber Soul" to "Revolver." Just holds up better as an album to me. Pepper's does too, and it may be my very favorite. I like bits of the later ones very much, but not whole albums as much. I think finally enough time passed after my hearing Beatles way way way too much (they were THE SHITTE while I was in boarding school, everytime someone was playing records, someone tryied to put a Beatles one on, and when I returned from Africa all over the Cleveland airwaves) to enjoy them again. Whew!

I also agree. Mitch was jazz, and Jimi knew it. Amazing drummer.

A friend and I once changed out a transmission in a 1970 Cadillac Coupe. Luckily the crazy German I was working for let us do this in the shop with the crane, torches, etc. Biggest job I ever took on and I was very pround when we had finished. Sore and grimiest I've ever been too. I'll never do it again, BUT I'm glad I did it.

Hm. Err, ... ... you've got something there. I just don't know what. It's definitely far too straight to have anything to do with my roots, and it's too middle of the road to really be a genuine German one, so, I guess, I would go with the Northern European influence. P.S.: It's funny how these threads get derailed once in a while. I like the derailments and returns. Very conversation like!

Yes. That would.

Poor Duke Pearson, he doesn't get any respect. . . . (I really like his Select).

Well, let's not overlook. . . . The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. . . .

Hmmm. . . .I need help . . . medium German?

Do this: a) Walk to next mirror (unless you removed them all ... as I did); b) and have a look at your profile. c) Large nose = common ancestors very likely! Welcome to the family. d) Stubby, average ... something = common ancestors not bloody likely. Medium nose. . . so . . . maybe not likely ancestors, but a possibility. Lots of ancestors from Moravia known, some from Scotland and Ireland. . . as with all of us many others. Kindred spirits in some ways: very likely.

No, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn we share a few ancestors. . . .

Quite listenable. I think you'll find them enjoyable.

I agree with you Deus. I severely dislike the drumming style of those drummers you mention, and Ringo rules as a small rock band drummer, and was able to lend magnificent structural support for the varied styles that Beatles songs ecompass.

Bing not a jazz singer? What? Bing was a jazz singer before the others you list, and before so many others. I consider these all to be jazz singers. They did pop as well. So did so many jazz players. In the earlier decades the boundaries were less firm and unscalable. It's really an eighties and nineties thing that jazz is so segrated as a genre. . . . I'm not a fan of Sinatra, for many reasons. I love Peggy and June. I'm a red-blooded American guy, why wouldn't I? But ask me "Who's your favorite jazz signer?" And I might say Pops, or Jackson (Teagarden), or Fats, or Billie or Carmen or Betty. But the real answer may be Ray Nance.

Nicely put. Listened to the White Album (stereo remaster) today. Brought back lots of memories. Sounded great.

As others have mentioned, the Green set is great. I enjoy it more every time I listen to this music. If you don't have it and can order, take a chance.

Just shows you what the cost of a REAL HIGH END set is. Speakers can cost as much as Ferarris. I'm on the same road as "neveronfreitag". . . .