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You'll be alright Aric. Next time you're in a cd shop, touch three Jelly Roll Morton cds and five Louis Armstrong cds. That should serve as an antidote.

Well, I could, based on my personal preferences, but that doesn't degrade the pleasure you're having!

MANY MORE HAPPY RETURNS!

Yes, some bright moments!

YO! MANY MORE

I can't honestly say I prefer a CD to a SACD of any one title, but some SACDs just don't sound as good as they potentially could, TO ME, and I don't know if that is because of the engineering, the source material or some other factor. Two that I feel didn't live up to their potential are Kind of Blue and Live/Evil. The Japanese DSD remastered cd I have of Kind of Blue is almost as good, a little different but in good ways. And the material on the Cellar Door box set sounds really really good, the two SACD set of Live/Evil I have doesn't necessarily sound much better. Oddly a few other Columbia/Sony SACDs sound fantastic even in comparison with really nice cd remasters. For example "For the First Time" and the great "Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy". . . .Fantasy SACDs sound considerably better than the cd counterparts from the same company, and I think the Love Supreme and John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman RVG remastered SACDs sound great.

I've got about 30 SACDs now, classical, jazz, rock. . . some sound spectacular. Some not so much. There's a lot of plain personal opinion in how we evaluate remasters. I really myself like Fenton, he's done amazing work, and I like Tarrantino and DeLancie and others. . . really like what the Sundazed Studios folk have been doing lately, and Jeff Irwin, etc. Still, and I'm not a blind RVG worshipper, but the work he's done on the RVGs of the last few years just has something, some immediacy and impact, that sets them apart from other work and I must say I really like them. I'm enjoying giving away previous cd issues of material that I'm now replacing with RVG editions to jazz curious persons.

Even if that engineer has ears that are 40-50 years older and now hears things differently (as we all do)? Well, if RVG's ears are as compromised as many infer, he has some really able help lately, because the RVGs of the last few years sound really good to me. Listening to "The Right Touch" right now. . .which is really an apt title for how this sounds! I think it's one of my favorite sounding Blue Notes!

Thanks I needed that.

WORD!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

Sheer genius that Kirk!

Both excellent sets! Best of luck!

Oh gosh. . . I think I play her Chronogical Classics (Asch, Circle, etc.) material most. . . just really like the way they are and flow. And I love the live Zodiac Suite stuff. And. . . I really like Zoning and Mary Lou's Mass and the solo stuff. . . . Well. . . . I'm a big fan. The forties stuff has an energy I really like. . . the latest stuff has so much passion and strength. . . the religious stuff has real heart. She was a monstrous talent.

No argument from me.

I wish the Pee Wee Russell session didn't sound so awful!

Fantastic music! I've had this music on vinyl and in several different cd versions, and kept the Masters of Jazz cd version (and the Keynote vinyl box version). Just doesn't get better than this. . . Pres. . .longtime favorite sessions.

Oy vey. Well, never was a Police fan. . . probably some fault of mine, I must have no listening talent.

I love all three of those cds. . . excellent music and excellent renditions and excellent recorded sound.

Hmmm. . . ."Inner Glow" I have no doubt you will really like. And I think you'll like "The View Within" as much as "Waiting". . . .Just a hunch.

Those are great cds those HEP Wilsons! Of course it includes the Holiday material, but there are many another great vocal and nonvocal track in these.

I DO think that Mosaic takes customer suggestions to heart and really thinks about the possibilities. At the time you sent the suggestion who would have thought that BMG and Sony would be one umbrella? (Well someone might have. . . ) It's scary in many ways, but does have benefits in the reissue game. . . .

I like both Strayton and Ellinghorn. A lot!

Hmmm. . . more stuff that I wish came out here (the Tristano) from the sanctioned rather than there. I've already got the Ra book. Interesting. I wouldn't say essential, but interesting. I haven't "read it" yet (there's a lot of artwork, not a lot of text).

Yes, now I remember. Back in the very early digital days.