trane_fanatic

I personally passed on the K2s of Coltrane & Evans on my huge 95 CD Concord purchase and went for the boxes instead. You gotta draw the line somewhere and the original masterings had decent sound if not as great as the K2s. I hate having the same material twice or three times, so I compromised.

How about Roscoe P?

I am no audiophile, but the channel separation seems a little off to me too along with the "distant" sound issues. It is very noticeable on headphones, but not so much on speakers. Wonder why RVG wasn't in on this session? Doctor's appt. maybe?

That description fits me to a tee. Believe me, I had a pleasant, amiable tone all through our phone conversation. She just sounded in a really bad mood.

Their customer service line that I called this morning is the worst. I had sent out an e-mail immediately after placing my order this weekend asking that several minor changes be made to it and they never responded even though I had sent it twice. Now they say it is too late. Then I asked about the free shipping on orders over $100 (mine was nearly $450) and they said it doesn't apply to this order even though their FAQs say different. http://concordmusicgroup.com/aboutus/?category=FAQ The lady on the phone was pretty stern and unfriendly about my questions and I didn't get much assistance at all.

The 93 CDs and 2 box sets I ordered over the weekend got a shipping confirmation today, so I guess they are going in reverse order.

Almost all? No. Some of them? Yes. I noticed a good cross-section of the regular OJC titles & K2s in the sale are being RVGed. The Ltd. Eds are the ones that will most likely fade into obscurity.

Well, here is my order below. This is really bad. A little under $442. After my recent Mosaic Select splurge & this, I am officially MF broke. I decided to hold off on the Coltrane & Evans K2s because all of the material is in the respective boxes already and know the sound quality will be slightly inferior to the remastered K2s, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. Also have some of the Miles, Dolphy, Montgomery & Dorham K2s, but grabbed all the other ones that were in the sale. Of course, the box is getting shipped straight to work to avoid trouble with the family. Getting it home, however... that is a dilemma. *sigh* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gene Ammons Boss Tenor (K2) Cannonball Adderley/Milt Jackson Things Are Getting Better (K2) Nat Adderley A Little New York Midtown Music Chet Baker Chet (K2) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe (K2) Chet Baker In New York (K2) Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings It Could Happen To You (K2) Walter Bishop, Jr. Trio The Walter Bishop, Jr. Trio Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Caravan (K2) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Ugetsu (K2) Veda Brown/Judy Clay Private Numbers Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz at Oberlin (K2) Jaki Byard Freedom Together Teddy Charles New Directions Teddy Charles Teddy Charles & Prestige Jazz John Coltrane The Prestige Recordings (BOX) Ted Curson Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below Miles Davis Bag's Groove (K2) Miles Davis Collectors' Items (K2) Miles Davis All Stars Walkin' (K2) Miles Davis Quintet Relaxin' With Miles (K2) John Dennis New Piano Expressions, Vol. 1 Walt Dickerson A Sense Of Direction Ray Draper Quintet Tuba Sounds Kenny Drew Kenny Drew Trio Kenny Drew Plays The Music of Harry Warren and Harold Arlen Duke Ellington The Ellington Suites (K2) Bill Evans The Complete Riverside Recordings (BOX) Betty Everett The Fantasy Years Eddie Floyd Soul Street Red Garland Red Garland's Piano (K2) Matthew Gee Jazz By Gee! Benny Golson Stockholm Sojourn Honi Gordon Honi Gordon Sings Vince Guaraldi Cast Your Fate to the Wind (K2) Hampton Hawes Trio Hampton Hawes Trio, Vol. 1 (K2) Hampton Hawes Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes/The Trio: Vol. 3 (K2) Hampton Hawes Something Special Hampton Hawes Quartet Piano: East/West Jimmy Heath Swamp Seed Joe Hicks Something Special Elmo Hope Hope Meets Foster Elmo Hope Hopefull Milt Jackson Quartet The Milt Jackson Quartet (K2) Milt Jackson/Wes Montgomery Bags Meets Wes! (K2) Milt Jackson Bags' Bag Milt Jackson For Someone I Love Bobby Jaspar Quartet Bobby Jaspar/George Wallington JFK Quintet New Jazz Frontiers From Washington Taft Jordan Mood Indigo Kessel /Brown./ Manne The Poll Winners Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet Shelly Manne My Fair Lady (K2) Ken McIntyre Stone Blues Jackie McLean 4, 5 and 6 (K2) Charles McPherson From This Moment On! Modern Jazz Quartet Concorde (K2) Modern Jazz Quartet Django (K2) Thelonious Monk Misterioso (K2) Thelonious Monk Monk's Music (K2) Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (K2) Thelonious Monk Thelonious Himself (K2) Thelonious Monk Trio Thelonious Monk Trio (K2) Charles McPherson From This Moment On! Booker T. & The MGs The MG's Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar (K2) Wes Montgomery Full House (K2) Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk Mulligan Meets Monk (K2) Art Pepper Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (K2) Art Pepper Smack Up (K2) Art Pepper Ballads By Five Art Pepper Winter Moon Prestige All-Stars Earthy Prestige All-Stars Olio Prestige All-Stars Roots Freddie Redd Trio San Francisco Suite Dewey Redman Musics Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (K2) Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (K2) Sonny Rollins The Sound of Sonny (K2) Sonny Rollins Quartet Tenor Madness (K2) Helyne Stewart Love Moods Carla Thomas Sugar George Wallington Quintet Jazz for The Carriage Randy Weston Trio Get Happy Lem Winchester Sextet Lem's Beat Gerry Wiggins Wiggin' Out Randy Weston Trio Get Happy Jimmy Woods Awakening! Various Artists Jumpin' & Jivin' Various Artists Going Back: A Collection of Rhythm & Blues/Soul Various Artists Stax Revue Live at The / Ballroom Various Artists The Stax Soul Brothers Various Artists Sweet Soul Music: The Stax Groups

Great sale! What are all the OJC Ltd. Ed. titles in this sale? Edit - Scott: I see, thanks.

Hmm... the $ increase deadline is past and the first 20 are still at $39. Just ordered the Tolliver, Moncur & Weston yesterday. My first Selects ever.

Got mine the other day with the Tower "Tax Day" Sale. Written in red ink on the inside cover of the booklet - #2387.

Didja get one, SS1?

Some folks have too much $.

Apparently so. I wonder how many sets are left overall in the Mosaic warehouse.

Just got my Johnson box yesterday. There is no # written in the inside front cover where the line for it is, for whatever reason, but the receipt says it is set # 4861.

Just dropped my 122 bucks on this set. The Johnson set is my 1st formal purchase from Mosaic, I had purchased a Byrd/Adams set through eBay last year. That is about the extent of my Mosaic collection so far. Hope that I will enjoy it as much as you guys!

FWIW... http://www.freakemporium.com/site/ace_deletions.cgi

RIP, Mr. McLean. I first got hip to him on Sonny Clark's "Cool Struttin'". The greats just keep going. It is a sad fact of life. *sigh*

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060303-6310.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New radio Broadcast Flag legislation seeks to control innovation, eliminate fair use 3/3/2006 11:40:14 AM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher The radio broadcast flag is gaining momentum. House Representative Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) is introducing legislation that would establish a broadcast flag for audio and also change the way in which the music industry licenses radio itself. The Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of 2006, H.R. 4861, is quite a shocker. Or maybe not, depending on what brand of cynicism you like with your afternoon tea. The bill would require all manufacturers of electronics to get approval from the FCC for any device that would enable the recording of digital radio. That approval would essentially be contingent on whether or not the device obeys DRM limitations on its capabilities. Those limitations take a page from the latest attack on fair use: the notion of "customary historic use." The idea is simple: lock down what was one permitted as a thing of the past, and make it clear that past "fair uses" of content have no bearing on future use. In short, they seek to short circuit the way law works in the United States, and to simply trash historical precedent. Case in point: the bill in question seeks to stop not "illegal" uses, but "unauthorized" uses. The problem with this is that the two are not synonymous. Fair Use can be described as a collection of uses for which explicit authorization is not required by definition. That the entire point: you shouldn't require authorization to do things like copy part of a book, make a backup of your CDs, record a tune off of the radio, or anything else. Hence Fair Use, hence our legally defined rights to time shift and record audio. This bill not only wants to stop what is clearly illegal (say, recording and redistributing for a profit), but it also seeks to stop anything that's not authorized. And do you expect the music industry to authorize anything for free? Of course not. These are the same people who are now trying to argue that ripping CDs is not authorized, either. The RIAA's position is simple on the surface. The ability to record digital radio, they claim, would result in stifling the industry's creativity, because the money would dry up. As we have reported before, they fear that digital radio could essentially "turn radio into download services" (without the cost) if a recording free-for-all is allowed. Of course, people can already record off of the radio, and music still sells. They maintain that with the quality that digital will bring, manufacturers will rush to produce products aimed at creating high quality music collections from radio broadcasts, and consumers will eat it up. It certainly is a possibility. The RIAA is famous for not facing the music, so it would be superfluous to point out that their problems also stem from music being too expensive and not particularly compelling. For now, it looks like they're banking on Rep. Ferguson leading the charge in the House. For the moment, I doubt that this legislation has legs. One major challenge it faces will come from the broadcasters themselves. Many of them have already invested in equipment for digital radio, and have told members of Congress that it would be too costly to go back and add support for DRM and encryption. They're not sure it's really necessary, either. Dan Halyburton, a senior VP at Susquehanna Radio, told a Senate committee that the threat remains to be demonstrated. Mr. Halyburton is correct, but let's not be coy here: the RIAA and MPAA have spilled Valdeez-like quantities of ink over threats that have yet to be realized to this day.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/audio-b...home-recording/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It may be a while since we've heard anything new from Congress about the Broadcast Flag's radio counterpart, the Audio Flag, but rest assured, your elected representatives haven't stopped thinking about it. And the latest incarnation of the law,the Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of 2006, H.R. 4861, is a bill you might want to actually give a perusal. Turns out that, when it comes to digital radio, the bill basically takes away any "fair use" rights you might have assumed you had, and lets the record industry decide what you can and can't do with your radio. Want to record a radio show so you can listen to it later? Sorry, not unless the record industry says you can. Want to tape a couple of songs, so you can listen to them again before deciding whether to buy them? Forget about it. In fact, the law as written would require manufacturers to get FCC approval if they wanted to includ recording functions in their digital radios. Of course, this is still just a bill, yes, it's only a bill, which means there's time to make some changes. And, as we've seen, there are at least some Senators who have doubts about giving the record industry even more control over what we can and can't listen to. Maybe teaching them all how to use an iPod isn't such a bad idea after all.

RIP. It's a shame. He was scheduled to play a date at the SFJAZZ Spring Season too. Same thing happened with Oscar Brown, Jr. last year.

Sly's personal site... http://www.phattadatta.com/

I love my Zen, so many more features & great price.

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It made me sad. He looked in bad shape for the few seconds he was on stage. Was that a real golden mohawk by the way?