Cliff Englewood

I think most of those ZYX Fantasy 20-Bit's are pre "Copy Control" era.

I never had any problems with playing back Copy Controlled Blue Note's up until the recent "Dial S For Sonny" re-issue, as mentioned in the another post. However I never play them via a PC or Car Stereo. Could it be that there is just a problem with the Euro version of "Dial S For Sonny" ? Maybe Kevin Bresnahan, with his "Cuscana Connection" could find out ? And just for the record, you don't need any special type of PC or Software to copy these so called "Copy Controlled" CDs.

For more excellent Grant Green/Horace Parlan, check out Stanley Turrentine's "Up At Minton's" Vols 1 and 2. Plenty of that Blusey-repeated-note-type-thang you speak of. Hard to know who influnenced who, but as I think this would have been their first recorded meeting, it shows that they both pretty much had their own sound/style developed at this early stage. The Parlan Mosaic really does sound like a must have.

I can confirm that "Dial S For Sonny" was pretty much unplayable, it sounded like a scratch on a Record, just a click/bump/pop every 5 or 6 seconds on most of the tracks, not all of them which I thought was a bit odd. I don't think it had anything to do with the Copy Protection either, it sounds like a flaw in the tranfer or mastering process. I ended up returning it, but I wasn't all that impressed with it to be honest, I had two of the tracks from the "Best Of..", without any surface noise, but the rest was only OK. Obviously I would have held on to it if it wasn't flawed, but the Store in question had the 2CD RVG of "MEET YOU AT THE JAZZ CORNER OF THE WORLD" fairly cheap so I exchanged it for that. Nothing wrong with the sound on that one. Other than Birland not getting their Piano sorted out.

The Conn in question was Lee Morgan's "Sonic Boom".