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Why is all this high blood pressure happening? Is it just age?

I already own a pair. They're nice for small speakers - accurate, attractive sound. A little deficient in the bass, but then, they are small. The ones I already have have a nice touch: the aux-in port also accepts an optical audio plug.

Thanks for the tip! My son's ready to graduate to a decent pair of speakers, and these will be fine for him to play his iPod through.

Orrin Keepnews in the liner notes for Monk And Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings: "(Bob Weinstock) was under particular pressure from Red Garland to record his good friend and Davis bandmate (Coltrane), and so, without an excessive amount of enthusiasm, Weinstock had offered Coltrane a modest two-year deal and it had been accepted." In regards to the initial posting, what's probably more to the point was that Garland and Coltrane recorded standards in the '50's. This, combined with Garland's playing style, resulted in a lighter, more airy and happier sound (and I really like these Coltrane recordings). The '60's were a different time: darker, more turbulent. I think Tyner helped bring out those qualities in Coltrane, but at the expense of those lighter qualities.

I agree; get the music first. It's funny that the same CD can sound so different from one stereo system to another. There really is no reference standard. Just enjoy the music.

Just announced: Dave's Picks 27 - Boise, ID 9/2/83. http://www.dead.net/store/music/new-releases/daves-picks-volume-27?eml=2018July16/4373590/6131962&etsubid=25405212

I donated just a few days ago, and was glad to do it.

Far far cheaper at ImportCDs: https://www.importcds.com/do-that-thing/641654768726

My gut feeling is that CDs will NOT die away. Sales are currently in free-fall, and that may continue, but will not approach zero. A comparison with LPs is instructive: I thought that LPs had disappeared somewhere in the '90's, but they hadn't. True, many pressing plants closed, but not all. There was still a market. Then, when the hipsters rediscovered LPs, the format revived. It still might be considered a niche market, but that's all we're looking for, right? So I think the same will be true for CDs. Smaller companies are already licensing titles from the majors; there's enough profit there for a smaller company to take the risk. The industry really took a blow when the size of the product reduced from LP size to CD size; the larger format was simply more attractive and interesting, and could hold much more information. The ideal solution going forward would be to package a CD within an LP-sized cover. It would be easy to do: the insert would simply be a plastic sheet with one of those CD teeth holders embossed into it.

Updated to include release info.

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I guess this is the other: https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-At-Philharmonic-Blues-Chicago/dp/B07C5HJ1TR/ref=sr_1_3?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1531278292&sr=1-3-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=blues+in+chicago

It's possible that there are better techniques now for salvaging old tapes ("baking" is one of them). New innovations all the time.

Wow! Great news!

Re Rouse's long tenure with Monk, I recall an interview Frank Zappa gave around, IIRC, 1977, where he talked about considerations for hiring musicians, especially for touring. There are trade-offs. Many excellent musicians don't like touring. Many musicians willing to tour year in and year out aren't that great, or have bad personal habits. He singled out George Duke as an example of that rare musician who was a great musician and enjoyed touring. It could be that Rouse didn't mind all that touring, was good enough musically, and got along well enough with Monk that his tenure lasted so long. Not sure they were friends, though. I'm still thrown for a loop by that interview Bob Cranshaw gave, a little before his death, where he said that he and Sonny Rollins almost never talked conversationally even throughout the decades they played together. How does that even happen?

Prior discussion here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/78469-mosaics-for-sale-on-itunes/

Good. I didn’t know what a Helden was!

The keys are held in with a little screw?

Thanks so much! I picked up a copy.

What do people here think of Blue Note dates that Francis Wolff produced after BN was sold to Liberty and Alfred Lion left the company? I'm listening now to Lee Morgan's Caramba!, and can't help thinking the date would have been better with Lion at the helm. The band sounds a little loose, bordering on sloppy, a little sleepy, and I wonder whether Lion would have asked for another take while Wolff let it go; maybe Wolff couldn't hear the difference. Maybe Alfred scared them in a way Wolff didn't. I understand that times were changing, musicians were different, maybe Liberty imposed cost constraints...so maybe it's hard to compare. Thoughts about Wolff's overall tenure? Are there any Wolff productions that people here love?

I personally believe it was due to Monk’s growing mental illness. The last part of the documentary “Straight No Chaser” gives a harrowing view of his decline.

Rouse's playing style always sounded to me like he's a trumpeter.

Not sure what has changed at eMusic, or what it means. They no longer carry SteepleChase, Uptown, Motema, Smoke Sessions, Fresh Sounds, Hat ART, Hatology, Storyville, MusicMasters, LRC/Groove Merchant, Venus, Progressive, Candid, Criss Cross, Capri, Clean Feed, Audiophile, Jazzology, Posi-Tone, HiFi, TCB, Firehouse 12, New World, Reservoir, Xanadu, Sharp Nine, Video Arts Music, Timeless.

My 14-year old son found this on YouTube, and was enjoying it. Looks like more Leo: