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RIP, Richie. Another great New York City musician gone.

Pay attention to how long it takes for the disc to actually begin playing. I bought a Panasonic blu-ray a few years ago, and it seems to take forever to get to the menu.

Can we create a compilation of Lee Morgan tracks not appearing on his own albums? Prompted by listening to Joe Henderson's Mode For Joe, and hearing Lee's composition Free Wheelin'.

Cool!

Actually, I thought my post #2 said it all, but it seems some people couldn't be bothered to find out what Hanlon's Razor is. Hanlon's Razor states "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Paraphrasing it for this example - Don't attribute some kind of super intelligence to EMI for their notations on these CDs, it is much more likely to just be a cockup on their part. Actually, I did look it up, and didn't find it to be a helpful answer to my question.

I found copies of the CD back covers for 3 of the 4 titles. For "In 'N Out," it appears they used the 1987 remaster and mistakenly added Rudy's name. As for the "remasters" vs. "digital remasters" distinction (which seems to be preoccupying only me), I see an interesting pattern: the "remasters" notation is on the title tracks only for "Our Thing" and "Mode For Joe," and for "Page One" (which doesn't have a title track) only on the first title. This leads me to think that this data came from EMI's database, and was probably originally used for some promotional purpose (maybe in a printed catalog). The other tracks were given a lengthier description, adding the word "digital." But the entire albums each came from the same remastering session. I guess that explanation satisfies me.

I had an odd encounter with Richard Davis once. I was working in a jazz record store circa 1978. We had gotten in a bunch of Denon imports from Japan (these were considered audiophile pressings, as well as being titles not available in the U.S.). I was working the cash register. A man comes over holding one of the Denon releases. He introduced himself as Richard Davis and asked me "where did you get these? Because this company doesn't have the rights to sell them in this country." If it wasn't a Richard Davis-led session, then it was one he played on. What could I say? I felt for the guy, but had no knowledge of the buying side of the business. I hemmed and hawed and basically said, look, I only work the cash register. Eventually he walked out; I don't think he bought the record.

Post #3 didn't answer anything for me. Maybe I just don't understand what was meant by it, and a lengthier explanation would be helpful. If "all BN remasters were done in the digital domain," then why the distinction between "remaster" and "digital remaster"? It took some effort on EMI's part to note that on the CD covers, esp. when they didn't note personnel. If anyone has a knowledge of this, that would be great. If it's just speculation, well, anyone can speculate, right?

Up. Does anyone know? It seems they went through a lot of trouble to make the distinction between "digital remaster" and "remaster," especially if the same guy did them in the same year, which might mean at the same time.

I bought the 4 CD Joe Henderson cheapo box as seen below. Legit, but really bare-bones: thin cardboard sleeves, no liner notes, no personnel; just track names and writer credits. But they do make a distinction between "remaster" and "digital remaster." Here's an example: for the album Page One, the track Blue Bossa is labeled "Rudy Van Gelder Edition - 1999 Remaster." The other 5 tracks on the album are labeled "Rudy Van Gelder Edition - 1999 Digital Remaster." What's the difference? And why would one track be done differently than the others?

Thanks again.

Much thanks, Brownie. I guess the recording locations are unknown.

Does anyone have discographical info on this album? TIA. Track Listings 1. Tea For Two 2. Poor Butterfly 3. I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues 4. Tabu 5. Ain't Misbehavin 6. Royal Garden Blues 7. I Got Rhythm 8. Hallalujah 9. Hallalujah 10. Poor Butterfly 11. Song Of The Vagabonds 12. Lover 13. Memories Of You 14. Running Wild 15. Yesterdays 16. Kerry Dance 17. Crystal Clear 18. Gang O'notes 19. Between Midnight And Dawn 20. Apollo Boogie

From the Mosaic page: Original release: Issued as Impulse AS-9211, August 1971 Produced by Ed Michel and Alice Coltrane Their sequence and choices: Side A Sun Ship 6:14 Take 4, as shown above, with Elvin Jones’s drum coda edited out. Dearly Beloved 6:28 Take 4, as shown above, with the discussion from Take 1 added as an introduction. Amen 8:17 Take 2, as shown above. Side B Attaining 11:27 The first 7:24 minutes of Take 3, followed by the last 3:58 minutes of Insert 1. Ascent 12:05 The issued version is Take 1 as shown above, with about 1:30 of the bass solo edited out

See: Mosaic Records. This page has a comparison of this release to the original.

I loved this comment: Please stop! The original is uplifting! This makes me sad. "Take a sad song, and make it better" does not apply to your version.

Interesting. It's been out on Reprise all these years (afaik, it's never been out of print). I wonder about the legalities.

Earl Klugh is a "fingerpicker"? Weird characterization.

What surprises me is when I click on a thread title (the most recent example is the Lee Konitz duos thread), and there's a YouTube link somewhere in the thread, YouTube immediately opens - no choice on my part. It's unsettling to see an app control my handheld in that way.

Thanks Chuck. So, if there are other tags attached, it wasn't ISRC data. OK, I just decided to listen to 'Mordido' off this box. WMP said it couldn't find a playable file. I looked in the folder and, sure enough, the file wasn't there. All of the other folders with my amended tags from Monday were empty, too. And they'd been put into folders in 'My music' with their original tags replaced. What on earth is going on? Fortunately, the backups on my external hard drive were still there, so I'm listening to 'Mordido' off the EHD. But does anyone have any idea of how this can happen? I don't believe it was the fairies - they wouldn't be bothered to reverse all the changes, so it must be the system MG Here's a possible answer, based on my own experience: When you rip, do you have your software save directly to an EHD? My setup is I use iTunes, have iTunes save to an EHD, and then I have a second EHD for a daily automatic backup. There have been times when, unbeknownst to me, my primary EHD isn't online (most probably the cat dislodged the power cord). When that occurs, iTunes, without telling me, starts using the backup drive. So if I then rip a disc, iTunes will rip it directly to the backup EHD, again without my being aware of it. When my computer again references the primary EHD (usually after a reboot), iTunes can no longer find those ripped tunes, because they weren't saved to the primary EHD. But it will have a record of the track names because it had once saved them; that's why it can't "find a playable file." Could it be that something like this happened to you?

When I bought my copy from Mosaic, it came with no number listed. When I asked Mosaic, they said yeah, that sometimes happens, and they don't know which number I got. Sigh.

I bought that single, and wore it out. I also bought the album, with the textured silver cover, but it was in bad stereo that totally denuded the band's power. Earlier this year, I found that Sundazed released the album on CD in mono and bought it...but you can't go home again, y'know?

That is a very good deal. Again, sometimes late adopters can get these amazing bargains. OTOH, my children and I have enjoyed the cartoons for years in the meantime, so it isn't a total loss. We have vols 1 - 4, so this isn't a great deal to me. And now they're releasing the cartoons again but in Blu-Ray. Sigh...