Claude

Some ideas from this thread:

Thanks Mike. If Tarantino did the remastering, it was done at the Fantasy studios, and not at JVC as the K2 CDs. But he did a very good job on some of the latest Fantasy CD and SACD reissues.

Zweitausendeins has been offering this 4CD set for several months, the price (40 Euro) is good but not as low as the (non-discounted) ZYX sets. Can somebody comment on the sound, compared to previous CD reissues? Has it been remastered with the K2 20Bit process, like the Monk/Prestige set? The two Prestige albums "Concorde" and "Django" have already been reissued on K2 remastered CDs previously.

This is probably not that new, but I just dicovered that the Naxos homepage offers the possibility to listen online to complete CDs. Most labels or online stores only have 30 second audio clips, which are almost useless especially with classical music, but Naxos has for every CD all the tracks available for online streaming. Browse or search their catalogue and select any album, all titles I've seen so far have audio available. The sound is of course heavily compressed (20 kbit/s bitrate, 22kHz sample rate, stereo), so the audio quality is no better than AM radio, but that's enough to evaluate unfamiliar classical works. And Naxos has many of them, because it offers the biggest repertoire of all classical labels. In order to listen to the streams you need Windows Media Player 7 or higher, and you need to register for free. The email address is not being verified, you can login immediately after creating an account. There are two types of streams available, for modem and broadband (20 kbit/s) users. I just listened to the complete "Hamlet" film music by Shostakovich, which made me decide to buy the Naxos disc.

It reminds me of a Monty Python (?) scene in a restaurant, where an extremely fat customer digests his meal, suddenly inflates to balloon size and finally explodes.

He also has concerts in Japan scheduled for June 10-24 http://senators.free.fr/Live/Concerts_Sche...3&go_green.y=11

Lois Gilbert, the administrator of Jazz Corner, just posted this: http://jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?t=5925

I bought japan import CDs of Wayne Shorter's "Wayning moments" and "Second Genesis" (the only albums from the Mosaic set I really need) from Hans, and they sound much better than the Blue Moon CDs, which seem to have been made from inferior tape copies. I'm sure the Mosaic sounds at least as good as the japanese CDs, otherwise Hans wouln't have sold them

Since I visit jazz discussion boards (BNBB since 2001) I learned a lot about US politics and lifestyle, and a bit about jazz. For example the meaning of "TOCJ" and "OBI"

???? Link returns: "Invalid Thread specified" It seems that this AAJ thread has been deleted, I have just done a search and could not find it. It was the user "jazzcritic" writing (as far as I remember it) that he received a notification as a AMG contributor that AMG would only accept reviews for new CD releases (new recordings and reissues) and not older stuff. He also wrote that contributors are being paid according to a certain scheme and that AMG propably wants to limit payments that way.

Have you compared the two CDs? I remember that slight shrillness too (I have heard the european pressing), but I think that's how the recording sounds.

Could it be that your cat is male and that a female cat urinated onto your sandals?

Has anyone received a Mosaic Select from CD Universe at the bargain price? The $37.5 price has disappeared and been replaced by $47 ("you save $21" )

Many ESP albums have also been available on Emusic.com, but I don't know if they still are. Despite the download limit introduced a year ago, the Emusic subscription service is still much cheaper than iTunes.

Well, that's true of many cities throughout the world. There must be a more specific reason about Paris. It could be just mouth propaganda and musicians not wanting to be alone in foreign city. Scandinavian countries were also very popular among american jazz artists in the 60's. England would have been a logical exile (because of the language and the active jazz scene), however I've read once that it was difficult for foreign musicians to work in the UK (except occasional concerts) because of the protectionist local musicians union.

All Music Guide is restricting new reviews to 2004 releases (AAJ forum)

A few weeks ago, while Zweitausendeins was offering the Verve Master Takes set for 36 Euro, I was considering it but concluded it was not worth that price (I already have some of the Verve albums). Now Amazon.de and JPC.de, the two biggest german online stores are selling it for 65 and 73 Euro respectively, which is more than $25 per CD.

I have the same opinion as Pete. I have heard all of the Prestige albums (downloaded them from emusic.com) but none of them come close to the Blue Note sessions. I even prefer the sub-par "Tippin the scales" to the Prestige sessions. Jackie McLean's alto sound wasn't as individual then and the music much less adventurous.

Couw , you must have a wrong print, mine looks like this:

Amazon.de has most of these for 6.66 Euro currently. Diabolic!

Congratulations, Deus. The most recent Opera version is 7.50. 7.xx is really rock stable and works with 99% of the websites I know. One site that causes problem is AllaboutJazz, which only works if "Identify as MSIE" is chosen in the Quick Preferences. As for the cookie problem, you should check the Privacy settings. Maybe the "delete new cookies when exiting" is activated. The other issue (formatting text) can unfortunately not be resolved, as far as I know this is a IE-only function that is not in conformity with web standards.

How many cd's that represents ? In good quality MP3 format (192kbs), a 60 minute CD is compressed to ca 80MB size. So a 20GB drive holds up to 250 CDs. With typical 40 minute albums from the LP era or reduced bitrate it is more. 160kbs bitrate is still very close to CD quality, but at 128kbs (the typical bitrate for downloadable files) cymbals tend to sound crappy, even with cheapo earbuds.

A few studio master takes are missing, which seems to be an error in the concept. Also missing are the JATP concerts.

Yes. I use it on four computers The email address does not matter. You use the email address once to register in the forum, and then it is only needed for special optional notifications or when you forgot your password and want to retrieve it again. BTW: An email address is not related to a specific PC. You can have many email accounts and use them on many PCs, you just need to configure the email program on the PCs to access the relevant email server.

It would be a much better start to get the Savoy and Dial recordings (1945-47). These are Bird's best sessions. They are available in various formats. 4CDs each for the complete Savoy and Dial sessions including alternate takes, or 2CDs each for the master takes only.