Claude

Aric, why don't you start a blog for your spontaneous thoughts?

I didn't like the sound of the Moncur set and found it worse than McMaster's previous remasterings of some of the same sessions for the Connoisseur reissues. Why did he remaster them again anyway, as the previous reissues were only a few years old?

I expected the next biographical jazz movie to be "Ravi's Daughter".

I only have two Shorter VeeJay CDs from Blue Moon, and these sound very good too. I think it´s not only about Addey's remastering. These are simply better recordings than Rudy Van Gelders Blue Note sessions. There is no RVG-style distortion and lack of bass. I currently have "Wayning Moments" and "Second Genesis", which are some of my favourite Wayne Shorter albums, but I have the other sessions in mp3 format (they were available on emusic.com some time ago). I find the "Introducing Wayne Shorter", "Young Lions", and "Expoobident" albums to be much less interesting though, so I will pass on that set. $96 for a sonic upgrade and a nice booklet is a bit steep. I'm sticking to my "Mosaic Select"

Where I live it is rather difficult to see world renowned jazz musicians. I don't go to concerts very often. The few jazz greats I'vew seen are: - Archie Shepp (twice), with Horace Parlan - Don Cherry - McCoy Tyner (Big Band) - John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Al Foster (ScoLoHoFo) - Tom Harrell - Gary Burton The other ones I´ve seen are european musicians less known in the US. The greatest jazz concert I've seen so far was Paolo Fresu's Quintet. Maybe because it was in a small club. Most concerts here are in large concert or theatre halls not well suited for jazz events because they lack atmoshere. I missed a Miles Davis concert in the mid 80's. A friend of my father had an extra ticket and asked to come to this Miles open air concert in Luxembourg, but at that time I didn't know who Miles was and declined. I often intended to go to the North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, only 300 km from my city, but it has never worked out so far.

McCoy Tyner Big Band at the Wiltz Open Air Festival (Luxembourg) in the mid-90's. I was sitting at an ideal distance from the stage in the middle of the seating, but the PA sound was awful at the beginning, it took the engineers (more used to classical orchestras) half an hour to get decent settings.

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When I go to hifi stores to test some equipment, I use a CD-R sampler that I compiled myself, with various types of music. Mainly new classical and jazz recordings. Naturally recorded vocals and full classical orchestra are ideal for testing. Although I mainly listen to older jazz recordings from the 50's and 60's, I would only use a few of them for testing. Even if they are enjoyable and can be used for demonstration purposes, they often have flaws which make it impossible to review the true qualities of a hifi system. Blue Note RVGs for example sound bright and would make you favour speakers with reduced treble. 50's and 60's recordings generally have small dynamics and a rather muddy bass which does not allow to test components as to these aspects. Here are some of my favourite jazz albums for testing: - John Coltrane - Soultrane (or any other mono recording. I start with this to see if the speakers have been connected correctly. It happened a few times even in high end stores that they were connected out of phase ) - Bob Belden - Black Dahlia (dynamics, soundstage, frequency range) - Konitz/Mehldau/Haden: Alone together (naturalness) - Miles Davis - Doo Bop (reveals exagerated bass) - Javon Jackson - When the time is right (very well recorded Diane Reeves vocals) - Sonny Rollins & MJQ - At Music Inn (MFSL CD, incredibly detailed vibraphone sound) - David Murray - Death of a sideman (very immediate recording of the horns, precise acoustic bass)

I voted for RVG, although I prefer other Blue Note remastering engineers (Malcolm Addey, the TOCJ engineers) and I think that not all of RVG's remasterings improve over McMaster's.

Is this the United Artists logo on the label? AMG entry

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Maybe this thread gives an answer: BYG Actuel Series, On Fuel 2000 I've heard all of the CDs from your list. - MU is a very intimate duo session, one of my favourite Cherry albums. - Solar Myth Approach is also very good and representative of Sun Ra "outest" phase. - From the Shepp CD, I only like the Blasé album, with Jeanne Lee's very emotional singing. The live part is so-so. - I don't remember the AECO CD, but I've never been a fan of that group anyway. The sound on all those CDs es merely OK. I think the recordings are not very good, and the original tapes may not be available anymore.

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Whose ass is cleaner?

$89 for the Giuffre set from Russia, less than the Mosaic sale price ($96).

Here are my tips for mild CD buying addictions: - stop checking jazzmatazz or other "new releases" websites, unsubscribe from CD store newsletters. You won't miss essential new releases if you browse this board, but you will avoid some completist-only purchases - before ordering a CD, check your collection for albums from the same artist and ask yourself if your have already listened seriously to all those CDs. - make some order in your collection. You will find many CDs you haven't listened to for a long time, that will take you over the next weeks. You will also find CDs that you don't like anymore and you can exchange them in second hand stores (which often have a 2-for-1 exchange policy) or sell them on Ebay, enabling you to buy new CDs without spending new money. - listen to jazz radio

Great start of the weekend Luxembourg leads 1:0 against Great Britain http://www.daviscup.com/ties/tie.asp?tie=100004837

I will be watching our tennis Davis Cup team play against the Brits (Henman and Rusedski)

Many Arista titles from the 70's have never been reissued on CD. Some of them are among the best recordings of his carreer 1974 New York, Fall 1974 1975 Five Pieces (1975) 1975 The Montreux/Berlin Concerts 1976 Duets (1976) 1978 For Four Orchestras 1978 Alto Saxophone Improvisations (1979) 1978 NW5-9M4: For Trio 1980 For Two Pianos Anthony Braxton AMG entry

Chrome, this article is already discussed here: Trumpeting Mediocrity - Was Wynton Marsalis ever that good?

My latest Mosaic order was the Gracham Moncur Select, which I had preordered. Maybe I'll get the Liebman/Beirach Select, but currently I'm under a self-imposed CD buying moratorium. I still have the Moncur CD1 with the wrong first track (and the corrected one of course). When will this become a $100 collector's item? Only then would I buy the Shorter/Morgan set, which I've been considering for years (don't need all those alternates).

Will the tattoo guy around the corner do such implants too? B)

This could become the cheapest Giuffre set on Ebay since it went OOP: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=4005424743 Seller from Russia, zero feedback, no paypal

It looks more like a russian reissue B)