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The music has also been circulating in filesharing channels for a few months. Someone could easily burn CD-Rs from those files and add some official-looking stickers. What does "reference copy" mean, and what about the text on that sticker? The Jack Johnson promo sets looked different, they came as manufactured CDs not CD-Rs.

Great stuff, but 6CDs (6 hours?) is too much. I hope these will come out as seperate 2CD sets, as it was announced. Just like the Blackhawk sessions.

I don't know if these April 27 SACD releases have already been posted: *Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Riverside) from 1956 *Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli/Joe Pass - Skol - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Pablo) with Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson & Mickey Roker; from 1979 (from jazzmatazz)

What is "Weird Jazz"? http://www.cdbaby.com/sale?cat=9

Some people asked me where to get those CD drawers. They are not manufactured anymore. But I found this interesting US manufacturer, which offers very compact CD shelves holding up to 1500 discs, for only $225: http://www.thejungles.com/wallcdstorage.html

Not hip or cool behaviour, but it's surprising that Pacific Jazz left the passage on one of the Gerry Mulligan California Concerts albums where Mulligan stops playing and takes the microphone to tell an audience member to stop whistling to his solo.

Sony has silently replaced some early single layer SACDs by hybrid versions. On the jazz side, KOB, Time Out and Headhunters have been released a few weeks ago. It could be that they are not yet available in the US. KOB single layer KOB hybrid

I have written in this thread that the SACD versions are noticibly better than the K2 CDs, but that's not true of all of them. I've just compared the Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane SACD with the US K2 CD, and the latter has a much better remastering. The K2 CD sounds a bit brighter (that is usually the case with all XRCD and K2 remasterings), but also much fuller and dynamic. The bass is almost inaudible on the SACD. The overall sound is distant and thin in comparision. The biggest difference is on the stereo tracks from the "Monk´s Music" session. Here the SACD suffers from a strange dephasing effect between the channels, which makes the stereo basis exaggerately broad and creates a hole between the channels which reduces the impact of the sound. Either the K2 engineers have used different tapes or corrected this. The Monk SACD is from the first Fantasy SACD batch and has been remastered by Joe Tarantino. The same engineer produced much better results with the Art Pepper & Eleven SACD from the second batch.

I spent most of this week in Munich, and the weather was great (sun, almost 20 °C). Some Biergärten were already opening. I drank 2-3 liters of "Helles" (I can't stand the acid taste of Weissbier) per day, which is usually my weekly beer consumption at home. And it was a professional trip ... But I'm concerned about the increasingly extreme weather fluctuations in Europe. Only two weeks earlier, it was snowing in Munich.

I have 3 versions of KOB, the SACD (single layer disc released in 1999), the Mastersound goid CD (which I keep for the color photos in the booklet) and the one included in the Miles & Coltrane Columbia box set. My favourite track is - not surprisingly - "So what". But my favourite version of "So what" is the one played in the TV show of the same year.

A Quiche Lorraine contains a lot of bacon and so it's not a surprise that the protein-to-fat ratio is worse than that of a hamburger. But it would be extremely unusual to eat a Quiche every day, so it's fat content is not as relevant for the population's nutrition than that of burgers are today in the US and even in France.

The only problem you could encounter is that the DVD drive in your PC may not be able to read the disc. I have a Pioneer DVD drive from 1999 that ejects all hybrid SACDs. But I can read their CD layer without a problem in my CD burner drive. Hybrid SACDs are meant to be fully compatible to all CD-capable devices, but in practice there are occasional problems with DVD players and DVD drives. Many car CD players now use DVD drives.

Yes. I bought one at their Munich store this week.

Thanks for the tip, Tjobbe. I suppose it's this Ebay store? music-special-sale The shipping rate per order (3 Euro within Germany, 8 Euro within the EU, can include several discs) makes the SACDs as or more expensive than buying them from Amazon.de, where they cost 17 Euro and shipping is free to german speaking countries (which includes Luxembourg).

I arrange it mostly by style or historical relationship. So Coltrane is followed by Miles, and then come the Miles sideman (Hancock, Shorter). Bebop artists like Bird, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie are also side by side, although I have more non-bebop Dizzy CDs. But as my collection grows and I have more and more difficulties in finding CDs immediately, I may switch to a strict alphabetical listing.

Fantasy has announced 10 more SACD titles for August this year. It includes the Cannonball Adderley album which has just been reissued on a K2 CD - Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson - Things Are Getting Better (Riverside) - Chet Baker - In New York (Riverside) - Bill Evans Trio - Explorations (Riverside) - Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (Riverside) - Wes Montgomery Trio - Wes Montgomery Trio (Riverside) - Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement (Stax) - Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia - Live at Keystone (Fantasy) - Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Fantasy) - The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (Prestige) - Sonny Rollins - The Sound of Sonny (Prestige) http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/new...number=16390314

I've bought these shelves in Germany a few years ago. On the first picture there is a modular shelf system from Hülsta (Now! Nr 2 series, out of production). I've added horizontal subdivisions for the CDs, by placing a jewel case upside down on every side and a cheap cut-to-measure board on top. That would also work with Bev's bookshelves The CD-R shelf on the last picture is from Ikea's office collection. Every shelf holds 350 CDs and costs $170. Unfortunately it is not available anymore.

CD-Rs in the 2 Ikea CD drawers, audiophile CDs and collector's items in the display shelf

Jazz box sets and pop CDs

Jazz on the left, classical on the right, LPs and Mosaics in the middle

Digital recording started in 1974, but only on an experimental scale (Denon). From 1980-82 on, most classical labels recorded digitally. Pop and jazz labels followed later. I think digital noise reduction was only used in the CD age (from the mid 80's on), when the necessary processor power became available.

This album is available on a hybrid SACD by Analogue Productions http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=APSA1150 I'd like to see Fantasy releasing more SACDs instead of K2 CDs. One album I've upgraded from K2 to SACD so far (Art Pepper + Eleven) is noticibly improved, also on the CD layer.

In Europe, those two jazz casuals were previously available in other combinations (Rollins + Carmen McRae) and are now available on the DVDs I mentioned in my previous post.

As all of Brookmeyers projects from the last years, this is very well composed and played. Kenny Wheeler is a welcome addition to his music. The added DVD is very interesting indeed. The 24Bit/96KHz music part may only be interesting for audiophiles, and the scores, explanatory texts (PDF) and spoken introductions (mp3) only for musicians, but the video documentaries and interviews are really nice features for everyone, although the technical realization is rather amateurish. But the price of this package is only $14, so the DVD is a free add-on.

There is another CD available in this series: http://www.cosmicsounds-london.com/DUSKO/oscar.html