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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

I received the CD today and listened to it closely with headphones. Some occasional clicks can be heard, but they sound more like static tape clicks, shorter and treblier than LP clicks. I think this CD has indeed been indeed made from vinyl, but a noise reduction process must have been used, eliminating the normal constant vinyl surface noise and reducing the loudest clicks to very short almost inaudible bursts. How could it be that the quietest track (track 3) has the least noise? But this hasn't done any bad to the naturalness of the sound. Maybe the piano on that track sounds a bit muffled compared to the other tracks, and generally there is a certain overall veil over the sound. But it's very acceptable for me who hates artificially processed remasterings (Sonic Solutions, NoNoise and the like). The LP used seems have been mint, because no distortion can be heard on louder passages, except the ensemble playing on track 6 and the usual tape overload present on most 60's RVG recordings. All in all, not an audiophile CD, but excellent restoration and most importantly, one of the best Duke Pearson sessions (together with "Wahoo") back on CD.

Damn

Thanks ubu. Deutschlandfunk (DLF) is my favourite station when it comes to jazz broadcasts. They have one every Monday at 21:05-22:00. Usually german concerts that are a few weeks or months old. http://www.dradio.de/dlf/vorschau/ The other weekly jazz program I regularly listen too is "Jazz Club" on France Musiques, every friday evening from 22:45-1:00. These are broadcasts from Paris jazz clubs, usually live. Most of the time concerts by french bands, but often internationally known artists too. http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-musiques/prgm/

Happy birthday, Berigan

What is the purrpose of the built in A/D converter? There is already a A/D chip in every PC soundcard, so there is duplication of that part. I would also stay away from DJ turntables unless you really need it for that specific use. Hifi turntables offer better sound at a lower price.

There are more and more universal players or DVD players that also play SACD and have high quality audio converters. But most hifi fans still have a better sounding CD player than DVD player. That was also the reason why the DAD mentioned above wasn't successful.

As far as I know (I´m not a DVD expert) this is not new. 24bit/96kHz Audio is already available on DVDs currently. Mostly on video DVDs (concerts, video clips), but there are also some audio-only DVDs available in that format: - DAD discs by Classic Records, released in 1998 - The Bob Brookmeyer/Kenny Wheeler album Island contains a bonus DVD which has video footage, MP3 files, graphic files (the score) and the music content in 24bit/96kHz format. The problem with this format, as with DVD-A, is that one needs a DVD player (or PC) to listen to the music, so one can´t play it in the car, on the bedroom system or a portable player. This can only be achieved with the new DVD-A DualDiscs, which contain a CD-compatible part, like hybrid SACDs.

Thanks. The Amazon DVDs seem to be different editions (different title and editor), but the content is probably similar.

"Drum ode" is an excellent 70's Liebman recording, with Beirach, Abercrombie and many percussionists. My favourite Liebman ECM session is "Lookout farm", but it has not been reissued on CD. I'm still hesitating to get the Liebman Mosaic, because I just bought the hatOLOGY double CD "Bookends", a duo session with pianist Marc Copland and Dave Liebman. That would be too much Liebman/piano duos at once.

Great, couw. Both covers are cool, but the cutting (amputation!) work behind Drum Suite especially is an specially brilliant idea.

Sorry to read about your troubles, Jim. To cover the cost of the message board, you could set up a voluntary donation system. I've seen many free websites with interesting content that use a Paypal donation button. Good luck

Nothing gets lost here These reissues have already been discussed: Verve to reissue "Soul Sisters" The Verve Mini-LP CDs, Some early ones may be on their way out

The Electric Miles B)

Wynton cold and impersonal? Well, you haven´t heard this new cat