Claude

Thanks David

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I ALWAYS look at those lists, please continue posting them

That would be my first choice as a Booker Little leader date Booker Little (Time) Unfortunately, the original tapes seem to have been lost, because the CD has been dubbed from vinyl.

Jacques Tati is also one of my favourites. I recorded all his movies (newly restored versions) during a recent special on ARTE TV, except "Traffic", which I missed. "Playtime" is his absolute masterpiece, but it was a commercial disaster. The humour was too subtle for a large public (Tati was as popular in France as Jerry Lewis in the US)

I´m not a big movie freak and own only a dozen DVD (mainly related to music), but two are Criterions: - Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) - Solaris (Andrej Tarkovsky, 1972) Down by Law has been one of my favourite movies since I first saw it. For Europeans, this has a very appealing "deep america" atmosphere, and Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni are great actors (John Lurie is so so). Solaris is of course much different, I've seen it once and have to go back to it, it's very complex, new things to dicover every time.

Only DVD-As can be created on a home computer, not SACDs. You need a very good soundcard for digitizing the analog signal, a DVD burner and the right software, such as Minnetonka discWelder Steel. http://www.discwelder.com/low/low_info.htm

It also depends if you are only looking for the Brown/Roach Quintet stuff or if you also want the singers sessions, the strings album and the jam sessions. Not all the quintet sessions are available as domestic remastered CDs. "At Basin Street" and "Brown/Roach" have been reissued in the Verve Master Edition series, but the other albums (Brown/Roach Inc., Study in Brown) are still the same CDs from the late 80's.

The Contours (which cost 2x your budget) are rather difficult to drive, much more than the Audience series and many other brands in this category. You would need a new amp to do them justice.

Part of the Stuttgart concert was recently aired on german radio. In excellent mono sound quality. So there is hope for a better release, if Sue Mingus agreed. Mingus 1964 - live on german radio, SWR2, 11-6-03, 19:05-20:15

An Oslo concert was recorded on TV in optimal B&W quality (studio performance)and has been made available on video tapes (official or bootleg, I don't know). The "Triumph of the Underdog" DVD has many short concert movie clips. It would be great to see them complete.

This Tony Williams album seems to have been created by a database error, copied on many music websites that all use the same source. Check these AMG entries: Tony Williams - Unmasked Atlantic 82465 (1993) Tony Williams : drums Lesette Wilson - Unmasked Atlantic 82465 (1993) No drummer listed

chris, please check this earlier (and long) discussion: Spanish Blue Note Series

Alle Gute zum Geburtstag, tjobbe tjobbe is a regular poster on the german hifi-forum.de board, where I'm also registered, as "-Miles-"

Hi Alfred, My previous post was meant to those wo don't know Zweitausendeins already. I visit their Munich store a few times per year. I´ve noticed that their jazz selection in the Merkheft has been reduced lately. No more RVGs and box sets. But the choice in classical CDs is still huge.

Isn't that Mingus' sandal tapping the rhythm?

Alan Lankin has some of the Spanish BNs on his sale list http://home.att.net/~lankina/jazz/

The reason of these problems is that the PC has to do two things at the same time: convert mp3s to wav (which takes some processing power and hard drive speed) and burn the CD. The same can happen when copying a CD directly to a CD-R (CD reader to CD writer) "on the fly". It is safer to extract the CD first and burn the CD-R afterwards. Most CD burning software have such an option.

Thanks Alfred, I already got it from Amazon.de (60 Euro) some time ago. When ordering from Zweitausendeins, be sure to check their catalogue for other great bargains. In Europe, they charge a fixed shipping cost (8.80 Euro for my country) independent from the number of CDs.

As Mike hasn't posted this thread in the vinyl forum, I suppose one is allowed to name the first jazz album bought, be it on LP, CD, 10inch record or 8-track. No generation should be discriminated

Pat Metheny Group - Travels This must have been in 1984, when I was 16 years old. I played it over and over again, and bought in on CD later.

Another brand to consider is KEF. The KEF Q7 (1400 Euro list price per pair, street price is lower) is an excellent speaker, considered to be a bit bass-heavy (around 100Hz), so it could please you, but cannot be placed close to the walls. The Magnepan MMG are, as far as I know, not distributed on Europe.

I think it is still available in Japan. One of the greatest Mingus concerts, with the best version of "Meditations On Integration" and a wonderful Ellington medley. The sound is not very good though. Music written for Monterey, 1965 is also one of my favourites, a very spontaneus and loose concert. Lonnie Hillyer smokes.

Sorry Daniel, I can't help you if you don't like Dynaudios B)