Claude

I haven't heard the TOCJ release, only the original McMaster and the RVG. You can get the RVG 2CD set for the price of one TOCJ disc. With this price difference, and given that the recording itself is flawed, I would not think too much about the TOCJ option. Rudy generally did a good job in remastering the mono Blue Note sessions.

"Music for Zen Meditiation" (Verve Master Edition) and "Music for Yoga and other joys" (Verve By Request) are both already in the current Verve catalogue. BTW, on the Tony Scott homepage there is a detailed bio of his activities in the 50's: http://www.tonyscott.it

Thanks Swinging Swede, some nice stuff (not only Smith) there. Where on the Verve website did you get this list? I'm trying to get some info on the Tony Scott disc but can't find anything.

Thanks Christian for the update. Not much for me in that batch. But I still have to get the rest of the Koller albums.

Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan and a rhythm section, in Luxembourg at the beginning of the 90's. I started going to concerts very late, at that time I had already listened to jazz on records for more than 6 years.

It looks just like the cartoon above

After playing the complete John Coltrane European Tour 7CD set:

These kitties don't look very happy either: My cat doesn't mind Coltrane, but he hates Miles' muted trumpet.

Great. I'm looking forward to a review on allmusic.com. At least they should immediately add the CD info and cover to their database. BTW, here are the Organissimo entries in the CDDB and FreeDB databases (both are updated by the users themselves): CDDB (not correct as far as the album title is concerned) FreeDB

I had some spanish Verve releases in the past (amongst them the Mingus disc). As far as the sound is concerned, they are identical to the first CD releases from the late 80's. The Bud Powell, Clifford Brown and Mingus CD have been reissued in the remastered Verve Master Edition since then.

The music publishers are just using this opportunity to get more money from the record companies. Which may not be that wrong, BTW In Europe (and maybe the US too), journalists did the same thing when newspapers started their websites and sold CD-Rom archives. They argued that their work was sold several times and that they had a right to a share of the profits. This was negociated and settled. It is similar to the music being sold on CDs and by MP3 downloads. But with copyprotected CDs and hybrid SACDs, where the music is present in different formats for technical reasons only (compatibility), it just seems silly to ask for a higher share.

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-"