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Will you stop posting this nonsense! Glenn Hoddle in the news Yes, you!

I received the DVD from Play.com today. It is a great historic document. I thought it to be a compilation of live performances from various sources (I believed "Blue Monk" and "The Train and the River" to be taken from the Nowport '58 documentary "Jazz on a Summer's Day") , but these are all perfectly captured studio sessions produced for a coherent series of TV shows (The Sound of Jazz). There is even an additional title not listed on the cover , a blues where Jimmy Giuffre guests with Pee Wee Russell and members of the Count Basie Orchestra. It is at the end of the "Train and the River" track. The Count Basie session has an all star line up with Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan. Obviously it has a loose jam session character, but it's amazing to see those giants playing together and fully aware of the special occasion. "Fine and mellow" by Billie Holiday (beautiful close up camera shots) adds Lester Young and Rex Stewart. The Thelonious Monk trio track presents the pianist almost like a circus attraction, the camera showing his shuffling feet under the piano and the amused looks of Count Basie and Henry Red Allen (?) watching him play. The hightlight of the DVD is the 30 minute session with the Miles Davis Quintet and the Gil Evans Orchestra. I had this on a pirate italian VIDJAZZ VHS tape before, but it omitted the spoken introduction by Robert Herridge and the introductory theme by Miles Davis. I had expected the DVD to have a much better image quality than the VHS which seems to suffer from NTSC-PAL conversion and multiple generation copying. But all in all the image quality of the DVD is not so great. I don't know what the technical standard in studio tape recording (as opposed to live broadcasting) was, but the image quality is comparable to much older cinema movies. It is acceptable though, given the historical importance of these sessions. A tue letdown is the variable sound quality throughout the DVD. Some tracks (Giuffre, Jamal, Webster) have a high level of noise and sound like AM radio, making Giuffre's spoken comments hard to understand (turn on the subtitles) and blurring Jamal's piano lines, while other tracks (Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Count Basie) sound good. This multi-region DVD is 91 minutes long, divided into two sessions (Volume one and two, see my post above), with direct access to the individual tracks. The booklet contains the personnel list for every track, but not the recording dates. Why must music DVDs always have such poor and spare liner notes, while the information included with CD reissues gets more complete? This DVD is more than just entertainment. There is a "Vintage Stan Getz" DVD available in the same series.

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Thanks Kari, your post reminded me that I've actually bought this album just a few weeks ago (amonst several other second hand LPs), but forgot to listen to it. It's a very enjoyable straightforward acoustic session with good solos, but nothing exceptional. I don't think I'll get the DVD.

Sun Ra must be somewhere in Keyhole Nebula.

Thanks for the tip, Marcus I checked an old Elektra/Musician discography for the "Echoes of an era" album (is that a live or studio recording?), it adds Freddie Hubbard and Chaka Khan and has none of the titles played on the DVD. Is the VHS you are referring to a different recording? Maybe Echoes of an Era, Vol. 1: The Concert.

SHURE V15 cartridge brush question (Vinyl Asylum) It is important that the tracking force needs to be adapted if you decide not to use the brush. Here are some other essential links: The best Thorens resource: Analog Dept Turntable & cartridge manuals: Vinyl Engine (you need to register to download them) Cartridge setup protractor and stroboscope disc for download and printout, from Enjoythemusic A Beginner's Guide to Cartridge Setup Van Den Hul Cartridge FAQ and Turntable System Setup

Has anyone seen this new DVD? (click on picture for CD Universe link) Recorded live in 1982. 57 minutes. Region 1. Dolby Digital 5.1. Color. English B) Chick Corea, piano (and/or keyboards?) Joe Henderson, tenor sax Stanley Clarke, bass Lenny White, drums 1. L's Bop 2. Why Wait 3. 500 Miles High 4. Guernica

Keith Jarrett recorded two albums on pipe organ, but it can hardly be considered as jazz (can you make such a monster swing?): Spheres (great AMG review: "among his worst", 3 stars ) Hymns/Spheres (same album, different review) Invocations

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You missed Billy Mitchell's "Night Flight to Dakar" by two days

According to the book "Jazz Milestones - A pictorial Chronicle of Jazz 1990-1990" , no jazz album has been recorded on my birthday November 1, 1968. Is that a holyday in the US too? From the week around that day: - Miles Davis - Filles de Killimanjaro - Philliy Joe Jones - Trailway Express - Barney Kessel - Swinging Easy & Hair is beautiful - Big John Patton - Understanding - Ronnie Scott - Live at Ronnie Scott's - John Tchicai - Cadentia Nova Danica - Stanley Turrentine - Always something there Not much to get excited about (except Miles of course). I have to find that Tchicai album

Hello Daniel, You got an incredible deal there. The SME arm is worth the price alone. Such combinations (even without a working stylus) usually go for 300-500 Euro on Ebay. The Shure is a very good pickup, so the first choice would indeed be to try to get a replacement needle. As far as I know, original replacement needles for the Shure V15 IV are no longer made (only for the current V15VxMR), so you are limited to old stocks or non-orginal ones. I recommend doing a search on (+shure +replacement) in the Vinyl Asylum to get more info on non-original needles. The price and quality (which affects the sound) of these can be extremely variable. In case you decided to get a new stylus, you need to take account of the weight of the arm. I guess the SME has medium weight, so it needs a stylus with medium compliance. Most current styluses are adapted to the predominant light tonearms and have a higher compliance. But maybe you already know all this

You are probably referring to the jazz shows on 3Sat on Friday and Saturday nights, which are broadcasting concerts from recent german festivals. Those shows are unique on german TV, only some regional stations also occasionly have jazz but national TV stations never. And the price germans pay for public TV and radio is very high indeed: 16.15 Euro per month. It is not financed from the state budget but from a specific TV/radio tax that every owner of a TV set or radio has to pay (and if you declare not to own a TV set you get spied on by the GEZ )

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This Mosaic 3CD set usually goes for $100-150 on Ebay. If it is for the music only you may consider the Definitive 2CD set (13 Euro) which contains a large part of the tracks from the Mosaic.

This must have been invented by the Nazis from IBM. :=( As a sign of protest, please reconfigure all your hard drives to cable select.

"Competent" is a serious stretch when Rolling Stone comes to mind. I don't read the Rolling Stone, all I know is that it is not famous for it's jazz reviews. But when I think of it, I really became a jazz fan because of the Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide, that I bought in 1990 and that helped me a lot to browse through the huge jazz CD selection of the public library in Brussels. It is still useful today, because unlike the Penguin Guide it is based on LPs and contains many reviews of albums that are not available on CD.

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Alexander, you forgot to highlight "246. The Shape of Jazz to Come, Ornette Coleman". I wonder how many Rolling Stone reader have heard that album In my view, they should not have included any jazz album and restricted the list to pop records. That's where Rolling Stone is competent. I'm relieved to see that I know the names of most artists in the list and have heard one third of the albums (though most of them a long time ago). I thought I didn't know much about pop history. Some entries surprised me (Cindy Lauper), but her music must be somehow representative for a style, and so including her album is justified. But I don't understand why there are two Eminem albums in the list, and four by Madonna!

In Germany all copy-protected CD must be clearly marked on the outside. Online stores like amazon.de give this info on the product page. I think this is even stated in the new copyright law.

Ernest Krenek's Symphony Nr 2 , available in Decca's "Entartete Musik" series.

I read somewhere (maybe on the Steve Hoffman board) that the Beatles "Let it be" (Naked) album was intended to be the first EMI CD to be sold on copyprotected discs worldwide. However I found no info on the US version being copy-controled. If it were there would certainly be more discussions on the topic.

This had been discussed on the Blue Note board when the RVG came out. Many posters thought that the title track had been dubbed from LP, but Blue Note claimed the CD was remastered from original masters and those defects are on the tapes.

Thanks Lon, I didn't know that, as I only have those older style Mosaic sets. A difference between the Universal and the Mosaic sets is the CD number of course: MD4-221 for the set sold by Mosaic B0000958-02 for the set sold by Universal Has anyone noticed that the layout designer forgot the "Jazz" in the title, on the box and the CD booklet covers? The liner notes, the CD back- and sidecovers and the printing on the CDs are correct, but the box front says "Gerry Mulligan Concert Band"