Claude

I disagree with that. I had the SACD and thought it sounded poor because the tapes were in bad shape. But then I got the a japanese CD reissue (VICJ-60299), which sounds much better. Mike's and my reviews are available on SA-CD.net: http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1610 Since then I also bought the 45rpm LP reissue, which again sounds better than the japanese CD, and provides state of the art Riverside sound. It shows that the SACD is a greatly missed opportunity to offer this album in the best possible digital reissue form.

Illegal downloads in filesharing networks (bittorrent or eMule) are already available in lossless formats (mainly FLAC, Monkey Audio or Wavpak). Just google on album name + download + FLAC and you will find sites which list these releases. These often include complete scans of the complete artwork. The size of these downloads varies between 150 and 400MB for one CD (depending on the duration and the complexity=compressibility of the CD), so this is not really an issue for DSL/cable users. Neither is storage capacity (1000GB hard drives cost less than $100) If amateurs can distribute perfect lossless copies of CDs together with the artwork, it should not be a problem for iTunes & Co to offer the same.

If the copies are done right, there is no difference in sound. However, because these are CD-Rs which can be damaged more easily, I would back them up on a hard drive (rip the CD with EAC, the compress losslessly with FLAC). At least those who become unavailable (who knows how long this CD-R reissue program will run).

I have two VIDJAZZ VHS tapes (Miles & Trane, Bebop). The picture quality is rather poor. Given that these were released in Italy in the 80's, I would assume they are bootlegs.

To be fair to Amazon, the product description says "CD-R" (as opposed to "Audio CD") right at the beginning, and the longer description text says "recordable media". So I don't believe they will fool anyone into thinking these are manufactured CDs. This page gives details about how the scheme works: https://www.createspace.com/Products/CDOnDe...390.cspworker00

That seems to be an exception, maybe an error. I can't see why this should be more expensive than the others. There are far more rare titles in the list (Odyssey Of Iska. Gil Mellé, etc) Having samplers in this programme like the "Jazz profile" CDs with McCoy Tyner or Gerry Mulligan , at $15, seems quite silly.

Although ECM's Steve Lake expressed scepticism towards vinyl releases in the "Ask ECM" thread on Jazz Corner, the label has finally decided to take the plunge and release two new albums on 2LP sets in addition to the CD version: Keith Jarrett Trio - Yesterdays Album info: http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/20...mp;lvredir=3092 http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/detail/-/hnum/6926152/ (January 23, 2009) Enrico Rava - New York Days Album info: http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/20...hp?lvredir=3092 LP: http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/detail/-/hnum/6926154/ (January 30, 2009) The price of these sets is quite steep (roughly twice the price of the CD), but given the ECM recording quality these should sound very fine, and the covers will look gorgeous.

I had the same thing happen to me last summer during the Beijing Olympic games. I woke up at about 4 AM a Saturday night and I thought I had heard loud cheering by a huge crowd in the distance. I remained semi-asleep. My immediate thought was that the Luxembourg bicycle champion Frank Schleck had just won the gold medal during the race that night (some competitions in Bejing took place in the early morning hours in Europe), and that crowds where gathering in the city centre to celebrate this big victory, the first summer Olympic games medal for Luxembourg since 1952. I fell back asleep again, happy. When I woke up in the late morning, my first thought was to check the internet for news on this great moment. But then, it slowly occured to me that this didn't make sense, that I would have watched the race on TV, and that no crowds would gather in the night even for such an event.

Sorry, I meant the Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions CD on Blue Note.

Siberian temperatures all over Europe. -15°C (5°F) at my place. The french Riviera covered in heavy snow:

With most of the comparisions I've done of Atlantic CD reissues (original CD reissue, remaster, japan remaster) from various artists (Coltrane, Mingus, Ornette), it seemed as if the transfers were the same, but only some different choices in frequency manipulation (EQ) were made. No spectacular improvement. For many titles, are found the first CDs to sound better balanced than the remasters. I remember some japanese Mingus remasters which sounded way too bright.

Sounds like Ornette

"'Freedom Now Suite'" sounds very good, unlike the regular CD reissue which was made from a vinyl dub. Apparently master tapes were available after all.

I like most of them, especially the Candid reissues (since lots of Candid CD releases sound poor), but I had issues with a few releases, because of the choice of master tapes: - Randy Weston "Little Niles" uses the mono tapes, while the stereo tapes (both sound good) have been used on the Randy Weston Mosaic Select. I don't care about a mono version as long as good sounding stereo recording is available. - Gil Evans "New bootles old wine" uses the LP master, which has lots of added reverb. The artificial reverb sounds quite natural, but it's distracting after having heard the dry recording which is on the Gil Evans Mosaic Select. In my view, the Mosaic follows a more audiophile approach by going back to the master without reverb. - Chet Baker "Chet is back" sounds duller and more distant than the BMG "First edition" CD reissue, which seems to have been made from better tapes. It's good on it's own, but not worth an upgrade over the CD. Apart from these problems with the master tapes they used, the mastering quality is very good, just as the pressing quality.

I don't know how many of you have heard the CD, but I got it from Daniel last week (ordered by email, paid with Paypal) and I´m enjoying it a lot. It grows after each listen, like "Kind of blue" The choice of compositions, the arrangements and playing are original but unpretentious. "Manteca" and "The look of love" are standard material, but George Duke's "Someday" and Bacharach's "Do you know the way to San José" (my two favourite tunes from the CD) are rarely performed by jazz groups. What stands out most IMHO are Daniel's clever arrangements and Linus Lindblom beautiful alto sax sound and improvisations. All players except the drummer get some solo space. The presence of two trombones (tenor and bass) gives the group sound an interesting texture. I only would have wished the soloist would have stretched out more. Most tracks are between 4 and 5 minutes long, with one or two rather brief solos. The sound of the CD is flawless. The balance is perfect, and all instruments sound very natural. Only some audiophile labels do better. Great work, Daniel & Co

This looks like a repackaged budget set from the 1980s. Recordings from mostly unknown performers (except Leitner and Rilling), of dubious origins. Thanks to Naxos, which in the 1990's started offering high quality recordings at budget price, the market for this sort of reissues has almost disappeared. The price should rather be 50 Cent per disc.

Well, not the best, but also not the worst. Better Smirnoff than Madoff

Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray (the mastering engineers) are currently working on two Blue Note reissue projects for two different companies, Music Matters and Analogue Productions. Both release 45rpm LPs sets (no duplication of titles) , but Analogue Productions has decided to release hybrid SACDs as well. Unfortunately "Out to lunch" is on Music Matters, so it will be on vinyl only. Of course nobody needs to have these LPs. The first CD reissue (McMaster mastering) sounds fine too. But don't stick to the RVG CD (the current CD version on the market), the sound is awfully compressed.

No, it looks like Amazon licensed some OOP recordings for CD-R release. Check the Gil Melle thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=48143&hl=

Has anyone ordered lately from Black Saint (now owned/distributed? by CAM Jazz)? http://www.blacksaint.com Their prices seem almost too good to be true (8.76€ / $10.95 per CD, free shipping for orders of 3CDs and more). I ordered some LPs from them, but that was 2 years ago. Very good service (especially for an italian company )

EC Copyright Term Directive - an update http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/11/ec-co...ive-update.html

It's actually the ripping of the source CD that is more prone to data errors than the writing of the CD-R copy. So this problem also exists for commercial downloads, as the files are usually taken from the existing CD release. Of course it's not difficult to make accurate copies if you care about it and use the right drive, software and settings .

Haven't read the article, but "revenues" would suggest cash flow rather than profits. In other words, if your logic is correct (and I am inclined to think it is), this means that 51% of profits preceded the current milestone. The problem is that the articles are rather vague and even included fundamental errors. This graph in the NYT says that downloads surpassed CD in terms of units sold, but in terms of value, downloads represent much less than CDs I think the simple reason for this is that for downloads the unit is one track, as tracks can be bought individually. So it's no surprise that the number of usits is high, but that the value is much lower. They should divide the download units by 10 (average number of tracks on a CD) in order to compare both formats.