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This is a list of ECM albums which were never reissued on CD. "JP" means it was only reissued in Japan. 1002 Just Music - Just Music 1005JP The Music Improvisation Company 1006 Wolfgang Dauner - Output 1008JP Robin Kenyatta - Girl From Martinique 1010 Paul Bley - Ballads 1011JP David Holland/Barre Phillips - Music From Two Basses 1012 Bobo Stenson/Arild Anderson/Jon Christensen - Underwear 1013JP David Holland/Derek Bailey - Improvisation For Cello And Guitar 1026JP Stanley Cowell Trio - Illusion Suite 1039 Dave Liebman - Lookout Farm 1040 Gary Burton - Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra: Music By Michael Gibbs 1043 Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus 1044 Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love 1052JP Steve Kuhn - Trance 1053 Michael Naura - Vanessa 1054JP Richard Beirach - EON 1058JP Steve Kuhn - Ecstasy 1059JP Arild Andersen - Clouds in my head 1082 Arild Andersen - Shimri 1094 Steve Kuhn and Ecstasy - Motility 1098 Julian Priester and Marine Intrusion - Polarization 1104JP Richard Beirach - Hubris 1124 Steve Kuhn - Non-Fiction 1127 Arild Andersen Quartet - Green Shading Into Blue 1134 Tom Van Der Geld - Path 1142JP Richard Beirach - ELM 1146 Double Image - Dawn 1159 Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band - Playground 1162 Sam Rivers - Contrasts 1166 Enrico Rava Quartet - AH 1196 Thomas Demenga/Heinz Reber - Cellorganics 1176 John Clark - Faces 1178 Barre Phillips - Music By... 1188 Arild Andersen - Lifelines 1199 Katrina Krimsky/Trevor Watts - Stella Malu 1206 Gallery 1221 Adelhard Roidinger - Schattseite 1225 Dewey Redman - The struggle continous 1226 Gary Burton - Picture This 1237 Pirchner-Pepl-DeJohnette 1257 Barre Philips - Call me when you get there 1264 Alfred Harth - This earth 1268 Lask - Sucht und Ordnung

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Hey, check this free Photoshop plugin! This would have been nice if his name was "Clifforde" Enough for now. You can find more at Amazon.com by doing a label search on "32 Records"

(not that bad, maybe not by the 32 Records design department )

I found some. I leave the description to you

Where can one find pictures of the 32Jazz reissues? One good thing about the packaging (cover and awful black plastic box) is that these CDs sell very cheaply at second hand stores. Most shop owners think that these are low price reissues.

He should be sentenced to one week of forced uninterrupted listening to the Four Freshmen set

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Which is compatible with their own label tradition Taken from Jazzmatazz, here are the Muse/Savoy releases for july: *Sonny Criss - Crisscraft (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — 1975 *Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - The Heavy Hitter (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — Albert Dailey; Victor Lewis; George Duvivier; from 1979 *Richard "Groove" Holmes - Groove's Groove (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — 1977-1988 compilation *Morgana King - Tender Moments (Savoy/32 Jazz) July 1 — 1977-1987 compilation *Pat Martino - Footprints (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — with Billy Higgins; Richard Davis; Bobby Rose; 1975 *Jack McDuff - Another Real Good'un (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — with Houston Person; 1990 *Richard "Groove" Holmes - Groove's Groove (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — 1977-1988 compilation *David "Fathead" Newman - Lone Star Legend (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — two-fer of Resurgance! and Still Hard Times — with Hank Crawford; Louis Hayes; Cedar Walton; Jimmy Cobb; Marcus Belgrave; Steve Nelson; Larry Willis; Buster Williams, etc. *Houston Person - The Talk of the Town (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — with Cecil Bridgewater; Stan Hope; Buster Williams; Grady Tate; from 1987 *Sonny Stitt - The Last Sessions, Vols. 1 & 2 (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — with Walter Davis or Junior Mance, Bill Hardman, Walter Davis, George Duvivier and Jimmy Cobb; from 1982 *Cedar Walton - Naima: A Night at Boomers, Vols. 1 & 2 (Savoy/Muse) July 1 — with Clifford Jordan, Sam Jones and Loius Hayes; from 1973

I agree with that analysis. But there are also differences depending on the studio where it was recorded and the engineer who recorded or mixed it. The sessions made by Jan Erik Kongshaug in Oslo, in the Talent Studio and later Rainbow studio were mostly responsible for the "ECM sound". It often suited the music very well (Jan Garbarek) but could be off-putting especially with piano recordings, where most people prefer natural studio ambiance instead of artificial church acoustics. The recordings made by Martin Wieland at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg (Germany) sounded much drier. There is no doubt that almost all ECM studio sessions from the late 70's on are very well recorded. But it is the mixing and remastering that produced this special sound. The EQ'ing is an important factor. My impression is that they reduce the middle frequencies to produce a more brilliant and "round" sound, just like the Loudness switch on older amplifiers. All ECM recordings have this in common, independently where they were made. I don't like this attempt to beautify the music, it reminds me of the blurred image of face close-ups in Doris Day's films. As far as the music is concerned I find it difficult to accept an opinion where somebody likes or hates ECM generally, because they produce music from so many different styles. I particularly like the albums from the 70's made by US artists like Dave Liebman, Richard Beirach, Steve Kuhn, Julian Priester, Sam Rivers and others. Maybe because they are untypical for ECM. These albums are also the hardest to find, some of them never made it to CD. I don't like about ECM that they sell all of their catalogue at full price. Maybe it is the price for keeping everything in print.

Even if Mosaic found some old sets, would they be allowed to sell them officially? Some of their licensing contracts are limited in number AND in time.

This looks like a problem with the amplifier (receiver)

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According to the CNN article, the beating of his wife would have earned him "only" a year in prison and a $3000 fine. The life sentence is for the assault of the policeman and the spitting, " because of the possibility of transmitting a potentially deadly disease. "

The title of that 2LP-on-1CD sampler is very well chosen. If you only want one Sonny Stitt CD this is the one to get ... if you can find it.

That's only logical, since one can already get a life sentence for spitting on a police agent: Man gets life in prison for spitting (cnn.com)

Frustrated man turns tables on telemarketers (cnn.com news) DULUTH, Minnesota (AP) -- An exasperated resident turned the tables on a company that hounded him with telemarketing calls, calling them more than 100 times in two days. Marc Plaisted said he started calling Minnesota Auto Glass after the St. Peter-based company's telemarketers called him up to three times a day -- even after he asked them not to. Plaisted had figured the calls would stop when he signed on to Minnesota's "do-not-call" list months ago. "I'm following the law and asking them to be taken off the list and they ignore me and then, on top of it, start swearing at me," he said. "That was where they flipped the switch with me and I said, 'Enough is enough. I'm going after you guys now.'" Plaisted started calling the Minnesota Auto Glass's Duluth office last Thursday, and placed more than 100 calls, he said. "I just called them every five minutes and let them know that, no, I don't have a crack in my windshield, because this seems to be something they are very concerned about," Plaisted said. A Minnesota Auto Glass manager in Duluth said Plaisted's number had been removed from its list and that proof of the removal would be put in writing.

Source: jazzmatazz

Why didn't they just choose an "opt-in" solution? Is there anyone on earth who actually likes being called on his phone to be sold a product?

I like both sets a lot, but they have a very different atmosphere. The Blackhawk was a club gig taking place over two nights, so obviously it was more routine than the unique Carnegie Hall appearance with the Gil Evans Orchestra. On the latter the band plays with more fire (especially Miles) but the tracks with Gil Evans are not near as good as the studio versions. The Carnegie Hall concert is poorly recorded, it is mono and has a lot of distortion on higher levels. I don't think the late 90's remastering made it worse.

Stereophile wrote that the DSOTM CD layer has very compressed dynamics. I haven't checked it yet. My listening tests showed that "Blue Train" is compressed on the SACD layer too, compared to the MFSL CD.

I am very lucky now, because I chose my appartment specifically for music listening purposes. The house is built like a bunker and I can play music anytime at adequate volumes, and I never hear my neighbours' noise. But as I student I lived together with 6 other people in an old house in Brussels. The walls were so thin you could hear every fart (and sometimes smell it). Unfortunately the guy who had the room above mine was a big country music fan and played it all day, except during his girlfriend's visits. Nobody in urban Europe likes country music, but this guy had more than 300 CDs of it. We got along very well though we hated each other's music (I just discovered jazz). When he had his stereo set too loud I used to put on Peter Brötzmann's "Machine gun" (the most offending music in my collection back then) and turn up the volume real loud for a minute until he made his music quieter. It became a sort of a signal.

I don't know about books, but there is a lot of information available online. For Riverside and Prestige, check this japanese page (no book can provide a built-in search engine ): http://www.tgs.gr.jp/jazz/ And there is Michael Fitzgerald's impressive label listing project, which lists records but has no discography: http://www16.brinkster.com/fitzgera/labels...ls/homepage.htm

As has been widely discussed, the Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon SACDs had problems with cracks appearing after some time (weeks, months) in the center of the disc. Responsible for this is the Crest National pressing plant. My copy of DSOTM has a few cracks which appeared a month after I received it, but it seems that many more, and even much more recent titles are concerned. So the problem isn't solved yet. My copy of Bob Belden Black Dahlia also has 2 cracks (2 mm long). My Blue Train SACD is still ok (so I can safely get rid of it on ebay ) So be warned, check your Crest-made SACDs regularly and keep the receipts. Here is a thread from the Steve Hoffman forum discussing the topic in detail.