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I like what Charles Lloyd made after his return in the late 80's, but I prefer his 60's recordings My favourite is an album he made in Chico Hamilton's group: Drumfusion Lloyd gets a lot of solo space (could almost be his session) and plays in a wilder, more Coltrane-influenced style than later. Apparently this album never made it to CD. I found an LP (looks like a reissue from the 80's or 90's) recently.

This is not new. EMI has recently started selling self-destructing SACDs

Yes, I also think Planet Music was just an online store should not be on this list. But there seems to be a relationship between Disconforme from Andorra (Definitive, Jazz Factory) and Blue Moon from Barcelona (Fresh Sound, Blue Moon, RCA, ...), and this goes further than just distribution. The "Jimmy Giuffre Complete 1947-1952 Master Takes" was available on Blue Moon in the mid 90's, and is now on the Definitive label. The concepts of both labels look very similar.

Poll question: Did you buy the Miles Davis - Complete Montreux 20CD set? (Sorry, the question disappeared from the poll when I posted the message) The 20CD box The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux came out during fall of last year and the overwelming reaction at the BNBB was that it contained too much music, to many versions of the same compositions and simply was too expensive. Starting at $250, it is now sometimes discounted at $150. I know many Miles fans, but noone of them has actually bought this box. I would have been interested in some of the concerts included if they were available seperately (only the 1991 concert with Quincy Jones has been officially available before). There are also some more interesting box sets in sight (Blackhawk, Jack Johnson), so there is currently no shortage of Miles reissues which could have motivated me to get this box. So, six months after the release, how many of you bought this set, and how do you evaluate it? You can also post if you haven't listened to it Some reviews: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Avzn20roai48z http://home.att.net/~lankina/jazz/Reviews/R0211g.html http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/best/rhecd9.html http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/...emontreux.shtml http://www.jazzitude.com/milesdavis_complete1.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4478023,00.html

You could ask our friend Daniel A to look into his personal BNBB archive.

I think the list of JRVG repressings was posted on the BNBB

The tapes are not in a good shape, even the MFSL Ultradisc of "Giant Steps" sounds hissy and dull. About tape hiss and remastering in general: With the newest remasterings you will problable have more tape hiss than with the first CD reissues. At the beginning of the CD era the engineers tried to eliminate tape hiss by all means, cutting off treble with an equalizer or using Nonoise processes that render the music lifeless. The later remasterings had to objective of transferring the tape "as is", including the hiss that also contains musical information (overtones): Most people prefer to have the unmanipulated sound, as one can get accustomed to constant tape hiss very well and not notice it anymore.

If DVD-A support is not needed (titles are much more scarce than SACDs), a good universal player would be the new Philips DVD 963 SA, which plays DVD, CD, SACD and MP3-CDs. Dutch digital delight Reviews say that the sound is outstanding for the price ($400-500). That's especially true for CD playback (upsampling option). Picture quality is excellent too. The machine is very well built, but only available in silver. I will get one soon to replace my recently bought Sony DVD/MP3 and CD/SACD players ($250 and $400), which are both inferior in their domain. A few months ago there was no player on the market under $1000 that would offer DVD playback plus high quality CD sound. Apparently the demand for the Philips is so high that it is difficult to get immediately.

I don't remember how long this album is, but they could have tried to put the non-overdubbed tracks (which are only available in the Complete Debut Recordings box) on the new CD together with the "official" version. This would have convinced me to upgrade my OJC CD.

The website says: "All releases are carefully re-mastered by one of Germany's leading studio engineers (F.Thein) using all his knowledge about the music using today's state of the art technical equipment for the benefit of a new fresh listening experience" It doesn't however say which tapes they used for this new reissue. Here is the engineer's website: www.thein.de . This company looks more serious than ZYX, which is mainly releasing pop records. Mr Thein at work:

There is an US K2 remastered version (20Bit), that is said to sound much better than the original OJC release. http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/parker_c_cat.html There is a german remastered CD (20 or 24Bit, who cares what ZYX uses? ) which is said to sound awful. But I suppose you already know to avoid those releases. As the music is 50 years old, we are also likely to see a Definitive CD very soon

Here is my current wish list of OOP or hard to find (or maybe not) CDs: - Wayne Horvitz - Nine below zero (Sound aspects, 1986) - London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Double trouble (Intakt, 1989) - Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - At Carnegie Hall (the Sony Mastersound release) - Joe Harriott - Free Form (Jazzland, 1960) - Miles Davis - No blues (Antwerpen 1967 bootleg) - Khan Jamal - Balafon Dance (CIMP, 2002 but hard to find) - Dave Liebman - Trio+1 (Owl, 1988) Any help appreciated Many of them are listed on GEMM.com , but I still try to find them for reasonable (<25$) prices. And hey, searching for rare CDs is even more fun than having them

I recently bought the Monk Complete London recordings 3CD box for 10 Euro at www.zweitausendeins.de . This came out in 1989. The sound is very good, some of the best recorded Monk on CD. I don't think the 24Bit versions can improve this very much.

I have/had 3 titles from this series: "Undercurrent", "Birth of the cool" and Intuition Those are not Blue Note sessions, so I can't compare the sound to the Blue Note TOCJ standard. But the RVG of "Birth of the cool" and the remastered "Undercurrent" are much better. I rather think those CDs are made from the late 80's, early 90's McMaster tapes.

You can't judge the AAJ board on a Wingy/Deep thread. This could also happen here.

I voted for "Destination ... out"

No problem with this image. I hated the distracting animated pacman pic Berigan had before. I would like to see no pictures at all in signatures. The avatar should be enough for individual needs of graphical expression.

Uploading instead of linking the avatar would solve the problem. I thought the tripod error image was meant to be the avatar

I don't know the latest models, but six months ago (when I bought a Sony DVD player) Pioneer and Sony both had a onscreen menues for mp3 playback, but only the Sony could display more than 8 caracters on directory and track names. 8 caracters is not much when you organize tracks in the format "track number - track name" Example: "01 - Love for sale" will be displayed as "01 - Lov" As I don't want to turn my TV on every time I want to browse an MP3-CD, I have printed a list with the album (=directory) names and numbers, so I can go directly to an album by typing it's number.

And she played piano quite well

This could have been a fine "not Miles Davis" CD http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...0&category=1056

Here's a link to the korean Institute for Mosaic Studies http://pllab.hyu.ac.kr/~doh/music/mosaic/137.html

I grabbed a Miles Davis set at Zweitausendeins' local shop in Munich yesterday. They still had a few left, and some Art Pepper sets. Don't be too disappointed when you receive your sets. The packaging is very cheap, unlike the box sets made in the US. The outer box is of thin card board. The Miles set contains a booklet which seems to be a reproduction of the one that's in the US LP-size box, reduced to CD size. So the text is small and difficult to read. But at this price one can't complain.

Why has Rooster lost? Candy Dulfer wasn't named before, or did I miss something?

Krzysztof Komeda - Le depart - Culture Publishers CPJ8-1032 (Japan) http://www.geo.ryerson.ca/komeda/ http://www.komeda.vernet.pl/