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How does the Weston Select sound? And does anyone know how the Randy Weston "Little Niles" 2LP sampler from the 70's sounds? I've recently started buying vinyl records again, and if McMaster produces the same NoNoise disaster as with the Moncur Select (I know some like the sound, but I find it artificially clean) I might get this LP collection instead.

I had to check the All Music guide to see who Cleo Laine is. Is it a good thing that she seems to be unknown outside of the US (although she is born in the UK)? The picture on the AMG page reminds me of Barbara Streisand

I don't listen to much rock anymore, but my 70's favourites are Jimi Hendrix and Can.

Norah Jones and jazz purists loved this USA Today headline : http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/inte...leb-jones_x.htm

Today's pickups from the second hand vinyl bin: James Newton - Romance and Revolution (Blue Note, 1986) A brilliant set, comparable to the better known "African flower" Andrew Hill - From California with Love (Artists House, 1978) A solo recording. Haven't listened to it yet. A gatefold LP with an 8 page booklet

If you delete the cookies from norahjones.info you should be able to browse the board as guest again. They could also block your IP address, but that would be rather useless as most people use dialup connections and change the IP address at every connection.

I have the Byrd/Pepper set, and while it certainly has the McMaster sound signature (added brilliance on cymbals) it is a very balanced and successful remastering.

A couple of Gerry Hemingway HatArt's were on Ebay last week. They went for $20-50

The current NEW quality budget turntable is the Pro-ject Debut ($180 including cartridge) But below $200 you get most for your money by finding a used Thorens TD160/165/166 or TD145/146/147 ($100) and add a new cartridge ($100). Those 20-25 year old but very competitive turntables are a delight to watch and to work with. They are at least in the same league as a new Pro-ject 1.2 or the cheapest Rega ($400). In the US they may be a little harder to find, but in Europe there are a few every day on Ebay.de. With other vintage turntables finding replacement parts is often diffcult, not with a Thorens http://www.theanalogdept.com/

Thanks, I wasn't aware of a DSD reissue.

"Ornette" has been restored. Thank you so much. I love Norah and the boardmaster

Star People is one of my favourite Miles Davis post-comeback albums. The CD I have (late 80's, made in Holland) sounds horrible. I've seen a japanese mini-LP reissue from 1998 (Sony SRCS-9135, apparently the latest reissue, no DSD remaster available) for a reasonable price, but I don't have the possibility to listen to it. Does anyone have this reissue and can comment on the sound? Is it worth upgrading, or is the recording really that bad?

You seem to have been preemptively banned, Rooster

"Ornette" is no more

In addition to the works and recordings Hans has listed, one of my favourites: - The Wooden Prince (Ballet) New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez (1975, Sony reissue)

Yes, it seems so. Norah Jones is even listed as a moderator of the "Write Norah" forum and has posted two messages ("hellooooo"): http://www.norahjones.info/forums/search.p...thor=norahjones

It should be pointed out that this is an unofficial Norah Jones board, run by die-hard fans. The official Norah board is here: http://www.norahjones.com/board/default.htm Looks more familiar for BNBB users

This is the weak point. If Disney want to use this technology to sell cheap "one view" DVDs (they will have to be a lot cheaper than regular DVDs, in the pay-per-view range, maybe $5-8), these discs will probably attract more people attempting to circumvent the limitation by copying the DVDs before they selfdestruct (although DVD-copying is not yet as easy and cheap as CD-copying) than people really using it for it's meant purpose. I can imagine that Disney will try to make the price even higher than that (half the price if a regular DVD, i.e. $8-10). Like the record industry which thinks it can sell downloadable albums for more than half the price of a CD. They will inevitably fail. I wonder what goes on in the brains of those marketing guys, especially after the DivX experience.

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.