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Manfred Schoof - Horizons (JAPO 1979)

Hi Daniel, With the new vinyl boom, JPC has added many jazz LPs to their catalogue. Most of them are german OJCs (not recommendable, made from digital masters). The ECM LPs on the JPC site are the same titles that are being offered on the ECM homepage. So they are in stock at ECM. I got my shipping of a dozen LPs a week after ordering (1-2 weeks was given for most titles). An additional LP with 2-3 weeks shipping time will be sent later without shipping cost. JPC looks to be the cheapest source for ECM vinyl (10 Euro), prices are 12.5 Euro at Da Capo (they have some additional titles in stock) and 13.8 Euro on the ECM website. Shipping was 7 Euro for 12 LPs. To see which titles are available on LP. use the advanced search function at JPC or Dacapo (LP+label search). The ECM site doesn't allow searches based on the format.

The brightness and slight compression are present on almost all RVG titles, but narrowing of the stereo field only appears on a couple of remasters, for example Go, Unity, Somethin´ else, Moanin´.

I´ve bought more than 20 ECM LPs recently, some new (10 Euro at www.jpc.de) some second hand. The german pressings all sound great, better (more dynamic and direct) than the CD versions in case of many 70´s and 80`s recordings. I auctioned a couple of US ECM pressings from a UK seller (who described them as Mint), they are noticibly noisier than the german pressings but sound good too

In SACD technology or superior remastering? Have you listened to the CD layer of the discs?

Now I'm really curious what's going on there - will check in on Tuesday! Two weeks ago, a board regular was outed as a transsexual perfomance artist.

But not the content of the fora. That's where the backup comes in.

I've seen worse than Organissimo This german discussion forum on analogue audio is currently closed because the moderators want to have time for their families on Easter

These are audiophile pressings with very good sound. The early digital recordings by Soundstream were also state of the art. While the Telarc LPS are not collectors items, in mint condition they will sell for a decent price, $8-12.

The Alan Shorter review on AMG (4 stars) was actually written by Brandon Burke

I heard the Shorter and Burrell once. I didn't like the Shorter at all (too cacophonous(?) for me), but I ordered the Burrell, as well as the Thornton. There are reviews on AMG: Burrell: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:eqf2zfs4eh3k Shorter: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yf1uak1k0m3x Bley: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6wsqoaqaeijz

Try the Dial and Savoy studio recordings instead of live discs The picture quality of the "Jammin'" movie is very good.

http://www.jazzonfilm.com/atozdocub.html

This community and thousands of other internet discussion groups work fine with people "hiding" behind nicknames, so I really can't see your point. For the discussions on jazz, we don't need to know who the person behind the opinion is, what job and other interests he has, etc etc. It is also not necessary to know in which other unrelated internet communities the person participates. Because the internet can easily be searched and archived, people would leave many traces for everyone to see and track, if they used their real name on message boards, Ebay and any other websites anyone can contribute to. The danger of abuse of this information is very high. In my view, using the real name only makes sense for posters which are known in the field. If a well known musician posts here it would add some weight to his opinions if he uses his real name and everybody knows who he is. But if the same person participates elsewhere in a discussion on marriage problems, what does it add to the discussion if he is identified as a famous jazz musician?

If the albums have never been released on CD, Universal/iTunes has to dig out the tapes from the vaults and transfer them to digital, just as for a CD release. That's why it is surprising the music is only offered for download, because many jazz fans would not only prefer a CD release but will not even know the music is available online. The only commercial downloads of music never reissued on CD I had seen before were the Xanadu albums on emusic.com. But those were taken from LPs and the sound quality wasn't good.

Woody Shaw - Night music and there is still a batch of brand new ECMs waiting (mostly recordings from the 70's and early 80's), that I got from JPC.de for 10 Euro each.

Not in the short term, but who knows what the future brings.

The funny thing about iTunes is (last time I checked) that it allows the music buyer to make a limited number of audio CDs (5 or 6) from the AAC files. But of course every audio CD can again be copied (lossless), so this limitation is nonsense, at least from a technical point of view.

Indeed. Defeating a copyprotection system which is "effective" (no one knows what this exactly means, but the legal hurdle isn't probaly very high) is prohibited by european copyright law (since 2001), and the DMCA in the US.

If it's iTunes the format is most likely AAC, the Apple audio format that has copyprotection features. AAC files can be listened to on the Mac or PC (with the iTunes or Quicktime software), on a iPod (but not on other portable MP3 players, which mostly don't support AAC), or burned to a regular audio CD, from which copyprotection-free MP3 files can be created. All format conversions induce sound quality loss though. On AAC sound quality: http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3.shtml

I agree that the Stockholm recordings are amazing, mainly those with Coltrane. As far as Miles and the rest of the band are concerned, there's not that much to discover, although the playing is on the highest level. You should also get the cheap Laserlight 2CD set with the Paris concert of March 1960, it has the same Coltrane inventiveness, plus the Paris audience actively expressing it's very differing appreciations of this http://www.deltamusic.de/index.php?id=28&L...n=4006408361305

Bob Belden "Black Daliah" is my favourite SACD demonstration disc. Excellent DSD recording of dynamic big band orchestrations. Made to impress The only negative point is that on the hi-rez stereo layer, the channels have been reversed. Another audiophile recording with great music (if you like electric Miles) is Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Sky Garden I currently have 120 SACDs (mostly jazz), if you have questions on the sound quality of individual titles, feel free to ask.

Stop abusing the board. And grow up, Aric

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7551

Even if it's not an original, the winning bidder doesn't have to care about money anyway: Current and recent auctions bid on by gorogorodake8