Claude

Thanks bertrand. I have edited my list

Currently available albums from the Mosaic set: RVG: - Unity Connoisseur: - Into Somethin' - Mother Ship - Of love and peace <--scheduled regular Blue Note: - Talkin' about (Grant Green) - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Grant Green) - Street of dreams (Grant Green) So, only two albums are missing: - Heaven on earth - Contrasts

I love Tony Williams' playing in the 60's, on the Miles quintet sessions and the Blue Note albums by McLean, Sam Rivers and others. But his playing in the 80's and 90's just leaves me cold, independently of the context he plays in. It has nothing to do with not liking his jazz-rock evolution. In the 60's he played so many rhythm variations on the cymbal, it was very exciting just to concentrate on him (I normally don't listen to the drummer especially). But on later non-rock albums like McCoy Tyner's "Supertrios", his cymbal playing is mechanical, noisy and boring in comparision with what he did in the 60's.

I think that's exagerated. Here's my situation, in Germany the options and taxes are comparable. Option 1: order CDs from CDuniverse at preorder price (all new RVGs are usually on sale). 4 discs at a time, which is a trade-off between the risk of being "caught" by the customs and minimizing shipping cost. 4 RVGs: 4x$8.5 (preorder price at cduniverse) + shipping $11 (airmail) = $45 = 37.3 Euro = 9.3 Euro/CD If customs "catch" it, add 20% (15% VAT + customs tax) on the value of the CDs. Final cost: 10.8 Euro/CD In the last 2 years I made more than 20 orders at CD Universe, only 5 of them were taxed by customs. But even if I had to pay customs every time, the cost would be similar to CDs bought here. It takes 5-10 days for cduniverse shippings to arrive. Option 2: Order european (copyprotected) CDs from Amazon.de: 10 Euro/CD (no shipping cost) The european CDs are usually available several weeks after the US releases. So you need to wait longer and you get a flawed disc. Option 3: Wait until the european CDs are available at Zweitausendeins: 7 Euro/CD However this is not certain to happen with every RVG batch, and it takes again several weeks more until 2001 has them in stock. Not everybody can do that, one needs a CD or DVD drive in the PC that can read copyprotected discs. And it's illegal to do that (new european copyright law)

A Larry Young Mosaic set shows up on Ebay two or three times a month. The usual end price is around $250, but it has also gone up to $350. The lowest price I've seen was $150, it was a "US only" auction and the seller didn't accept Paypal.

You can open a new thread in the other forum and then delete this one (Moderation options down on the page in the left corner)

Check the Lou Donaldson phone call thread, archived on AAJ: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....s=&threadid=401

Thanks couw for the "Maltz for SACD" hint. I googled and found this AAJ thread which has all the Aric and Greg covers and some others: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=411

Does anyone still have the great Blue Note style Aric and Greg parody LP covers , which very posted on the BNBB?

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Here are scans from a german book. The pictures are black/white, but there is a color description in german below (identical to brownie's Goldmine quote) Part one:

Hello Freddy, I had this Sonny Rollins XRCD too. But the SACD of the same album sounds even better. I think XRCDs will disappear now that better audiophile formats are available (SACD, DVD-A). After all, it's just a CD with 16Bit/44.1kHz resolution, despite the name. BTW, this has been discussed here before: How good really is XRCD?

You could sell it on Ebay and get the new CD. I've never seen the MoFi go for less than $50.

On another forum, it was recently discovered that $400 power cords from a US hifi brand were in fact relabeled power cables from the belgian company Eupen Kabelwerke. These are high quality cables used for medical instruments, but they cost only $20 in supply stores.

John, there is a database on Pete Losin's "miles Ahead" website where one can search for tunes http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/query.asp The only occurence of "body and soul" is indeed the one mentioned by Mike and Brownie.

Why must he be rich? Have you seen her face?

Well, different players certainly handle these discs differently, but since wolff’s question was what causes the “possible inability to play”, I don't think it’s fair to blame hardware that is designed in accordance with existing standards and plays Red Book CDs flawlessly. The blame, IMHO, must be put squarely on the disc that deviates from the established standards. Standards and adherence to them is the only thing that can guarantee 100% compatibility between hardware and software, and the one who deviates from them is the one who must be blamed for causing the non-playability. Yes, but I wasn't talking about blame or responsibility in the compatibility issues. It's a fact that problems with copyprotected CD usually happen with players that have a DVD drive. The best way to avoid problems is not to buy copyprotected discs (this would also show the industry that copyprotection is not the right way). But if one must play such CDs, a CD-only player will give the best results

I just noticed that the 6th edition of the Penguin Guide has no entry on Bill Dixon, although he was featured in previous editions. His music fits into the author's preference for free/avantgarde jazz, and many of his albums on Soul Note are in print, so I guess this must be an error.

Don't expect miracles from a sharpness filter. The effect is only very subtle and it won't fix bad pictures.

I´m using ACDSee, which is primarily a picture viewer (the best), but also has some editing functions that are easy to use and powerful enough for my needs. It has picture transfer plugins for various brands of cameras that allow to bypass the transfer software that comes with the camera (which is often not very good). There is a trial version for download . www.acdsee.com

I agree with what Swinging Swede says, but the hardware part is also true. Problems with copyprotected CDs usually happen with DVD drives. Not only DVD players use such drives but also some car CD players. Currently, copyprotection is still rare on the jazz sector. Only EMI (Blue Note) has implimented it in Europe. I haven't yet seen other jazz CDs with copyprotection. This may however change very fast because of the labels anti-piracy craze. On the other hand, copyrotection technology may also improve so that compatibility problems become less frequent. What EMI did was irresponsible, their copyprotection scheme (Cactus datashield) was not ready for the market.

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=5372

As far as digital formats are concerned, this album is available on the regular OJC CD (late 80's remastering), K2 20Bit CD and SACD. I don't have any of them, but the comments I've read on the SACD were not enthousiastic. The tapes seem to be in rather bad shape. Steve Hoffman, who has reissued a couple of Wes albums during the mid 90's for the DCC label, refused to remaster this one for that reason. I have a Wes compilation from Fantasy, which is from the late 80's and probably has the same remastering as the original CD versions. The tracks from the "Incredible jazz guitar" album are those that sound worst. So I guess none of the digital versions sounds good.