Ron S

Any spelling classes going on there? Doubt it, or he's skipping them... Speling is soch a noosents.

Any particular Savoy Pepper title(s)? Or just all the Pepper stuff?

Until the late John R.T. Davies got ahold of them--then, no more hiss! Just pure silence!

I went with the compilation, Tape Hiss for a Rainy Afternoon. The problem with the compilation is that you don't get the newly remastered individual CD's (Tape Hiss for a Rainy Afternoon, Tape Hiss for a Sunny Day, Tape Hiss for a Mellow Evening, etc.). You really haven't heard tape hiss until you've heard it in glorious 20-bit K2 or 24-bit sound.

Finally--Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, Disc 8--Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison. Great so far.

Oops - I just quoted myself. Well this does keep coming up. At least you don't suffer from cognitive dissonance. Oops, sorry--for a second I was thinking I was on the "Psychology Today" bulletin board.

You're going back to number 4? Good catch! But wrong guess. For some reason, I posted in the general "What are you listening to right now" thread when I was listening to Disc 4. Next up is the last but not least Disc 8. Incidentally, the Herb Ellis-led sessions I'm listening to now on Disc 7 are outstanding. This may end up being my favorite disc in this set.

Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, Disc 7--Herb Ellis. Guess which disc is next.

Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, Disc 6--Kenny Burrell/Illinois Jacquet sessions--still swingin'.

Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, Disc 5--Illinois Jacquet sessions. Not surprisingly, these REALLY swing, and include some great solos from the likes of Roy Eldridge.

FINE I'M SHUTTING IT DOWN!!! OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE CAN'T HAVE FUN!!!1 IT TURNS OUT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO BRINGS THE BOARD TO CHAOS. Raging adolescent hormones.

An Inside-the-Beltway question, if ever I've heard one.

Looks like Jazz Kat gets no respect. We've totally trashed the premise of his thread.

Including Texas: "It's a whole other country!"

Sounds like it's time for some East Coast gigs. B-)

[Notice how in the above 3 posts, the Southwest and West Coast boys like the East Coast labels, and the East Coast boy likes the West Coast label.]

Contemporary.

I have many of these recordings on two Japanese Toshiba "Super Bit Jazz Classics" mini-LP CDs, The Art of Pepper (TOCJ-9311) and Modern Art (TOCJ-9407), which were remastered by Ron McMaster. I'm guessing that, for economic reasons, Mosaic decided to use those remasters after all, rather than have Malcolm Addey remaster the recordings again. But would that be consistent with the following statement from the Mosaic web site? "For each of these exceptional sessions, we have returned to the original master tapes and remastered them in 24-bit with greatly improved results from all previous issues. " [bold added] The McMaster remasters I'm referring to are also in 24-bit, and were done in 2002. But you're right, my guess doesn't seem to be consistent with that statement... . . . unless they meant to say "improved results from all previous DOMESTIC issues."

indeed it is! can i change the thread title? this stuff is so so so hip... -e- . . . and cool. B-)

I have many of these recordings on two Japanese Toshiba "Super Bit Jazz Classics" mini-LP CDs, The Art of Pepper (TOCJ-9311) and Modern Art (TOCJ-9407), which were remastered by Ron McMaster. I'm guessing that, for economic reasons, Mosaic decided to use those remasters after all, rather than have Malcolm Addey remaster the recordings again. But would that be consistent with the following statement from the Mosaic web site? "For each of these exceptional sessions, we have returned to the original master tapes and remastered them in 24-bit with greatly improved results from all previous issues. " [bold added]

So is it now a set you ARE enjoying?

B-) I'd like one signed by your daughter.

Will autographed copies be available?

FWIW, I just spoke to someone at Mosaic who said the back-ordered Hank Mobley set is due in a couple of weeks, and is not in imminent danger of losing it's license. I still advanced it on my purchasing schedule just in case, ordering it along with my preorder of the Art Pepper Select.

Now available for preorder in Upcoming Releases, with 3 full-length tracks as samples. BTW, per the Mosaic site, this set was remastered by Ron McMaster, and not Malcolm Addey as was previously indicated in another thread.