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I see this is available from Acoustic Sounds as of today. I think the MFSL gold CD of this title sounds great, but Steve Hoffman and others have always strongly criticized its sonics. If you purchase the new AP SACD, please post your impressions here, particularly if you can compare the redbook layer to the Mobile Fidelity gold CD version. Thanks! P.S. The AP hybrid (mono) SACD of Ella and Louis is also out today.

I did join and I have to agree with you: small w/o many posts. Strange that current and former SH.tv gorts would have their own forum.

Is the Speakeasy Forum anything like SH.tv? Thanks.

Which one is that?

I see that not much has changed there. Pity.

Well, the packaging on all the AP BN SACDs clearly states that the mastering was done by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray at AcousTech mastering. I don't understand why that would be a hot topic for discussion. Lots of classic rock there.

I was banned from Hoffman's forum last year. I sent him a message on FB asking to be reinstated a while back, and he said that he "...would love to have me back as nobody discusses jazz any more." LOL I'm pretty sure that Hans still discusses jazz there with SOMEBODY. Anyway, he said it was up to the gorts whether I would be reinstated. Naturally, the answer was "no." Personally, I think the worst thing that Steve Hoffman ever did was starting his own website. All the adoration from his "disciples" seems to have changed his personality. Anyway, I digress. I called Acoustic Sounds and the guy to whom I spoke (not Nate, who seems very cool) obviously didn't know what he was talking about. Time will tell about the Sterling Sound "sound."

Is this a good thing, from a sonics standpoint? I see on RTI's website that Kevin Gray is no longer with AcousTech Mastering, but is now associated with an outfit called Cohearent Mastering. Perhaps this is the reason for the change. I'm not familiar with the work of George Marino of Sterling Sound. Is he in the same league as Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman? The titles which are now listed as being mastered by SS include the following: Cat Stevens - "Tea for the Tillerman" "Getz/Gilberto" Ella Fitzgerald - "Like Someone in Love" Ella Fitzgerald - "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" "Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson" "Ella and Louis" Johnny Hodges - "Blues A-Plenty" and many more.

I purchased 12 from Acoustic Sounds for $1 apiece. They have the Super Jewel Box logo imprinted in the plastic and are exact replacements for the cases used for the Analogue Productions impulse! reissues.

I called Audio Wave and you're correct: the recent events in Japan have caused a delay in shipping to the USA.

Anybody here have an "in" with Michael Cuscuna? I'd like to know what the hold up is in bringing the rest of these titles to market. Thanks.

Thank you, Chuck and Tom.

What's a reliable retail source for small quantities of Super Jewel Boxes (as used for SACD packaging)? Thanks.

My thanks to all who replied. I just purchased a factory-sealed copy of the DCC gold CD, and yes, I paid a bundle for it. But you know what? It's the last of the DCC jazz titles I needed for my collection, and everybody knows that Steve Hoffman is the man when it comes to remastering. (I don't care for the way he and his "gorts" treated me when I was a member of long standing on his website, but that's irrelevant.) Trane is Trane and "Lush Life" was his most important title on Prestige, and money's for spending on the things that bring you happiness.

Would you be willing to sacrifice a human life so that this album may live? That's love. Yes. Offhand, I would gladly behead all religious extremists, pedophiles, violent criminals, abusers of animals, wifebeaters....The list is virtually endless. All of them, gone -- just so that this album may "live."

This is one of the latest batch of Blue Note remasters from Analogue Productions (Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman). I love this album and as a jazz fan, you should, too! I'm ambivalent about the Blue Note catalog; some titles are indispensable and others I simply don't care for, but of the 30 or so AP BN titles I've purchased, all sound VERY good (speaking only of the redbook layer from personal experience).

I don't own this title but am beginning to feel as though I should. Does the DCC sound so much better than the standard OJC CD that it's worth $160?

They're due out tomorrow (June 14th). Concord's website is wrong.

I sent the same question to Columbia's Legacy website. If they reply, I'll post their response here.

I'll be. Sho 'nuff. I wonder if it was available for only a brief period of time due to some sort of legal issue?

If so, it flew under my radar.

I was unaware that Jazz Goes to College was issued as a Legacy remaster. Is this true?

One other nice thing about the OJC Remasters is that they include a reproduction of the back of the original LP jacket in the CD booklet. This may not matter to some, but I love having that sort of thing.

Glad to help. These new OJC Remasters really do sound better than the regular OJC versions (most of which were flat transfers and sound pretty good to begin with). If you can't afford the DCC gold versions of the Cannonball and Chet titles, for example, I think you can easily live with the sonics of these, and they're an inexpensive upgrade to the regular OJC CDs.

Something Else!!!! by Ornette Coleman Explorations by the Bill Evans Trio Know What I Mean by Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans Easy Living by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass In New York by Chet Baker