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My choice : Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" everything is in there - like a 3.11 movie of someone`s life - rather by chance one of the final scenes in Spike Lee`s (in)famous Malcolm X movie (aka Denzel Washington`s face during his cabdrive to Malcom`s final destination) deepened this view, as these pictures come to my mind regurarly....

Well, all Miles titles I ordered are in and I have changed my position somewhat. Some of the blu-spec2s use 2006 DSD mastering. Others use masterings from 2000 & 2001. There are clear differences in the choices Mark Wilder made for the Japanese market in the early 2000s and 2006, and in 2009 and later for the US/EU market. There is really not a bad disc among these blu-spec2s or in TCCAC, but in some cases I do have a clear preference. The most unexpected are the 2006 remasters which are very much toned down in the highs and less loud compared to Wilder's late nineties/early 2000s work. So much so, that by 2009s TCCAC the highs seem less rolled off than in 2006. The E.S.P. blu-spec2 is the one 2006 DSD remaster among the titles I bought, but I also listened to a FLAC rip on CD-R of the 2006 DSD remaster of Someday My Prince Will Come. The 2006 DSD of Wilder's Bitches Brew remix I listened to (FLAC rip) is much less loud than the blu-spec2 (2000 remaster) and also the 2009 40th Anniversary. (TCCAC uses the original mix.) Then there is the case of the superb MFSL hybrid SACDs which are all winners, some using quite differing original mixes. thnx for sharing your impressions - could you be a little more specific reg your listening experiences reg Miles Smiles, Sorcerer and Nefertiti (aka masters used - are these the 20Bit Mark Wilder remasters featured in Miles Davis Quintet 1965-'68: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings and loudness etc) ?

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Harold will "Land" with you, rest assure- from memory purely acoustic stuff......

Indeed

Just did realize how much this song line being an integral part of me....

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/19/motown-singer-jimmy-ruffin-dies-aged-78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vf3ZE7CLg0

indeed - actually they performed the remaining piano concerti (with a 4th pianist !!) and symphonies the day before, so it was sort of a Prokofiev "all-in" package which left me and most of the other spectators after more than 3 hours (including two rather short breaks) completely exhausted, by soaked by the urgency of subject music ......as mentioned the performances on day 2 (missed unfortunately day 1) were impressive and also worked as sort of a massive plug for Prokofiev`s Symphonis and Piano Concertos, most of which rarely make it (at least) in to Viennese/Austrian concert halls...

Heard him recently with the following : ---------------- Mariinsky Orchestra / Abduraimov / Babayan / Volodin / Gergiev DI 28. OKT 2014 19:30 - ca. 23:30 h KOnzerthaus Wien Großer Saal Interpreten Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchester Behzod Abduraimov (*), Klavier Sergei Babayan (***), Klavier Alexei Volodin (**), Klavier Valery Gergiev, Dirigent Sergej Prokofjew Symphonie Nr. 6 es-moll op. 111 (1945-1946) Sergej Prokofjew Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 C-Dur op. 26 (1917-1921) (*) Zugabe: Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky Nocturne cis-moll op. 19/4 (Six morceaux) (1873) Sergej Prokofjew Konzert für Klavier linke Hand und Orchester Nr. 4 B-Dur op. 53 (1931) (**) Zugabe: Nikolai Medtner Canzona serenata op. 38/6 (Zabitiye motivi «Vergessene Weisen») (1918?-1920) Sergej Prokofjew Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 5 G-Dur op. 55 (1931-1932) (***) Zugabe: Johann Sebastian Bach Aria (Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen. Clavier-Übung IV BWV 988 «Goldberg-Variationen») (1741-1742) --------------- Both Gergiev/Mariinsky and the three (!!!) pianists made an exemplary statement for Prokofiev`s euvre

definitely a good one !!!

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James Govan "Help me, I`m in Need" (Charly)

You've heard the later re-edit/remixes? In any case powerful, if slightly weird. Yes, have the later remix too, love in both cases Green`s self-abandonment and sermonizing - (IMO) rarely his voice was more touching..

Are you sure there are no scammers IN North America? Or if you want to advise against SPECIFIC regions of the world to deal with, then please say so and be specific. Otherwise you might do a huge and unfair disservice to honest collectors from outside the US of A (remember there IS a world of decent people and jazz fans out there) who might even be prepared to bear the huge shipping costs for the right item, and/or you might unnecessarily discourage newbie sellers on the forum who maybe have not dealt with buyers from abroad (or maybe even people from abroad at all) before. In short, please let's be fair. Seconded

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and the door to African Music was smashed wide open via

these are sensitive Mozart Sonata performances indeed and actually a pretty good transfer too...

The photographer is Elio Ciol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Ciol and the "Secret Museum" shot was made in Firenze /Tuscany/Italy in 1960 he made a number of fantastic photographs like the following :