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Tomasz Stanko - 1970 1975 1984 1986 1988 right now: disc 1 (1970): Music for K

And still no email here... weird!

Oops, sorry for that! We don't see to many ladies around here - belated welcome, and keep on asking these pedantic questions, please, the discussion you stirred here is very interesting, indeed!

Sheila Jordan - The Crossing

Huh? Didn't get any mail... good for them that they seem to sell out one for a change again... the Smith and Rich have been running low for ages by now.

Cool, will keep my eyes open... Hanna/Davis/Lewis are terriffic w/the band. Would certainly be interesting to hear them in trio, and I imagene w/Farrell instead of Daniels! Not sure they'd have suited Booger, but the idea is fascinating! (And certainly Lewis is more... well, what? ... then Dawson)

I've got this one on vinyl: And of course the earlier stuff (Mosaic box, Basle disc on TCB). The Munich album is mighty good! Got to dig it up, too! As for 1969... it took me ten years from then to even get born - so, no, alas I've never seen them live, but I guess they really blew out of the room with their force!

solo of the day: Janice Robinson on trombone with plunger in "The Farewell" on Jones/Lewis' "Suite for Pops"!

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - Suite for Pops

Art Hodes - Someone to Watch Over Me, "Live at Hanratty's" (Muse)

Well, fuck me, but I've only got one track from that Muse album (as a bonus to the 32 Jazz reissue of "These Are Soulful Days", which was re-titled "Steady Comin' at Ya" and contains two tracks from yet another album, "Movin' Up!"). Guess I got to look for some vinyl. At least no one needs to fuck me because of the Prestige... I was aware of it (but don't know it). Love Daniels with the Jones/Lewis band, but always preferred him on clarinet.

Weird... seems the CD has the whole programme changed and while omitting the opening "Thelonica", it adds two tunes on on the LP, "Ask Me Now" and "Light Blue". Guess I can live with the LP, it's likely not to become a big Flanagan favorite anyway (those would be "Giant Steps" and "Eclypso" at this time).

Buck Clayton - Singin' and Dancing (Vogue)

ts ts... now playing: Urs Leimgruber could (and still can, if he wants to) blow a mean muscular tenor!

Yeah, that Miles in Boston is another good example. A fix of this was around in the net.... And as you say: many will notice the difference without being able to explain it. But most, even musically savvy (or half-savvy such as me) will never be able to correctly perform definitive pitch correction.

One aspect that some record dealer explained to me - I've not heard about that before (and I'm not sure he's right): the retro-active thing... it's not that simple, in fact, according to him, reissues of material older than 50 years at the appointed date has to be released (or have been released) in the very form that the label wants to keep it going... as I said, I'm not sure, but this was his explanation for the current flood of cheapodoodliest crappity crap reissues. Point being: they need to throw out as much as they can right now, in order for these releases to be legal once the period changes to 70 years. Again, I'm not sure that's true.

I'm with Chuck here... sometimes annoyed, sometimes chuckling, twice laughing out loud while finally catching up. Guess I really got to read the two Jones books, but there's plenty of stuff I should finally read and not enough time, so... Mr. spang, that list offered by Leeway is definitely a good one - obviously it doesn't end there, not by a long shot. I'd throw in Barry Guy, Irene Schweizer, Henry Threadgill, Leo Smith and Roscoe Mitchell, to just name a few more.

John Clark - Faces (ECM)

Well, I'm not stating I'm an expert at speed issues at all - it's just that I've heard some fixed versions where it made a big difference, even if the sound's bad (that Miles Amsterdam set is just a case in point). This is really something only specialists should do... in best case, musicians who know the tunes AND the players in question, who know if so-and-so was prone to using sharp pitch or playing this or that tune a half tone lower than most others would do etc. etc. It's very tricky. And that's just the beginning... the main job is then figuring out by how many "cents" a track is off the assumedly correct speed. Often if cassettes are involved, there's a constant shift, say a recording starts at correct pitch but ends half a tone sharp, so you have to figure all of that out in order to fix it. To me, it's an intriguing thing, but I could never do it myself.

Too bad - just read the articles on his 90th birthday... r.i.p. Hazy

Whoah, AB, that's quite a story! Me, I've been drinking mostly water (2-3 litres a day, just plain tap water, no bubbles for me)... add to that plenty of coffee and (on some days plenty of) alcoholic beverages (and there again, if I have wine with dinner, I always drink lots of water with it, too). There were days when I drank lots of Ginger Ale (Schweppes... and hence Coke stuff, too) but nowadays I just drink some such if I really feel like it, which might be once a week or once a month. Never felt like I was missing anything, (tap) water is just what I need...

Steve, some pitch correction may go a long way, even if most of us wouldn't recognize the wrong pitch as such... the Miles Amsterdam concert with Barney Wilen, for instance, always on wrong pitch on any official release so far, sounds *much* better once corrected! Not sure you get the same effect with older poorly recorded sessions, but I'd be all for it. There are some folks fixing up stuff on dime, but I think the Rockland wasn't amongst them (Are those Parkers to be considered legit or not? If it's legit, it's off dime's limits of course!)

Hey, what's that? Never seen it before! Good, great, essential? (Well, good at least, it's Duke!)

I think where there are Legacy editions around at the time the boxes appear, they were used - the first Elvis set, for instance, is a combination of both... but there's no need for it any longer now that several Legacy Edition 2CD sets have appeared... and that's the main point: make sure not to buy too many cheapo sets that you won't need in a few months because you got better editions! Previous threads on these and the Rhino 5CD sets: A couple of back covers (you can discern bonus tracks): (on the Miles, the first disc has bonus tracks, too, but not marked with an asterisk, it seems)

Classics did (they're long gone, I think) their own transfers, straight from 78's - just in case that makes a difference... it's my understanding they never stole or just polished up anyone's transfers. (Not sure how they handled EP/LP material, before stopping their releases they reached 1954/55 in some cases - I guess again they did their own vinyl transfers.) Definitive has used MP3 - at least according to my version of Trader's Little Helper... I've only checked one of their Bechet 3CD sets, but I'm sure there will be others, some of them have horrid sound.