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Is the Jaspar the recent digipack? I'd be happy to get it for a "zehnernötli" :-) And maybe combine that with a beer or a cup of coffee some day?

So I am the only one with a goofy CD here, it seems!? As I said, I take offers... list price for this one on amazon.de (it's still in print) is almost 20€ (these "Master Sessions" went from mid- to high-prize somewhen in the late 90s, from one day to another). Crazy! Now in all seriousness: what would you folks do? Just buy another one? Or buy the "Originals"? Or try and get a replacement (we're talking 14 years...) in the store where I got it, or by writing to Universal Switzerland (risking in both cases that IF at all I'll get something, I end up with the "Originals" disc, which misses "Vilia", the nice bonus track, which I also have in the 8CD "Classic Quartet" set, though...) - what would you do?

btw, the amazon-listing for the "Originals" reissue gives no timings - thank you: http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Birdland-John-Coltrane/dp/B0018RWD68/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1276644073&sr=1-2 the MP3/download edition that can be bought is the "master edition" (1996, which I have the faulty one of - wrong cover on amazon.com, right one on amazon.de): http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Birdland-John-Coltrane/dp/B000003N8O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1276644073&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.de/Live-At-Birdland/dp/B001SQPVMW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1276644170&sr=8-2-spell

Gee - can I get a free replacement after all these years?! At this very moment, I feel like I was screwed by GRP/MCA/Verve/Universal for 14 years with no intermission!

Yes, "Made in the EC" - gee, I am so ANGRY about this! Edit: must have bought this soon after it came out (somewhen in 1996).

I'm just reading in the "Coltrane Reference" (p. 689) that IMPD 198 (CD) contained a wrong master tape for "Afro Blue", running 8:05 instead of 10:40 (Tyner's solo deleted). Now I pop in my 1996 GRP CD (one of the old Impulse Digipack CDs, IMP 11982, with "Vilia" from 1963--03-06 as bonus track), and that one also has that "Afro Blue" at 8:07!!! (I guess that's what the "Coltrane Reference" refers to as as IMPD 198... as in 11982) I've had this disc for so many years and never noticed this goof! Is the "Impulse Originals" fixed? Where the hell can I get an ok version of this? I'm really pissed right now, this is such a fabulous album and I've known it since I was in highschool and into jazz newly... and I've never, not ONCE, heard the actual master take of "Afro Blue" - friggin' unbelievable! Can anyone confirm that the "Impulse Originals" has the correct version? And does anyone want to give me 100$ for the effin' rarity I seem to have bought? (The Coltrane Reference says "Although most copies were recovered and destroyed, a few (no one know exactly how many) made it out in the marketplace, especially overseas [yeah, them merikins like to eff us yurpeens, we know that!] (where release dates are usually earlier to prevent piracy). But the fiasco does not seem to have ended there: There are now releases available with the timing on the liner notes 'corrected' to show 8:05 [mine gives '8:07'], rather than the correct 10:40. In some cases, the CD has the full "Afro Blue," but in others the incomplete master has been used." I just can't effin' believe this right now! Was anyone here aware of this???

Not a mistake as such but the disk 7 "Impressions" is definitely not Stuttgart. No one seems to know where it comes from but the Stuttgart performance has been widely circulated and this isn't it. Yes, that's being taken care of in the note at the end of my little inlay - the "Coltrane Reference" puts it with the preceding material of the box, 63-11-02 Berlin. The session notes there say: In the November 2, 1963 entry of the chronology (pp. 289-290) there's a shortened reprint of a concert review, in which it says about "Impressions": "Nevertheless: to fulfill himself he perhaps needs an opponent like Jones; this might be inferred from the almost endless duel he had with the drums at the end - while Tyner and Garrison watched the fight of the two masters with noticeable pleasure. At first it seemed as if both exhausted themselves completely, like drummers and dancers in the blackest Africa who only stop when they lie on the ground - foam at the mouth. But thank God they finished civilized, and amid the applause they left the stage as relaxed as if they had been through a conference, not an orgy. As I said, rationality is called for." ("Black Dionysos: John Coltrane and his quartet at the Freie Universität," by "G.G.," in Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 6, 1963 - quoted from "Coltrane Reference", pp. 289-290). I love these contemporary reviews with all their flaws and prejudice! They're great documents to capture the mood of those bygone times when this music still had the power and force to shock people (even music lovers and critics).

Dana Andrews Julie Andrews Julie Tippets

Nettie Moore Absolutely Sweet Marie Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Very sad news!

Pig Pen Penny Lane Eric Dolphy

Btw, as with all the Trane boots around, some tracks of the box seem to run at wrong speed... I can't provide details about that, however - my ears aren't sharp enough to tell, usually.

Takeshi Kitano Toshiro Mifune Akira Kurosawa

Valerie Plame Olof Palme Abba

That brings back memories of the Art Blakey Bohemia disc (can't recall which volume) that used to be in the shelves of a local store for quite a while... it contained some silly acid jazz crap... a friend and I who both wanted to buy these Bohemia discs returned there several times, to find they still had that (or maybe several) faulty copy in their bins. The printing on the CD was giving Blakey and all the info you'd actually expect... but us being 13 or 14 back then, we didn't dare to inquire, being afraid we might be accused of having exchanged the disc or whatever... so we just returned until they had good copies, eventually

Sol LeWitt Al Levitt Sean Levitt

I'm tempted by this one, although I really can't afford it right now. It's strictly instrumental, isn't it? No, it's just the trio with Cole on piano & vocals. The set is very good, but it's been some time that I played it and honestly I don't remember how many of the 71 titles are instrumentals. Cuscuna puts it like this: The booklet, btw, is designed fancily but ultimately contains little of interest. Discs 1 and 2 are entirely by the Cole-Moore-Miller trio (1946-47), disc three is by Cole-Ashby-Miller (#1-6, late 1947) and by Cole-Ashby-Comfort-Constanzo (#7-23, two sessions, 1949-26 and 1950-03-09). I found the box rather cheaply in a store here when it came out (2005) - I'd say get it if the price is right!

Oh yes! Though I'd be happier to get some complete concerts (which would have meant a box for each of the three tours, I guess). There's some more with Dolphy that I love!

I've never understood that concept about index points... never even had a player capable of finding them. I guess that's a purely classical music thing?

Graham Green Gloria Grahame Nicholas Ray

I love "Parade", but then I'm a big fan of Dyani.... "Suite for Chocolate" ain't bad, either. That's all I have of Bonner's so far.

I've been listening to Coltrane chronologically for several weeks now, and being at the Nov/Dec 1962 European tour, I'm spending some time with the chaotically edited Fantasy/Pablo box for the second time with in some days... David Wild has a new website, and his chart with correct information is up again here: http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/livetrane.htm There is no proper thread about this box (probably because it came out in the ol' BNBB days), so I thought I'd open this one here, for future reference. For my own use, i made this small inlay to have the info sorted in a more handy way - I guess it might be of use to some of you here, too: JohnColtrane - LiveTrane_TheEuropeanTours_inlay.pdf If you discover any mistakes or have any additional information, let me know and I'll gladly correct and re-up.

David, SBE's are not those 2-second gaps (those mostly were created, I assume, by a moronic though I assume well-meaning IT programmer, who was responsible the annoying thing that is Nero - they still seem to have almost a monopol as far as burning software is concerned). Those SBE's are just split-seconds, you'd not notice them mostly, but they might create some clicks around the track marks if you play the tracks on a computer. TLH can actually fix those by moving the mark to a sector boundary (again, that is within confines that it will not move the mark to a wrong [late/early] place, it's just split seconds). This is all rather complicating... I like FLAC a lot, but as I'm not doing any official downloading (I'm still a CD person as far as officially released music goes), I've never ran into those problems you have!

Moving chronologically to ALL Coltrane I have (including many live recordings), I end up with Live Trane - The European Tours for the second time right now (Nov/Dec 1962 tour). It's such a mess! And it's annoying that they couldn't make it bigger and include full concerts (would have meant, I guess, a box for each year, '61, '62, and '63). Anyway, Wild's site is up at a new URL and here's the page about the box: http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/livetrane.htm

Sorry, I didn't read this closely enough it seems - so you want to merge various FLAC files into ONE track? The only way I know how to do that is to convert to WAV (I use TLH), then open them in some music editing programme (I have Cool Edit - not free, I'm afraid) and save the new WAV. Maybe there's some software that can join WAVs automatically, but I don't know. Then, if there are GAPS in the actual files: EAC is able to remove them (at the beginning and at the end of tracks) automatically. After doing any such operation though, you need to make sure SBE are fixed (using TLH). So, in short: each album you create will need custom treatment... that's not the reply you were hoping for, I'm sure! Otherwise if you're happy with MP3 I'd recommend you just hook up the ipod to your hifi set (same way you'd hook up a discman or record player or whatever, just use any of the free "channels") and listen that way. But as you said: that won't work for FLAC!