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Oh, and 80 minutes seem to be no barrier any longer. I just picked up a disc (as a gift for someone) of classical music that was 82 minutes long.

I played half of it yesterday, quite nice! The liners say this was Tapscott's very first recording on piano, and indeed there's not much of his greatness to be found here, just some slightly more percussive than usual hardbop piano... it's not his show, so that's no loss... But I played "The Giant Is Awakened" before trying some of the Blackburn, and that one's the real deal for sure (Arthur Blythe's first record date, too). Tapscott is mainstream, no? I can't see your problems... you should try some of his later solo recordings, strong and beautiful stuff. I only managed to find Vol. 8 - it features him doing 4 tunes, 3 by other composers/musicians (Randy Weston, for instance). Quite a major figure in the history of our beloved music, I think. Pity the public never got hip to him!

pretty bad deal with those only 3 days! Happy Birthday Martin!

sorry to interrupt your weird economic discussion, but there's this fine 2CD set collecting the 54/55 Columbia albums of Rugolo's: There's another 2CD set on Freshsound but I don't know what it contains (details are on the website, but no labels/albums mentioned).

Lou Donaldson - The Scorpion and more outish, but terrific: Big John Patton - Understanding I love "Live at Club Mozambique"! Don't know the Groove Holmes and need to play the other two again...

So if a CD gets ripped to MP3 by iTunes (I never do it that way, but I just wonder), it gets encoded at a crappy 128 kbps? Is that just an unchangeable truth, or are there possibilities to set up how the MP3s will be created?

Coltrane's Atlantic box, just after it came out, and just after I started getting into jazz a bit - via Miles, first electric, then "Workin'" and KoB from the library, then I read about Trane and let my parents buy me the Heavyweight box for x-mas.... been hooked ever since, both to Trane and to box-sets...

no hurry mr. weizen! I sent yours out a few days ago... and picked up a truckload of new stuff, so the following days are covered anyway!

Happy birthday Tony! Have one on me:

No, but it's their fault that they missed to hop on any kind of new technology. I am somewhat forced to believe there ever some kind of market for quality as opposed to cheapity, how ever small it may be. Edit/addition: I suppose is the bigness of these multis (Universal, Sony/BMG, what else remains besides them? Warner? Hah....), their huge oversize, that's the problem. They got so big they have to always deliver, and how can you do that if not by giving panem et circensis? The future lies in the hands of small enterprises, it seems, but of course they have to fight just as hard, only not in such megalomane dimensions.

Oh, and another thing: I played the whole Hamp Jam Session from that marvellous box last night... why didn't they let Mosaic do that one, as had been planned? How fast do things change in this effing cold business world?

Yes, ok, but (my emphasis above): how, without access to any master tapes, without decent engineers who remaster these tapes, and - call me anal - without original cover art, too? Of course in the end it's good if the music's out, but the Andorrans are pirates of some kind, even if within Europe their actions are legal. I don't like that. About a year ago when the Verve LPR digipacks turned into jewel case releases with crappier sound in europe it seems, than in the US (remember the Lateef Psychicemotus discussion), I was already afraid of a change to worse, even when back then it only meant the establishment of two new (Europe-only? I think so) series instead of continuing the VMEs (very fine reissues, if you ask me - far too few, of course, but still good ones!) and LPRs. Anyway, just today I bought two marvellous Freshsound 2CD sets, one with the Gellers' albums from 54/55 and one with the marvellous Savoy recordings of Eddie Bert. Let's give them big for this kind of work, and fegh the cheapo pirates (although to be honest Lonehill is improving the presentation and liners, I must admit).

Happy Birthday!

What does that exactly mean? Were the Gold Series digipacks produced/released by Freshsound or did they just distribute them?

Downloading right now, thanks! These should do fine if they're decently encoded!

Merry turn-your-kinds-into-greedy-little-materialist-monsters, everyone Seriously, I wish everyone here only the best!

Very sad news. I'll play some later today. Thank you for all the music!

Happy birthday!

Sorry, but that cover is plain ugly! Did they fire the Roques guy and let some kid do it? Dig that font! Yuck! I hope the disc is good enough to deserve better!

Pure Genius Vol. 1 - there never was a Vol. 2, right? Beautiful music!

Found there's a conversion thing in iTunes - I add the MP2s to the iTunes library then go right click, convert, and the resulting files are exportable. No idea what kind of conversion is done, but at least I can play the files not on my computer only and decide if I need audio discs of them or not.

yup, I must have missed this being talked about, too, sounds good! another good one:

you know, myself being such a sorry-assed lazy fat king, smartass is indeed quite a compliment!

Sure, smartass... Only my notebook might fry me and the whole house... but maybe you can come by with your SR-71, transcode the files and then fly the back again?

Yes, I know I can do that, but that takes quite a bit of time...