Sell your Ultimate Blue Train, it's obsolete

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

I really dislike the mini-LP format

(And in the case of Jimmy Wood's "Conflict", it also came with 20 minutes of bonus material.)

I really dislike

Jimmy Wood's "Conflict"

[alankin]

Oh, hits a homer. I thought you meant "hits the Homer."

Never mind.

Edited September 6, 2003 by alankin

[STAX]

I only had the first cd release from around 1988 and this new RVG is a huge improvement.

[BruceH]

Me too. I never got the Ultimate, so this RVG, which I got on sale for less than ten bucks, is a real sonic improvement over the first CD issue, so I'm happy.

(And of course, there're those wonderful new liners...)

[pryan]

I always hesitate to "re-buy" music, but I bought this one yesterday because I only had the eighties version which doesn't have the alternates on it. It was interesting to hear them for the first time, and you definitely tell why they are the "lesser" takes. A cool tidbit from Blumenthal's notes (which were pretty good, IMO), is that Curtis Fuller remembered himself and Lee Morgan looking at each other during Trane's solo on the master take of the title track, and kind of gulping as if to say they better produce good solos, 'cuz Trane's was a motherfucker (the practice at the time was to keep the take where the leader's solo was the 'best').

Oh yeah, the sound is pretty damn good too, I'm hearing nuances that never came through on the earlier version.