New Impulse! re-issues in Japan: UCCI-91XX's

[Bol]

I've noticed that some Impulse! titles have been re-issued in Japan. Does anyone know what these sound like? Are these the 20-bit K2 remasters that were issued as MVCJ's before? Thanks in advance.

[J.A.W.]

The Japanese Impulse! UCCI-9xxx CDs are not new, they were issued years ago. They're not the same as the 20-bit K2 MVCJ remasters that were issued in the 1990s; the UCCI discs are 24-bit remastered and opinions on their sound vary. To my ears they sound harsh, as if the higher frequencies have been boosted, and a tad loud; I find them fatiguing. Others here like them.

The MVCJ and MVCZ and earlier MVCI series were released by Victor Japan, the UCCI series by Universal Japan.

[MichL]

I have bought a couple of these and they all have been 20 bit K2 remasters. Sound on these have been good. I have a 24 bit reissue (priced down) of Black Saint sinner lady that was a bit bright. I think it was a Universal Japan, but not certain.

Michael

[J.A.W.]

I have bought a couple of these and they all have been 20 bit K2 remasters. Sound on these have been good. I have a 24 bit reissue (priced down) of Black Saint sinner lady that was a bit bright. I think it was a Universal Japan, but not certain.

Michael

There were no UCCI 20-bit K2 remasters; those K2s had MVCJ and MVCZ prefixes and were exclusively issued by Victor. The UCCI discs were all 24-bit remasters and they were issued by Universal.

[MichL]

I have bought a couple of these and they all have been 20 bit K2 remasters. Sound on these have been good. I have a 24 bit reissue (priced down) of Black Saint sinner lady that was a bit bright. I think it was a Universal Japan, but not certain.

Michael

There were no UCCI 20-bit K2 remasters; those K2s had MVCJ and MVCZ prefixes and were exclusively issued by Victor. The UCCI discs were all 24-bit remasters and they were issued by Universal.

The CDs with the prefix UCCI91-- Bol refered to are indeed Universal and according to the CD booklets it states clearly on the mastering credits 20 bit K2. When I get home I will check what is on the Obi. All these reissues have a picture of a treasure box on the top of the Obi.

[Claude]

Concerning Impulse! "audiophile" reissues, the first Analogue Productions hybrid SACDs have now been released. I'm waiting until they become available by other stores than Acoustic Sounds (which has excessive shipping costs)

John Coltrane: Coltrane http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6524

Gil Evans: Out Of The Cool http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6523

Charles Mingus: Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6522

Ben Webster: See You at the Fair http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6521

[DMP]

I have the Gary McFarland and Chico Hamilton from this series - it's 20 bit, K2, as above. Sound seems fine, happy to finaly have the music again.

[J.A.W.]

I have the Gary McFarland and Chico Hamilton from this series - it's 20 bit, K2, as above. Sound seems fine, happy to finaly have the music again.

Strange. All my UCCI CDs are 24-bit remastered, not 20-bit K2, and my Japanese contacts assured me the whole UCCI-9xxx series is 24-bit remastered.

What are the catalogue numbers of your discs?

[djcavanagh]

Concerning Impulse! "audiophile" reissues, the first Analogue Productions hybrid SACDs have now been released. I'm waiting until they become available by other stores than Acoustic Sounds (which has excessive shipping costs)

John Coltrane: Coltrane http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6524

Gil Evans: Out Of The Cool http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6523

Charles Mingus: Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6522

Ben Webster: See You at the Fair http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/6521

Claude - what other stores stock Analogue Production discs?

Thanks

Denis

[Claude]

Given the experience with previous Analogue Productions discs (the label is owned by Acoustic Sounds) they will show up on Amazon and CD Universe at lower prices ($23-25), but only weeks or even months after they were released.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

All these reissues have a picture of a treasure box on the top of the Obi.

The Verve ones (UCCV-94**) have that as well.

[DMP]

The Hamilton is UCCI-9175; McFarland, UCCI-9186. "This album is remastered using 20bit A/D converter with K2 interface."

[J.A.W.]

The Hamilton is UCCI-9175; McFarland, UCCI-9186. "This album is remastered using 20bit A/D converter with K2 interface."

Thanks.

I stand corrected; the info I got that all UCCI CDs were 24-bit remastered is clearly not correct.

[Chuck Nessa]

Miss Otis Regrets.....

[clifford_thornton]

All these letters and numbers have set my head spinning.

[Bol]

Hans,

I think this particular batch I am talking about are newer than the ones you have in mind. These are 91XX's whereas you are talking about 90XX's, I believe.

Thanks, everyone.

[Bluerein]

Why isn't the world easy to understand and easily put in boxes anymore........I was raised with 20 bit K2's from MCA type labels and 24 Bit's by Universal and now it's all mixed.......how do we proceed from here....it's a true mess!!!!

[Daniel A]

I have the Gary McFarland and Chico Hamilton from this series - it's 20 bit, K2, as above. Sound seems fine, happy to finaly have the music again.

Those two were the ones from this batch I got too! I suppose they used the 20 bit mastering from previous releases, in the case of McFarland MVCJ-19111 from 1998.

Edited May 10, 2010 by Daniel A

[David Ayers]

.......how do we proceed from here....it's a true mess!!!!

I say destroy everything - everything I tell you - and start again with just a select handful of the chosen...

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

.......how do we proceed from here....it's a true mess!!!!

I say destroy everything - everything I tell you - and start again with just a select handful of the chosen...

First destroy your copy of the OED...then be sure to add Hughes name to the 'select handful' list you're compiling. Someone on that team must have an eye for detail....it can't just be made up of broad-brush thinkers and show horses.

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(May 11) -- The Oxford English Dictionary got it wrong, and it took 99 years before anyone noticed.

Siphons don't work, it turns out, because of atmospheric pressure, as the OED has been saying since 1911. It's all down to that law Isaac Newton figured out when an apple hit his head: g-r-a-v-i-t-y.

Siphons work by drawing fluids from a higher location to a lower one, not always an easy thing to do, as anyone who's tried to empty a car's gas tank would confirm.

"It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon," said Stephen Hughes, a physics lecturer at the University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

So he was stunned when he noticed the OED had made a mistake, telling The Daily Telegraph of London, "We would all have an issue if the dictionary defined a koala as a species of bear, or a rose as a tulip."

[Shrdlu]

The MVCJ 20 bit Impulses that I have heard sound excellent. They could possibly be described as the definitive Impulse CD reissues, much as the "Blue Note Works" series are often thought to be the best Blue Notes.

One in particular, Milt Jackson's "Jazz 'N' Samba", deliberately passed over by Michael Cuscuna when he was reissuing Impulse, has an absolutely stunning sound.