Aaaah, the smell of new music recording on CD's and vinyl...  
 Kinda like when in Elementary School i'd sniff the newly copied 
 test papers.  To say that vinyl's dead, or that CD is going out due 
 to DVD is a BIG MISTAKE in my humble opinion.  Chad Kassem 
 keeps 'em comin' to us.  Just take a look at this!!!              

      For fans of Miles Davis here's a no brainer, must have, buy it 
 now or forever regret not buying it.  Then you'll haveta pay some 
 collector down the road much more $$$ for it.  This here is a 5 
 vinyl record box set containing the following recordings:

 Prestige 7014  The New Miles Davis Quintet
               7094  Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
               7129  Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
               7166  Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
               7200  Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

      WARNING!!!!!!!  WARNING!!!!!!  WARNING!!!!!!  This is a very 
 limit run of only 2500 hand numbered sets.  So take out your credit 
 card and repeat after me:  Please Chad, send me AAJP 035.  If you 
 buy it and don't like it, i'll help ya sell it as long as it's in mint 
 condition (seriously).  It's a no brainer here folks.  And YES, i 
 bought it.  Puttin' my money where my mouth is i say.  You should
 too!

      Also available now is Albert Kings great recordings titled "I'll Play 
 The Blues For You."  It's available on gold CD in HDCD and is 
 a Stereophile R2D4.  Can U dig it man?  What's more, Chads also 
 made available two Gene Ammons recordings on vinyl.  Nice An' Cool 
 as well as The Soulful Moods Of.  Both available on 180 gram 
 vinyl ONLY folks.  As Fremer would say, "Buy a turntable."              

      One of my VERY favorite dudes who do reissues is also Cisco.  
 i must say i just kvetch and kibbets so much 'bout these dudes.
 They're are out of Japan and use custom made or highly 
 modified cutting heads for their Living Stereo and Decca reissues 
 :-)  .   With the aid of minimal signal paths in the 
 mixing/remastering stages and using 180 gram vinyl these guy do 
 it right the first time.  Needless to say i found myself spending 
 a great, big, like forever WCES time discussing these matters.  
 Last year it was with their head engineer no less!  Cisco, for those 
 who aren't familiar with their name, distribute some of THE BEST 
 Decca and Living Stereo vinyl reissues in my humble opinion.  
 My ears continually tell me go Cisco and forget Classic Records.  
 My humble apologies Classic Records, but they just seem 
 to do it better and quite a few of my friends agree with me.  

      ANYWAY, Cisco offers not only the Living Stereo and Decca
 reissues, they also offer Three Blind Mice recordings.  As a matter 
 of fact, three recordings on the Three Blind Mice label are also 
 available in the new JVC extended resolution compact disc 
 (XRCD) process.  These three recordings are Midnight Sugar by 
 the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, Mari by Mari Nakamoto and Misty 
 by the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio).  As another matter of fact, the 
 Misty album won "Best Engineering" award, Jazz Disc Award of 
 "Swing Journal"!

      OK, so i've ranted and raved here BUT when the MUSIC is so 
 very carefully and lovingly made, mastered (or remastered depending 
 on the title) in such a way as to win music lovers and audiophiles 
 hearts around the world....  Well, what would YOU be doing if you 
 had to write this WCES review?  Where would YOU be the very
 first day of the WCES show?  YEP, like me you'd want ALL the
 newly released music.  What was that you said?  Buy their 
 stuff did i hear?  And that's exactly what i did!              

      Ya see the recording above.  YEP, it's by Three Blind Mice and 
 it also  won the Best Engineering award too.  So if ya enjoy that funk 
 70's electric  piano jazz music, then i HIGHLY recommended this
 recording.  Three  Blind Mice has been the best jazz label in Japan 
 since, oh, say the early  '70's.  Their records are pressed on HQ-180
 gram vinyl by RTI here in the good ol' US of A.  Heck, even their 
 original  super-cut records of the '70 are now legendary!  Need i 
 say more?              

      Last, but not least we have Reference Recordings who are 
 now making, dare i say it, vinyl.  Well, they now also sell 
 Audioquest's excellent recordings and shortly, the Mighty Sam 
 McClain recording "Sledgehammer Soul...." will be available on 
 vinyl!  If you don't know who Mighty Sam is WAKE UP!!!!!  He's 
 one of the hippest soul/blues musicians on killer recorded
audiophile-like vinyl and CD's.  One cool cat in my humble opinion.
 Also available shortly will be Joe Beard with Ronnie Earl Blues Union, 
 Doug MacLeod You Can't Take My Blues and last but certainly 
 NOT least Ronnie Earl Eye to Eye.  Ok, so i've ranted and raved 
 about vinyl long enough BUT just as Mobile Fidelity seems to be 
 slowing down on releasing reissued music on vinyl, others are 
 gaining momentum.  Yo MoFi, wake up and reissue something 
 folks actually want to buy!!!

      MA Recordings (say who?).  Yeah, that's what i said too.  
 Sheeesh, what haze did i live in?  Their booth looked good and 
 all but only offered two vinyl records (i've been known to walk a 
 mile for a Camel, or vinyl) so what the heck.  Besides, Harvey 
 Rosenburg said their vinyl is schmokin' so i had ta check 'em 
 out.  Boy do i feel stupid because their stuff is awesome.  
 They use some killer recording gear with all the right minimal 
 mic'ing and recording gear too.  Being a sucker for well recorded 
 piano music i bought the title Itoema (for CD it's M024A, for 
 vinyl it's Mo24AV).  It's J.S. Bach Goldberg variations preformed 
 on a, get this, 1903 Steinway and Sons Model D grand piano!  
 MA Recordings used three totally different systems to record 
 the performance.  Separate all the way down to even the 
 microphones too!  Just to show you the care taken for this one 
 recording (for which they have many), they used a Studer A-820 
 running at 30ips, Bruel and Kjaer 4006 microphones, and pressed 
 on 180 gram vinyl for the 100% analogue system.  The digital 
 recording used just as tweaky of stuff.  i auditioned the CD through 
 Stax headphones i believe and the CD was also very impressive.

      Ok, so now i'm home and playing the vinyl record.  
 MAN-O-MAN Harvey Rosenburg is right.  These guys really 
 know what they're doing.  Piano music is so rarely captured this 
 faithfully and contain a performance that's enjoyable.  i can 
 count on two hands how many really good solo piano 
 recordings here that sound like, well, a piano in my music 
 reproduction system (and i have over 6,000 pieces of music 
 software).  So here's another humbly suggested recording.  
 Since they have no www site, their telephone number is 
 818-907-9996.  Why not get a catalog of their stuff?  The more 
 i read, the more i like...  You may too!