"Original Jazz Classics"

I am quite sure if these are in fact licensed (and that's a big if), Scorpio is sourcing the material from digital DATs or cds. Clearly, these are not from the master tapes. Seems to undermine the entire purpose of buying LPs in the first place.

I sure agree about cutting from digital - ugh!

Yes, it's true, at $10/each you can afford to risk and 3 out of 5 good recordings is not bad at all. I don't know if I should send back the other two or not. Hardly worth the shipping.

My copy of Waltz for Deb is Riverside and boy is it just a great recording, just like Village Vanguard. Quiet, dynamic, extended, lovely. Also a $10 record. When I listen to something like that, I always ask myself why the hell we need $50 heavy vinyl/45s.

Milestone re-released Waltz For Debby and Sunday At The Village Vangard, which is from the same sessions, as a two LP set, with a couple of added tracks in the twofer series called The Village Vangard Sessions, and the sonics are quite good, as well. I think that a lot of bird gets whipped abour Scott LaFaro as the bassist that had the psychic connection with Evans. All this heightened by his untimely death, in a car accident, right after the two records were recorded. But, for my money, Eddie Gomez blows my mind. Try Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival, on Verve!

To witness Evans & LaFaro 'dancing', as they did, seemingly reading each others' minds, mesmerizes me every time.

But I have not heard the latter recording you mention and will make it a note to check that out - thanks for the tip!

Without a doubt the OJC catalog was the bargain of the century. Hundreds of great performances and a great price to boot. Ah the good old days (2 years ago) when they could be purchased for less than ten bucks. Then along comes Concorde Music Group who buys the total catalog. Now we have no more cheap OJC's as the powers that be don't want to dabble with the lunatic fringe and waste money on what must have been a break even endeavor for Fantasy. More money to be made by reissuing "remastered" compilation CD's. Ah but wait. Why not address the needs of the lunatic fringe by having an audiophile label pay big $$ to manufacture heavyweight remastered virgin vinyl blessed by angels? Make it a limited numbered production run with certificates and make it expensive (if you don't they will think its CRAP!!).

Then have a shrill at one of the magazines ramble on about sound stage depth and height and before you can say audiophile--- another remaster of a 40 year old album enters the sales charts at you know where.... as number 1.

Consider yourself lucky to have found some OJC's. Some dealers still have a few but the really good ones are long gone.