Whats on your turntable tonight?

R_f_sayles, thank you for confirming what I thought I was hearing. It does sound almost like veil of white noise, which on first listening confused me as to what was going on. That very quiet brush work and the baritone sax make for a very unusual combination of sounds to my ear, not being accustomed to this combination.

Also, I totally agree with your assessment of the Analogue Productions 45rpm Fantasy jazz series. All of these reissues that I've heard (about 15 or so now) have been superb. (I wish I'd managed to pick up a copy of "Waltz for Debbie" before it went out of print, but I expect the 33 will be lovely.)

As to Tom Port, he's a seller of new and used vinyl/CDs on the web. He has strongly held opinions, some of which I agree with and many I don't (e.g., his opinion of the Speakers Corner Mercury reissue series). While I've not liked many (perhaps most) of the MoFi reissues I've heard, "Teaser" is one I have liked. The criticism Port makes about this reissue is the naturalness of the sound. That is a problem with many MoFi reissues in my experience: very unnatural messing about with EQ. That's not the case on this one.

Bill (Wc65mustang), the brown label A&M may be more dynamic; I'd have to re-listen for that. And, there may well be brown label copies that sound better than my copy, I'm not trying to make a comparison. My priorities cause me to focus more on instrument timbre and inner detail, which is what I've liked about this version, and that is unusual for me given my reaction to most other MoFi's I've heard. When Port says "it's just a mess and should sound like a mess", that's simply not what I hear and is my only point.
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Rushton, agreed and I am not trashing the MoFi in any way. In fact it is one of the better MoFi releases IMO.
As r f sayles so accurately points out original releases seem to display more forward and punchy characteristics. However, this is not always the case. For example, I've purchased all of the Led Zeppelin immediately on release. The only one which has decent dynamics is Houses of the Holy, which ironically is the worst of the first 5 albums. The later releases on Swan Song are fair to good but certainly not nearly as excellent as other releases from other artists of that period. I've not heard the remastered Zeppelin releases so perhaps somebody else can jump in with a comparison.

Van Morrison -Too Long in Exile on UK Polydor

Yo La Tengo -Fakebook on Bar NONE records (again!)

Van Morrison -Astral Weeks on Warner Bros. CA. w7

David Grisman -Dawg Jazz on Warner Bros. brown label

Velvet Crush -Teenage Symphonies to God on Crelp Records

Bud Powell -The Amazing... on Blue Note Japan

Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd -Jazz Samba on Verve (Speakers Corner?)

Antonio Carlos Jobin -Wave on A&M Speakers Corner

Mozart -Clarinet Concerto K622 on Musical Fidelity/ Stereophile

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane -at Carnegie Hall on Mosaic

...Very, very nice as Mosaic does so well.

Ah--Velvet Crush on Creation Records and Yo La Tengo on Bar/None. I'll jump into this thread with Pixies, "Doolittle," on 4AD--same general era and ethos. I just got to hear the very end of "Debaser" twice while my 11 month old pit bull bounded joyously across my sprung wood floor with a bone in her mouth and the stylus jumped the groove. The Teres 160 I just ordered can't arrive soon enough...

Joshua