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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Mark Werlin - July 3, 2026

Downunderman: According to Blue Note, the Tone Poet LP version of Birth of the Cool "...was mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog phono reel ...

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Downunderman - July 4, 2026

Thanks Mark. Amazing that the label allowed 75+ year old tapes out of their sight and into outside hands to be mastered........and remarkable they were still in good enough ...

Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement | Downunderman - June 28, 2026

No grumbles from me here for a live performance from 1969 AND first time to SACD. Probably worth it for their cover of 'Compared To What' alone. I have no idea if their cover ...

Scaggs: Boz Scaggs | Downunderman - July 4, 2026

This 2013 SACD used the original 1969 mix of the album and is the first use on digital. For CDs up to this point the 1977 remix had been used. It was mastered for SACD by ...

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Downunderman - July 3, 2026

Released in May 2026 and first time on SACD. The promotional blurb reads as follows; "..To commemorate this milestone [The 100th Anniversary of his birth], three titles will ...

Van Halen: 1984 | Downunderman - June 28, 2026

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Tarkus | Downunderman - June 30, 2026

In December 2025 MoFi acknowledged that this SACD release had out of phase problems. "We are writing to inform you the Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus (Numbered Hybrid SACD) ...

Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller | Paul Brouns - June 22, 2026

I recently bought another edition of Mysterious Traveller - just like this edition it is also multi channel. Its release number is Columbia / Legacy 507657 6 (Europe, 2002).

Marches for Wind Band - Asahina

Octavia Records x Tower Record  OVEP00037 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Osaka College of Music Chorus
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Band Tokyo
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Band Yokosuka
Osaka Municipal Music Band
Takashi Asahina (conductor)

All

Works (15)

• Béla Kéler: Apollo-Marsch, WAB 115 (attr. Bruckner)
• Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, Op. 39 No. 1
• Franz Liszt: Les préludes, S. 97 Symphonic Poem No. 3
• Franz von Suppe: Leichte Kavallerie (1866) Overture
• Hector Berlioz: Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, H 80A
• Ikuma Dan: Festive March
• Johan Halvorsen: Bojarenes inntogsmarsj
• Johann Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile, Op. 257
• Kenneth J. Alford: Army of the Nile (1941)
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Op. 31
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 Act I: Prelude
• Tetsunosuke Kushida: Asuka Overture
• Václav Nelhýbel: Symphonic Fragments (2)
• Wei Qun: March of Solidarity and Friendship
• Yutaka Oguri: Myth