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  6. "Vault" label reissues on Good Time

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by Daniel A

    Only six months ago, the "43 North Holdings company" claimed on their website that they had acquired the rights to the Vault label (as well as the old Blue Note bootlegs on Applause Records!). But that website is now down, as is the Good Times website posted above in this very thread.

     

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    About us

    Home to one of the largest independent catalogs of vintage audio copyrights, Good Time Records manages nearly 40,000 Sound Recordings and Published Compositions.

    Good Time Records is one of the key players in vintage rights management. A growing label group with primary focus on back-catalog acquisition, music distribution and estate royalty provision.

    Headquartered in Nashville, New York, London and Portugal, with worldwide distribution of digital and physical product lines.

    The Good Time catalog spans six decades of quality music in most genres, including songs and recording copyrights available for all international licensing opportunities.

    🤨

    FWIW, the Jack Wilson and Larry Bunker albums (as well as other Vault titles) still appear on Spotify as "(c)Vault Records (TM) a division of 43 North Broadway LLC".

  9. Georg Riedel RIP

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    There is a deep connection between Riedel's music and almost every Swede that grew up from the late 1960s almost up to this day. Renowned jazz pianist Jan Johansson (with whom Georg Riedel recorded the best selling Swedish jazz album of all time, "Jazz På Svenska", 'Jazz in Swedish', based on traditional Swedish folk songs) first got the assignment to write the music for the first Pippi Longstocking movies. But Johansson was killed in a car accident on his way to a gig in 1968, and Riedel took over the assignment. 

    That was the start of a collaboration between him and Sweden's most productive (and famous) writer of child litterature, Astrid Lindgren, which lasted for the rest of her life. The many songs he wrote for countless movies, TV series and theatre productions are imprinted in the minds of almost every Swede between age 20 and 65, and has had an impact far beyond his excellent jazz playing and composing.

    He also scored several movies and TV series which got quite an exposure; Sweden had only two public TV channels well into the 80s and no commercial TV or radio was allowed.

    He has been a presence on the music scene ever since making a name as a jazz basist in the mid-1950s up to this day and he is totally irreplaceable.

     

     

  10. Replacing Film Scores for Copyright Reasons

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Daniel A

    Not the same, but similar. In 'Billion Dollar Brain', one of the somewhat forgotten sequels to the semi-classic "anti-Bond" spy thriller The Ipcress File, there is a whole scene cut where a Beatles record is being played at high volume. It was edited out already on DVD releases 20 years ago. Apparently, it was considered too expensive to obtain the rights to use the song. 

     

    I might have an old VHS copy which includes the cut scene somewhere.

     

     

  12. Portable CD players with USBs to connect to new cars without CD players

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    4 minutes ago, bresna said:

    I find the iPhone a hell of a lot harder to operate than my old Samsung Galaxy. It's harder to text. 

    ...

    One thing I really hate is that this iPhone has terrible predictive texting capabilities compared to my old Galaxy phones. 

    I have always had private (Sony) Android phones (never owned an Apple product), though I have had work iPhones for the last seven years. Given iPhone's reputation, I've always been surprised of how much slower it is to text on an iPhone compared to every Android phone I've tried. Me and my (iPhone user) brother did a kind of "competition" where we texted a given message to each other. Android was much faster every time. 🙂

  13. Shipping problem - Morphius records

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by Daniel A

    As Kevin says, maybe it's because it's that time of the year. I've used DHL for shipping from Japan many times, and it has always been quick and reliable. But a package (from Japan) which was scheduled to arrive here today is now stuck in Germany, with only the following information available:

    EVENT CATEGORY
    15 Dec 23 10:27 AM - Shipment is on hold - LEIPZIG,GERMANY

    Further Details - DHL cannot move the shipment or attempt delivery due to a local issue.
    Next Steps - Shipment will be moved or delivered once the issue is resolved. Please continue to monitor the progress online.

  15. Ron Carter´s style

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    Ron Carter's sound on the CTI albums (literally hundreds of them) is unique and his playing is terrific. Obviously he is using a pickup, and the sound anything but "acoustic" but it sounds so much better than how most other basist came out in those days.

    Not sure whether that is thanks to Rudy Van Gelder, Creed Taylor, Ron Carter himself - or all of them - but in addition, the bass is always way up in the mix without ever sounding out of balance. 

    CTI albums featuring straight ahead grooves are also very instructive if one wants to study Carter's wonderful lines with their sometimes unexpected intervals, always rhythmically and harmonically inventive and with perfect timing.

    I am not especially attracted to Carter as a soloist and I tend to avoid anything that features piccolo bass. But as a rhythm section player is among the very best in my opinion.

    I have played this cut 5 or six times during the last days, just because I am so captivated by Carter's bass lines; 15 minutes of sustained inventiveness.

     

     

  18. Harold Land - The Peace Maker

    in Re-issues

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    I am pleased to see this reissue! A nice counterweight to the Blue Note albums of Hutcherson/Land. The feel is a bit different, the overall style is slightly more conservative and Land is a bit more in the spotlight. This album has gotten quite expensive; cheapest copy of any version is $60 at Discogs. (I got my Japanese LP for 2500 Yen - 20 USD - from Hiroshi Tanno back in the day).

  22. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by Daniel A

     

    20 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Buddy Rich - Swingin' New Big Band - Pacific Jazz, MONO!!!

    Stereo Jack's dollar sticker still in place!

    The mono pressings of Pacific Jazz records are nowhere near as shrill as the stereo, similar to United Artists LPs from this period.

    That's curious, I just had the opposite impression the other day. I listened to both mono and stereo versions of "Bud Shank & the Sax Section" and found the mono version hotter and more in-your-face. It was easier to hear the voicings of the sax section in stereo - which was a plus on this particular album - but I also found the stereo version softer and overall more pleasant-sounding.

    But on this topic, I've found that some Pacific Jazz albums do sound shrill, while others are more balanced. Clare Fischer was usually awarded with good sound.

  23. Applause Records

    in Discography

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    3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    I still have my Applause LP of Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock. 

    At least I don't have to worry about the cover yellowing: It came that way! 

    I have all of Hancock's Blue Note albums on LP except that one, which is especially expensive (low numbers pressed initially?). I have even considered getting the Applause version, as it still has the original picture (the reissue cover on Blue Note proper is a failure in my opinion):

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    How's the sound on the Applause LP?

  24. Applause Records

    in Discography

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    7 hours ago, bresna said:

    The story I was told was that these licenses were issued in error. Someone got in big trouble for it too. They were never supposed to be released like that.

    The CD releases (and probably this Spotify playlist too) and totally illegal and the story I was told by my friend who worked at One Way Records (also long out of business) is that someone found the original Applause licensing agreement and saw that there was no expiration date on the contract. They thought that gave them carte blanche to reissue these titles. My buddy saw the contract and told them they were idiots if they believed that. They kept shopping it around until they found someone stupid enough to believe them.

    Thanks, Kevin (and everybody else for your reminiscences). Maybe I even heard this story before here at the forums.

    It seems that Applause Records might be out of business, but that their "licenses" have been acquired by this 43 North Holdings company. 

    https://43northholdings.com/labels/and-sub-labels-in-2016/

    For what it's worth, they also claim to own the rights to a couple of other jazz-related labels, like Vault, Skye and Hep Jazz. Quite an interesting list, actually:

    https://43northholdings.com/#label-grid

    But they are keeping up with the spirit of the original Applause Label in terms of production standards: the Jazz Crusaders album is apparently a vinyl rip which plays back at 45 rpm instead of 33!

     

  25. Applause Records

    in Discography

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    I suppose all of us know of Applause Records, which reissued a number of Blue Note and Pacific Jazz albums on LP and CD with botched covers and poor sound. I can't recall why, but I am under impression that they were not bootlegs, but somehow relied on some sort of licensing deal.

    I thought this ended years ago, so I was astonished to find a Jazz Crusaders Pacific Jazz album on Spotify, in terrible sound, featuring the ugly Applause cover, and with the following note:

    (c) (p) 1969 (c) Applause Records (TM) a division of 43 North Broadway LLC.

    What was/is the status of Applause Records?

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