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  1. The LP track order is as follows :

    Side 1 :

    1. Take Time Out

    2. Sea Minor Blues

    3. Pink Snowballs And Violet Skies

    4. Belle Isle

    Side 2 :

    1. Where Am I

    2. Dreams Of A Love Supreme

    The follow-up album to this one, Organic Dream, contains more of the same (synthesizers, soul-vocals), but also a couple of straight-up disco numbers. I dig both albums :ph34r:

  2. Track #6: Chart sounds very Sun Ra-like but I don't think Ra himself could ever play with that kind of facility.

    6. Nice simple structure and arrangement, allowing the pianist to wail. And wail he does. I'm hearing some things that remind me a bit of Tyner, or Hancock... but I'm shooting in the dark.

    The long, dancing, propulsive lines of this pianist are certainly Tyner-esque, but they are occasionally punctuated by harmonic choices that are less derivative of Tyner. The harmonic conception on display here is characteristic of Chick Corea's early playing of which this is an example. The track is Marjoun from Pete LaRoca's Turkish Women At The Bath.

  3. No.

    When generic drugs are cheaper it's because, not having any R&D costs, and hence no compensatory patents which eliminate competition, the companies that make them can't collect monopoly rents. "Subjective disadvantage" carries no explanatory weight whatsoever in the pricing of generic drugs.

    Let's phrase it differently then.

    A drug seller will ask the highest price he can get on the market, whatever his costs are.

    Generics are cheaper because the maker can't ask the same price as the original, because at identical price, the buyer will prefer the original (although it may not be better than the generic).

    Look, a generic drug is fungible in a way a generic CD is not, and so any putative preference for "original" as opposed to "copy" with respect to the latter, cannot be analogized to the former.

    The high price of a brand name may indeed be related to monopoly rents from a patent. But once the patent runs out, the difference in price should be explained primarily by the willingness to pay of consumers.

    On the contrary; the elasticity of demand is lower than the elasticity of supply.

  4. No.

    When generic drugs are cheaper it's because, not having any R&D costs, and hence no compensatory patents which eliminate competition, the companies that make them can't collect monopoly rents. "Subjective disadvantage" carries no explanatory weight whatsoever in the pricing of generic drugs.

    Let's phrase it differently then.

    A drug seller will ask the highest price he can get on the market, whatever his costs are.

    Generics are cheaper because the maker can't ask the same price as the original, because at identical price, the buyer will prefer the original (although it may not be better than the generic).

    Look, a generic drug is fungible in a way a generic CD is not, and so any putative preference for "original" as opposed to "copy" with respect to the latter, cannot be analogized to the former.

  5. When a patent on a successful drug runs out (after 20-25 years), generics makers can copy the formula of the drug, but they are not allowed to copy the trademark of the well known drug. Consumers can still clearly make the distinction between the original and the (legitimate) copy. Generics are also cheaper than the original drugs, because they have the subjective disadvantage of being a copy.

    No.

    When generic drugs are cheaper it's because, not having any R&D costs, and hence no compensatory patents which eliminate competition, the companies that make them can't collect monopoly rents. "Subjective disadvantage" carries no explanatory weight whatsoever in the pricing of generic drugs.

  6. Their latest batch of releases includes some rare stuff - like the Shirley Horn, The Laurindo Almeida, or the Freddie Gambrell. And they did the Russ Freeman Trios - now that the Mosaic Select is gone.

    I wish they would do Clare Fischer's Pacific Jazz sessions, but Clare would sue them, for sure.

    Good for him!

    I don't see how he'd win. His Pacific Jazz recordings are in the public domain in the EU.

    No they aren't, but the good news is that every day, fewer and fewer people truckle before the rent-seeking monopolists...

    They're over the European 50-year limit, so Kevin is right, they are in the public domain in the EU.

    No he isn't.

    The earliest one was recorded in 1962.

  7. Their latest batch of releases includes some rare stuff - like the Shirley Horn, The Laurindo Almeida, or the Freddie Gambrell. And they did the Russ Freeman Trios - now that the Mosaic Select is gone.

    I wish they would do Clare Fischer's Pacific Jazz sessions, but Clare would sue them, for sure.

    Good for him!

    I don't see how he'd win. His Pacific Jazz recordings are in the public domain in the EU.

    No they aren't, but the good news is that every day, fewer and fewer people truckle before the rent-seeking monopolists...

  8. His third date as a leader was done in 1994 in Seattle and released on Interplay/Norma (Japan) . It's a trio session with Phil Sparks and Clarence Acox :

    BillyWallaceSoulfulDelightonInterpl.jpg

    Soulful Delight is now available at Dusty Groove. I'd like to finally get one of Billy's dates as a leader, but I'm not in the habit of dropping nearly forty dollars on a CD, four bonus tracks or not. The CD has a cover similar to the vinyl one posted above, but different from the original CD cover pictured below :

    BillyWallaceSoulfulDelightCDAlternateCover.jpg

    BillyWallaceSoulfulDelightCDCover.jpgBillyWallaceSoulfulDelightCDCoverBack.jpg

  9. Do you have a mono switch on your amp? That's a big help for playing mono LPs.

    And the mono cart is really great in tracking the mono records, it's such great in cancelling the noise and pops and clicks...

    Yes, with no L-R difference signal (which is pure noise in a mono groove), the signal-to-noise ratio is improved, but in situations where one groove wall is more damaged than the other, the L+R signal will contain more noise than the quieter wall by itself. In cases such as this, a stereo cartridge will give better restoration, if not playback, results, since with two channels outputed, you can choose the quieter of the two when making a transfer. A preamp with left-mono, right-mono and full mono functionality can be useful in this connection, though the selection can be done in software after digitization.

    yes I have a mono switch. play mostly 50's-60's lps. I thought i read some types sit better in groove having to do with shape of tip.

    For mono records cut on mono lathes, stereo styli sit lower in the groove and thus closer to the noisiest part of the groove (even more so if the grooves have been worn), so a truncated tip may be useful.

  10. Man, I've never even heard of this record! What does it actually sound like?

    It's a parody of a JATP - type concert. All I can say is that it's a mixed bag in terms of humor. Some of it is over-the-top slapstick, like "Morris Ferguson's" trumpet, which is speeded up, Chipmunk-style. The Brubeck parody is pretty deadly, and "Sol Desmond" makes me laugh out loud.

    Not that it changes the gist of the jest, but he's actually listed as 'Sol Desman' on the sleeve.

    Other Offbeat Poll Winners of note: Can-E-Ball Naturally and Ornette Morris and Mon Cherie.

    Sample drollery: During the intro to Theloneliest Plunk's 'Round Lunchtime' the MC says, "Ladies and gentleman, I'm sorry for all this jazz..."

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