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  9. Gene Ludwig

    in Recommendations

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    I am sorry to hear he is in the hospital. I hope they figure out what's wrong and he's back in action soon.

    I split my time between Pittsburgh and DC, and had I been paying better attention I would have seen you play. Next time I'll be there.

  10. Great Finds

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Interesting LP I found last week for $10: "Initial Visit" by E. Parker McDougal from 1975 on Grits records. I'm not familiar with him, but it was still sealed and it is subtitled "Chicago Hard-Core jazz" and why not take a chance?

    The main players are (there are some personnel changes on a few tracks):

    Jay J. Peters - Tenor Sax

    E. Parker McDougal - Tenor Sax

    Willie Pickens - Piano

    Dan Shapera - Bass

    Steve McCall - Drums

    This is my first listen, but it is a nice, straight-ahead jazz session. Nothing fancy but good playing. I wish some of the songs were longer, because it seems like they fade out before they get really going.

  16. Great Finds

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I found an LP by Emil Barnes with Doc Paulin's NOLA band for $2. The cover says Icon Records, but the LP label says Jazology. It looks to be from the early 60s and is in a Folkways-type cover, with a great photo. I haven't been a big new orleans listener over the years, but this music is so full of fun and life. It's infectious. Watching Treme' re-opened my ears to this stuff.

  17. Gene Ludwig

    in Recommendations

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    Just wanted to share a player that I don't think gets enough, or any, recognition: Gene Ludwig. He has spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, so he's really flown under the radar. But he's made a number of recordings that I think the B3 fans on this site might appreciate. I stumbled on to him when I found an old LP put out on his own label from the early 60s (I think). Most of his stuff is probably out of print, but one I found on E-Bay is called 'Soul Serenade" from 1999. It's on Loose Leaf Records out of new jersey, and I got it for 99 cents I think, so it won't break the bank if you can find one. He has also done a few on Muse in the 70s I think. Before posting this I didn't do any web searches, so there may be something there too. I just was listening to it and thought I'd share.

    Also, the quotes on the back are from Pat Martino, with whom he had a trio in the early 60s; Lonnie Smith; Jimmy McGriff and Jack McDuff. That gives an accurate idea of where he"s coming from. Tracks on this CD I recommend are 'Soul Serenade" and "Rejoicin'"

  18. is it possible to repair scratches in vinyl?

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I have actually, I think, done this once with a sewing needle and a photographic loupe. I had an 8x loupe and looked through it over the damaged spot on the LP with bright light. However, I said "I think" in the first sentence because even with the loupe I am still not sure if I merely removed a small piece of debris or actually restored the groove. I think I restored the groove, but it is very difficult to tell because close up at magnification, LPS are hard to decipher. There were other problems with the LP (it was a Red Garland I think) so if I failed it wasn't a great tragedy. I would love to find someone who specialized in this because I have a few LPs that would be worth it to restore.

  19. is it possible to repair scratches in vinyl?

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    You can sometimes flatten LPs under sufficient weight to fix edge warps, but I don't know of a way to fix scratches.

    Fred Cohen at Jazz Record Mart told me about a seller who lost a number of mint jazz LPs from the 1950s because his wife

    learned of his adultery and took it out by using a razor blade on his favorite records. Ouch!

    another reason why its a good idea to run the bitch out of the house first.

    This is probably the chief reason not to commit adultery!

  22. KING

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    For the Pacific Jazz sessions, they compare pretty damn well with the originals.

    I'm bringing this up because I'm choosing between a sealed mono Pacific Jazz pressing and a mint stereo King pressing of the same album. Which one should I go for?

    My guess is you probably wouldn't be much difference. Since the King pressings are very consistent (and probably cheaper), I'd go with that. I dont think you will lose either way.

  25. Mono sounds you'd LIKE to hear....

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I think the Monk session with Blakey on Atlantic and all the Monk sessions on Columbia are much preferable in mono. All of the stereo versions of these have Monk in one channel and I find it distracting. I tend to enjoy mono more, but mostly because I can "ignore" the mix and just heaar the music. Also, there are some mixes that just sound better to me in mono. An example of this is "Cape Verdean Blues' by Horace Silver. In the mono version, Silver's piano is much more up front, and it drives the music, where in the stereo version he's in one channel and the result leaves the piano much more in the background. I think the same is true with "Way Out West" by Sonny Rollins, where in the stereo version he's only in the one channel and I find it distracting. Same is true with the Art Pepper Contemporary recordings. Just a preference, not religion by any means.

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