Homefromtheforest Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Yeah I've never done a A/B comparison between German and Japanese ECM Lps but I must say those 70s Japanese ECM issues on Trio sound quite beautiful as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Chico Freeman: Spirit Sensitive I've often wondered about that one. Is it as restrained as I've heard tell? effectively a ballad album? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Chico Freeman: Spirit Sensitive a beloved record to me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Earl Hines - My Tribute to Louis (Audiophile). A Chuck Nessa recommendation. Never seen that one. Looks great. Reissued on Jazzology as part of Four Jazz Greats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Noah Howard Quartetto - Live at the Swing Club Torino Italy (Altsax Records, SNIR 25055) Is this really the 1974 original? weird to use "SNIR" for a label that's called "Altsax" ... but that's the info I could gather from the back cover and from discogs and other similar sites ... wasn't exactly cheap, but still a pretty nice find, I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 (edited) Ricordi International (SNIR) did custom pressings for a lot of very small Italian labels/artists. The first Altsax Record, Patterns (recorded in Holland) was AMC (Altsax Music Company) 1000. What you have is the original/only issue until the recent grey-market Serie.WOC reissue. Edited December 15, 2014 by clifford_thornton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Not really sure, after some more rounds of checking website listings ... it might in fact be the seriEWOC one after all - I'd need to see a backcover of the original to say for sure. Anyway, sound is reasonably good and the music better than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 What's in the dead wax? OG is in a very thin matte paper cover and the print is black, rather than the greenish tint. Labels are bright green with black print. Fairly thin vinyl, maybe 120 grams on the original as well. I would say one super easy way to tell them apart is, of course, the sticker price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 OLD EYES - Joe McPhee. One of the sterling McPhee LPs on Hat HUT. Wonderful group, monster rendition of "Django." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 It's well worth tracking down the CD which adds a brilliant suite of 1990 improvisations with Urs Leimgruber & Fritz Hauser. Oh, and please begin my funeral with the title track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Mal Waldron - David Friesen: Dedication (Soul Note) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Freddie Hubbard "goin up" (blue note, 47 w 63rd mono). Not the best copy in the world but sounds nice enough and it didn't break the bank which helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Freddie Hubbard "goin up" (blue note, 47 w 63rd mono). Not the best copy in the world but sounds nice enough and it didn't break the bank which helps... Nice one ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Chico Freeman: Spirit Sensitive I've often wondered about that one. Is it as restrained as I've heard tell? effectively a ballad album? One of the best ballads records I know. Quite muscular in parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Mal Waldron - David Friesen: Dedication (Soul Note) nice one !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyltim Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not. As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Really? How so? I have a mint German vinyl issue and it sounds excellent to me... I admit I only have the CD, but the bass is the typical 70s sound: clear, thin, and rubbery. The drums are distant and tinny. Generally no depth with kind of an odd balance. Maybe I'd be happier with a German LP. But like I said, it comes off as typically terrible 70s production to me. I'd rather it were ECM'd! I have a US pressing that doesn't sound too great - fairly "dull" although the music is awesome - would prefer the German to compare the sound. Same here--US pressing--clear, but thin with little depth. It's listenable but I hope to find a better pressing one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Nacka Forum---------Live in Tokyo futuring (sic) Akira Sakata------------ ( Moserobie ) On red vinyl so it must be good or trendy at the very least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Barry Guy - Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett [No Business] 10" Superb. Cries out to be twice as long - a double 12" would do the trick nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Earl "Fatha" Hines Plays the Hits He Missed (Real Time) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jeffcrom Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I took my daily dose of Louis in convenient 45 RPM form today, with a stack of little records. A highlight was (believe it or not), a 1952 Decca with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra, "Listen to the Mocking Bird." (How did he make such a lame song sound so good?) I've always liked the picture sleeve of a single from the B movie The Beat Generation, from 1958. The title song is just ridiculous; I'm not sure who decided that Louis Armstrong would be the person to sing it. Then, Air - 80 Below '82 (Antilles) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 B.B. King: Across the Tracks (Ace) When the Ace LPs mastered by Bob Jones were issued in the 1980's, they were a treat to the ears of blues fans who had listened for years to poorly pressed and mastered Crown and Kent LPs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Traditional Inuit Music of Eskimo Point and Rankin Inlet - (CBC Northern Service) intense stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Anthony Davis-------Hemispheres--------(Gramavision) Melancholic date with some heavy hitters in the shape of Wadada Leo Smith and George Lewis. It's taken my several listens to get into this. First impressions were that it was quite boring. Now, I'm not so sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Back to orbit Ogun with this 1971 date from the Trio. Not clear if this was issued anywhere until 1987 when this edition came out. Masterful. I'd like to hear more by this group. Pity there's so little The Trio --------By Contact------(Ogun) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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