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Honestly, I don't think you can upgrade and make that LP playable. There are people with rigs that cost in excess of $5K that are having trouble playing that particular LP.

This is shock. My wife and I have seen Akiko perform numerous times. Most of them were at the Vail Jazz Party that we attended more than a dozen times. We also saw he live on Zoom from Smalls She was a terrific , swinging jazz organ player with a vibrant personality. She was almost always smiling while playing. My wife was a particularly bigtime fan of Akiko. R.I.P.

That's a great box set. My favorite Hendrix band.

Indeed, I got my first Tonepoet recently (Picture of Heath) and while a lot of it sounded great, there were those spots that taught me that I better stick to old-time vinyl until the next major upgrade of my system which is not planned for the foreseeable future...

There's definitely a few that I'm not interested in...

(Just listened. A cool, quite enjoyable record. Thanks for the suggestion:)

Love Barron, but there's maybe one singer on that list that I'm interested in.

Why were these filmed?

I saw that trio with one of those singers in Detroit. Hype, sure, but not unduly much. Good group, and Barron writes good stuff.

The hype in that description is staggering... Artwork records is the label. https://kennybarron.com/recordings/songbook/

Yes it is. All of his other Muse CD's are much more conservative (overly so IMO).

That's a great album

We never got those in the UK as far as I know, certainly not in my lifetime. I well remember "flexi discs" (as described by Big Beat Steve above) which were sometimes given away in music magazines, or for promotional material. A few years ago I came across a handful of these in a box of records I bought - they were 7 inchers, and contained promotional material aimed at Doctors, for medications for diabetes and depression as I recall. I also remember one for Pontins Holiday Camps (I'm sure the older Brits will recall those) which was a ditty titled "Thumbs Up, Book Early!"

Quartet No.4 & No.5

Jason Moran: Modernistic. Blue Note 7243 5 39838 2 6 [US 2002] Met him with Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet in Göttingen November 9, 2009

Of course I am not familiar with these particular "cereal box" cardboard records but I do have a few from other sources (in most cases very thin vinyl glued onto a cardboard backing, as Kevin Bresnahan says). Some that seem to have been relatively frequent here in the later 50s and early 60s are recordings by German pop singers pressed on these promo vinyl-sheet singles, with the cardboard backing of the thin vinyl providing promo messages e.g. for radio or shoe manufacturers. Usually the recordings were not linked to the products but there also were recordings made specifically with promo lyrics relating to the products. Or sometimes just providing some music as a gimmick, such as a series of promo thin-vinyl 45s by the French branch of the ESSO gas brand (Exxon to the U.S. ) covering the various regions of France, with each 45 containing traditional folk music from the respective region. There also were "sound postcards", with the vinyl attached to a square cardboard postcard. Usually with a mixture of music and invitational messages from the place or location promoted on the postcard. Similar promo sound postcards relating, for example, to car manufacturers are very collectible with car buffs. The oddest item I came across is a thin floppy transparent single (no cardboard backing!) titled "Engine Faults" given away with a late 50s issue of the British "Car Mechanics" monthly mag and to be played at 33 rpm. I played it only once, placing it on a real 45 for support (it sounded wobbly and decidedly lo-fi), and unfortunately it got kinked in storage since so it's probably unplayable now.