Chuck Nessa

Your wife is doing Yoda and you don't want to disturb her?

Tape baking does not have anything to do with it. Improper storage can add to the problem but does not always cause it. "Proper tape storage" usually means "tails out" so the echo is buried in later sounds. In the '60s the tape from most manufacturers was "hot" enough to print through on the first pass of the tape heads. My early sessions exhibited print on the first playback during the session. I have spent untold hours removing it from my reissues. I have been about 95% effective. On lps (and maybe 78s) there is another pre-echo caused by some sort of molecule shifting in the metal plating process - this was explained to me by RVG. Somewhere on my Mac I have a screen shot of the edits made for the reissue of the solo tracks from Congliptious. Astounding.

Here is a message I posted in another forum: Hot Fives by some trumpet player. I have the Sony/Schapp and the Chronological Classics versions (dumped the JSP because I preferred the Classics on average and bought the cheap reissue of the Sony for comparison). I know a fair amount about the various recording/manufacturing practices through the years but wonder why both versions of King of the Zulus have "post-echo"? Would this have been a plating problem with the original master? That's all I can figure. Maybe I'll post this under another topic. This post has been edited by Chuck Nessa: Today, 06:44 PM and Clifford posted this: Please do; the pre/post-echo thing is always a curiosity to me, especially as we were taught in audio preservation courses that it resulted from the condition of the tapes. When you hear it on an LP it leads one to wonder if they were damaged before they got the chance to deteriorate. I can add that I am the master of pre/post-echo on tape. I can answer all kinds of questions about that.

Like most O posters, he needs porn, junk food and beer.

I remember a dinner (at a convention for independent labels) where my good friend Bob Porter said "I don't think there's a record producer alive who doesn't think they could make better records with those artists".

Chet Baker composed very few tunes, so it is unlikely much money is due his estate for Canadian releases since the '80s.

Sometimes it is just too damn cute, nomatter what Miles thought.

The track list on All Music matches Fast Last.

What a Tool!

Death of an artist is always bad, but some folks from Chicago might think of a completely different guy.

I will mail the corrected printing tomorrow. If you don't receive it, let me know.

Can't really afford to buy dvds. I hope they are wonderful.

You can get it from your friends at Collectables.

2 L8

Too bad the groove is TOTALLY OFF for most of the first track - A Train, IIRC. At least on my copy. Maybe they corrected this in later pressings. The rest of the album holds together pretty well though. The piano intro is played in 3/4. Nice variation in my book.

The relatively short period after Cootie rejoined and Hodges died was the last "golden era of Ellington" in my book.

For members ordering the reissue of Spirit Catcher: We were really unhappy with the print for the photos on the cover and tray. The booklet was folded incorrectly so the margins were wrong. The printer has corrected the errors and I will send new printed material to all of my mail order customers. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Must be an Atlantic.

The all the takes of Big Stuff (issued take and 4 alts recorded over 4 dates and 15 months) in the complete Decca set are wonderful. Worth untold amounts of money.

no. I was responding to the post before mine.

Collectables.

No, John Steiner. I knew him. You can get some background HERE.

All Star Road Band - first set The Popular Duke Ellington Afro Bossa Probably a different 3 in a couple of hours

Try a google search referencing this forum. You will get a number of hits. The forum search does not work with 4 letter or fewer words.

Back in the '60s the Euro version of "What's New" included Don't Stop and omitted another tune (maybe Jungoso).