Chuck Nessa

I want to be Chuck Nessa. Are you sure you want all the nasty PMs that go with that name?

In another thread I have recommended Inport. It bypasses your sound card and creates wav files on your hard drive. I use it regularly and am delighted. It is an Australian firm so I would imagine it is market in the UK. I paid around $60 for it. Read details HERE.

Sound sucks. Ignore it.

Sidewinder seems to play one lp per minute.

Must be reasons for that.

Wrong coast(s).

Enjoy your convenient "Adorran/Spanish" reissues. They are in business to "preserve" the music, so I hear.

Why should Universal (just an example) preserve original masters of Armstrong, Dodds, Ellington, etc (at a significant expense) if the shit belongs to ALL? Does ALL have a huge temp/humidity vault prepared to store and preserve this stuff?

FUCK! Time to pay attention or lose it.

The real problem is not about some "filthy rich aging rockers" but saving "primary source material" in posession of the folks paying for it. To take one huge international company - Universal. They spend tons of money to preserve the masters of Brunswick/Vocalion (teens-early '30s), Decca ('30s- whatever), Verve, Impulse, Dot, etc. Why spend the tens of thousands of dollars to preserve the source material if it "belongs to all". I do not think "all" will pony up the bucks to do this work.

No info but a great thanks for playing our area. Wonderful band and good show. Very nice folks to boot. Buy the cds.

Lots of snotty stuff in this thread and little clarity. Why does trashing someone raise someone else. We all need to attempt an impersonation of adulthood. Edit to add: No critic understands the time needed to properly prepare a kazoo reed.

I "turned" on Sanders quickly. Did not keep any vinyl or purchase any cds. Yours truly, TIP

Start diggin'.

Company 2 on Incus Bailey, Braxton, Parker

Yes, or better yet a master copy sent to a licensee. As I said before, EMI issued a needle drop of the AEC's Les Stances A Sophie when I have a first class tape in my basement.

I've been warning about this for years.

Does too. She has fringe on top.

Bill Dixon "Considerations 1" Fore Bill Dixon "Considerations 2" Fore

Greg, get out of the house, take a walk, take drugs. We will save you.

I should add - if any artist is worthy of "alternate takes", Bird is the guy.

Do you expect reviewers of Ellington records to be bandleaders, pianists, composer and arrangers? It should be about MUSIC, not the specifics of an instrument. If it works (or fails) as "music", the instrument should be of no concern.

Chuck, It seems that a lot of people disagree with your assessment of the label. (On the sound, not on the legality.) Reviews I've read suggest this set has better sound than the Savoy/Dial set. I will probably pick this up over the next few weeks and offer my comments. Guy Chuck did say their sound in the last few years-- and judging by my discs and previous discussions here, most agree. They typically just steal another mastering. That doesn't mean THIS set is bad.... Many of the JSPs of the last 10 years have come from "stolen" masters. Things seem to have changed very recently BUT the AMG review does say Ted Kendall did the set. He's a good engineer but he had to work from commercial 78s (or cop remasterigs from other sets) while Savoy had the session acetates. The Savoys sound wonderful. I just don't understand buying this music from a company not bound by original contracts with the artists.

Not really - my knapsack isn't big enough for this stuff. I'll rely on 40 years of listening.

IMHO, it was a lame attempt to get bucks for decent musicians. No reason to pay for it.