Big Al

This is true. I recently got a Fats Waller Bluebird 2-LP set, and more than a few times I was looking over at the record to see if it was changing speeds on me. Definitely some tape wear on that set!

Mark my words: this will be the year that Steve Nash makes Mark Cuban regret ever getting rid of him. As good as the Mavs are, Steve Nash (and Stoudemire, too) is THE reason the Mavs will go down in history as being like the '98 (?) Mariners, when they won 114 games and lost in the first round.

I need to make a doctor's appointment! What's this guy's number?

My goodness, someone jump on this! This is a beautiful session! I can only imagine how nice the TOCJ sounds, as I only have the domestic RVG. And that price is a STEAL!!!

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Al! Not a problem, my friend!

Here is the thread discussing Chris's absence. This was the main reason I didn't acknowledge Chris as the author of the notes, because I didn't want this thread to turn into another "Where's Christiern?" thread. We're not the first forum from which he's left in a huff; give it a few weeks and the Hoffman forum won't be the last one either.

Ever since I got my record player, and been burning LPs to CDs, I've noticed that the platter is starting to spin a little faster. No problem, right? I never really noticed the change in pitch until I started converting my Styx LPs to CD. Yeeks! Dennis DeYoung's voice is high enough without the platter spinning faster. I've used GoldWave on/off for various reasons and discovered that I could slow down the pitch of the song. So I slowed down a song by 97%, and it sounded right, so I saved it. Then I went back and grabbed all the CDs I'd made in the last week or so and ran 'em all through the converting process, thinking I was pitch-correcting all of them. And, of course, I got rid of all the first-copies that I had. Now, for some unknown reason, the platter is spinning at the correct speed! And, come to find out, I've actually over-corrected all those other CDs: now they're just a TAD too slow. Not that they were ever all that fast to begin with. So, here's the obsessive-compulsive part: I am seriously contemplating re-recording each LP for a THIRD TIME!!! Just to get it ever-so-slightly pitch corrected! And now I'm trying to find a way to have a program automatically pitch-correct a track for me. F'rinstance, if a song is in the key of A, I could tell the program to adjust the pitch of that song so that it is set to A. Does such a program exist? And anyway, is that not the definition of obsessive-compulsive?????

Pearson didn't do that one; that was all Hank!

Just sent you a PM! You can't have mine, but I know where I can get one for pretty cheap (cheaper than Amazon, anyway!)

The recent batch of Blue Note RVGs have turned me on to the fine arranging skills of Duke Pearson. So now that I've got THE SPOILER, LUSH LIFE, and THE RIGHT TOUCH, what are some other good Pearson-arranged albums?

Picked this up over the weekend and man oh MAN does this stuff SWING!!! Wow, whatta live disc! And what sound; this thing sounds fantastic! Hawk is in prime form here, and you'd never know he was at the end of his life! Roy Eldridge kicks tail, as usual, especially when he and Hawk get into it with each other. Good notes, too. Love the story about how the guys laughed off Mingus after putting up with his crap all week. Anyone else have this?

Agree completely. Sad news indeed.

Yes! Yes! YES!!!

Usually, I love anything with Ogerman on it.... not so with Amoroso. Can't put my finger on it, but I know I get extremely sleepy listening to this CD. Now, the Sinatra/Jobim album with Ogerman on it.... now THAT'S a beautiful album. Heck, anything with Jobim/Ogerman on it is gonna get my money. ESPECIALLY Terra Brasilis. Where the heck is Jim R????

After reading this I ordered a copy of this OOP disc for ten Euros (lucky me!). I really like Reuben Wilson's Love Bug - is this really that much better? Yes, yes, and HELL YES!!!!

I'm happy that another album from the Byrd/Adams Mosaic is being released, for those who missed out on that wonderful set. I wonder if the release of the Thad Jones disc means more to come from him. I hope!

One of my favorite albums. Highly recommended! Probably his best album of the nineties right there. Highly recommended indeed!

Happy birthday to us indeed, my friend!!! Hope your birthday weekend was a good one! Mine sure was! Hope you enjoyed being a year younger than me for that whole 24 hours! Would sure love it if you guys did a tour of the south. We'll provide babysitting for the little dude!

Well now, we certainly wouldn't want THAT! Thank you all for the kind wishes! Jim R's post had me rolling on the floor (yeah, that's it! THAT'S why it's taken me forever to respond!). Skid, I actually have a present for YOU if I can find your mailing address! As for the rest of ya: Conn, the lovely and hot Rachel , Chris (both of ya!), Marcos, Lon, Red... er, David, Mike, Erik, 7/4, Dan, Flurin, Evan, Stefan, John, Guy, GA, Yves: from the bottom of my heart, thank you all!!!

Tonight, I was taking my copy of Stanley Turrentine's THE COMMON TOUCH off the turntable, lost my grip, and put a scratch right in the middle of "Buster Brown." The one Blue Note LP I have, in beautiful condition, I think it's an original pressing, ruined. The only positive note about this is that I had just gotten done saving the LP to my hard drive for burning onto a CD. This just became the Holy Grail of my CDR collection.

Nice to see some good news for you, man! Congratulations!

That was my original answer during those guesses. I'm surprised you remembered that. I'm honored!

Of course they're gay! Why else would they have the word "organ" in their name? In that respect, Jimmy Smith, John Patton, et al must be gay, since they spent their entire career playing with their organ. And I can't believe Styx isn't mentioned. I mean, come ON!!!! Didn't they see the cover of Styx II?

Same as it ever was. Here, JCS (RIP), JC, AAJ, Hoffman, the Texas Rangers forum, etc....

I voted for "Song," but at the YourMusic price, y'oughta get 'em all!