mikeweil

Juli Wood (doubler), whom I included on BFT # 18. Roger Rosenberg Trevor Koehler Let's put up a list here - can you sort them by year of birth (and perhaps add nationality?), like I did on the vibes thread?

Great job! I'm mad at myself that I didn't get Leo Parker - very boppish on that one. Those Jay Jay Savoys somehow never found their way into my collection - my fault.

R.I.P. As in jazz, the innovators of so-called world music pass away much too soon. I always enjoyed his evocative music.

So that's why you asked how one uploads these things ..... congratulations for the good work, and many thanks. It has been one of Jim Alfredson's dreams to make this a place for organists' discographies - well, we're working on it!

Happy Birthday, and live long and prosper!!!

.... #37, that is ...... take your time: I will send the overseas discs on Monday, I guess it will take until around the 6th until all will have theirs.

Great dancers are such strong spirits .... I love to play for them. When one of them leaves, it feels strange ... very moving.

One of the major personalities of African-American culture has passed ...... R.I.P.

That's exactly what I wanted to say: Keep it simple. But show me the engineer who can resist using the many toys at his disposal ....

If they are not going to reissue Miles any more, they won't reissue anything else, that's for sure. And the reissues help supporting the release of today's living and playing artists - you can't separate jazz from its recorded legacy.

If the merging of SONY and BMG was a marriage, I'd pleed for divorce ......

I've been discussing this at length with a musician friend who also does his own engineering, and tried to do my own LP transfers with his Alesis Masterlink recorder. The results sounded fresher and more "dynamic" in most cases and my playback equipment is not topgrade. I put the word "dynamic" in parentheses because an anlogue LP which was was transferred from analogue tape, has a relatively narrow dynamic range - physically dynamics are defined differently. A very important component are the so called transients, the characteristics of the attack of a sound - these are always affected by using noise reduction and equalizing, maybe even by the simple digitalization if this isn't done at the highest possible resolution. I came to think this is one of the most important factors why many find that the LPs sound better than any more recent transfer. It also has a lot to do with recording technique - how many microphones you use and how close you place them, to control phasing errors. The obsession with avoiding tape hiss and phasing anomalies are, in my belief, the most important factors which shape modern mastering esthetics. I personally would accept some tape hiss and have the original transients intact, but I observe many remastering engineers and/or producers must suffer from hiss phobia.

The discussion I was referring to is found here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=13945

This will vary widely depending on the booklet - some have only four pages, some are quite thick. You don't happen to have a letter-balance? Or anybody else here?

I always wondered why SONY didn't do that at the occasion of the Duke centennial in 1999. Perhaps they were afraid their set(s) wouldn't sell as much as they wanted because there was the RCA set. I sincerely hope Mosaic covers the remaining big band sides from the SONY vault, and these smaller sets are more affordable than that big RCA box was back then. I have all but one of the French CBS 2-LP sets, and know the music is excellent. I still hope for a Columbia late 1940's to early 1950's set as well ..... but I'd take Mosaic singles with bonus material just as well. Seems Columbia Legacy won't do these any more.

I read the same somewhere on a thread here about the session with Hawk and Trane - stereo fetishism.

JC and JG, right, but not QJ. Bass player is one of the most easily recognisable I've always thought, generally speaking - starts with an "R"! Hmm ..... I thought of Ray Brown - but this track is not on the Verve Big Band LP I have, and there's no Griffin on it either. But Cleveland was on this ..... not Ray, Ron! Just Plain Talkin' about Tadd Dameron's Magic Touch so it's Tate! >link< What was on my mind ....... ..... I was thinkin' "Oh, so it was Ray Brown who invented that lick Ron Carter likes to play so often" - and I thought of Tate Houston. I know, there's nothing to prove this ......

Strange selections - the four above have been on CD in the US before ..... I don't remember the Coltrane on cd. . . maybe. You're correct - I thought it was an LPR, but it was a Japanese mini-LP reissue I have.

Indeed! Long after that, Michel Sardaby's solo piano version (featured in BFT 18), and the version I recorded with a local singer many moons ago - her name is Regina Klein (the CD is long OOP).

Strange selections - the four above have been on CD in the US before .....

JC and JG, right, but not QJ. Bass player is one of the most easily recognisable I've always thought, generally speaking - starts with an "R"! Hmm ..... I thought of Ray Brown - but this track is not on the Verve Big Band LP I have, and there's no Griffin on it either. But Cleveland was on this .....

You bet me by a few minutes - just wanted to spin this to confirm!