mikeweil

If anybody kicks your ass, I'll get on him - I'm very much looking forward to your BT, expecting it will have drums all over the place . Life kicks all our asses, that's sufficient! We share the music, that's important - and I wish I would have been more daring - maybe the second time around - didn't want to spoil my reputation right away ....

We're gonna keep this thing alive, that's for sure!

I have an excellent partial recording of the Ursonate by German actress Marianne Bernhardt. They state in the liner notes that the Schwitters estate never allows for complete performances! Are they afraid someone does it better or people will not by the Wergo CD anymore? One might suspect they want the work to be heard the way he intended it to be! Is the HatArt recording a complete one?

I better not. Andrew Cyrille has stated swing was a way of projecting maximum energy with minimum effort. Musically, everything that has some groove and makes you move swings - I saw a Bulgarian folk group during my vacation that swung their butts off - and mine too!

It just dawns on me that I expected to learn only about CD or vinyl purchases - simply because I rarely buy anything else at ebay. I have bought a few hundred CDs at ebay, 1 (!) LP - a promo copy of Jack Wilson's "Song For My Daughter" - and some spares for my mobile phone, a pair of trousers for my wife that didn't fit, some VHS videos and DVD's. Negative experiences: One CD was wrong, three or four never arrived - got a refund from all but one seller. Once I sold a CD to Belgium and the buyer never paid the five EUR - he was excommunicated soon after.

There is a physical difference between gold layers and other metals used. The pitches are in fact in the plastic (polycarbonate) and are coated with metal to make them reflective for the light of the laser. Gold layers are smoother, gold particles are considerably smaller in size than aluminum and those make for more accurate tracking, causing less reading errors. Less errors make for less data beeing recalculated by the computing part of the CD player, which results in a more natural sound - other aspects of tracking accuracy play a part here, and are the reason why some high end manufacturers build turntables to achieve cleaner tracking. But I an convinced a badly mastered gold CD will sound worse than a well mastered aluminum CD - but most labels issuing gold CDs take more care of other aspects of CD mastering and production as well. What I don't accept is the higher prices for gold layered CDs: there is one German classical label (MDG - Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm) that manufactures all their regular CDs with gold layers at normal high price level - and they are renowned for their good engineering taking utmost care to reproduction of the natural ambience of great sounding acoustics etc. - this shows that the gold layer alone must not justify the higher prices. Smaller pressing quantities may be a reason, and more effort and working hours, but most jazz CDs are not pressed in larger quantities and still sell at normal high price, so part of it is plain robbery for well-endowned high end fanatics who hear what they believe.

Sorry Agustín, the score is yours - must have overread this post. -_-

arghh ... another one I have and didn't regognize. Too much music and too little time! As an excuse: I enjoy listening to these older recordings much more on my new speakers -_- Congrats, brownie, for nailing this one!

Just curious. Mine was Brahms' 1st Symphony, performed by the London Classical Players directed by Roger Norrington (on period instruments), which was OOP by then.

I have to admit these boots never walked very close to me ...

Okay, since chucky d4 hasn'r contacted me in any form, I take liberties to move up a step to my original position and start a signup thread for my BT at # 18, moving him back to # 19 - I had been afraid this would have to start while I was still on vacation, but ... so look forward to some (I hope) good music!

Got this yesterday - beautiful. IMHO, Andy Bey is the greatest jazz singer performing right now. Next time he is over here - this CD is on the German Minor Music label - i will not miss him.

Well, the family was Andy and the Bey Sisters - Geraldine and Salome, that is. You can hear them together on their two early Prestige LPs collected on the CD pictured below. Don't know about the bassist, but Chief Bey was a percussionist born in the US, although he told he was born in Dakar, Senegal, and well versed in African drums - he was a member of Olatunji's first troupe. He did not too long ago, IIRC. Do a search. I don't think he was related to the singer.

He tells some truth. But: remember how many of us started, and how we went along. Those really interested will search further info on the web, find discography sites, discussion forums tp lace dumb questions etc. It was a minority who really cared, and it will always be. Those just listening for fun are able to remember only one name and the song title, and that's it for them, but they are not jazz fans. Those won't stick with MP3s, unless they have absolutely no money to spend on the music.

Was that your annual stay in southern France? Oh how I envy you ...

So far I received neither PM nor e-mail from him. I suggest if he does not react until Monday at noon US eastern time, I step up and start a signup thread for my BT. Ironically, I asked him to switch positions as I was afraid I would be still on vacation when it was time for me to start ... things are back in order then.

Straight No Chaser is by no means an easy tune! Somebody remarked that probably nobody memorizes that tune correctly after first listen - the rhythmic variations are very intricate and oblique - and that should show in the way it is played, not just treated like a head on blues changes, which it is on the surface. Notice Monk never played it that fast!

... only tells me this didn't sound monkish at all. I dislike it when they use Monk's tunes as mere blowing vehicles without really playing the tune!

I thought it could be something like that. Thanks for the info. But tape ageing alone cannot be the reason: both categories of tape you mention should be about the same age. Must have something to do with tape transfer.

As I said: does the sound of the ride cymbal change, like a phasing effect, especially when the piano solo starts on the first track. The room ambience sounds strange to these ears, too. Like the sound in the high frequency range oscillates somewhat.

SteepleChase SCCD 31038 The Camel - Michael Carvin Sonny Fortune (alto sax, soprano sax) Calvin Hill (bass) Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet) Ron Burton (piano) Michael Carvin (drums)

This may be the one case where I regret selling my early 1970's LP when the first CD issue came out. The new one sounds somewhat better than the first CD, but the high frequencies are inconsistent: After the theme of the first track, at the start of the piano solo it can be heard in the ride cymbal. Was there any TOCJ issue? How does it compare. Tape defective, or some problem with the recording heads at the session that went unnoticed?