Daniel A

Coming from a pianist like yourself, I take that as high praise! 😊

Is it really true that no one has recorded anything for years? I know that’s not the case, but this thread does seem to have been somewhat forgotten. I don’t play music for a living and don't consider myself as a professional, but I’ve been fortunate enough to perform in some good bands. This time of year feels like the moment to share some of the Christmas music I recorded last year. I play the piano and did the arrangements, as part of a commission to record “background” jazz versions of Christmas tunes for streaming platforms.

I like Jack's groove on this one:

R.I.P. brownie.

I think it's more about having a (larger) group of musicians that covers all four of the instrument families; strings (e.g. bass), woodwinds (saxophone), brass (trumpet) and percussion (drums). A typical jazz quintet would do that, except, well, that it's not "large". 🙂

In any case, I believe that many of us have the set, and at least I haven't found a defect in any of the discs. FWIW, Discogs is listing SID code variations, indicating that there was a repress of the 1995 set. An interesting sidenote is that mould SID codes were introduced in 1994~1996. This means that discs that lack such SID codes were produced no later than 1996-ish, unless there has been a one-off mistake (or they are counterfeit). But looking at these SID code variants, it appears that all discs within the set have one variation without SID code (presumably the initial pressing) *except* discs 4 and 5. This suggests that these two discs were pressed in a separate run (while it might still have been as early as 1995).

Thanks Kevin, that was more than I expected to learn, and all of it very interesting!

And what is it? An IC board?

There's a long obit on his website: https://www.jim-mcneely.com

I understood the statement in the way Kevin explained; deck=tape machine, set=(composite) tape. I don't find it surprising or unreasonable that the tape for a 70 year old and hugely successful album would have been accessed many times. Discogs lists 160 different releases of this album.

Doesn't he say that one "set" was put away, rather than a "deck"? This is from the first post: "Capitol ran two tape decks for this recording (and others). One set was assembled and used many 100s of times. The other was put away [...]"

I couldn't say what way is the most common, but I have heard a couple of different recordings with J.J.Johnson and he always seem to include those four bara. I think it's a nice way to conclude a solo and if you're doing several choruses I like to hear it at least in the final chorus.

That label seems to be defunct, but since it was initiated by Bill Evans' son, Evan Evans, I will assume that the releases were legit unless there is contradictory information. https://jazztimes.com/archives/label-watch-bill-evans-e3-records/

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/83424-john-coltrane-impulse-masters-destroyed/

I just love Hank Jones as a solo pianist.