Daniel A

I have made purchases from several Japanese dealers on eBay and discogs, and almost all EX rated items have been close to mint. However, Japanese covers are very often stained for some reason.

We have very efficient sorting facilities in Sweden. As for used LPs, I buy from Japan, the US and Europe both on discogs and eBay and once you've found trustworthy sellers it works fine. Feedback plus the way they have worded their item descriptions usually tell how professional they are. I realize that caring for many different pressings, like on discogs, can be problematic, but it also removes the old eBay problem of trying to identify what is really on sale from insufficient item descriptions.

Original post (according to the board search function) here: The first one to use it after Jim seems to have been @mikeweil, so maybe he's the one who made it into a movement.

Here's one track from the album, not necessarily the best but pleasant enough : (BTW, the album's in mono )

Speaking of Jerome Richardson (in another thread), this pairing of him and Frank Wess is very enjoyable. It has the classic rhythm section of several other Savoy sessions. Should definitely be in the flute recommendations thread as well.

This just in. 'Hip Vibrations' has liner notes by Chris Albertson.

I would also have considered cutting a 47 minute LP. More than one classic Miles Davis album had a longer playing time, but I don't hear audiophiles complain about those.

Hill's 'Passing Ships' will be a three-sided album with a playing time of 47 and a half minutes. EU Amazon price: 55 Euro. This is a title I would have been interested in, but it's simply too expensive.

The bassist's hairdo and shirt looks almost like something from the 2000s. Ahead of his time? 🙂

I have this one on an early 80s Pathe Marconi pressing. It sounds kind of muddy, even if I am usually not that enthusiastic about these pressings. I always had the impression that it was a less than ideal recording to begin with. Though I should listen to it again - it's been years!

Do you all remember the good old 80s? When new vinyl was *cheaper* than CDs. And of course we all got the CDs because we wanted eternal, crystal clear sound... FWIW, I remember that a full price CD was 150 SEK in this country in 1989, which today would be 28 Euro. A new LP was about 90 SEK, today = 16,50 Euro.

Before his passing, you mean?

Prestige Records 7000 series, work in progress now covering all avaliable albums up to 7068: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72U0dPUYicxc5Tb20xTvO7?si=ANYPgqVETW66-FpNxdLLvw A good day, then! 🙂 That album is a favorite of mine.

Hank Jones 1955 chronological recordings, sideman appearances included: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EsclunoCkzIKhMyCmAx69?si=6yn0pRF6TpybiQ3Vz_3a4w Same for 1956: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1LJnpTq1RWxxu3So92tqnj?si=PeHk2-kLQIa5cC8wCnvvig Well, where's yours? 🙂 And you do have playlists. Once you shared this one, what was then (and maybe also now) all Mosaic sets available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VzRzvG0hYshc4mo5M8MRo?si=nn-mqLv0Soavt6FMhEhfgQ

Re: The Prisoner album, I believe Joe was in Herbie's working group at the time and Herbie was still with Blue Note if I am not misremembering, so nothing mysterious with his appearance there.

Very nice. What are the output tubes - EL84? My speakers have EL86 which are getting harder to find, so I'm trying not to waste them.

I'm not kh1958, but I've got the same Quadrophonic version of that album. From what I know, you hear all of the sound from the four channels "downmixed" to two-channel stereo. I guess there might be more than one type of quadrophonic lps, but the one I'm familiar with used some sort of "pilot tone" - much like FM stereo radio - to provide the "difference" between back and front channels. Without decoding this supersonic signal, it's just a stereo record.

Neither have I.

Brown/Roach's 'Study in Brown', 1950s Dutch Emarcy pressing bought by my father when he was fresh out of military service ca 1959. The front cover lists "Ulcer Department" instead of "George's Dilemma", and Wikipedia "claims" the tune was known also under that title, but doesn't explain why, and I've never seen it anywhere else. Anyway - this is a perfect album! I really like that Jamal album! I often find him a bit too "cold" but not here. Do you also have the "quadrophonic" pressing? I have it, and it sounds good. A guy played me an earlier stereo pressing recently, and Interestingly it sounded worse; one side had very weak bass. Unfortunately, it lacks one of the better cuts from that session out of time restrictions.

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I've got a pair of these - a compromise between interesting exterior and superior sound? :-) They are late 60s Sonab OA-6 type 1; active, tube-powered bass reflex speakers, each with four cone tweeters pointing in different directions, an upward-facing 8-inch mid-range and a downward-facing 10-inch woofer. After 50+ years, the coating is still dripping down on the lattice.

The programme director of Original Jazz Classics?

I guess there could be many reasons for owning more than one piece of equipment of the same type. I own several wristwatches. Do I need more than one to tell the time? I might want a couple to match different clothing, various occasions etc. But then I may also be interested in watches from design and historical perspectives. And then, there is the always luring "collector" perspective; to research various models and hunt for them. So although I don't have the space and funds I can see why some would want to have a lot of high-end audio gear. And they can still like to listen to music as well.

Sorry to hear. However, it seems to be available at Discogs at a price we all used to think was reasonable for a double CD in the old days.

Totally amazing! Thanks for posting!