Daniel A

I can only speak for myself and not for Steve, but I know people with insight in the company. Actually, it has not primarily been a reissue label through the years, but has recorded a lot of current Swedish musicians. I played on the latest release on the label, recorded in 2019. As for live recordings of guesting stars in the 1960s, it is my understanding that these releases are legit from the way they were arranged with Swedish Radio back then.

OK, let's now officially make this thread about car crashes. Just kidding, all stories are welcome! But I guess I am still curious whether musicians in general are worse or better than average drivers. A certain type of musicians are probably more likely to drive a/the car, and others are not. If you just ride the bus with a larger band, you don't get to drive much. As a sidenote, I know of several Swedish jazz musicians with a solid interest in motors and vintage cars. Most of these are of the "intellectual" type, sometimes with degrees in areas other than music. Swedish trumpeter Jan Allan for instance, has a PhD in particle physics, a flying certificate and is has a solid interest in vintage motorbikes and cars.

I'm a bit late to comment, but Dragon is a proper label. No grey/PD type of releases.

Hi Bertrand. Lars Westin is the founder and owner of Dragon Records and is listed as the producer on the back of the release. The CD can be ordered from Amazon for instance.

Maybe, but I cannot remember seeing many of those here. Maybe people are holding on to them? Anyway, I re-listened to my floppy 70s pressing and the stereo image was actually fine! 60s Atlantic albums is another matter, though. You really want those in mono.

Didn't know that! Wonder if the driving style or the personality was the primary reason.

Two faces I've seen recently (my photos). Feel free to post other faces.

It's true that a substantial number of cyclists do not want to slow down, as it will cost them time and energy, even if that means breaking traffic rules. There is also the type of cyclist who probably does not have a driver's license and is generally clueless when it comes to how to behave on the road. But I have no sympathy for intentional violence. I have caused multi-vehicle collisions behind me two times in my life (but coming out unharmed and with undamaged vehicle from both). One was when I stopped to let a pedestrian cross the street at a crosswalk in France in 2004. Apparently nobody had expected that to happen, and since I was also following the speed limit there was a line of frustrated drivers keeping very short distance behind me. Luckily, my battered 1985 Mercedes and the Peugeot 505 in similar shape immediately behind me stayed clear, and we could leave the scene right away. The other time was last year and involved cyclists. The same scenario, but this time I was riding my Piaggio Ciao. Because of its low power and top speed, I am legally allowed to drive in bicycle lanes. After a particularly long downhill slope, there was a crosswalk over both the bicycle lane and the adjacent street. A person stood at the side and seemed rightfully scared to try to cross, but I stopped, because I felt I should. Then there was a loud crash behind me and wheels and otner bicycle parts flew in different directions. Nobody was hurt, but the guy who was worst off had to pick up the parts and walk from the scene. I felt a bit bad about it, but you should really drive in a way so that you are able stop if something happens in front of you (like others following road rules), so I really blame the cyclists and not myself.

I would be interested in hearing stories, first-hand or otherwise, about musicians as car drivers. When me and my friends started to get drivers' licences back in high school - I went to a music-oriented school - we used to say that if you had a musical ear, you always knew exactly when to change gear; stick shift was still the norm over here at that time. In our minds, knowing when to change gear automatically made you a great driver. However, through the years I've heard several stories about musicians who were terrible drivers, including lacking any ability to hear when to gear up or down. In a Glenn Gould biography, he was presented as a total maniac behind the wheel, seemingly out of control while still seemingly convinced of the opposite. I also read once that Charlie Parker was described by someone (Johnny Griffin?) as a "sad-ass driver". I have failed to find any mention of that online. So, keep your stories coming.

Well, then you have my full support!

But even if yours is a five, does it mean that there is any additional internal distance between any two surfaces? If they have substituted one of the double-sided trays for a single-sided one, that would usually mean that the total thickness is the same. Which would then mean you could go for the replacement sixer, maybe even switching one of the double-sided trays for a common tray from a single jewel case, as to not have any empty trays. But if this is all about saving the planet, finding out if the operation is possible and/or lock-down therapy, I'm all for it!

Is "he" Herbie, or the other unnamed well-known musician?

Jonathan Klein had Thad Jones, Jerome Richardson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Grady Tate for the 1968 release "Hear, O Israel".

The complete album is now on Spotify, for those who are interested.

Did you burn them?

Thanks! I have the best-of OJC on CD as well, and 'Cedar' and 'Soul Cycle' on Prestige vinyl. 🙂 Looking for 'Spectrum', but it hasn't turned up yet in the bins. (As if I ever have time to search any LP bins these days 😄)

How's the sound? I have it as a stereo pressing, and - as usual for this Prestige vintage - sound is so-so, partly because of uncomfortable stereo separation.

Their playing on The In Sound is simply fantastic, and BTW I think this is one of the best piano solos ever:

The liner notes on the Jungle Adventure album imply that the three groups play separately on different tracks. "By assigning the assorted melodies to each group individually, Camarata has also come up with a programming adventure". Sorry if this is not news (I haven't heard the album myself).

These double posts seem like something from the BNBB. These double posts seem like something from the BNBB.

If "digital" can transparently reproduce the sound of an analog (e.g. reel-to-reel) recording, but not reality itself, it seems to suggest that there is a difference between reality and the analog recording, in other words that analog recordings are not transparent. So, if the resolution of "digital" (at an appropriate sample rate/bit depth), is enough to reproduce what is in the analog recording, it would seem that you should be able to add whatever non-transparence that "analog" is doing to the sound and have the same listening experience. Run it through a tape delay? 🙂

Thanks for the information!

BTW, did 'Orgasm' actually come out in the US in 1969? The liners on Parabolic state that it (the UK release) was the first release anywhere, but I have no idea what year it was released. It does really look like a 70s cover design.

Haha! Joke appreciated. But it has always seemed as if forum members at this place - regardless of what country they are from/in - are more knowledgeable than average global citizens. 🙂

I am waiting for a domestic package here in Sweden. According to the online tracker it could not be delivered and the location is stated as "Bangladesh"... Surely an error (I cannot believe that it's there) but hilarious nevertheless.