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Victor Feldman 'It's a Wonderful World' (Vee-Jay, mono, Japanese pressing) Trio recording from 1964 with Monty Budwig and Colin Bailey (plus Bill Perkins on two tracks).
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Happy Birthday Dan Gould
Daniel A replied to White Lightning's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
From one Daniel to another - happy birthday!!! -
Complete Roland Kirk on Mercury (mp3) $10
Daniel A replied to captainwrong's topic in Recommendations
Conversion would only make sense if you've got to have them in MP3 format for some reason (for example if your portable doesn't support WMA), as the files would have to be de-encoded from WMA and then re-encoded at the risk of additional compression artifacts. -
As I understand it, modern CDRs are designed for high speed burning, so using too low speed will increase the risk of failure as the laser will cause "bleeding". Many PC burners nowadays have anything below 8x disabled. The practical upper speed limit would probably be the hard disk and RAM speed, rather than the actual burning of the CDR. I'd think that you could safely try 16x burning.
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I know, this is but one step away...
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Predictably, the sound is very fine and the surface noise is at an absolute minimum. Only quibble: there is a faint noise at around 9 kHz (I checked it with frequency analysis software). It's not audible during the actual music, but can be heard at the end of the fade outs. Probably a tape machine problem. I don't know if this is on the original album (I've got a CDR of that somewhere). Not by any means a problem, but I thought I should mention it.
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Sound clips available here: http://www.igorbutman.com/ as well as this quote from DeJohnette:
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The Bernstein estate is holding up everything. A friend of mine did not get the permission to re-score Candide from symphony to wind orchestra. Boosey & Hawkes said "Well, had Lennie lived, things would probably have been different, but..."
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expensive CD's where the quality of the material was so good...
Daniel A replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Re-issues
That's what we're doing! -
expensive CD's where the quality of the material was so good...
Daniel A replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Re-issues
Yeah, full price here is around $29 for one CD. BTW I got the Shihab at 18.99 from Dusty. A steal! -
Thanks for the suggestion! Actually, I don't have it, so I'll see if it shows up somewhere at a reasonable price.
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A pity this one turned out too soapy. FWIW I much prefer the Ogerman/Oscar Peterson album 'Motions and Emotions' over the Bill Evans album mentioned.
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John Dankworth 'The $1,000,000 Collection' (Stereo Fontana, US pressing). Not a best-of, but an orchestral suite inspired by a particular collection of paintings. Tony Coe and Kenny Wheeler are in the band.
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Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Thanks Peter and Chuck for saving me from a pontentially life-long misconception regarding coloured Pacific Jazz pressings. -
Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Yes, it's my impression too that only stereo copies were colored. Never seen blue or yellow, though! I think I've seen someone (possibly Chuck) state that the coloured vinyl was of inferior quality, so I've always avoided them, but some titles don't seem to turn up as stereo pressings on black vinyl too often. Mono copies seem to be a lot more common of many titles. How do you think the sound is on the red ones, Peter? -
It was issued as an Epic CD some time in the 80s, but copies are scarce these days.
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Thanks for your link, Durium. That clip of "When Lights Are Low" is wonderful!
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How Many of Us Consider Ourselves to Be "Audiophiles?"
Daniel A replied to freejazz2020's topic in Audio Talk
I think being an audiophile isn't just about the price of the equipment, it's as much getting the most out of the equipment you've got. Caring about the acoustics of a listening room, speaker placement etc. are also very important for the results. I definitely think you may be considered an audiophile without having to spend hundreds (or thousands) on cords. Edit: that should read "cords", not "chords"... -
Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Not sure if this is of interest, but in my own collection I just discovered yet a variation of the PJ2b label (so maybe that should be PJ2c), which looks like the PJ2b but also says "A Division of Liberty Records, Inc." at the bottom (It's Clare Fischer's 'Manteca', cat no PJ-10096). The album cover features the "square" PJ logo found on the PJ3 label. When we're at it I could as well ask if anybody knows if red and black vinyl pressings of the same title were manufactured simultaneously, or if read vinyl at some point was the standard for new releases. -
Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Great information! Thank you very much, Peter! -
Have a great one, Bob!!!
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Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
FWIW, on the bottom of this page it says that World Pacific was sold to Liberty in 1965. -
Pacific Jazz / World Pacific labelography
Daniel A replied to Daniel A's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Pacifica PL-801 -
The Pacific Jazz discography found here mentions three basic label designs. A few questions to those with good knowledge of PJ/WP vinyl pressings: Around when were the shifts between the different designs? (There seem to be two versions of label type two, and also an early WP label which I've called WP1) Liberty is said to have taken over World Pacific already in 1964, but when did they start to put Liberty on the labels? Label 3 seems to have debuted later. Or was the takeover in fact later than 1964? Some pictures from various eBay auctions, all mono pressings for the sake of comparison. PJ1. Black label, silver text, PJ-1209 WP1. Black label, silver text, circle, PJ-1244 PJ2a. Black label, silver text, thick line, High Fidelity, PJ-31 WP2a. Black label, silver text, High Fidelity, WP-1276 PJ2b. Black label, silver text, thin line, high-fidelity, PJ-65 WP2b. Black label, silver text, thin line, high-fidelity, WP-1830 PJ3. Black-orange label, silver text, square, Liberty, PJ-10130 WP3. Black-blue label, silver text, oval, Liberty, WP-1856
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Did go for the King. Will get back with my impressions.