Daniel A

That was the way I did it this time. As it's the stamper which has been mis-centered the hole is in the "right" place anyway, so used the method you describe, watching the movements of the pickup/position of the label.

Haven't gotten a blue label BN in three years. Now, last friday I found Kenny Dorham's "Una Mas" at a good price, but guess what - when I put it on it turned out side one was off-center... I had to widen the hole to make it play back decently.

Previous thread here.

I wish you a happy birthday, Brownie! You're a great person to have around!

Thanks a lot, folks! I had a good day at work, took an extended lunch break and traded in some French DMMs for a pair of Liberty Blue Note pressings and then went for a dinner in good company.

I was watching an eBay auction from a seller primarly offering Japanese jazz CDs. The listing ended early. When I checked what items he had on offer, there was suddenly only one current auction from him: http://tinyurl.com/2eeeq3

Attack??! I'd hate to see this place become something where you can't correct someone misspelling a name without getting back foul words. Correcting spelling in general and correcting spelling of names are two very different things IMO.

There is that old gimmick from organ players: to create tension and excitement on live gigs by holding the same note for an extended number of bars. I've heard it on several recordings and the crowd usually loves it. Personally I think it's boring, but I'm curious to now if it's generally conisdered to be showmanship to some degree.

I played in Greece this summer and was offered a digital piano without a sustain pedal; had to use my chin on the final chord.

Jim, I understand where you're coming from and you as a struggling recording artist have my deepest sympathy. I just don't think I'm alone in not wanting to pay as much for a CDR as for a CD. At least it's me and Allen... I look upon a CDR with good music as a hadsomly tailored suit made from poor fabric.

I think (hope) the answer should be "yes" to your questions. FWIW they closed down the last of the analog TV broadcasting here in Sweden last week, and that's how it works here.

You could always buy it again... Safe to say you won't get any competition from me on eBay for that title.

Nice!! I've just spun Herbie Hancock's 'Empyrean Isles' (Blue Note/King) I think this is such a great album! Sometimes I find it even better than 'Maiden Voyage' and think of it as perhaps Hancock's best. Hubbard never sounded better and Tony Williams is marvellous! The sound is splendid as well, with the piano much more prominent than on most Blue Note albums. Next: Freddie Hubbard 'Ready for Freddie' (Blue Note/King)

This thread makes an interesting read (although I'd love to hear what the stated "misinformation" is). I thought I should post here that I just compared a couple of different editions of the same album. Nothing relevatory - the results are in line with what has already been said here. I made A/B comparsions between four pressings of Bobby Hutcherson's 'Total Eclipse'. Sound-wise, I would rate them as follows: - BST 84291, original US Liberty (1968) - GXK 8140, Japanese King (1979) - CDP 7 84297 2, US CD release (1989) - BNJ 71078, Japanese Toshiba-EMI (1985) The King pressing comes close to the original. Perhaps somewhat of the presence is lost, but the vinyl is quieter and the treble is clearer. I played these LPs on two different turntables (Thorens TD-125 and Technics SL-1210); the sound was slightly different but the ranking the same. The CD (remastered by Malcolm Addey) sounds actually rather good (or at least as good as this somewhat reverbant recording can be made to sound). The big disappointment is the Toshiba pressing, which sounds muted and undefined. I once had a French DMM of this title, but sold it years ago, so I can't comment on the sound of that. I would also like to add that I've got several very good-sounding Toshiba LPs with BN-xxxx catalog numbers (pressed in the early 90s), as well as a couple of BNJ-xxxxx which do sound fine. Perhaps further comparsions will reveal if the BNJ series (mid 80s) are more likely to be hit-or-miss. A link to this site has been posted in some other threads I think, but it has a good (though not complete) list of Japanese Blue Note LP releases: http://microgroove.jp/bluenote-jpn/

Bobby Hutcherson 'Total Eclipse' (King, white label promo)

The value is not strictly related to the medium, but I would not pay as much for a CDR with a life expectancy of, what, ten years as for a real CD which most probably will last much longer.

The link is apparently too long for this forum software. Try this: http://tinyurl.com/yr3fpa Tinyurl.com is useful in cases like this.

I'm not sure that album is by the right Big Black. http://petdance.com/actionpark/bigblack/press/rocknames.php

Jimmy Smith 'The Cat' (Verve, Deutsche Grammophon pressing)

George Russell 'Ezz-thetics' (Riverside, mono)

If you want the pronoucation to be as close to Norwegian as possible (he was of Norwegian ancestry) the emphasis should be pretty much equal on both syllables; Stor [like "tour" with an "s" in front of it and a rolling "r"] - dal ["d", about the same "a" sound as in "grandpa" and then a kind of soft "l"].

You forgot vinyl. I think the vinyl listening will be within that single non-PC/MP3/whatever percent. Of course, there will always be a collector's market for LPs, but I think prices will eventually fall on vinyl, too.

As far as I can tell it's all jazz, but it includes oddities like play-along records.

...on the other hand, the kind of people hanging around this kind of internet jazz forums make up less than one percent of the population today already, so...

In a few years time there won't be any new CDs available at all anyway, so we'd better get used to it... Prices on scarce CDs will go up for some time, and then drop when not even most collectors will bother anymore. I think that in ten years 99 percent of all people in the western world will do their music listening from a computer, a hard drive device or from the next generation of data storage media.