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I'm not sure that was what Chuck had in mind, but I'm glad it turned out well for you anyway.

Art Blakey "Theme from the Golden Boy" (original stereo Colpix) This is really one of the most enjoyable Messengers albums! Particularly good to hear Shorter's arrangements for the eight-horn frontline.

Much like this one:

Technically? Well, yes, but then every Connoisseur CD cover of sessions originally released in the 70s should look like this: Personally, I think the Liberty cover for Soul Station wasn't as bad as the others which have been posted here. Although I think it would have been better if it just showed the train station...

Could anyone please post a link to the US law which regulates the 70 year protection, thanks.

Perhaps I was in error, Mike. It is mentioned here: http://www.musicweb-international.com/ency...edia/c/C148.HTM and I also thought I remembered this from the shorter version of Frohne's discography which used to be available on the Internet (before the book was published, I suppose). But I was confused by some catalog numbers I had written down; do both Emanon 17039 and 17040 refer to the same "Historically Speaking" set?

There were just these two, produced by Gigi Campi himself. I think there were two more Emanon 2 CD sets, "Historically Speaking" and "The Power of Positive Swinging", aside from the one Brownie mentions which must be "Blowing the Cobwebs Out". Never seen any of them, though.

There were at least 20 studio albums, so a complete box would probably be too big to really sell. But I'd buy anything from this band! Still looking for many of the original albums, too... Previous thread.

Hi, Hans! Good to see you here!

There's the Internet, of course...

A friend of mine is using a rather old Audiowerk card, and it is really very good for recording. His card has an external panel with RCA jacks, although I'm not sure how it's connected to the sound card.

What about purchases from Amazon Marketplace sellers?

However, magnetic tapes - which would make up for a large part of these recordings - will inevitably become unplayable after some time due to magnetic or binder deterioration, which means they have to be transferred at some point in order to be saved.

I've got classical LPs with 40 minutes on each side, which means it would even be difficult to squeeze the contents onto a single CD. The LP grooves are narrower during quieter passages, so maximum playing time depends on the dynamics of the music. However, with playing times of 30 minutes or more the overall dynamic range will probably suffer. I've even seen a disclaimer once (on what happened to be a Red Mitchell LP from the 1980s) that in order to get all of the music onto the LP, the producer (who might have been Mitchell himself) had to limit the dynamic range of the recording.

Personally, I'm not overly enthusiastic about the Solomon Ilori album. I guess I find it more "interesting" than "enjoyable". Can't help you with an opinion on the Ukonu albums, though.

Yes, that is the UK Fontana cover. If I recall, this one is compiled from two sessions - side 1 has tracks from 'What The Dickens' and side 2 tracks from a slightly later session. It doesn't appear so; it's a conceptual album, the contents being a continuous suite. It seems to have been recorded in 1967, since the liners make a point about Dankworth's "very newest orchestra" and mentioning a May 1967 gig at Ronnie Scott's. But I think I will seek out 'Dickens' and the other of Dankworth's 60s big band dates too. Now listening to the Blue Mitchell Milestone twofer, the side from 'Smooth as the Wind'.

There's only a point in bypassing the sound card if the inputs on whatever device you're using are better than those of the sound card. Arguably, a separate device at some distance from the computer will not be subject to intereference from the computer itself to the same extent, but I think you'd have to go above $50 to really get an improvement over the sound card inputs.

This is not crazy, just a bit weird. All Herbie Hancock album listings on eBay unsing the Muze pre-filled information appears as Quincy Jones albums. If the sellers haven't put Hanock's name in the title manually they even have it in the auction title: Empyrean Isles "Quincy Jones" albums...

You know, I bought my LP copy in a shop which was so close to my apartment that I just walked home!

See this post: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=412209 Perhaps not "definitive", but...

Thanks. It appears that my link to the first cover doesn't work. Anyway, the cover I've got is at the bottom of this page: http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall/1069/...965-9/1967.html

Happy birthday, Chris!

That's a very good LP. Fine sampling of some of Lee Morgan's best on Blue Note. Agreed! IIRC the sound quality is good, too. Now spinning: John Dankworth 'The $1,000,000 Collection' (Fontana SRF-67575) A very enjoyable album, indeed! Got this today; my first Dankworth album, and the only one I've heard besides the co-effort with Wheeler, 'Windmill Tilter'. It appears to be a US pressing. The cover looks like this: http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall/1069/...0collection.jpg compared to this - what I believe is the UK - version (especially note the Fontana logo): http://www.tazrecords.com/tazcovers/dankworthjohn001.jpg Perhaps sidewinder or someone else of our British vinyl experts may be able to confirm this. The LP label is just plain blue with nothing else printed than the track titles and a circular Fontana logo.

Hear, hear!