Daniel A

Hey, Jim! Aren't you the kind of guy who has 'Midnight Walk' on vinyl? If so, could you check if there's any organ on the title track...

Jean-Luc Ponty 'King Kong - Plays the Music of Frank Zappa' (Pacific Jazz original, before Zappa was removed from back cover pictures).

Much appreciated, Scott!

If the hole is, say, 3 millimeters off center it will increasingly affect the sound as the groove radius gets smaller and smaller. At the beginning of a record the radius is about 15 centimeters, while for the last groove it will be more like 5 centimeters. The hole is still 3 millimeters off center; the error increases from 3/150 mm = 2 percent to 3/50 mm = 6 percent. It sounds three times worse!

Perhaps the Organissimo forum members could buy them, and then split them up.

Well, just as soon as I'd posted the link, the site went down. Anyway, here's another one: http://www.thevintageknob.org/THEVAULT/DRA...T/DRAGONCT.html

Perhaps time to get the self-centering turntable - the Nakamichi TX-1000! Nakamich TX-1000 turntable. Manufactured in the beginning of the 80s, price then around $20.000...

I'm just listening to the Andrew Hill twofer 'One for One' (reissued on CD as Pax), and while I like this session a lot (cant figure out why it was years since I listened to it), the vinyl suffers from a problem which has turned up just one time too many on my blue label UA BN pressings: the center hole is not in the center of the LP. Sometimes it affects only one side of the record, sometimes both. Among Blue Note LPs I've only encountered this problem with blue label United Artists pressings, but so many of those I have are affected that I wonder how common this problem was. It's present on several of my twofers and at least one of the repressings of older titles (it happens to be 'Speak Lika a Child'). The worst case was Jackie McLean's 'Jacknife' where I had to make the hole really oval (several millimeters wider) to make the record play OK. Does this ever happen to anyone else?

Is there anyone around here who has come across a Scorpio reissue which sounds good? What are the chances if pressing quality is erratic and tape sources dubious (I wouldn't think Blue Note would let a low budget operation use anything than second or third generation copies).

Maybe the track titles are mixed up on the Collectables reissue? 'Midnight Walk' is the first track of the album (3:22). The organ is in the left channel (the same channel as the piano) and plays a rhythmic figure in "unison" with the drums throughout.

Up for MG! Now listening to Ted Heath 'Rodgers for Moderns' (Jasmine 80s reissue).

There's organ om my CD (Collectables) copy, though far down in the mix. Listen behind the piano solo.

I'm sure there have been others, but Swedish jazz basist Georg Riedel (has played with many Swedish greats as Jan Johansson, Lars Gullin, Rolf Billberg, Jan Allan etc.) wrote a ballet in 1967, 'Riedaighlia'. It was made specifically for TV and won the Prix Italia that year. Sorry to say, I don't know of any recordings.

This may be old news, but a copy of a long OOP Clarke-Boland album (Three Latin Adventures) available from UK Amazon Marketplace made me check out the British company The Disk Kiosk. It appears as if they are allowed to manufacture some kind of industrial CDRs under licence from Universal, among a couple of other companies. Not much jazz, but some. Confusingly some titlles still seem to be oficcially avialble from Universal as well.

Finally, Al! Hope you'll enjoy it!

Clare Fischer 'Manteca' (Pacific Jazz PJ-10096, mono). Not particularly good pressing. Good music, though.

Unplayed promo copy of 'Kind of Blue', would you believe that?

I'm following with 'Extension' - mono Pacific Jazz. 'Great White Hope'; I spotted that one too yesterday, but the Yamaha YC-30 organ and the overdubs made me hold off (though I didn't listen to it). How is it, MG?

Hush is a very enjoyable date. Some (but not all) of the tracks feature both Johnny Coles and Donald Byrd; the latter plays rather better than usual. Pearson himself also sounds more confident as a soloist than on some of his other recordings. The trio tracks are arguably a bit more low key, but all in all I'd say that this is actually one of my favourite Pearson albums.

Somone trying to get maximum dollar out of 'Windmill Tilter' before the upcoming CD reissue gets widely known: http://cgi.ebay.com/KENNY-WHEELER-JOHN-DAN...1QQcmdZViewItem Reserve not met at $150, two more days to go.

Just ordered the 420 page Hank Jones discography! Heh-heh... I'll save Milt Hinton for later.

MG, life is too short to keep on holding off! After all I'm happy I got to hear it at last. Now I'll order that Hank Jones discography and get going again...

But as for the sound quality, the bass is poorly recorded. Absurd 60s Atlantic stereo separation. Will probably look for a mono LP in due time.

A bit more melancholic than Pearson's other albums, but quite right for my mood at the moment. Except that 'Dedication' is a Willie Wilson session. Or a cat farm?

As some of you will remember I've long been a fan of Duke Pearson, even if it was perhaps more apparent on the BNBB (he was probably discussed a little more back there). I have all of his leader dates and I have heard most if not all other recordings he participated in. Well, not exactly true. There was one album I never got when it was reissued by Koch in the late 90s - 'Prairie Dog'. It's not like it's a rare album or anything and it could probably be found instantly online, but I never tried that hard. Why? Because then there wouldn't be any unheard Duke Pearson left. Then today after work I walked into a used record store. I picked a Nicholas Payton album I suspected was OOP, an early Clare Fischer big band album on Pacific Jazz (Extension), and then suddenly - a cheap CD copy of Prairie Dog lay before my eyes. After a moment of hesitation I decided that now was the time. So now I'm sitting at home, trying to figure out how I should go about listening to it. I think I'll make some tea, sit down, close my eyes and just listen. (It somehow reminds me of the moment years ago when I finally broke the seal on that first pressing of 'Sweet Honey Bee'.) And then perhaps start to think of how I should live my life post completing Pearson collection.