Daniel A

A friend in Finland, perhaps? B-)

When I was around 8-9 years this was one of my absolute favorites as well - and that was in the early 80s! In the area where my family spent their summers at that time, there was a café with a jukebox someone got tired of loading with new 45s around 1975. I used to go there, and every time I would (of course) always listen to Terry Jack's wonderful voice once again. When hearing the tune nowadays, I don't like it too much any more. Has jazz destroyed my ears?

He/she is quite remarkably still a "Power Seller", something which is described on eBay's website like this:

As far as jazz recordings are concerned, I don't think there's anything before this (1956), and from what I can remember in this case the stereo master was concieved long afterwards by mixing together two entirely separate recordings.

Nice page (can't judge the accuracy, though): * I Can’t Keep Up With All The Formats *

Welcome to the forums, shawoody! And thanks for the info, although one thread would probably have been enough rather than three, since the subject is the same.

Liner notes: Uncredited as brownie said. Does the Mosaic Select say who produced the session?

A quick scan (sorry for sloppy pasting):

Yes!

Thanks, Bill! I'll look out for these for sure.

Bill, those Manne-Hole discs do sound interesting. Who else were playing on them besides Bunker and Burton?

Mosaic directing complaints to its distributors is an unfortunate development, but I assume it has to do with the nature of the agreement between them. I once came across a faulty disc in a Fantasy box set (the Joe Henderson Milestone box, discs mastered by the dreaded ZYX plant). The set was purchased used here in Sweden. After an email to US Fantasy I got a prompt reply: "We have never encountered this problem before, but send us the faulty disc and we'll immediatly mail out a replacement for you". Two weeks later I had a (US manufactured) replacement disc in the mail, and it had apparently been sent out even before my defective disc had reached them. I was impressed with how they handled it.

There are also some interesting comments from Minasi on his website: http://www.domminasi.com/discography.htm

* Dom Minasi: Time's Tales by John Chacona, January 2004 *

I had "When Joanna Loved Me" once, and I'm afraid it's among the lesser productions from the 70s Blue Note era. From what I can remember, cheap-sounding strings and clearly un-inspired playing. I hope that wasn't too nasty?

Alone (Verve, 1968). His most successful solo recordings, in my opinion. That's the one I'm returning to most often.

How come there's no Milestone discography? It was a realtively major label, allthough of course some releases appear to be very hard to find these days. EDIT: Like the previous poster I was confusing labelography with discography. It would still be intereseting to know, though.

At $38.66, it's highly unlikely that the analog inputs of that device could be of more than passable quality.

b3-er, we miss you.

b3-er? I don't think he's posting here anymore....

I'm sure there must be someone with a more solid answer around here; I don't even have the album in question. But from what I remember of the liner notes, which I had a quick look at in a shop several years ago, Hank had already undergone surgery for lung cancer at that time. He was even quoted with some sad joke about that playing with a leaking horn almost killed him, or something to that effect. I'm not sure if it was the original liners/original issue, though.

For several reasons, but mainly because we lacked an Internet connection for almost a year, I didn't post much here from last spring until a few weeks ago. I don't know anything of the reasons some posters seem to have deserted the forums - I didn't catch up with the 100+ pages of new posts, but rather jumped right into the current discussions - but the atmosphere here seemed to me pretty much the same as before. So whatever has been going on recently, I can say as a semi-outsider it's all back to normal now. Or should I say "normal"...

For some people that might be an aternative. If you plan to listen to the music on a MP3 player (portable, car stereo, DVD player etc.) MP3 is still the choice. BTW, be warned that Microsoft's wma format is inferior, though hardware support is icreasing.

For some reason most often Christmas songs.

Just to check out this revolutionary theory, I'm going to go right into the living room and get that Dave McKenna LP I've never cared for anyway and give it the full sponge treatment.