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the man made some seriously great pictures. may he rest in peace.

why not club her as well. sheesh. I'm with brownie on this one. Putting her in prison wasn't going to change her.

welcome back! Goodbye vroom! vroom!

welcome back!

you filthy rascal, here's one just for you, to get you back in the saddle my friend. Bert was bestest friends with Alfons methinks. Yay! (do I get banned now?)

since when is such a mad hatter party "too out there" for you?! Are you in love or something? All of a sudden salivating over the Loussier and declining the gathering behind the Kaempfert residence as too weird for comfort.

hey, that's Mike's job!

Ain't THAT the truth!!!! I spent about 4 months cleaning up a mono pressing of Duke Pearson's Wahoo....but it was worth the effort in the long run. No more damaged tape noise in Joe Henderson's Amanda solo! Yeah! ah mono! mono is good for making stereo recordings and hoping the noise is only on one channel so you can copy the other channel over that. Takes more than just ages of course. It verges on eternity...

I only do filtering of surface noise when it's really bad. Analysing a silent portion and making a filter based on that, only filtering out about 25% though, as it indeed does affect the sound of the instruments as well. Taking out only a little tends to sharpen the picture a bit, take out too much and it's compression land. It all depends on the recording and the noise in the end. You will never make a noisy LP sound stellar. Pops and clicks I remove by using a very conservative filter first that only gets rid of the tiny little clicks. The bigger ones I take out by hand. This can take ages.

what's with the grave? it's his birthday dammit!

and another one!

without further ado, here goes: Track 1. This is the kind of stuff I used to like once upon a long ago; still dig the voices, but could do without the piano sound and the overall production. Sounds a lot like the Chick Corea recordings of the time. The soprano is too smooth and not to my liking either. The best thing about this track are the voices and the finale, although the latter is marred by an overproduced sound. Not that this puts me in a bad mood, not at all, just that it doesn't enliven it either. Track 2. The tenor rings a distant bell for sure. Starts off like some old master lazily doing a familiar track and moves into overdrive halfway through. Either it's an old master or it's Eric Alexander. Track 3. after soprano comes tenor comes alto... very dry sound on this one and someone who can play too. My guess would be someone like Herb Geller or who have we. Track 4. ah, it's him! and if that trombone is who I think it is, this is from that record that needs to see a reissue one of these days soon. Never heard this before. Track 5. cool tune! very nice playing too. Sounds like a Brazilian group and that makes the guessing rather useless in my case. Overall this is somewhat reminiscent of a BN date, but with much more of a Brazillian bite of course. Track 6. vibes sound like Hamp, but I doubt it is him. Tune sounds very familiar. I like this, though it wouldn't get me out of bed in the middle of the night. Track 7. yuck! don't like the bass sound at all. the piano is pretty cool, though I could do with another sound on that too. this threatens to drift off into smooth territories when the bassist gets a go at it. the pianist seems drawn into the maelstrom and only hardly stays above the waters. Track 8. Piano sounds like Tyner. The trumpet tenor frontline sound familiar somehow, sorta BN-ish. The tenor has this Shorter/Rivers blend thing going with lots of Trane too. The trumpet only seems to be there for support. Overall a nice track! Track 9. Well you needn't have that Swing. wassup with the drums? they sound like they were recorded in the closet. This is straight ahead fun that doesn't inspire any guesses though. Track 10. this one gets few comments as was dancing instead of typing. kech kech swoosh babumdabumdabumbum kech... Track 11. oo boy, this is a let down after the fireworks. My guess it's this guy doing some more of his signature jazzy classical stuff. Satie? Track 12. LOVE this stuff. Some serendipity brought me to that long titled OOP Verve disk I never heard, track 4 the samples at mp3.com tell me. The piano starts off like a regular Horace Silver to suprise us with some classically oriented solo that would make Körössy flip over. The strings are very beautifully used here; the voices kick MAJOR ass. Damn, I need to track this one down. Track 13. the percussionist (mike would tell me off if I got the instrument wrong so I'd rather keep it general...) sounds as if he was not there at the recording, but just dabbling along elsewhere and added later. Tune sounds familiar. Nicely relaxed. Track 14. Somewhat reminiscent of Maiden Voyage at the start, this develops into a bit of a corny rendering of a Sting toon, this scores awfully high on the Claydermann scale in my ears. Luckily it steers back to wilder waters later on. Track 15. My guess is this tune is titled "Someone to Light up my Life," no idea on who performs here, but this is very nice and a worthy closer. thank you marcus for a fine BFT (edited for Splelnig)

the point is about the PD labels taking away the main incentive for the labels to care for their tapes: money. That is the real concern right? So put the tapes in a public archive or library, thereby leveling the comany's expenses to some extent by taking away the costs for storage and care. No costs, no need for money. That this costs society money is an open door. That no one would pay for that if asked individually is a bit besides the point as I can imagine many not willing to pay for a lot of the stuff that can be found hanging off museum walls either. The concern is of course not so much of the rekkid companies, but of us, the fans. And I can imagine that the companies would rather have it both ways, i.e. save the storage costs and make money on the releases anyhow. This is not a solution, these are just some stray thought bullets to address the problem of the original recordings. We haven't even mentioned where the artist gets into all this...

which role is Snoop Dog going to play?

Not only on this board ... SCD-1 + Ultra Khan 2 (his new $4500 power cord) yeah, but it's cheaper than the machine!

It bothers me that the rationale seems to be that as soon as stuff goes PD, it becomes worthless. It doesn't obviously and I am not talking monetary value (only) here. Instead of having the companies pay for storing their "wortless" tapes, let society pay for it as it is society that still places value on it. It strikes me that many if not all of the discussions here are about money and why anyone would pay for something that doesn't make him any. Seeing jazz merely as a tool to make money instead of as an artform is a big part of the problem IMHO.

just a couple of hours

Just use a Mosaic box with lots of bubbly stuff. To prevent damage to the cover/jacket, ship the LP outside of the jacket and put some bubbly stuff between.

the bestest finds are to me those that bring a big surprise and a big smile. Some unknown artists playing the hell out of it and presenting us with something else. Yesterday I found a copy of a 45rpm 7" from Czechoslovakia and Karel Krautgartner put me right back on my toes. There's a lot going on in this music that verges on the silly, the classic, and the jazz. I for one love it. It has some Ellingtonian dance band qualities and some plain WACK writing. Just the thing for couw... Karel Krautgartner - Neons (4.4 Mb mp3) to listen, right click and save. The B side has some good stuff by the Gustav Brom orchestra BTW.

Seems to me that placing the cultural heritage in the hands of those who are only in it for the money may be a big part of the problem. Probably this difference between the US and other places on the globe is more important than the amount of years that a recording remains off limits to anyone but the copyright owner. just a thought that certainly needs some nuance.

you must be upset with you're speling going of like that. How's this: batter

you must be upset with you're speling going of like that.