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more nice stuff folks I have been going through my Polish EPs and 10" LPs looking for items that may produce a nice comp of these obscurities. First trial for some cover art is also done. Not quite satisfied. deus, maybe you want to have a go at it? It's all stuff from the late 50s/early 60s. You have already heard some of it.

still from a 1965 performance with Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Hans Koller, Ronnie Ross, and Wes Montgomery. Not in the pic: Martial Solal, Michel Gaudry, and Ronnie Stephenson.

my Farlow set just arrived from Caiman, it took two weeks to arrive. The best part is that there is a sticker on the shrinkwrap telling me this was made in Germany. Once around the world and still dirt cheap. The "private" amazon sellers seem to have raised its price on this set to 70+ EUR BTW.

1956, Lucky Thompson records 8 in Paris released in the EMI Americans Swingin in Paris series 1961, Junir Mance - At The Village Vanguard (Jazzland) 1985, Blue Note Relaunch Townhall Concert

more presents in you PM box.

HOLY COUW JOHN! Thanks a bunch! rod eyyyyy! my pleasure.

What an INTERESTING result this link now produces! "Hard", yes, but hardly Latin! fegh man, this stuff is pretty ... please help me out here, I cannot quite find the word...

okay folks, go here and download this stuff.

please don't tell him about the stoopid questions corner

hmm, I have used the Nero normalisation feature only once and ended up with a bunch of distortion, notably on fierce trumpet lines. So I get the one bad performance and Marty gets all those swell ones.

1978, Count Basie and Oscar Peterson record 3 albums for Pablo: Yessir That's My Baby, The Timekeepers, Night Riders. The session is continued into the next day. 1980, Jack Sheldon & His Westcoast Friends - Angel Wings. w/ Art Pepper; ctd the next day

Hard Latin

check out some of the Polskie Nagrania designs (me tired, you google) or have a glance at those Brasilian designs here: http://www.sabadabada.com/new_page_2.htm

I will need audio samples to refresh the memory

the desire ain't bad either

Don't know about the UStates, but Robeson was celebrated as a hero of the people in the former socialist states. You will run across plenty of his LPs pressend in the GDR, Poland and Russia when going through the bins here.

very proud that this one is almost famous by now

only funny in German

impossible font? I've seen this cool trick of mirroring and turning letters to get others. Dave McKean did some of that way back when. Recently I saw it on some Flat Earth Society things. There are many more possibilities than just turning the "a" to form an "e" of course, but I like the sparseness here. Good stuff!

playing through a bunch of Polish 10" LPs in search of more Jerzy Milian doorbell dingdongism and associated hipness. Seems I hit the jackpot just now with a track hidden among a bunch of unrelated items from undated live festival recordings hosted by Willis Connover. At least it *sounds* like Jerzy, no info on the label. The track is followed by a plenty cool Kurylewicz 4tet performance.

I have no clue on the organist, but here is a nice site on Kenyon Hopkins.

turntable: as good as you can get. If you are satisfied with what you have, that's good enough. You will need a soundcard. Onboard sound on the motherboard is probably not going to do the trick. You just link your stereo amp-out to the soundcard line-in. As for software, I use CoolEdit (now Adobe Audition) others here use Goldwave ( http://www.goldwave.com/ ) The latter is shareware and the free evaluation version allows you to do something like 50 or 100 actions and then you have to re-start the programme. Not a problem if you aren't thinking of having major manual declick fests. I'd advice you to not overdo the editing. Some loud clicks and pops that are messing with the enjoyment of the music you can remove manually and be happy. Automised declicking will in 99% of the cases be detrimental to your music signal.