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Of course, but having known what Hines did in previous decade this is downfall to hell... And, I agree with you about Herb, those albums he did with strings are full of saccharin.

Forced them? Look who composed When I Dream of You. Disaster, total disaster...

http://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/WhenIDrm.htm Who forced them to record such tunes? Arti Shaw was 1000 times right when he said: No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, it’s true, absolutely true

Thank you!!! Red Callender really cooks on these!

Durium, is there some way we can hear that record? Thanks.

There are some more photographs: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry739669

@Big Beat Steve. your point about Lee comparing to Krupa is so close to the real - I always thought that Krupa is not so far from his Chicago style influences. Lee is lot more lightweight, and somewhere I've read people respect him for his brushwork!!!

RIP Lee. He was marvelous drummer, but it seems no one really cared for it...

I can hear strong Pres influence even then. Of course IMHO.

Also, we forgot Dave Pell...

Charlie Christian? J.J. Johnson? And to make things even more complicated - I always wonder, who was the earliest-known tenor man influenced by Pres - (and it's not Lady Q)? So my guess surely would go to Jerry Jerome, let us not forget him!

If Jo records a song of mine, it's done. I don't have to worry about who records it next or if it's ever recorded again. The sheer musicality of her voice is one of the things that amazes me most about her. - Johnny Mercer on Jo Stafford, as quoted in the liner notes for "Songs That Won The War: The Home Front"

Flurin, as for DVD it is not necessary to go that low (also it can cause some problem), so try 8X or 10X! But with audio CDRs (only audio CDRs, not data) it is other way round: made some exhaustive tests with various hi-fi, semi-pro, pro, hometheatre units and portable discman. While recorded audio CDR 4X and 8X were readable everywhere (recorded on various media: Verbatim, but many noname or cheap/crappy blanks as well), it was not the case with 16X, almost always caused problems with (you wouldn't believe) pro units, then with some very old standalone CD players, and finally - with my discman.

A little bit too much for me, week ago it was Jo Stafford, now Johnny Griffin! RIP!

Yep, they are pretty expensive... found 5.25 Intex fr-712 unit for 30 EUR (that makes 50 EUR in totall, here...). Well, at least you can try 16X on some certified media such as color pastel Verbatim or other CDs made by Tayio Yuden. Probably it will work, but still there is some risk such discs will not be playable in some elder standalone CD player units.

Well, as far as I know - by flashing firmware minimum burning speeds will remain the same. At least in my two cases - LG and LiteON! I don't know why they're producing them with these minimum speeds. Probably you can look at LG drives, I think that different chipset versions of these drives have different minimum burning speeds (and different quality and speed of audio extraction). There is also another solution: buy internal drive (such as Pioneer I mentioned earlier with slow burning speeds unlocked), mount it in QUALITY external rack, and connect it via USB2, or by firewire (better solution than USB2) to your laptop. It is fairly easy to do.

Flurin, please consider some of Pioneer external DVD burners! My internal 215D I've purchased about two weeks ago (20 EUR), allows 4X, 10X, 16X minimum burn speeds for CDR audio, and that is one of the most important thing when burning such discs. 10X is slow enough to burn fully compatible discs in every standalone unit, and such thing is not possible with 16X speed even on quality media such as TY brand (Verbatim Pastel). LG (newer versions) and LiteON I own before were locked to 16X min.

The first time I heard Jo Stafford, I was nine years old. It was a record that had come out that day; "Sugar Foot Stomp," with the original eight Pied Pipers. She had a solo in the middle of it, and I said "Who is THAT!?" I found out soon enough, because very quickly after that, she turned up with Tommy Dorsey; and I got hold of almost everything she did. I just never heard anybody sing that way before. - Johnny Mandel ... Many years after her retirement, Ms. Stafford looked back happily on her musical life with Weston. “Our talents — his and mine — fit the music of the time,” she said. “And the music fit us. We were very fortunate, because if both of us were starting out today, we’d starve to death!” (from: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/mus...0&emc=eta1) ... Billie Holiday, who, for the 1946 Esquire Jazz Book, selected Jo as female vocalist for her "dream band" (Perry Como was her pick as boy singer), put it so well, I believe, when she said, of the Stafford timbre, "She sounds like an instrument." Differently from the way in which arranger Nelson Riddle likened Sinatra's voice to a specific instrument, a viola, Billie, in this comment, simply acknowledged the sheer musicality in Jo's tone. (from: http://relativeesoterica.blogspot.com/2008...o-is-that.html)

Stafford sisters as vocal group first heard in this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIK1qChYTjw

Of course, anyone interested in Cinderella G. Stump can try these links: Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - For Seventy Mental Reasons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4hdNLUarY Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - Tim-tay-shun (Temptation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkl7FjYkX74 (full version with hillarious breakdown "I swear I said Tim..." added on Capitol CD CDP 7 91638 2) Red Ingle and the Unnatural Seven - Serutan Yob (Nature Boy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2nlYK5HBqU Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - A-You're a Dopey Gal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4OD00_Z3zs Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - These Durn-Fool Things (These Foolish Things) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oVEIJ8Qqg Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - Git Up Offen the Floor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzd53U5VOXc Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - Song of Indians http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHlTPUXQngA and filmed 1960s recreation of Tim-tay-shun

Well, Milovan finds that a bit disrespectful (see above). ;) Well I don't know. In her last interview she mentioned certain devotion for ballads - you can listen to this inteview here: http://rapidshare.com/files/130646945/Jo_S...W_interview.mp3

I think it would be... she always considered herself primarily as ballad singer of songs such as "This Is Always", "Long Ago and Far Away", "It Could Happen To You"... and as for "Tim-Tay-Shun" ("Temptation") she was pretty nervous dropping her lines or misspelling words as alternative takes and breakdowns of that tune tell us.

One of the greatest female singers anytime is not in our world anymore... Her phrasing was just like Billie Holiday, and you can hear that if you listen carefully. Also, Pres was not a fool, and friend told me that the same thing said Billie when asked about her most favourite singer. R.I.P. Jo Stafford, You will remain forever in my soul.

I've heard good stories about Shure cartridges and needles especially made for playing 78s. Some sources mentioned M44 as the best cartridge for this. I think Sure is currently now in production of M9x or M94 type cartridge. I'm using Ortofon OM 78 model with special needle, and I am quite satisfy with it. Unfortunately, Ortofon stopped production of OM cartridges. For correct reproduction of various 78 records you will need more types of needles than standard 2.7 mill type, and preamp with adjustable turnover frequencies (RIAA preamp is not suitable, because of fixed reproduction curve). Also, be sure that your preamp has enough headroom for stronger signals coming from old records (more modulated grooves with stronger amplitudes).

Interesting film clip about acoustical gramophone with oversized horn and fibre needles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKY_rb6VpJo Such nice bass response.