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  2. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I just had to get out my mono copy of December's Children Leeway. THis is a group that could haveseriously benefitted from a George Martin-like figure that the Beatles had. But, these LPs sound so much better than the horrid CD versions that Abkco put out originally. The new remastered ones are superb, but I still like the Lps better than the CD layer though. I don't have an SACD player so I can't comment on the sound of those.

  6. Monk's box on Prestige and more

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    I don't really think of the various periods of Monk's music to be different qualitatively as much as I think of them as just being different. Each period brings its own rewards. But, I do tend to think of the Blue Notes as a kind of Rosetta Stone to his music, the "originals" that he expanded on thoughout his career.

    I also want to echo the comments on the Columbias, particularly "It's Monk's Time," "Monk"s Dream," and the Solo album.

  7. Classic Records Inc

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    The other thought that keeps bugging me is that all I know of the Classic record making process is what the company tells us (or maybe, more accurately, hypes to us). How do we know that all this supposedly laborious analog-crafting activity is what it's cracked up to be? Maybe I'm just getting paranoid in my old age, but why should I believe Classic when I can't believe the President [dry.gif]

    Count me as paranoid too. I think the Classic Records re-issues are generally very well done, and they certainly sound analog to my ears.

    I was even getting paranoid about the Mosaic Herbie Nichols set. I have the LP version, and in the back of the book only the LP sides are listed, no mention of what is contained on the CD version, although it was also issued on CD. However, the only reference to the recording is "Recording engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Digital transfers: Ron McMaster That's it.

    I have no other vinyl of Nichols to compare it to, but I was always under the impression that Mosaic's LPs were always from the analog sources and were put through the LP manufacturing process entirely in anolog. Am I just being paranoid?

  11. New Radio Format Brings Closure!

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    From the link:

    Initial focus group testing in late 2003 brought exceptional response. Soon, a beta testing will begin on a local radio station. Plans are for a nationwide rollout of the format protocol in early 2005.

    What's amazing is the idea that this will work and sweep the nation.  The people who want to hear "It's My Party" or, heaven help us, "The Lion Sleeps Tonite," want to hear the ENTIRE song.  On top of that, the biggest complaint radio listeners have is DJ chatter over songs.  So what's gonna happen?  Will they produce a 90 second song edit with a thirty second ramp for the jock to talk over?

    No freakin' way this thing takes off.

    One other thought:  there are Christian fascists who do their own editing of Hollywood films for language or sexual content, clean it up for other Christian Fascists.  If I recall correctly, this has led to lawsuits as a violation of the copyrights of the film owners.

    Is this kind of music editing any different?

    Unlike everybody else, I don't think this format is necessarily a bad thing. The kind of radio station that plays this isn't very interesting to people who like music, anyhow.

    I was amused by the compost reference, as "culture" means the act of growing something (as in agriculture) and culture at the oldies/hits level is really more or less ideological compost--a medium that people exist in, and otherwise grow (though probably not through the action of the compost, which is probably there more for drainage--these songs can inspire soppiness!-- than nutritive purposes).

    I am interetsed in whether Dan is right. I'm thinking this is the new Muzak. Music that everyone will complain about (discerning folk are supposed to complain about such things, and we all want to appear to be discerning), but most folks will actually find innocuous or rather pleasant, in a cultural composty sort of way.

    After all, these are the same folks who watch television.

    --eric

    Flawless lagic, but I still don't like it ;)

  14. Ebay craziness

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by ajf67

    Holy Schmoley. Man that's tempting.

    As an aside, it always kills me when people bid up titles that are still in print. The Bitches Brew box is already up to about $70 I think. This guy's a good seller and all, but why not just buy a new one at Mosaic? I can see if you can get it for less, but I bet it won't go for less. Maybe I'll be wrong, but we'll see.

  17. Stephane Grappelli, any thoughts on him?

    in Artists

    Posted

    I can't emphasize this enough. Pick up the 79' session Young Django. Grappelli is backed by Philip Catherine and Larry Coryell on guitars, and NHOP on bass. Grappelli is in very fine form. Catherine and Coryell play beautifully, both individually and collectively. Of course NHOP is impeccable.

    Yep. This is a good one. Of the Grappellis I have, its the one I return to most often (which isn't all that often actually).

  18. What non-music magazines do you subscribe to??

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Can't help on the Columbia Journalism Review, but I bet it would be interesting and worth a try if you have the $$.

    I used to get a bunch, but now I get three magazines:

    1) The New York Review of Books, 2)Shambhala Sun (a Buddhist magazine), and 3) I also get their Buddhist practice quarterly but I can't remember its exact name! I think it's called Buddhist Practice or something like that.

    I used to get some audiophile magazines, like The Absolute Sound and Stereophile, but I found that I really didn't keep reading the detailed reviews of the equipment. I did like their album reviews though.

  21. ***Medeski Martin & Wood Corner***

    in Artists

    Posted

    I've got nearly every release by MMW, except maybe their very most-recent one. As has already been said before -- great band, but the sum of the parts is greater than just the parts.

    Medeski, in particular, is a guy who I can't -- for the life of me -- get into in terms of his solos. Especially when he plays piano.

    But as a band, they can't be beat. I've heard them live about five or six times, including their all-acoustic tour (the one that generated Tonic). The grooves they cut are mega-deep, but what they each have to say as soloists is somewhat less interesting to me. But shit, those grooves are cavernous!!! -- even if they go on, and on, sometimes a bit longer than makes sense sometimes.

    They're always solid "B+" material (never less, and sometimes "A-"), but I'm always left wishing they had more meat on the bone, as far as their soloing ability.

    I was going to add my take, but Rooster pretty much covered it for me. Nicely said.

  22. Upcoming MOSAICS (resuming)

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    -Don Pullen-George Adams - Mosaic Select - 3 CD set (Mosaic MS-013) Oct

    ? includes the two Pullen/Adams Blue Note albums ? "Breakthrough" and "Song Everlasting"

    ? plus the two Pullen trio albums ? "New Beginnings" and "Random Thoughts"

    I'm looking forward to this one. The only Pullen I have is his Montreaux date and "Milano Strut"

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