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Just arrived yesterday at a good price

Have that CD. IMO poor audio. How is your copy?

An other underrated guitarist is Howard Roberts. Some times they both sound alike a bit. Anyway I like Howard Robers also very much.

12 hours ago, Milestones said: I've enjoyed The Artistry of Barney Kessel compilation and the first Poll Winners record I'm a great Barney Kessel fan. These are my Barney Kessel LPs recorded under his name (sorted by rec. date) Like best the first 4 LP's. He was also very active with Norman Granz' JATP in the OP Trio. He was followed in this Trio by Herb Ellis. Kessel,Barney Easy Like - Vol 1 1953 Contemporary 3511 Kessel,Barney Kessel plays Standards - Vol 2 1954 Contemporary 3512 Kessel,Barney To swing or not to swing - Vol 3 1955 Contemporary 3513 Kessel,Barney Music to listen Barney Kessel by Vol 4 1956 Contemporary 7521 Kessel,Barney Let`s cook! 1957 Contemporary 7603 Kessel,Barney The Pollwinners 1957 Contemporary 7535 Kessel,Barney CARMEN 1958 Contemporary 7563 Kessel,Barney Poll Winners Three 1959 Contemporary 7576 Kessel,Barney Some like it hot 1959 Contemporary 7565 Kessel,Barney Barney Kessel`s swinging party 1960 Contemporary 7613 Kessel,Barney The Poll Winners explorating the scene 1960 Contemporary 7581 Kessel,Barney Working Out 1961 Contemporary 7585 Kessel,Barney Swinging Easy 1968 Black Lion 130 Kessel,Barney Feeling Free 1969 Contemporary 7618 Kessel,Barney Summertime in Montreux 1973 Black Lion 210 Kessel,Barney Blue Soul 1975 Black Lion 310 Kessel,Barney Barney plays Kessel & friends 1975 Concord Jazz 9 Kessel,Barney The Poll Winners Straigt Ahead"" 1975 Contemporary(OJC) 7635

Its distributed via mail order or Jazz Messengers from Spain also.

Yes I do understand. The radio systems are different here and the US. We have a stateside radio system beside some private stations which means we (= every household in Germany) have to pay a monthly fee (same as a tax) which guarantees the stations a fat living and the employed people a fat pension after retirement with 65 years. That means in a certain way we have payed for the home recording content. So no bad feelings on my side. ;-]]

Just in from the Netherlands (Vol 14) of a great series of Concerts at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

Correct. But in general here in Germany home recording for your own pleasure it is legal and trading the music in one way opr other too. Thats one of the reasons these decks and walkman recorders werde constructed. But there is one more reason re tape hiss which was not mentioned here. Playing a CD or CD-R is touchless which is not possible for recorded tapes (reels, cassettes). The musical signals are encoded via magnetism on the readable surfache of the tape. Playing it back means your reading head touches the magnetic surface of the tape. Every time you play a tape a bit more magnetism is transferred from the tape to the reading (playback) head and is accumulated there. This causes to a high degree "tape hiss" and remains on your hardware unless a regular demagnetism procedure is performed. This can be done a) with special demagnetizing cassette tapes b) with special device (driven by a battery inside) touching cautiously the reading head and remove the device very slowly from the heads. If the original signal from radio is free if noise and hiss there will be no audible 'hiss' on your home recording. This is at least my own experience because I care very much for my hardware to keep it in the best possible shape.

Yes for the 78 rpm stock it does it. But thats too much nostalgia for me. ;-]] Not here in Germany. The radio stations offer a software "Radiorecorder" which can be installed free on your own computer. It recods digitally the broadcast and lists it in a internal database. Recording for private use is officially allowed. How is it in the US? That ad with the logo seems to come from the companiers fearing reduced proceeds.

I would suggest a compleat load of Mosaic or has this been suggested earlier?

Just discussede in another forum the cover art of Jim Flora. Here are his books of his art and style: Some of the RCA Sauter-Finegan have Jim Flora cover art.

That may be your private opinion. It all depends on the quality level of the hardware you use and brand of cassette tapes. I have recorded only on the highh-end Nakamichi decks ZX 9 and Dragon ( and a few in my BRAUN) and have used only TDK or Maxell cassette tapes of all kind (Ferro/Chromium or metal) for my FM radio broadcasts I did record. No Dolby on the master tapes. Recently I producerd a CD-R from my Nakamichi master. Someone asked me from which CD this was copied. The playback quality was superbe. I do agree that a lot of low-fi hardware and cheap cassettes damaged the general opinion of the home cassette recording but all I can say my Cassettes from 25 years and more ago meet the quality of most of todays CD's. The 2 track recordings on open reel are still a small percentage better using the BRAUN TG 1020 2 track or the Revox machine.

`Have just seen in the german TV a report about efforts to start a new cassette tape production with improved audio quality. The usual tape hiss is strongly reduced mentioned the report. The little company is located in the US. Has anybody else heard about this Info? Rhanks

More on Transition label

Hi John, are you aware of the most recent release "Just in Time"? The final recording. Simply marvellous W.

We had the Blakey 5tet in Oct. 1979 in our private jazz club in Koblenz , Germany with this group Valery Ponomarev, Dave Schnitter, Bobby Watson, James Williams and Dennis Irwin . It was a marvellous concert

was also issued with this cover on Discovery

Thank you Jim for clarification. BTW part of this special recording was issued also with this front cover. Rearside is blanc.

Just another guitar player Jimmy Raney

Havent seen the cover you mentioned so I cannot comment on that. But the Steve Hoffmans Forums have s special thread just for covers which have "stealed" graphic elemerts or the whole Idea from another LP cover issued. As it looks its quite usual to copy other Ideas. This thread is very interesting. Probably we could open one here too showing covers which are very similar in the Idea or graphics.