Teasing the Korean

"Literally years in the making, this set introduces 23 previously unreleased gems approved by the artist himself. It was delayed by a fire on the Universal Studios lot in California which took much of the original Jamal trio LP masters with it and our search to reconstruct the music on the set from a variety on analog and digital sources sitting in vaults around the world. It’s been a hell of a long time coming and we hope you enjoy The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions."

"Goin' Places" was the first TJB album that was recorded with Herb's touring band. The previous 4 albums all used studio cats. Now that's odd, since Alpert ran the record company and could have used whatever musicians he wanted (I assume). Or was it that he didn't start touring until he had got four hit LPs under his belt? MG Actually, I always thought it was fairly common for big name musicians to have separate touring bands. TJB started as a studio project, so that may have been a part of it. Maybe it took a while for the personnel to stabilize and for the band to fall into a consistent groove.

"Goin' Places" was the first TJB album that was recorded with Herb's touring band. The previous 4 albums all used studio cats. Also, I hope your copy is mono. The stereo sucks.

Bach Concertos - Bernstein & Stern - Columbia Masterworks (stereo)

No one has any experience with these??? I'm thinking of a Yamaha or Roland...

KOB BM

Please extend my best to James Bond.

Very sorry. We lost our sweet cat Brigitte in late 2009. Here is a great quote from Jean Cocteau: “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."

Hopefully chewy will chime in, as he is the expert on Crown.

Been spinning various jazz, EZ, and oddball records, assembling my third volume of "Buried Treasures," an ongoing series of full-on exotica tracks that are not on full exotica albums. Some really great stuff here.

Yusef Lateef - Morning: The Savoy Sessions - Savoy (mono) 70s twofer of 50s material.

Is Flav-O-Flav playing Miles?

The balances and stereo placement are indeed both factors when recording a stereo session that will then be collapsed to mono.

Yes, I fully stand behind my previous post.

About which part?

Well, just because they were fold-downs does not mean that they were not balanced to sound good, or even superior, after they were folded down. And having it folded down prior to LP pressing is better than hitting the mono button on the stereo, because all of the information is spread out over the entire spectrum, rather than being read from one-half of the groove. No real difference, though, with a stereo CD folded down in that regard. I always prefer Blue Notes in mono, and would always spring for a mono LP over a stereo, fold-down or not.

Why?

And that's one million posts in the "What Vinyl Are You Spinning" thread alone!

Gene Lees wrote a book about reverse racism in jazz. The topic intrigued me, but I never read the book. Lees was so-so as a lyricist. His Jobim lyrics were about a thousand times better than Ray Gilbert's, but never up to the poetic quality of the Portuguese. It's a real crime that Jobim didn't get an English lyricist worthy of his music. Lees wrote a piece about the German and French roots of English words that was really interesting. He mentioned how rhyming words even affect word associations in non-rhyming contexts. HIs opinions and writing sometimes bugged me - He could come off as precious and snobbish. And the stuff he said about Les Baxter was total bullshit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042304839.html

Antonio Adolfo e Brazuca's track "Voo de Apolo" is one of my favorite decadent, delirious 70s Brazilian freakouts. It's one that I frequently spin in my DJ sets.

Yes, but it also mitigates the surface noise because it strengthens the center mono audio signal (+6db). Also, some of the stereo groove sound is out of phase and thereby cancelled when you collapse to mono. Mono records sound better with a mono playback.

I respect where you're coming from, but if you pay $30 for a mono record and don't even treat it to a true mono playback, you're not getting your money's worth. IMHO. It's well worth the $5.99 to spring for the Y adapter connections and hook them up before listening.

If your amp does not have a mono switch, get a couple of inexpensive Y-adapter patch cords from Radio Shack and plug your turntable lines into the Y adapter before going into the amp when playing a mono record. Playing mono records in mono significantly reduces surface noise and groove distortion.

Ferrante and Teicher - Love Themes from Cleopatra - UA (black label, mono)