Teasing the Korean

She has an annoying tendency to simplify complex melodic phrases, but some of her Capitol albums are good.

They don't equal each other. Some baked cassettes sound better than some CD-Rs.

Why don't you pay me thirty dollars for a session you've always wanted. I'll give it to you on a cassette that's been baking on the dashboard of my car all summer.

THANK YOU. And we also don't know the mastering/extraction process or software used to make them.

Depending on the program that is being used to extract a CD. I'm not a psychic, so I'm not paying $20 when I don't know the process that was used.

A CD-R is only as good as the extraction process that was used with the source, and the quality of the CD-R itself. I'm not paying top dollar when those additional factors can affect the final product. And, yes, CD-Rs CAN go bad after years, and work on some players but not others.

What Chuck said. 1's and 0's are 1's and 0's. NO, you are at the mercy of the program used in question. Have you ever extracted a damaged CD with iTunes? It will replicate the damaged parts and not give you an error message. How can you be sure that literally every sample was copied correctly when you don't even know the process involved in making the CD-R? In addition, CD-Rs can go bad, believe me.

"Should" being the key word in that sentence.

What he said.

Ricardo calls George Takei http://www.ijigg.com/songs/V2EA77BPA0

And Wynton Marsalis will be appointed. Gotta love the arts!

I'll bet Wynton never made anything as good as the two "I Want to Live" albums on UA by Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Mandel.

Marcos Valle - Samba '68 - Verve (stereo, blue label). This is available on CD and is an absolute gem.

I'll bet Wynton never made anything as good as the two "I Want to Live" albums on UA by Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Mandel. As for being prejudiced: If Larry Kart, Chris Albertson and Stereo Jack can't detect a fraudulent, manufactured jazz solo - even if skillfully executed - who can? I would hope that we, as jazz listeners, are informed enough to recognize meaningful improvisation when we hear it. I mean, jazz has been around for at least 90 years and there are 6 billion people on the planet. I would hope that by now someone knows a truly great solo when he or she hears one.

So it doesn't have any bad 80s production? God, that was such a bankrupt decade!

Does it sound like an 80s album? That 1984 date on it frightens me.

Recently picked up Secrets of the Sun on CD. When they're working from mono LP sources, I wish record labels would do the transfers in mono.

Just spun this one: Provocative Electronics, under the direction of Emerson Meyers of Catholic University of America (Westminster), 1970. Overall, very interesting, with some tape-manipulation pieces involving voice, organ, and bassoon, along with the usual bloops and bleeps.

Clicked on the link, and AAJ opened up. I immediately closed the window. No more spam please. K thnx bai.

Corny arrangement. Avoid it at all costs.

OF COURSE! That's how I got all this stuff over the years. Still, the album I just posted is mostly academic stuff, but it came off better than some others. Again, to be fair, I have to spend more time listening to these...

Thanks Bill and 7 for the replies.

If you like that kind of stuff, you'll love this, especially "Oh Calcutta." Frankly, as has been stated before by others, I'm also not that crazy about his jazz octet writing... but THIS album...

OK, here's a REAL GEM: "Electronic Music Winners" - First recordings of winning works from the ISCM International Competition (Columbia/Odyssey), 1976 album of works from '73 and '74. Includes 7 short works by Cann, Gressel, Kreiger, Lansky, Semegen, Wright and Zur. Everything on here is great. The most stunning, I thought, was the 18-minute "mild und leise" by Paul Lansky. Sounded kind of like Leonard Rosenman writing for synthesizers. Gorgeous sustained chords which gradually change timbre and rhythm. Does anyone know this album? It's killer. EDIT: Radiohead sampled the piece I was discussing: http://www.music.princeton.edu/paul/radiohead.ml.html