Dan Gould

To each their own. CDRs I've purchased have all been with Amazon as the seller, and all notated as such. So I have no idea why some are notated but others aren't. They should fix that. BTW if there's a CD Baby release someone has an interest in, if it's one Amazon is offering it's gonna be CDR. Not even sure now if CD Baby was also "on demand" in their fulfillment before they dropped sales to the public.

Pretty sure I had Sahara at one time in my early jazz explorations ... I just revisited via Allmusic samples and ... yeah. Just not for me. Aural migraine. Torturous, and that was a minute at a time. (I think I may have to recalibrate my choices for next month's BFT, to "tracks Felser won't hate."

"Website unavailable in my country."

Bresna, Does "bronzed" mean discoloration on the front or on the burned side? I have bronzed CDRs that still play fine. Right now I am wondering about my Verbatim CDRs, recently burned, and my Sharpie on the label side is clearly visible from the rear, burned side. I've noticed this on other ones too, I think the last spindle before this was TDK.

You do understand though that these aren't imprinted or pressed CDs. I don't know for sure but I wouldn't at all be surprised if there's some Amazon dude at local distribution centers who get these orders, find the audio and artwork on a server, Print and assemble the jewel box artwork, and burn the CD just the same way that you or I do on our PCs.

OK that's explicitly political, if in an oblique, no-names way. You should report yourself to the mods right away, that "can we change the subject" notwithstanding.

Not to mention the fact that inserts are just folded over page with no information but contents of CD. I have to admit I've never backed up a CDR purchase or burned it twice to be on the safe side. I've also never purchased anything without noticing its a CDR so I've never felt misled like Ken has. As long as the price fits the product (say around $8) I am cool with it if its the available option.

The Buck Hill is I think the only Steeplechase of his I don't own, and I have had plans to secure the Hank Jones but never have done so. If the Joe Newman is the CD reissue in the "Definitive" series then I do have that. If it isn't ... I should look into what's on that one and see about getting it.

This is going to go political, if it isn't already, really fast.

That is really weird. I just extracted my burn of the d/l so I could examine the wav form. I've listened to about 20:00 so far and I heard exactly two, barely there pops. Scanning the wav form for the entire set I see nothing obviously damaged. Edit to add: I've listened to the whole thing now and confirm on my d/l that there are those two small "tick" sounds I mentioned. If you want to PM me your email I will send you my wav file for your enjoyment.

Reminds me of the Three Sounds/Nancy Wilson release of a show at a club in St Louis in 1960 or so ... on the out announcement the upcoming act is "Lou Donaldson featuring Stanley Turrentine" ... It's like, why couldn't the tapes be rolling on that one?

I want to say yes but I only rcvd the music.

Huh? I had clicked the link and chose 'save as' and downloaded the MP3 and it played fine. That was a couple of weeks ago so I just tried again - still sounds fine. Which one was that SW?

Here's a strong but short (<30 minutes) Booker Ervin with Pim and Ruud Jacobs and Han Bennink: https://pastdaily.com/2014/10/12/booker-ervin-quartet-in-session-at-hilversum-1966-past-daily-downbeat/

Can anyone identify if this has seen commercial release? For the life of me I can't find it anywhere ... https://pastdaily.com/2020/05/17/art-blakeys-jazz-messengers-live-at-sanremo-1963-past-daily-downbeat/

When I was making corrections to the tape I had that ran slow when recording, so output was faster, it was easy to tell what sounded wrong - end of the tape was a whole step fast, making a tenor sound like an alto (ironically while playing Castle Rock) and the tune before was the fastest If I Were a Bell ever. Of course, tempo can be up or way up, but you could just tell it felt wrong, and down a full step made it right. 1/2 step changes are definitely things you won't perceive as right or wrong unless you've got the trained ears for it. On the other hand, you do get longer tunes when you adjust ... this particular 90 minute tape yielded nearly 100 minutes of music! If only more people went to concerts with dying batteries.

Bresna in contention for the "weird USPS tracking" award for December. But there's a lot of month left and a lot of packages to be shipped.

I got it from a kind friend.

I think you're using passive-aggression to call attention to your own happy day, so here you go: With work not being as early-starting anymore maybe I can resume b-day greetings in 2021.

Thanks for that report Niko. I guess I'll just keep thinking about it ...

Your software sounds very similar to mine ... for 1/2 a step down (eg, key of F# to key of F) I have set the pitch adjustment to .9438. A full step down is .8876. You can use the same differences from 1 if you had to go up a 1/2 step or full step. If you use the speed adjustment, equivalent would be 94.38 or 88.76. The results are the same. And of course if the results are bizarrely wrong, apologies in advance.

Actually I was referring to Jim's help he's given on speed correction of a cassette recording. What I never worry about though is when people on Dime say a recording is 5c sharp or flat or some such.