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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Parker He's 74. Heck, Dave Holland is 71.
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You can sample this here: https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/uncharted-territories After sampling several tracks, I can safely say that this is not for me. This is not a style I dig at all.
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Tom Wilson and the Transition Records Story
Kevin Bresnahan replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
I didn't think that Transition pressed their records in anything other than styrene so I wonder why yours looks like vinyl? I've been told that some owners of these records glued the labels back on themselves. Maybe that's what you have here?- 56 replies
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Former Member bill barton
Kevin Bresnahan replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
If Barton still reads organissimo, maybe he has already voted for Hank? EDIT: Although I highly doubt that he gets any internet access!!! The political stuff stems from several Jazz artists who have recently released recordings with political messages. DB did stories about these recordings and the artists got very political in describing the recording. Several anti-Trump stories seemed to get a pass but when Terence Blanchard went with a "Black Lives Matter" stance, the letters to the editor started up. You can read it in the July issue: http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2018/DB1807/single_page_view/30.html -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2018/DB1809/single_page_view/10.html It looks like Bill Barton still gets to read DownBeat while sitting in the minimum security Federal Penitentiary in Seagoville, TX. -
I was always under the impression that the lousy bass sound from this era was due to the advent of cheap electronic pick-ups, the "direct bass" days? I thought I read where they went away from pick-ups and back to mic'ing the bass in the early 80's?
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I found a track today. The sound is pretty good with the exception that it has lousy bass sound that's so typical of that era.
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blue note Blue Note SHM SACDs from Japan 2017
Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
No, it was definitely a US/Canada thing. There was a lot of pressure from the environmentalists to eliminate them too. The record labels knew that the end was coming when they started individually sealing the CD inside the sealed longbox. They put a special sticker on the outside to let the retailer know that it was double sealed. The sticker was the yellow & red square sticker you see in this picture: -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
The "Black triangle" CD shown above was an early Japanese-only issue. I bought many early CDs from Japan and I don't remember any of them coming in any kind of holder. They were just sealed CDs like all of the stores use today. The longbox was a US invention, done to allow record stores to re-use their LP storage bins and (supposedly) to prevent theft. This link shows some early Japanese CD issues where you can see that none of them had any sort of additional packaging: http://www.keithhirsch.com/cd-gallery/sealed-cd-gallery As for the first US pressing of Hancock's "Maiden Voyage", the so-called "McMaster", it was issued in 1986, which puts it in the era where there was probably a longbox. After all, "Speak Like A Child" first came out on CD in the US in 1987 and as this picture shows, it came in a longbox. I have no idea if having the longbox would add value to the CD. -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
Thanks for the reminder... I had that one too!! (EDIT - I just checked and I sold this one on the Hoffman forums for $50 back in 2008) Ha ha ha... just looked in my .mp3 file area and I see that l also had (or have) the TOCJ-4195 version. Jeez, I've owned a lot of versions of this recording!! -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
Hmmm... I'll play. I've had an early 70's RVG pressed LP, the late 90's "all analog" Wally Traugott LP pressing, the McMaster CD, the BN box (also McMaster), the RVG CD, the Hoffman SACD and finally the Music Matters 33 rpm LP. I'm done too. -
Tom Wilson and the Transition Records Story
Kevin Bresnahan replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
Original Transition LPs??? If true, just that Watkins LP with inserts alone is worth about $1,000, especially if the labels are somehow still attached to the plastic record.- 56 replies
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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Kevin Bresnahan replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Herb Ellis - Ellis In Wonderland (Verve). What a nice record. I am really digging this one. Swingers mixed with nice ballads.Foot tapping music. -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Kevin Bresnahan replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Noah Preminger - Some Other Time (Newvelle Records). A vinyl-only release that I was able to pick up from the artist at one of his shows. Very nice date. Mellow as heck, which i do appreciate on appropriate occasions. Beautiful pressing - dead quiet clear vinyl. EDIT: I went to put the record away and I notice the sleeve is huge. I go to put it onto the record shelves and WTF - it's about 3/4's of an inch taller than normal! That is weird. Now playing: Counts Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman (Roulette). R-52007 (mono) white label promo. This band cooks but Shirley Scott's organ has some kind of reverb on her feed into the mix that makes it sound like she's playing in a gym. Not her best sound. I have better by all involved. This is not one I'll be playing all that often. -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
I just pulled my Japanese CD and it turns out that I have TOCJ-81013. I had forgotten that it was repressed. -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
I was an original subscriber to Music Matters' 33 rpm series so I paid $35, including shipping, and yes, that was more than I wanted to pay, but no, not for a nice vinyl copy. -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
I already have the excellent-sounding UCCU-5669 CD as well as the Music Matters 33 rpm LP versions so I don't think I have inferior versions at my disposal. In fact, the Japanese CD I have has 2 alternates that aren't available elsewhere. -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to RiRiIII's topic in Re-issues
I just can't justify $38.50 + shipping to find see if there is an incremental improvement in the sound quality. As I get older and my hearing gets worse & worse, I think my days of buying audiophile reissues are over. In this particular case, I have audiophile reissues of many of these titles. I have to wonder if I could even hear the slight sound differences. -
ebay auction help 2018
Kevin Bresnahan replied to chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
If these were worth releasing legitimately, they probably would've come out a long time ago. You might love them, but I'll tell you straight... I would not like these. The recording quality will be so terrible that you'll miss most of the music. They're certainly not worth the >$100/LP that they're getting. -
I love Rouse but I can see what Jim means in that clip he posts and I think it has something to do with how Rouse changed the way he played (just a bit) when he was with Monk. I find his playing style "choppy", in that he seems to bite off notes... sorta like Dexter Gordon does at times. In the video Jim posts, he bites off phrases while playing off the bass line, who's walking to a rather slow beat. There's a long drawn-out sameness to it. But like Jim says, *seeing* it makes it rather enjoyable. I wish I was there myself.
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Board Members You've Had the Pleasure of Meeting
Kevin Bresnahan replied to Big Al's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Aric - If I ever met you, you'd know. I am not what anyone would call "shy'. At this point, I have to say that I've lost count in the number of posters I've met. There was a time when I had a job that included travel. I met Jazz fans all over the world and I always recommended this place as a great place to talk about Jazz. I imagine several of those people are reading this and saying, "Is that the guy I met who recommended I come here"? -
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Kevin Bresnahan replied to Big Al's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
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Jim - You are a moderator. You should not be shitting on my thread. You should be preventing this. That's what moderators do. Could you at least stop being a turd in the punch bowl? CLEARLY, you don't believe in DownBeat or their Hall Of Fame. We get it. We don't need our noses rubbed in it over & over.