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Just finished - Red Garland - Red Alert (Galaxy). Noisy pressing. It looks spotless but plays with quite a bit of low-level crackle in spots. It probably needs a good cleaning but I never did buy one of those things.
Now playing: Booker Ervin - Down In The Dumps (Savoy). I found a RVG cut from the late 70s. Record looks unplayed.
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3 hours ago, Dub Modal said:
The Birdland 1953 set. It’s 3 CDs but I did digital only.
Forgot to mention I also picked up the Sonny Stitt Acid Jazz & Kynard’s Afro-Disiac. Those Prestige sets are pretty cheap and give good reason to comb thru my OJCs and sell em off.
I wonder "Bandcamp Friday" works with downloads like these? I highly doubt that Stitt's estate gets anything from it.
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Brothers Sun on Netflix was enjoyable. The previews come across as a gangster show, which it is, but it has some humor in it, if maybe more of the gallows type.
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Let's see if these images stick...
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In my experience, a blue screen of death is often an early warning sign that your hard drive is dying. If you want to keep using that machine, there are (free) programs that allow you to clone your existing hard drive onto a new one. I would not necessarily recommend doing that with a Windows 7 machine, but if that's what you have, that's what you clone. I have two backup hard drives with my current Windows 10 system cloned onto them. If my current hard drive dies, I can still get back up & running.
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I asked Michael Cuscuna about this session and he says that the tape for this session hasn't been found. I assume this entry in the discography is from the tape logs.
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5 hours ago, mikeweil said:
Right now:
Pierre Sprey recorded jazz the ultimate way.
Pierre Sprey was a whack-a-doodle but this is a great CD.
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Searching for Jazz vinyl and I tripped on this one... sexual innuendo has been a part of the blues canon since the beginning but there's not much subtlety here - unless you count the cover shot.
https://ebalunga.bandcamp.com/album/my-pussy-belongs-to-daddy
After listening to some samples, I'm going to give this a shot - https://wojtekmazolewskiquintet-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-to-all
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RLR
in Discography
You are right on that. The 95 year expiration is just for video recordings. I was blinded by Steamboat Willie's recent appearance in the PD.
This is what I found for sound recordings:
Recordings first published between 1947-1956 are protected for 110 years. For all remaining recordings first made prior to February 15, 1972, protection shall end on February 15, 2067. Recorded after February 15, 1972, 95 years from publication or 120 years from recording date, whichever is shorter.
Which is just ridiculous.
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RLR
in Discography
Pre-1962 is still bootleg in the US, but public domain in the EU. US PD is currently sitting at 1928.
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6 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:
How many non-LP tracks are there? I have all of these on various US and Japanese pressings. But I do love Sonny Clark!
6 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/the-complete-sonny-clark-blue-note-sessions/
According to this discography, there are a few sessions that have only been available on Japanese LPs as well as several tracks have only been available on 45 rpm singles.
Japanese LPs:
LNJ (J) 70093 Sonny Clark Quintets
GXF (J) 3051 Blues In The Night
GXF (J) 3069 The Art Of The Trio45 rpm session:
Sonny Clark, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass; Wes Landers, drums.
Hackensack, N.J. November 15, 1958
Tk. 3 Black Velvet 45-1731
Tk. 4 I’m Just A Lucky So And So 45-1730
Tk. 5 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You 45-1731
Tk. 8 Ain’t No Use 45-1730
Tk. 9 The Breeze And I 45-1729
Tk. 13 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 45-1729This discography seems to have missed the recently released LP of "My Conception" in the Tone Poet series.
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Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" was one of the first CDs put out by CBS/Columbia during the earliest days of CD production. It was pressed in Japan with a matrix number of DP35 4 and sold in the US in a longbox.
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan, so I bought it right away. I had it for years until the Mastersound gold CD was released, which I grabbed as it was advertised as an audiophile CD. I did this comparison way back then and in the end, I sold or gave away the older 2-track CD.
Truth be told, I am not surprised that this "The 2 track version is best" stuff started over on the Hoffman forums as I believe that the person who started it either has horrible hearing or his system truly sucks, as his opinion of the audio quality of a lot of CDs has always been really off to my ears.
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6 hours ago, soulpope said:
Mourning perfectly translated into music .... compared to "Dark Side Of The Moon" definitely the more coherent album .... bough as new release and part of my DNA ....
Just last week, I found a copy of the infamous (and expensive) 2-track CD of this recording. This early CD was released with each LP side being a "track" and the tunes of each LP side were an index. Rumor has it that indexes were originally intended to be how songs were to be placed onto the CD but other than a handful of CDs, that never happened.
FWIW, as much as everyone seems to think this 2-track CD sounds incredible, I found that I preferred the Mastersound gold CD version over this. I even did a blind A/B with my wife & daughters and we all agreed that the Mastersound CD sounded better.
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On 7/1/2023 at 11:28 PM, Eric said:
Sent $22 at the end of May but have not heard anything. It was via Venmo, I wasn’t sure how they pass on my address to Jim, but figured he would write back if there was a problem. Not too concerned.
Did you ever receive the CD? I never did & I've chatted with Jim about it on Facebook several times. He just hasn't been able to send it for some reason.
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Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (Blue Note). This original BN is probably the last record I bought from Stereo Jack. I do miss that place.
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If I hadn't just bought this, I would definitely buy it this Friday.
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I know we don't talk much about equipment on this thread but I want to bring up an interesting point about this Perkins LP and why I like the Ortofon 2M Black cartridge. This Perkins LP has a light but visible surface scratch across most of side 1. I could see it but couldn't feel it so I gave it a shot, the reason being that the Ortofon 2M Black stylus seems to go deeper into the grooves and surface scratches like this are not heard. I was right. This LP played perfectly. I like that this nude Shibata stylus design seems to avoid many surface scratches as if they are not there.
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As I listen to this Perkins LP, a few things stick out. Perkins seems to have a few instances where it sounds like he was having embouchure issues, as his held notes wafer in places. The second one is very weird... it sounds like the engineer varied the way he recorded the bass. Several tunes have the dreaded twang that's usually a sign of bass direct whereas others sound like the bass was mic'ed.
Verdict - worth the $6 for a spin every now & then but maybe not worth recording to CD.
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Bill Perkins - Journey To The East (Contemporary). I'd never heard of this one but in general, I've enjoyed Perkins' dates so I figured for $6, I'd give it a try. It looks like it's never been out on CD.
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14 hours ago, optatio said:
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All of this material is on the Art Pepper 4 CD set, "Blues For The Fisherman". According to Laurie Pepper, the track on this LP that is titled "Y.I. Blues" was called "Untitled #34" when they recorded it at Ronnie Scott's that night.
FWIW, that is a really good box of music if you don't have it & at only $22, it's a steal.
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Junior Mance - Live at the Top (Atlantic). With David Newman on a few tracks.
Kind of a funky mix of jazz and blues in a Ray Charles/Cannonball Adderley way. Not bad for $6. LP looks like it was barely played.
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On 6/4/2022 at 8:13 AM, mhatta said:
Since Bosch in novels was originally set as a Vietnam veteran, it would not have been surprising if he liked jazz from the 50s, but the TV drama is set about 20 years later, so it may be unusual for him to like jazz. Anywise, I think Titus Weliver's performance is excellent.
I don't remember which season/episode it was, but Bosch is in a car with his young black partner, and the music is playing from the car audio system, and his partner says, "That's good music, who's this?" or something, and Bosch, a middle aged white, replies, "It's Sonny Rollins." That's the hilarious and a bit weird moment.In that scene, Bosch was playing "Doxy" from Miles' "Bags Groove".
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6 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
A Handful of Stars exists without the objectionable cover.
According to discogs, all hardcopies of this release have that cover. I suppose if you simply download it, there is no cover.
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5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
I generally don't mind Venus' covers, but the two quartet dates are, not just porny, and awkward, but also ugly.
Feel free to point me elsewhere.
Eddie Higgins' "When Your Lover Has Gone", while not being one of the worst Venus covers, is available on Sunnyside as "Zoot's Hymns" with a very different cover.
I think the cover shot of Eva used on Higgins' "It's Magic" was a terrible choice by Venus. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to use that photo.
FWIW, Eva sued her (now late) mother to gain control over the negatives of all of these photos, so I doubt we'll ever be subjected to more of them in the future.
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Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard (Tone Poet -- 3 LPs)
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I'll be picking up the CDs. It turns out that they found the original 7.5 ips tapes and that's what they're going to be using for this reissue. Apparently, Rudy dubs these 7.5 ips reels over to 15 ips reels and those are what they've been calling the master tapes. These 7.5 ips tapes are straight off the soundboard, with no plate reverb added, so that alone has me thinking this is going to sound incredible.