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2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks for the inspiration porcy62.  Starting my listening day with the HMV Mono

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For some obscure reason I never met a nice mono original in my life, I have a stereo german audiophile reissue, Speaker Corner, as my listening copy, and the expanded cd version of course.

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2 hours ago, porcy62 said:

For some obscure reason I never met a nice mono original in my life, I have a stereo german audiophile reissue, Speaker Corner, as my listening copy, and the expanded cd version of course.

I really like the HMV issues of Trane’s Impulse catalog. I’ll have about half a dozen, all monos and all sound and feel lovely. As I understand it these were made from copy tapes sent to the UK. The ALS UK copy was used for the 2CD issue of ALS.
 

They’d probably survived better because they hadn’t been repeatedly used for reissue after reissue. Ultimately it doesn’t matter as the music on A Love Supreme sucks you in totally such that audio geekery becomes inconsequential...

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39 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

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According to Bill Birch’s book this lineup was at Free Trade Hall, Manchester in March 1960. Wonder if this was recorded there?

No doubt BillF was present. :cool:

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Johnny Coles————Little Johnny C————( BN) mono NY

 

I've always had a soft spot for this session. Great numbers by a more than competent band. Duke P shines here as he so often does. 

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13 minutes ago, Clunky said:

Johnny Coles————Little Johnny C————( BN) mono NY

 

I've always had a soft spot for this session. Great numbers by a more than competent band. Duke P shines here as he so often does. 

Great record, great pressing.

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44 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

According to Bill Birch’s book this lineup was at Free Trade Hall, Manchester in March 1960. Wonder if this was recorded there?

No doubt BillF was present. :cool:

Sadly, not. I could put it down to my absence from Manchester during the Easter university vacation, but I'm afraid it's more likely to have been the result of my shunning "West Coast" jazz in my youthful ignorance. :(

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50 minutes ago, Clunky said:

I really like the HMV issues of Trane’s Impulse catalog. I’ll have about half a dozen, all monos and all sound and feel lovely. As I understand it these were made from copy tapes sent to the UK. The ALS UK copy was used for the 2CD issue of ALS.

In Italy there's no such things as a real used jazz records bins, just cheap reissues, mostly collections. I bought my originals from US ages ago, so I never met HMV records. The 2CD reissue of ALS sounds fair IMO.

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17 minutes ago, BillF said:

Sadly, not. I could put it down to my absence from Manchester during the Easter university vacation, but I'm afraid it's more likely to have been the result of my shunning "West Coast" jazz in my youthful ignorance. :(

Rare lapse there, Bill ! :D

13 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

In Italy there's no such things as a real used jazz records bins, just cheap reissues, mostly collections. I bought my originals from US ages ago, so I never met HMV records. The 2CD reissue of ALS sounds fair IMO.

The HMVs used to be quite a common site in used bins and not expensive over here porcy, at least up to a few years ago. The last one I got was a mono ‘Crescent’ a few years ago and I think it was £15. Sadly, inflation has now kicked in..:(

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10 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

The HMVs used to be quite a common site in used bins and not expensive over here porcy, at least up to a few years ago. The last one I got was a mono ‘Crescent’ a few years ago and I think it was £15.

Yeah, we pay the price for being the edge of the Empire, but we got lots of cheap operas box sets.:D

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24 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

According to Bill Birch’s book this lineup was at Free Trade Hall, Manchester in March 1960. Wonder if this was recorded there?

No doubt BillF was present. 

The liner notes do not mention Manchester. Writer was Frank Gibson. But this LP is the only 'live" documentation of this group available.

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Just now, sidewinder said:

I hate opera ! :D

I do as well! Some times ago I bet a ridicolous amount of money on ebay for the Wagner's Ring, Decca/Solti, something like 20 € or less, I was expecting I'd lost it, instead I won so I had to spend much more for shipping these 19 LP box set. I tried to listen to it, I really did it, but definitely it's not my cup of tea. The only opera I really love it's Mozart's Don Giovanni.

 

 

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