Recent Down Loads And Additions From E - Music

[connoisseur series500]

Just downloaded Rahsaan's "Brotherman in the Fatherland" live album from 1972. Smokin'!

If you want live Rahsaan at the top of his game, check this one out.

I agree with Buzz on this one. I bought the cd about a month ago. As BF says, "Smokin'!!"

[Dave James]

Sun Ra: "We Travel the Spaceways / Bad and the Beautiful", "When Angels Speak of Love" and "Sun Sound Pleasure".

Jessica Williams: "Live at Yoshi's" Volumes 1 & 2.

Danny D'Imperio: "Blues for Philly Joe."

Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Bley & Steve Swallow: "Fly Away Little Bird".

Torbjorn Sunde: "Where is the Chet".

Up over and out.

Edited June 24, 2006 by Dave James

[jazzbo]

Out here in the wildlands of Houston without my collection, I've been bored and needing music and discovered that eMusic works quite well with iTunes, so I joined.

Have gotten some Gigi, Laswell, Bartz, Revolutionary Ensemble, and other albums in download, including the fantastic "Love Songs" by Patty Waters and Jessica Williams.

Some downloads here sound better than others. . . . The Xanadu Pee Wee Williams I loaded sounds awful. I bet the Woody Shaw "Blackstone Legacy" cd sounds better than the download. But some sound great. Overall I think iTunes music store downloads sound much better, but then they're more than twice as expensive.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Out here in the wildlands of Houston without my collection, I've been bored and needing music and discovered that eMusic works quite well with iTunes, so I joined.

Have gotten some Gigi, Laswell, Bartz, Revolutionary Ensemble, and other albums in download, including the fantastic "Love Songs" by Patty Waters and Jessica Williams.

Some downloads here sound better than others. . . . The Xanadu Pee Wee Williams I loaded sounds awful. I bet the Woody Shaw "Blackstone Legacy" cd sounds better than the download. But some sound great. Overall I think iTunes music store downloads sound much better, but then they're more than twice as expensive.

An alternative exchange just now has raised in my mind the issue of whether, when you download material, you get accurate credits with it. Do you get, for instance, songwriter info? And is it accurate? (I mean, more accurate than AMG, of course.)

MG

Edited June 26, 2006 by The Magnificent Goldberg

[jazzbo]

No, you don't get that on those that I've downloaded. . . . You have to do some internet homework for details, big cover images, etc.

[RDK]

Out here in the wildlands of Houston without my collection, I've been bored and needing music and discovered that eMusic works quite well with iTunes, so I joined.

Have gotten some Gigi, Laswell, Bartz, Revolutionary Ensemble, and other albums in download, including the fantastic "Love Songs" by Patty Waters and Jessica Williams.

Some downloads here sound better than others. . . . The Xanadu Pee Wee Williams I loaded sounds awful. I bet the Woody Shaw "Blackstone Legacy" cd sounds better than the download. But some sound great. Overall I think iTunes music store downloads sound much better, but then they're more than twice as expensive.

Lon, I haven't looked for a while, but i recall that all the Xanadu stuff on emusic was taken from LP needle drops (they used to state that and may still). So yeah, they are inferior quality. I've found that most of the mp3s sound very good now, at least the ones done at VBR. Before they switched to VBR, their mp3s really did suck.

[jazzbo]

Yeah, but I have almost all the Xanadus on lp or on cdr from lps and they sound TEN TIMES BETTER than this Pee Wee or a few other Xanadus I "listened" to.

Shame.

Anyway, I'm not really complaining, the price is right, a lot of this stuff I'm just going to listen to on the iBook and headphones or via my Bose powered speakerws for the iBook. Just downloaded and am now listnening to "Viva Brazil" by Tania Maria. I really like Tania! This one sounds good. Just as Marty Grosz's "And His Hot Combination" on Arbors; good cd, good sound.

[Dave James]

Lon,

If you go for the $19.99 per month package from eMusic, you get 90 downloads. That's about $.22 per tune, which is less than a third of the cost of a song on iTunes. One thing I will say about "i", however, is that's it's a musical playground. I'm starting to put together some discs for a college reunion and I'm having a ball just checking out all it has to offer. For jazz, though, eMusic is the only way to go.

I downloaded a lot of the Xanadu material from "e" awhile back and while some of it is OK, it has an echo-y quality I don't much care for. Especially if vibes are involved. Nonetheless, it's still nice to be able to get those recordings, even if the sound isn't as good as we'd all like it to be.

Hope everything is going OK for you.

Up over and out.

[jazzbo]

Dave, thanks, things are going "reasonably well."

Yes, I'm enrolled on the 19.99 per month and as I say, the price is right, I'm not really complaining. But Xanadu lps can sound fantastic, and the sound of these Xanadu downloads really are inexcusably bad if you're familiar with the lp sounds. It's a shame!

I've already bought a booster pack. May buy another before my July replenishment. I'm here with not enough music, and that's not a good sitaution!

[RDK]

I bet the Xanadu tracks were never "upgraded" and redone as VBRs. The old 128K mp3s could sound horrible.

[Dave James]

Lon,

Beware of booster pack creep. When you add 50 tunes, the unit cost is twice what it is for the "basic" package. I've fallen into this trap several times. On a couple of occasions I even "boosted" to the point they wouldn't let me buy any more. I can tell you from personal experience that the humiliation of being placed on booster probabtion is more horrible than you can begin to imagine. Fortunately, I've learned how to manage my tendencies better, so now I just wait for my plan to re-up about the 21st of each month and go from there.

eMusic's newest pitch is an annual membership with unlimited downloads. I haven't done the math on that one, but it has to be a pretty good deal The problem, needless to say, is that it requires the outlay of a fair amount of cash at one time as opposed to paying on a month to month basis.

Up over and out.

[jazzbo]

Yeah, I can do the math and know that booster packing isn't a good fiscal habit. But this is a period of time I have a lot of time on my hands in waiting rooms and infusion rooms and at the little work desk here in my "studio" apartment. So if it costs me a little more, that's okay. It's still cheaper than my forays out of boredom into half.com etc. are! And it gives me something to do downloading, searching for covers, designing trays etc. Really it's therapeutic for me right now.

[Dave James]

Lon,

Then I say, "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."

Up over and out.

[Soulstation1]

red garland and lockjaw (59)

sonny rollins - the solo album (60)

monk and trane 1957 sessions disc # 01 (61)

sam jones - the chant (62)

elmo hope - homecoming (63)

funkadelic - cosmic slop (64)

funkadelic - maggot brain (65)

miles davis quintet Discs 1 & 4 (66)

cannonball things are getting better (67)

Edited June 28, 2006 by Soulstation1

[Indestructible!]

eMusic's newest pitch is an annual membership with unlimited downloads. I haven't done the math on that one, but it has to be a pretty good deal The problem, needless to say, is that it requires the outlay of a fair amount of cash at one time as opposed to paying on a month to month basis.

Up over and out.

Hi Dave,

I'm an eMusic member ($19.99 for 90 downloads), but I have never seen that new "unlimited downloads" membership option. Can you point out to me where that option might be on their website? I'd like to see if that would be worth it...

Cheers,

Shane

[Soulstation1]

emusic has added even more funkadelic

free your mind.......

[jazzbo]

Enemy record label seems to have gone away!

[Soulstation1]

EM has a bunch of complete sun recordings

http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=b&Q...rdings&x=41&y=4

haven't heard any of these, but the USA Today had an article about this

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

EM has a bunch of complete sun recordings

http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=b&Q...rdings&x=41&y=4

haven't heard any of these, but the USA Today had an article about this

Junior Parker and Rosco Gordon would be of interest. Must find out if you can get these physically.

MG

[nmorin]

Am I missing something, or is the recent two CD release of the complete Red Garland's "At the Prelude" not on emusic--though tons of other recent Prestige titles (including the new Miles box and all the new Prestige RVGs) are available?

[jazzbo]

Yes, pretty good deal huh. . . great sounding 35 minute Miles concert material. . . for one download.

Where's this scaryass Miles Davis estate? How come they're not all over that?

[randyhersom]

Enemy is back, I grabbed Highlife and Last Exit. Highlife is much more akin to a Santana album than a jazz album, but still quite good. I already have Guitar and Ask the Ages and they are great places to start.

Two new Marc Cary albums, I downloaded and am enjoying Focus, nice piano trio.

Two new George Garzone's. Alone is quite mainstream, The Fringe in New York somewhat more adventurous but still plenty melodic, with vibes added to the usual sax, bass and drums. Very nice.

I have to organize my collection in order to find which Funkadelics I don't already have.

[Soulstation1]

HAL SINGER - BLUE STOMPIN' (68)

RED GARLNSD - RED ALONE (69)

MILES DAVIS - WALKIN' RM (70)

JACK McDUFF - BROTHERLY LOVE (71)

OLIVER NELSON - MEET OLIVER NELSON (72)

SMOOOOTH HOLMES - SOUL MESSAGE RM (73)

Edited July 18, 2006 by Soulstation1

[Man with the Golden Arm]

just playing around with an e-music trial and lo and behold:

Barry Adamson - 'Stranger on the Sofa' dwnld cut: "Who Killed Big Bird" - a big greasy boot in the tailfeathers did ...

[tjobbe]

a free download with four track sampler from current Fantasy RvG remasters....

Cheers, Tjobbe