Riverside '50s K2s

[Big Wheel]

I'm ripping a ton of mono stuff today, at space-saving bitrates. One thing I am having trouble with is determining which sessions are mono! (I'm too lazy to find and download a program which would make it visually obvious.) My problem is especially with the Riverside K2s I got in the big Fantasy sale. Some of these do have "STEREO" clearly marked on them, but others do not, even though they seem to be from years in which the recordings should be stereo (most stuff after 1959, right?)

Is there a good rule of thumb to help figure out which of these sessions are stereo?

[RDK]

What, you only have one ear? Do they sound mono or stereo?

[Big Wheel]

It's kinda hard to tell when I'm playing them through tiny laptop speakers.

[Claude]

This is only from my memory (the stereo/mono question, not the list ). Not sure if the list is complete.

- Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane ~ RCD-46-2 ~ $14.98: duo tracks are mono, not sure if the other tracks are stereo on that release)

- Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington ~ RCD-201-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Bill Evans New Jazz Conceptions ~ RCD-223-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Thelonious Monk Brillant Corners ~ RCD-226-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Thelonious Monk Thelonious Himself ~ RCD-235-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Sonny Rollins The Sound of Sonny ~ RCD-241-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Thelonious Monk Monk's Music ~ RCD-242-2 ~ $14.98: Mono (unlike most other releases)

- Mulligan Meets Monk ~ RCD-1106-2 ~ $14.98: Mono

- Chet Baker in New York ~ RCD-1119-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Chet Baker Sings It Could Happen to You ~ RCD-1120-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Cannonball Adderley/Milt Jackson Things Are Getting Better ~ RCD-1128-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Everybody Digs Bill Evans ~ RCD-1129-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Thelonious Monk Quartet Misterioso ~ RCD-1133-2 ~ $14.98 Stereo

- Chet Baker Chet ~ RCD-1135-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe ~ RCD-1152-2 ~ $14.98 Stereo

- The Wes Montgomery Trio ~ RCD-1156-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Cannonball Adderley in San Francisco ~ RCD-1157-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz ~ RCD-1162-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar ~ RCD-1169-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Bill Evans Trio Explorations ~ RCD-9351-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard ~ RCD-9376-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Bill Evans Waltz for Debby ~ RCD-9399-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery Bags Meets Wes! ~ RCD-9407-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans Know What I Mean? ~ RCD-9433-2 ~ $14.98 : Stereo

- Wes Montgomery Full House ~ RCD-9434-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Charlie Byrd Bossa Nova Pelos Pássaros ~ RCD-9436-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Caravan ~ RCD-9438-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

- Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar ~ RCD-9459-2 ~ $14.98: Stereo

[Epithet]

Don't forget that some ostensibly mono recordings have CDs with differing channels.