Rare Blue Notes

[Holy Ghost]

Still waiting to put the CD in this sleeve (customed the sleeve to CD size already)

[Late]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

Coltrane said (in the Kofsky interview?) that the reason he "pulled back" for a quick minute was that he messed up his favorite mouthpiece and it took him a bit to find another one that gave him what he really needed.

I've read that too. His sound on Ballads and the Hartman date is not the sound one hears on Africa Brass, for example. I wonder what he did to his Otto Link? As far as adjusting the physical qualities of a mouthpiece, I thought the main practice was trying to increase the inner bore size, if just by millimeters. I know Steve Lacy did that with his soprano mouthpiece, and then used an alto ligature (which wouldn't affect the bore, but would allow the reed to vibrate more freely)  in order to get the most open soprano sound possible.

Back to rare-ish Japanese compilations, this one looks good:

 

I would spin this comp!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

It took me a long time to find an affordable copy of Belden's "Princejazz". It's seems to be pretty rare.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Late said:

I've read that too. His sound on Ballads and the Hartman date is not the sound one hears on Africa Brass, for example. I wonder what he did to his Otto Link? As far as adjusting the physical qualities of a mouthpiece, I thought the main practice was trying to increase the inner bore size, if just by millimeters. I know Steve Lacy did that with his soprano mouthpiece, and then used an alto ligature (which wouldn't affect the bore, but would allow the reed to vibrate more freely)  in order to get the most open soprano sound possible.

Back to rare-ish Japanese compilations, this one looks good:

 

I would spin this comp!

You can adjust any physical part of a mouthpiece, tip opening, lay, chamber, any of it.