What music did you buy today?

[jlhoots]

James Brandon Lewis: Apple Cores

[ejp626]

Inspired by DG's glowing reviews 😄 (but also this one - https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/a-beautiful-day-revisited), I ordered the expanded edition of Andrew Hill's A Beautiful Day.  Curious to see how different it really is.

Maybe I will forgive them for not pointing out that Charles Mingus's Folk Forms (on the Penny label) is just a different incarnation of Mingus at Antibes 1960, so I shouldn't have picked that up. ☹️

[jlhoots]

Marty Ehrlich Trio: This Time

Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections

[mjazzg]

Cecil Payne - Zodiac Suite

[BFrank]

23 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Cecil Payne - Zodiac Suite

That's a good one. Happy to have that in Mosaic's "The Complete Clifford Jordan Strata-East Sessions" box.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I pre-ordered the CD version of an LP that hasn't been reissued in a long time and never on CD:

[BFrank]

Remastered 2CD+2Blu-Ray Expanded Edition Boxset. Always been a BIG fan of this album and am looking forward to the extra tracks and videos.

[Pim]

On 7/23/2025 at 8:07 AM, mjazzg said:

Cecil Payne - Zodiac Suite

Good one. The Pure Pleasure reissue? Or an original?

[mjazzg]

7 hours ago, Pim said:

Good one. The Pure Pleasure reissue? Or an original?

Original...

[ejp626]

Bandcamp Friday!

I picked up a few things (dls only...) that have been on my wishlist for a while - 

a couple by Eric St-Laurent a local guitarist I've seen at the Rex a few times: Darn That Band https://eric-st-laurent.bandcamp.com/album/darn-that-band and El Choclo https://eric-st-laurent.bandcamp.com/album/el-choclo

and Sweet as Broken Dates https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-as-broken-dates-lost-somali-tapes-from-the-horn-of-africa (which is very much in the same vein as the Ethiopiques series)

Then I got an email from Cuniforme and picked up a few of their releases as well...

Doors of Perception by Raoul Björkenheim  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/doors-of-perception

Bring Your Own by Led Bib https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bring-your-own-2

and The People in Your Neighbourhood https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-people-in-your-neighbourhood also by Led Bib

I did consider pre-ordering Hotel Pupik by Led Bib, but I need another track to preview.  I'm not sure I am sold on their new direction.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

My bandcamp order:

I got the LP version of "Split Decision" & it comes with a download. I went digital on the others because the shipping from outside the US is just too expensive.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The biggest PITA with some of these "WAV" downloads from bandcamp is that they don't compress to mp3 using Exact Audio Copy because they are not a standard WAV format. They give them to you at a higher bitrate WAV. I have to edit them with Audacity and save them as 44.1 kHz WAV and then they convert.

[HutchFan]

Found these two LPs earlier today at a local shop:

and

[tranemonk]

Consistent with the Bandcamp theme....

https://redrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-umbria-jazz

https://jimmygreene1.bandcamp.com/album/as-we-are-now

https://aaronparksmusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-big

https://aaronparksmusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-big-ii-dreams-of-a-mechanical-man

 

[ejp626]

On 8/1/2025 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

The biggest PITA with some of these "WAV" downloads from bandcamp is that they don't compress to mp3 using Exact Audio Copy because they are not a standard WAV format. They give them to you at a higher bitrate WAV. I have to edit them with Audacity and save them as 44.1 kHz WAV and then they convert.

Didn't know about the Eric Alexander pre-release.  Might have picked that up also.

Is there a specific reason you want download as Wav and then convert to mp3, rather than just dl as mp3 from Bandcamp in the first place?  I don't dl as much as I probably ought to, but when I do, it is as 320 mp3s.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

8 minutes ago, ejp626 said:

Didn't know about the Eric Alexander pre-release.  Might have picked that up also.

Is there a specific reason you want download as Wav and then convert to mp3, rather than just dl as mp3 from Bandcamp in the first place?  I don't dl as much as I probably ought to, but when I do, it is as 320 mp3s.

I rip to VBR Q0. It results in smaller files than CBR 320 mbps and I cannot hear the difference.

[ejp626]

2 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I rip to VBR Q0. It results in smaller files than CBR 320 mbps and I cannot hear the difference.

I see.

[T.D.]

[HutchFan]

10 minutes ago, T.D. said:

I think you'll thoroughly enjoy both of those, T.D.!   

 

[jlhoots]

Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room

[tranemonk]

27 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room

I grabbed this as a pre-release. Very happy with it. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 8/1/2025 at 3:34 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

My bandcamp order:

I got the LP version of "Split Decision" & it comes with a download. I went digital on the others because the shipping from outside the US is just too expensive.

So I just used the "Contact" button on the Cellar Live website and left this message:

Hello - I picked up Eric Alexander's "Timing Is Everything" on Friday and I downloaded the WAV versions of the tracks. I was very surprised when I loaded the title track into Audacity and saw that almost the entire track has cranked up levels, with a lot of "digital clipping". Was this done on purpose?

What do you think?