Stefan Wood

I thought there was recently a 2 cds set of Staus Quo's "As and Bs singles" set, that covered their material up to the early 70's. I think I saw it online; I have never heard their music.

Bought the book at Daedalus -- marginal research at best. I found more interesting things about Blue Note from the Grant Breen bio, which isn't saying much. BTW, they seem to have been getting OOP Muse cds, so they may come up on their website. But more often than not, it is only available in the store. I have found a lot of good things from going there.

The way that you were able to transfer the lps to cd, should be the same for tape. If you have your recorder "ready," that is it is receiving an input signal from your source, then you can record anything that is connected to your amp. Radio, for instance. All your amp needs to be is set to what you want to play. In this case, your cassette deck. Have the amp set to that, then fire up the recorder. This, of course, assumes that you have your cassete deck output jacks (connected to play) linking to your amp (connected to tape in, aux, or whatever).

If only that album they did on A&M would be rereleased. That was a killer lp!

Who is rereleasing this? It isn't a bad date at all.

I have the Ballet Mechanique, which is available on Naxos, and is fantasic to listen to -- yes, in the vein of Satie or Varese, but very much his own.

Another big thumbs up for the Faces box set. The Zombies as well. But another one should be mentioned -- Black Sabbath! Hell yeah!!!!

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I'm more excited by the dvd releases. Power of Three? Manhattan Project? YEAH!!!!! Stefan

I have had a Harmon Karden CD burner for five years, and have had great results. I have reduced my lp collection by 2/3, by necessity, and have burned most of my favorite ones onto cdr. I am no longer a purist when it comes to lp or vinyl.

Starting tomorrow I am going on a road trip for two weeks. Exotic places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, then up to Rochester Minnesota! On the way back I will take a different route, to see the country. And I have packed up a ton of cdr mixes of some faves that I haven't listened to in a while-- John Patton, Larry Young Mosaic, Joe Henderson Live at the Lighthouse, Art Blakey , etc. etc. I am REALLY looking forward to crusing the country with this running in the background.

Recently I have picked up a number of classical lps with this imprint. Red and black Columbia label, with the "Special Products" title on it. They came with a black lp jacket with a hole cut out on one side so you can see the label. On the back it says that this is a product that is meant to carry special reissues of OOP performances -- and not limited to classical, but also jazz and pop. This was meant for collectors and libraries and other educational services. Now, was this like Mosaic, in that they reissue neglected and valuable performances from the past, or did they cater to record fan demand, like the Connoisseurs? And Columbia wasn't the only label -- I found some amazing pieces issued by MGM special Products as well. Did Capitol and RCA do the same thing? And are these the same services that we see working with reissue companies like Mosaic?

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How shoddy, Matt? Perhaps up to the mid 90's the remastering hasn't been stellar, but since then I find the reissues to be excellent. And the SACDs that they have been issuing are a great improvement.

New York Stories is outstanding, and deserves to be reissued. Manhattan Project is similar, with a different group. You should look for the Joe Chambers and Pete La Roca cds that were issued in the 90's as well.

Naaah Dan, this is as perfect a box set as it comes. I haven't loved listening to every bit of music since the Mosaic Larry Young and James Brown's Startime. Classic. As for the solo stuff, sure they are live renditions. So? They never appeared on the Faces lps.

I have had no problems burning at 24x, 48x, and 52x speeds, and playing them on different machines. The difference usually is in buying a cheap burner vs. one with a good reputation. I use Pioneer Superdrives made for the Mac.

I like some vocals, but the main reason why I don't listen to jazz vocals in general is that I was exposed to so much of it growing up -- through my parents.

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I keep seeing copies at a used cd store that I go to every so often. I'll investigate.....

Sent you an email, Dan. Looking forward to it!

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Jeremy Pelt. DEFINITELY check him out.

Happy Birthday Lon!

Damn. I was waiting for this to happen. This is good in a sense that it will be that much easier to get OOP albums, but on the other hand I think the sound quality of the music will suffer. I could be wrong about that, but isn't the music available from iTunes compressed even more than a cd? Plus we will not get liner notes or session notes, which I do read from time to time. For me it is a mixed blessing. And hasn't most of the albums offered been available in Japan at one time?