What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

47W63rd mono

[JSngry]

American Recording Society 10", Dean Dixon.. McCarthyism in full blow...and that wonderfully boxy pre-HiFi sound. Not an amazing peice of music, but there's more to experiencing a record like this than just the music, or can be....

[JSngry]

Wild Bill with Floyd Smith and Chris Columbo (Epic 10") 1954(?).

Nice, very nice. It's got the arrangement of "April In Paris" that Davis used to make the big band chart for Basie. Even without that, nice.

[sidewinder]

NYC stereo copy

[JSngry]

Selections from Don Gabor's earlier Continental label.

[JSngry]

No Jimmy Buffington collection complete without it!

(plus, it's a excellent performance equally well recorded, briskly "American" in a good way)

 

[sidewinder]

New one from Mr Trunk - rare Buddy Collette exotica LP. Nice !

[JSngry]

I paid five bucks for a copy of this, one previously owned by one Melinda Lacy, who did NOT take care of her records. so...on the hunt for a cleaner copy, becuase the music is better than excellent.

Apart from that (and the psychedlic-ish cover, which Melinda DID take good enough care of) is the fine-print notation that this was "an 8-channel Dolby recording mixed under the supervision of the conductor". Horenstein would have been about 70 at the time, and he was supervising mixing of 8 track session tapes...I've only been aware of him for a few years now, but wow, his fine attention to detail went beyond "just" interpreting the scores. When the scars of Melinda's carelessness recede on occasion, the recording itself sounds really, really good.

But really, wtf? is up with that ending, did Mahler have one of those sneezes that never really goes away until, like 4-5 tries?

 

[jlhoots]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

Selections from Don Gabor's earlier Continental label.

Looks like that jacket was left out in the rain!!

[JSngry]

I don't think that I can take it.

[danasgoodstuff]

this is one of my favorite things ever

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

I don't think that I can take it.

but can you bake it?

[JSngry]

It takes so long...

Just finished:

and I'm thinking, hmmm....something nor really right about this...and so there's a review of it by Virgil Thomson where it is called "irresponsible musicmaking" Yes, THAT!

https://academic.oup.com/mq/article-abstract/XXXIX/1/147/1080949?redirectedFrom=PDF

So hey, fuck it, there's a Barbara Hannigan record of it with just piano accompaniment, and I need to check here out some more, so ok, I will, as soon as the CD gets here.

The Esoteric record (recorded in Paris by Jerry Newman, btw) is one of those things where the "offness" of it makes the desire to hear the music a different way stronger. It's not like you hear it and say oh, that sucks, never want to hear THAT again.

 

[JSngry]

Weird as hell to hear a Baroque mandolin  concerto....so weird that it wasn't even listed on the cover, just in the liner notes.

[Larry Kart]

There's also one for two mandolins ... and another for two mandolins, a kazoo, and Le Petomane.

[JSngry]

Now THAT'S irresponsible music-making!!!!

[JSngry]

Pretty damned nice performances of a pretty damned inconsequential set of pieces.

Whatever happened to Vivian Rivkin (then Mrs. Dean Dixon)? There seems to be a story there? Rivkin was a student of Dixon's, something like that? She made a few records anddied at 55, that I can find. And a later packaging of this record omits Dixon's photo:

She plays really well on this one too.

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

early 70s starline double A side 45 b/w "why am i treated so bad?"- this should be better than the originals, these starlines bypass the pitfalls of 60s capitol mastering and usually top previous issues

 

 

 

[sidewinder]

[sidewinder]

Good as the sound is on the Mosaic, can’t beat the LP version.

[sidewinder]

Island LP

[sidewinder]

Scarecrow Records

[jcam_44]

 

Gary Clark Jr - This Land

[BillF]

8 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Scarecrow Records

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

and in pretty acceptable sound, considering that it was recorded live at the Rendezvous Ballroom, Balboa Beach. Some of the best Shorty Big Band material on this one plus the bonus of the two Gellers (Herb, Lorraine, not Uri ) in the lineup.