Music Matters Jazz, ORG, Analogue Productions have been reissuing many treasured jazz recordings from the Prestige, Fantasy, Riverside, Pablo, Blue Note, Impulse, Verve, Roulette (and a few others) catalogs with TLC using the best electronics, tape decks, vinyl, etc possible.
Which of the many 45 rpm LPs have your purchased and what are your favorite LPs, both for sonics and performance?
And we owe these guys a debt of gratitude for keeping analog alive!!!
My collection of such treasures is tiny (partially because I am a newcomer to jazz), but high on my list is the Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas. I quite like a few tracks on Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus too, but I can't quite get into it the same as I can the former (with the huge exception Cast Your Fate to the Wind; I love that track!).
Huh? What's the scoop with Classic? I know that Acoustic Sounds now has exclusive distribution rights to their catalogue, but I've not heard of anything else.
Huh? What's the scoop with Classic? I know that Acoustic Sounds now has exclusive distribution rights to their catalogue, but I've not heard of anything else.
Yeah. Little did I know that these 45's might become unobtainium. I heard that Classic violated someone's royalty agreements...Is that true? Not an insider so I only have hearsay.
BTW, am I the only "member" on this forum? Everyone else seems to be a "moderator". I'm impressed, but who moderates the moderators? I feel like a hair on a toilet seat.
Yeah. Little did I know that these 45's might become unobtainium. I heard that Classic violated someone's royalty agreements...Is that true? Not an insider so I only have hearsay.
BTW, am I the only "member" on this forum? Everyone else seems to be a "moderator". I'm impressed, but who moderates the moderators? I feel like a hair on a toilet seat.
Hope that shed's some light on the matter. As an aside, there have been rumors about Classic Records for as long as they've been around-none of which proved reliable!
I let some new, sealed LPs I bought sit without opening once. Never again. When I opened them, I found that two of them had had their spindle holes drilled off center, causing the cartridge to sway from left to right, 1/16" in one case and a full 1/8" in the other. Of course, seven months had gone by and when I called Elusive Disc they said the LPs were out of stock/out of print. They offered me a refund on the price of the LP only; I would have to pay shipping back (and had already paid shipping to me). It's on my list of things to do to re-drill the holes and then melt some plastic into the gap. What a pain! Since then, I open all used and new records, clean and test within a day or two of receipt.