chashmal
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| Sun Ra saturn re-issues Josch753: you probably know this, but there is a CD release called "The Lost Albums (lost tapes?)" in this series. It has 2 of those stolen albums from the 70's. They are phenomenal and sound fantastic. One is called "Cymbals" and it is pure space... | |
| Sun Ra saturn re-issues Josch753: Alton Abraham did not do all the reissues, just some of them and maybe most of them. I am not sure which. They kept the liner notes the same as the originals down to the letter, so it does not say on the jacket. He certainly had the acce... | |
| Duk Ellington Money Jungle - 200G Classic Records Yes. The LP has some distortion and a rather shallow soundstage. I wonder what the master sounds like. | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? NAD 6300 | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Karlheinz Stockhausen original "Sternklang" LP on Deutche Gramaphone. A vaction in the crab nebula. | |
| Sun Ra saturn re-issues Those ESP's were wacky. I have some that are sonically spectacular. Others seem like a monkey on acid pressed them. My best ESP record (sonically): a mint original of "Spiritual Unity" by Albert Ayler in mono. My worst: Marion Brown's first album,... | |
| Sun Ra saturn re-issues Grimace: of course the original saturns sounded bad. So what. If we were so obsessed with sound quality that we couldn't listen to a record, we would indeed have a problem. Not that I am saying that you are guilty of this, far from it.I also have ... | |
| Sun Ra saturn re-issues Alton Abraham, the original producer, did many of them. From what I have heard crappy digital hijynx were kept to a bare minimum.They look like bootlegs because they reproduced the original '50's and '60's covers, which were often drawings done by... | |
| What is your favorite recording with a quirck Sun Ra "Heliocentric worlds vol.1', on the original ESP record on side 1 there is very strange asian folk music in the background for a good deal of the side, very low volume. It was edited out on the CD and all reissues of the LP such as the Base... | |
| Vinyl Find of the Week? Check this Jazz fans: original blue note flawless copy of Eric Dolphy 'Out to lunch" for......$15. Used record store here in Brooklyn didn't know what they had. This is a $75 record in anybody's book. I have seen copies this good on Ebay for $150. | |
| Coltane Track - Which Album? Try 'Afro Blue Impressions' for another major Naima! | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Mal Waldron "All alone" with Jackie McLean (1957) | |
| what is the best sounding turntable for 3k used? I think a used Linn LP12 or used SOTA Saphire, provided a GREAT cartridge is purchased new. | |
| Loud and Live "Live at the Half Note" -Coltrane '65 with the classic quartet. Probably the best 'Afro Blue' solos in his career. | |
| From LP12 to where...? "I suspect your dealer is just telling you of his worth and how monetarily valuable he is"Ain't it the truth... |