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Re: vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Post by shedshrine » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:18 am

Yeah, released in 1975 it was previously only available on vinyl in/from Japan. It was reissued on vinyl for Europe around 2015, and in the US market last year. Very nice pressing too! (My copy is anyway,.) Live date in Japan with his Headhunters crew.

https://www.discogs.com/Herbie-Hancock- ... e/12819978
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Re: vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Post by shedshrine » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:22 am

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Re: vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Post by markjazzbassist » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:39 am

thank you! i will have to pick that up. the original pressings were getting stupid expensive.

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Post by ubertar » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:12 am

yard sale score today... Funkadelic, Parliament, Bootsy, Rick James, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Michael Jackson, and a sharp left turn... Kraftwerk. 14 records in all, not counting the double albums.

Some of the covers are a little water damaged and musty, but the records are in fine shape... I haven't seen a single scratch.

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Post by markjazzbassist » Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:39 am

ubertar wrote:
Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:12 am
yard sale score today... Funkadelic, Parliament, Bootsy, Rick James, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Michael Jackson, and a sharp left turn... Kraftwerk. 14 records in all, not counting the double albums.

Some of the covers are a little water damaged and musty, but the records are in fine shape... I haven't seen a single scratch.
Nice! i love the beat covers, scares away the collectors and re-sellers, but they are gold to people like you and i that will listen to them.

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Post by shedshrine » Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:20 pm

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Just for Markjazzbassist...
The Bass: 3 lp box set. minty lps, box edges a little beat up, $5.
"A historical and critical analytic guide to the major trends in the development and refinement of the fundamental harmonic and rhythmic force in the jazz rhythym section"

Discogs comment section review:
"Entirely unexpected the quality of reference in performance, artists represented, and sound quality. This is an exceptional box set, of which I usually avoid due to my own preconceptions of said sound quality..however entirely proven wrong. Most cuts engineered by RVG.

Upright acoustic bass in my opinion, is a litmus test to evaluate any well assembled 2-channel analog setup. This is true reference."

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A Day In The Life: Impressions of Pepper.
Modern jazzers take these tunes to new interpretations and impressionistic places.

Maybe like many of you, when I'm looking for new musical ideas, one thing I like to do is just hit record and practice whatever instrument, usually guitar, ideally lost in the zone for forty minutes or so (or even 15..), then listen back, or later at the end of the day with phones before nodding off, or during the commute, or at work if possible. The best parts are when you come up with a cool progression and you hear the struggle to remember how you started it so you can repeat it and lock it in. Those little (or big!) slides to get to the right note and still be in time, or the quick jump to a different string to get that note at the last minute, the "what the hell chord shape was I using" moments...when you hear those back you sometimes want to learn those too because they draw your interest, they keep the groove fresh and involving and keep it from becoming a static loop.

In a similar vein, good jazz seems like the practiced art of that.

Having heard Sgt Pepper a zillion times, it 's really cool to hear keen eared jazz players grab little micro riffs within the originals and just groove on them. It takes these songs in new directions, truly making the songs new yet with a where-have-I-heard-this before vibe. Throw in some modern psychedelic production flourishes. I like this one a lot.

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Moloko: Do You Like My Tight Sweater
Either you dig "Party Weirdo" or you don't. :)
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Post by markjazzbassist » Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:39 pm

super cool! the latest i got was the soundtrack for this super cool art installation called Luanda-Kinshasa by Stan Douglas. It's all these killer jazz dudes playing 70's gear (and clothing) in a re-created studio straight outta the 70's playing essentially Afro-beat meats Miles Davis Electric stuff. Very cool and heres the video

https://vimeo.com/94233892


on another unrelated note i'm big into cassette now, maybe i will start a new thread for that as it's analog and collectable like vinyl and in some cases even more rare.

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Post by ubertar » Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:48 pm

Just had the most incredible record score... was tipped off that the library at the college where I'm studying gamelan is giving away a big chunk of their record archive. I missed the first session, and most of the jazz was apparently picked clean, unfortunately, but I still managed to snag a near mint copy of Coltrane's Kulu Se Mama, along with a few other jazz records, a bunch of blues, some 20th century classical/electronic, other classical (that's mostly what they had, so I was very picky), some rock and folk including T Rex, ELP, Wishbone Ash and Pentangle, but mostly early Folkways and Nonesuch Explorer stuff from the '60s, with some '50s and '70s. Mostly African (18), Asian (13), some from the Americas and Caribbean, a couple from Eastern Europe, and some Irish pipe music. 87 records in all. Paid $2 for parking, nothing for the records. Pretty much everything in immaculate shape. The Folkways records have booklet inserts with liner notes. Unbelievable. If only I'd known about the first session... I might have come home with some Sun Ra.

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Post by ubertar » Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:00 am

Africa:

Nonesuch:
Hamza El Din- Escalay the Water Wheel (this is the only one I already had a vinyl copy of)
The African Mbira, Music of the Shona People of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia)
The Soul of Mbira (Rhodesia)
Voices of Africa, High-life and other popular music (Ghana)

Folkways:
Algerian Berber Music
Music of the Sudan, War Songs and Hymns
Music of the Sudan, Women's Dance Songs
Music of the Sudan, Burial Hymns and War Songs
Music of the Ashanti of Ghana
Music from Petauke of Northern Rhodesia, Vol 2
Music of Kuria & the Gusii of Western Kenya
Music of Lesotho
Folk Music and Ceremonies of Ethiopia
Ritual Music of Ethiopia
Folk Music of Ethiopia
Religious Music of the Falashas (Ethiopian Jews)
Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria

and, not directly African, but close:
Music from Saramaka, a dynamic Afro-American tradition

Asia/Middle East:

Folkways:
Songs of Assam, Uttar Pradesh and the Andamans (India)
Music of India, Traditional and Classical

Nonesuch Explorer:
Kashmir, Traditional Songs and Dances
A Persian Heritage, Classical Music of Iran
Music in the Karakorams of Central Asia
Sarangi/the voice of a hundred colors
The Persian Santur
Japanese Koto Classics
P'ansori, Korea's Epic Vocal Art and Instrumental Music (this one I already had on vinyl)
Afghanistan, Music from the Crossroads of Asia
China, Shantung Folk Music and Traditional Instrumental Pieces
Flower Dance, Japanese Folk Melodies
A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky, Japanese Shakuhachi Music
The Jasmine Isle, Javanese Gamelan Music

Caribbean, Americas, Europe:

Folkways:
Traditional Songs of the Western Torres Straits, South Pacific
The Big Drum & other Ritual & Social Music of Carriacon (Caribbean Island)
John Crow Say... Jamaican Music of Faith, Work and Play

Cora Indian Festive Music
Folk Songs of Saskatchewan
American Indian Dances
War Whoops and Medicine Songs
Selk'nam Chants of Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina (double album)

Nonesuch:
Kingdom of the Sun, Peru's Inca Heritage
Black Music of South America

In the Shadow of the Mountain, Bulgarian Folk Music
Village Music of Yugoslavia
Hornpipes, Airs and Reels, Irish Pipe Music

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Re: vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Post by markjazzbassist » Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:51 am

it looks like you hit the ethnomusicology motherlode there

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Post by ubertar » Thu Nov 07, 2019 1:30 pm

oh hells yeah

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Post by markjazzbassist » Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:38 am

those have been around for a while, they will never catch on because the record has a low number of plays before it's unuseable. unlike a regular pressing where if kept up it can be played a LOT before it's unuseable.

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Re: vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Post by shedshrine » Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:24 am

Oh, well nevermind then..for the time being.
Somebody is going to come up with a viable method sooner or later for home record "burning".

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