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Johnny Hartman's "Once In Every Life" Gets Well-Deserved 200g Treatment
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 14, 2016  |  8 comments
Three years before he passed away in 1983 at age 60 from lung cancer, a somewhat diminished Johnny Hartman entered Ben Rizzi's Master Sound Productions in the small Long Island 'burb of Franklin Square and recorded this album for the small Bee Hive label. It would be his next to final appearance on record, and one that earned him a "Best Male Jazz Vocalist" Grammy Nomination.

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Mobile Fidelity's One Step "Abraxas": Is Any Record Worth $100?
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2016  |  86 comments
Before you pay $100 for any record you have to ask yourself if you really like the music, right? Then the question becomes is this version that much better than the one you already have, assuming you already have one.

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A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald Performed By Clare Teal Recorded Direct-to-Disc
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 26, 2016  |  15 comments
Recording direct-to-disk is difficult enough. The entire side has to be cut in one long take. Consider a big band vocal album like this, which has four songs per side. The orchestra and singer have to be ready as soon as the cutting stylus hits the lacquer and then they have to perform flawlessly on each track, pausing but a few seconds between songs.

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Two Tom Petty Box Sets Coming Soon, Commemorating 40th Anniversary of Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2016  |  18 comments
In a cross-label move similar to the Stones stereo box sets from ABKCO and UMe, Tom Petty's complete vinyl catalog will be issued in two 180gram box sets: one featuring his MCA output (1976-1991) and one covering his later Warner Brothers catalog (1994-2014).

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Sam Records Reissues Miles Davis's "ascenseur pour l’échafaud" Soundtrack in its Original 10" Format
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 18, 2016  |  18 comments
Best known to American Miles Davis fans as side one of the twelve inch Columbia Records LP release Jazz Track (CL1268), Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (“Elevator to the Scaffold”), the jazz soundtrack to the Louis Malle film was originally released in France in 1958 on the Fontana label as a 10” LP.

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Ten LP Kinks Mono Box Cut by Kevin Gray From Original Analog Masters
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 18, 2016  |  26 comments
A "Kinks in Mono" box set is due for release overseas shortly and in America on December 16th.

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"Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook" Coming Soon From Analog Spark
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 15, 2016  |  14 comments
Originally released as a double LP back in 1956, Ella Fitzerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book was both the first of her "songbook" albums and the first release on Norman Granz's then brand new Verve Records (MG V-4001/2).

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Jalopy Records' Subscription AAA Vinyl Kickstarter Project Needs Help Now!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 10, 2016  |  2 comments
Here's an all-analog record subscription series you might be interested in helping.

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Mobile Fidelity Reissues Love's "Forever Changes" at 45rpm
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2016  |  31 comments
One of the great albums of the 1960s—for me an essential album— gets the double 45rpm treatment from Mobile Fidelity. Rhino reissued this a few years ago mastered by Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman Mastering from the original tape.

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The Monty Alexander Trio Live! at the Montreux Festival
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 02, 2016  |  1 comments
Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander still tours at age seventy two. He was but thirty two when this live album was recorded at The Montreux Jazz Festival.

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The Beach Boys: The Final Nine Analogue Productions Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2016  |  24 comments
Analogue Productions recently completed one of the major reissue projects in modern vinyl playback history with the release of the final eight Beach Boys albums in both mono and stereo.

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MPS Reissues '70s Era Jazz Classics AAA
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 11, 2016  |  4 comments
The German MPS label has just released five excellent jazz albums originally released in the early 1970s under the supervision of noted German audio journalist and record producer Dirk Sommer. All have been mastered AAA from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, who was responsible for the Oscar Peterson box set Exclusively For My Friends.

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Electric Recording Company Announces Next Leonid Kogan Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 09, 2016  |  30 comments
The Electric Recording Company announced today a third Leonid Kogan reissue.

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Joe Jackson Reissues From Intervention Records
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 26, 2016  |  47 comments
Joe Jackson's "angry young man" stance came late in the cycle and so at the time was less than fully convincing. Elvis and Graham had already been there and done that. The picture of Jackson on the back cover of his debut Look Sharp just wasn't convincing.

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Check Out Koizumi-San's 45rpm Record Collection
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 16, 2016  |  5 comments
Yosuke Koizumi, 36, who took over the ART 1000's final production supervision brought some of his 45rpm collection on the second day of my visit...perhaps to assure me that he's way into vinyl and not just doing a "job”.
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