[pure-silver] Re: Jazz (OT)
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:06:16 -0800
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From: "Martin magid" <martin.magid@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Pure Silver" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 5:44 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Jazz (OT)
Happy post-Thanksgiving to all. It was a special
Thanksgiving because not
only did the Lions win, but this was the first
Thanksgiving of my 3rd
grandson, born 4 weeks ago.
I love the Johnny Smith -Stan Getz recording, having
bought the 10-in.
vinyl on my (1st) honeymoon in 1955 in NYC at Sam Goody's
record store.
Was it a red vinyl Pacific Jazz?
I can't recall what happened to the vinyl, but I got the
CD a few years
ago, and still enjoy it. To these old ears, the sound is
the same, without
he pops and scratches the vinyl acquired after many plays.
I got on an elevator with a 6-year-old grandson a few days
ago, and he was
carrying his violin case. A woman asked what his
favorite song was, and
he couldn't think of the name. I said "If I have anything
to say about it,
it will be 'Take Five'.
Marty
I used to have (and maybe still do in storage) Pacific
Jazz 10" Lp records and other lables. Some of these were in
red vinyl I also had clear and some other colors. Colored
records were popular for a time. Some didn't sound that
good, I think they may have been transferred from 78
originals.
I suppose my favorite rendition of Moonlight in Vermont
is the original by Patti Page with Billy Butterfield's
orchestra. Somewhere I have the 78 unless its turned to mud.
The invention of practical tape recording
revolutionized the record business. The recorders were very
cheap and very high quality compared to the disc recording
equipment available and allowed extended recording time and
editing. One could take a finished tape to a lot of places
to have a disc master cut and processed. At the time (about
1948) there were four large recording companies who had all
the facilities and distribution. Tape changed that very
quickly. We have come nearly all the way now with streaming
media; no one needs record labels at all now and television
and movies will soon be the same.
My hearing is badly damaged so I am no longer able to
discuss audio quality but I had some experience with early
digital recording. I am not sure I am a fan of vinyl, I
think a lot of faults attributed to digital recording are
really due to the way its done and not the process. Perhaps
not but disc recording has a set of vices all its own and is
capable of rather high distortion.
FWIW after CBS bought Columbia Records they began to
make masters on 16" 33-1/3 RPM transcription type discs.
Those were then transferred to make the 78 masters. Modern
re-releases of some of the old Columbia 78s (like Benny
Goodman) are made from the transscription masters and I
discovered that there were places where I had heard
distortion in the 78s that was actually in the original
discs (scuffing recoding styli, etc.). You never know.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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