LPs transferred to digital, non-Classical

I decided to digitise my LP collection so that I could use the techniques I developed for 78s to remove as many blemishes as possible. It seemed a good idea to put some of the results online in my site in case anyone else might find them of interest. The recordings are made using a Thorens TD 165 deck and an Ortofon cartridge (MC15 super II) together with a pre-amp of my own design. The uploading has been MP3 320 kBit/s which is reasonably close to WAV and I apologise to those whose broadband is insufficient.

Listeners to these recordings will, I hope, enjoy the performances if they do not know them (buying the CDs if sufficiently impressed) and recapture what they might have heard in the days when they had LPs themselves.

I will leave a selection of LPs up for a while and then exchange them for a new set.

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1 Great Jazz Standards Gil Evans

solos from
Johnny Coles, tpt : Curtis Fuller, James Cleveland tmb: Budd Johnson, ten : Steve Lacy, pno : Ray Crawford, gtr : Elvin Jones, drums

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Davenport Blues	start
2	Straight No Chaser	4:27
3	Ballad of the Sad Young Men	10:41
4	Joy Spring	14:54

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Django	start
2	Chant of the Weed	8:07
3	The Theme	12:30

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2IntegrityPhil Woods Quintet

Phil Woods (alt, cl), Tom Harrell (tpt), Hal Galper (pno), Steve Gilmore (bass), Bill Goodwin (dms)

Double LP recorded in Bologna, Italy in April 1984

sides 1 and 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Repetition	start
2	Azure	10:10
3	Webb City	20:30
4	222	29:30

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sides 3 and 4

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Blue Walls	start
2	Infant Eyes	10:14
3	Mitch	20:32
4	Little Niles and playout	32:48

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3The Big B.A.D. BandClark Terry

Clark Terry with band including Phil Woods, Jimmy Heath, Ernie Wilkins (saxes), Richard Williams, Jimmy Nottingham (tpts), Janice Robinson (tmb), Duke Jordan (pno), Wilbur Little (bass), Ed Soph (dms)

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Una Mas	start
2	Nefertiti	7:59
3	Take the "A" Train	12:19
4	Randi	17:35
5	Mumbles	23:13
6	Sheba	28:36
7	Cold 'Tater Stomp	34:22

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4 Yesterday's Love Songs... Nancy Wilson and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra

Yesterday's Love Songs...Today's Blues

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	The Song is You
2	The Very Thought of You	start
3	Satin Doll
4	Bewitched
5	Suffering with the Blues	7:29
6	Someone to Watch over Me	13:41

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	The Best is Yet to Come	start
2	Never Let Me Go	9:30
3	Send Me Yesterday	14:16
4	All My Tomorrows
5	Please Send Me Someone to Love	7:29
6	Blue Prelude	13:41

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5 Conflict The Jimmy Woods Sextet

Jimmy Woods, alt with Carmell Jones tpt, Harold Land ten, Andrew Hille pno, George Tucker bass and Elvin Jones, drums

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Conflict	start
2	Coming Home	5:41
2	Aim	11:41

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Apart Together	start
2	Look to your Heart	6:45
3	Pazmuerte	12:55

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6"Mirrors" "The amazing Benny Bailey" with Francy Boland

Benny Bailey (tpt and flg),Tony Coe (ten and cl), Sahib Shihab (bar and fl), Francy Boland (pno)

Jean Warland (bass), Tony Inzalaco (dms) plus 12 piece string section

All arrangements by Francy Boland

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Effluves	start
2	Miroir	6:36
3	Flunkeyania	11:54

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Sub Umbra	start
2	Everything Happens to Me	5:52
3	At Ronnie's	12:39

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7 The Magic Touch The Tadd Dameron Orchestra

Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder / Charlie Shavers* (tpt), Jimmy Cleveland, Britt Woodman (tmb), Leo Wright, Jerry Dodgion (fl,alt), Jerome Richardson, Johnny Griffin (fl,ten), Julius Watkins (frh), Tate Houston (bar), Bill Evans (pno), George Duvivier / Ron Carter* (bass), Philly Joe Jones (dms), Barbara Winfield (vcl)

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	On a Misty Night*	start
2	Fontainebleau*	2:50
3	Just Plain Talkin'	7:00
4	If You Could See Me Now	11:55
5	Our Delight	14:50

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side 2

Movement	Description	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Dial B for Beauty	start
2	Look, Stop and Listen	3:03
3	Bevan's Birthday	7:01
4	You're a Joy	10:35
5	Swift as the Wind*	13:40

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8 Exploring the Future Curtis Counce Quintet

Curtis Counce bass with Rolf Ericson tpt, Harold Land ten, Elmo Hope pno, Frank Butler dms

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	So Nice	start
2	Angel Eyes	6:37
3	Into the Orbit	10:37
4	Move	15:22

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Race for Space	start
2	Someone to Watch over Me	4:30
3	Exploring the Future	8:13
4	The Countdown	14:28

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9 Smack Up Art Pepper Quintet

Art Pepper (alto) with Jack Sheldon (tpt), Pete Jolly (pno), Jimmy Bond (bass) and Frank Butler (dms)

side 1

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Smack Up	start
2	Las Cuevas de Mario	4:16
3	A Bit of Basie	11:24

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	How Can You Lose	start
2	Maybe Next Year	6:54
3	Tears Inside	11:14

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10In San Francisco The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

side 1

Cannonball Adderley (alto), Nat Adderley (cnt), Bobby Timmons (pno), Sam Jones (bass), Louis Hayes (dms)

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Intro- This Here	start
2	Spontaneous Combustion	12:31

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side 2

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	Intro- Hi Fly	start
2	You Got It!	11:10
3	Bohemia After Dark	16:20

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Comments on Stereo in famous Jazz Recordings

In " kinda ", below, I suggest that you might enjoy "Kind of Blue" with the channels reversed to give a sound stage common to many live performances. You may feel that the texture of the music benefited (or not). In fact this idea is not all that fanciful as the photo below shows Miles at the piano with the studio screens behind and the bass behind his right shoulder. Bill Evans is standing to Miles' left. For confirmation of this deduction you need to google the "30th Street Columbia Studios" and select the photo montage. Among the pictures you will find Bill Evans now at the piano and the horn players to his right. The boom position and the screens at the rear of the photo make it pretty clear that the band, facing away from the screens as Evans is, were recorded with the piano on the right of the sound stage.

For something different lets start with the actual, not imagined, stage layout for the televised "New Rhumba" -Miles and the Gil Evans band.

If you look here, you can see that the brass is split either side of the drums, bass and Miles: trumpets and trombones on the right, horns on the left. Also on the left are the sax/flute group. This is what Gil Evans is hearing from his seat at roughly the centre of a semi-circle. My guess is that Gil was a bit of a stickler and arranged the studio the way he wanted it whether recording or for television. I also suspect that he used the same plan for all the solo/big band dates of the late 50s. I would also be surprised if, for this televised performance, Miles would be happy to have the band layout reversed. On this basis,

Miles Ahead is incorrectly published with tmpt,tmb on the left

New Bottle Old Wine has only "Willow Tree" correct. As there are no horns here the trombones move left of centre.

Porgy and Bess, correct

Well, you may say, "so what", but if you would like to hear the performance as Gil Evans heard it in the television studio that day, scroll down to "ahead". Again you may or may not prefer the reversed sound stage. By the way, the televised "New Rhumba" does not have the 5-beat bar, about 17 seconds in, which both my LP and CD have. "wine" features Cannonball Adderley and is as good as any of the Miles collaborations. For other examples of Stereo Reversals see the page "Other Things" which can be selected from the options bar above.

11 kinda

"Imagine,if you will, a sound-stage( a stage even) with drums rear left, bass centre and piano on the right. It could be Joe Morello, Eugene Wright and Dave Brubeck as I saw them many,many times at the Hammersmith Odeon in the 60s ( it isn't). In the curve of the piano is not Paul Desmond but the tenor sax, the trumpeter is central and the altosax is on the left. Now, provided you are listening to speakers (and not on headphones which will put you in the middle of the stage, you do not want to be there!) you will hear some music, achingly familiar, eternally satisfying and which brings to life the sound stage you have imagined."

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Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
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12 ahead

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Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
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13wine

Track	Title	approx. timing (m:s)
1	St. Louis Blues	start
2	King Porter Stomp	data to be added later
3	Willow Tree
4	Struttin' with some Barbecue
5	Lester Leaps In
6	'Round Midnight
7	Manteca
8	Bird Feathers

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