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We were discussing the difficulty in getting your hands on many jazz cd prints ... There is just so much great jazz that it is so, so difficult to get your hands on. How much vinyl is out there that we will never see re-issued. What do you think? Is the jazz record business on an up or down? As oth...

Choc Wheaton wrote:I'm getting totally frustrated at trying to find some quality Charlie Barnet. ... Can anyone make some recommendations?

For sound quality, check out the 1958 album Cherokee on the Bluebird label ...

It has some slower numbers you might like.



[edited to fix link--CS]

julius wrote:Jazz is on the cusp of becoming irrelevant and outdated.

That's nothing new. I think you could have said that for the last 50 years or so.

Bob the Builder wrote: Is the jazz record business on an up or down?

Up

A lot of those arrangements were done by Fletcher Hendersen, and they are incredible. You are right- the book itself is a part of the attraction for the Webb Orch. Are you sure about that? Smack doing charts for Chick? I know he was using Van Alexander and Larry Clinton and others. I just don't rec...

Chick did not have a band that anyone would call "smooth", and a lot of his recordings have some sloppiness in the section parts. However, those flaws are more than made up for by the energy and drive that the band had- which obviously eminated from the drum kit! . From a dance point of v...

It’s also on the ‘Rosetta’ CD which should be available …

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000027ZPU

It's not the same exact version, as they are from different CDs. It seems to me that the tracks on 'Listen My Children You Shall Hear' http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000050XFS/002-1662614-8984832 sound much better than those on 'The Count Basie Story' [BOX SET] on Proper Records http://www.amazo...

CafeSavoy wrote: Huey, a question about your listening comparison, did you compare them on headphones or out loud on your dj equipment?

On headphones

I also wonder if the online music services do any modern processing on older tracks before they get compressed for sale. In that case in theory it's possible that the online version could sound better than the CD. That's a good question. I also think that because they are aware of the effects of au...

The tracks I bought via the iTunes Store sound noticeably better than those on the Proper Box Set. An example is ‘One O’Clock Jump’ Are you telling me that it's the same exact version that you downloaded on iTunes than is on the box set, and that the quality is better? If it's a different version, ...

I also have some individual tracks which I have purchased via the iTunes Music Store and other online sites. These tracks will never be in the realm of "high quality" no matter what you do. One of the many easons I don't bother buying music via online music stores. Amen! … Besides, buying...

Thanks for the replies everyone

Hi, I'm just starting to DJ, and have a question about preparing high sound quality mix CDs. I have a lot of CDs, and an iMac G5 with iTunes. I also have some individual tracks which I have purchased via the iTunes Music Store and other online sites. I rip my favourite tracks to iTunes, and sometime...

Hi. Im Chris and im a DJ in the UK playing mainly for Ceroc, swing jive and R&R. Getting more and more into playing blues as blues dancing is now getting big in the UK. Loving every minute of it. Thanks for some of the great music suggestions im getting on this top site. Some of the music is ha...