The New Yorker: 100 Essential Jazz Albums

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Eyeball · #16 Post by **Eyeball** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:20 am

Granted!

anton · #17 Post by **anton** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:59 am

GemZombie wrote:You prejudices against Proper are obvious, and I believe somewhat unfounded. The liner notes of the sets I own (around 30) do not seem to be "just ripped".

"Postjudices" would be a more appropriate term in this case

N.B: I didn't say the liner notes were ripped - only the discographies.

Perhaps we should more the discussion on the badness/goodness of Proper Records and other cheapo reissue labels to a new thread...

Eyeball · #18 Post by **Eyeball** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:04 am

'You prejudices against Proper be obvious...'

You know Jesse is getting worked up when he reverts to his old street patois.

GemZombie · #19 Post by **GemZombie** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:26 am

anton wrote:
GemZombie wrote:You prejudices against Proper are obvious, and I believe somewhat unfounded. The liner notes of the sets I own (around 30) do not seem to be "just ripped".
"Postjudices" would be a more appropriate term in this case

N.B: I didn't say the liner notes were ripped - only the discographies.

Perhaps we should more the discussion on the badness/goodness of Proper Records and other cheapo reissue labels to a new thread...

I see, I misread. You must admit that exact make up of bands is hard to come by. Many of the liner notes I read actually admit that and indicate the instrumentation in some cases is guess work... at any rate, I'm not sure that saying they are ripped is fair either. I mean, with this stuff you really can only rely on what's been documented before.

Swifty · #20 Post by **Swifty** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:45 am

anton wrote:
GemZombie wrote:
anton wrote: Bad: they include several Proper box sets

Why is that bad? I love all of the Proper Box Sets I've bought.
Granted, they are good value for your money (just like Pirate Bay), and they do give you a quick and good overview of an artist's work. But, the tracks are ripped from inferior sources and are then subjected to additional low-pass filtering.

They're definitely worth it for the liner notes.