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Album Reviews
Ella's in the Room on This Double 45rpm "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" Reissue From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 15, 2013  |  4 comments
Ella's lushly orchestrated songbook albums were popular when first issued in the '50s and '60s and again more recently as reissues. They were not just popular. They were transformational, whether she was re-interpreting Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Ellington, Irving Berlin or Jerome Kern.
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Analog Gear News
Jim Hagerman's Bugle2 DIY MM/MC Phono Preamp Kickstarter Project
 |  Feb 14, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  5 comments
Analog expert Jim Hagerman's (Hagtech.com) new second generation Bugle2 MM/MC phono preamplifier is a Kickstarter project. That means you put up the money now to support the project and if enough people contribute to fund it, you get yours. If it fails to attract the requisite number—in this case $16,000 total—you get your money back. The Kickstarter URL
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News
"When Albums Ruled The World" BBC Documentary
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 13, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  10 comments
I was alerted to a terrific BBC documentary currently on YouTube about the "golden age" of vinyl.
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News
"For What It's Worth" With Gary Dell'Abate and Jon Hein Premiers Thursday February 21st at 10 PM on VH1 Classic
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 12, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  5 comments
The long awaited announcement came today of VH1 Classic's new television series "For What It's Worth" starring Gary Dell'Abate and Jon Hein. The series premiers Thursday February 10th, 2013 and will continue weekly on Thursday evenings through March.
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Album Reviews
"Monk's Dream" IMPEX Reissue Makes The Most of Master Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 11, 2013  |  2 comments
Yes, yet another Thelonious Monk reissue review. What can I tell you? Love that Monk. Criss-Cross with the same quartet (and in serious need of a reissue) was the second jazz record I ever bought and it made an even bigger impression than Coltrane's My Favorite Things, which was my first.
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News
Bryan Ferry to Release on Mono Vinyl "The Jazz Age" A New Instrumental Album
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 10, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  12 comments
While his solo career is littered with covers, on this new Bryan Ferry album, the covers are of his own songs performed instrumentally with "The Bryan Ferry Orchestra", a 1920's style emulation.
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Album Reviews
Van Dyke Parks' "Arrangements Volume 1" Looks Back In Pleasure
Matthew Greenwald  |  Feb 07, 2013  |  1 comments
Van Dyke Parks: singer, songwriter, arranger, session musician, producer, creator of soundtracks, music video audio-visual pioneer...raconteur, (I'm sure I'm missing a few)...and above all, an artist. I can't think of another figure in recorded music for whom the title "Renaissance Man" would be more fitting.
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News
Reference Recordings to Release New Doug MacLeod Album on CD and Double 45rpm LP
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 05, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
On March 12, 2013 Reference Recordings will release a CD version and then sometime later a double 45rpm 1/2 speed mastered 200 gram Quality Record Pressings edition of a new recording by Piedmont blues specialist Doug MacLeod.
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Book Reviews
Basic Disc Mastering: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About LP Mastering And More
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  11 comments
Disc mastering veteran Larry Boden released the first edition of his book "Basic Disc Mastering" back in 1978. He self-published the fifty page book because he was so often asked about the disc mastering process he figured a book made sense.
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Album Reviews
"Pink Moon" Reissue Box Set, Is It Worth $70?
Randy Wells  |  Jan 31, 2013  |  15 comments
Nick Drake was born June 19, 1948 in Rangoon, Burma. Such unusual beginnings for a shy singer-songwriter who would die of a drug overdose twenty-six years later might seem exotic to some. But the gentle music he created sounded quite ordinary to most, if they heard it at all.
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