Cool Cleveland Interviews AnalogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer

Day one at AXPONA 2017 has come and gone. The show was reasonably well-attended for a Friday, which usually draws retirees, the independently wealthy, vacationers and people calling into work sick.

Sam Records Releases Thelonious Monk's "Les liaisons dangereuses 1960" For RSD 2017

Music composed for films is by definition precisely timed and intended to mirror or at least complement the on screen action. Of course that’s not always how its accomplished, especially when the hired musicians are not trained film composers.

Director Roger Vadim and French jazz promoter Marcel Romano, who had previously helped arrange the Miles Davis sessions for Louis Malle’s “Ascenseur pour l'échafaud” were both fans of the mercurial Thelonious Monk, whose star at the time (1958) was burning brightly.

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Artist: 
Thelonious Monk
Album: 
Les liaisons dangereuses 1960
Cred Label: 
Sam Records/Saga 2 180 LP boxed set
Cred Prod: 
Marcel Romano (produced for this issue by Zev Feldman, Francois Le Xuan and Fred Thomas
Cred Eng: 
Tom Nola
Cred Mix: 
Tom Nola
Cred Mast: 
Francois Le Xuan, lacquers cut by Benjamin Joubert, Biduloscope Mastering
Music composed for films is by definition precisely timed and intended to mirror or at least complement the on screen action. Of course that’s not always how its accomplished, especially when the hired musicians are not trained film composers.

Ortofon's Leif Johannsen Stopped By Today

Ortofon's Chief Officer of Acoustics and Technology Leif Johannsen and Dee Hustinova, Ortofon U.S. General Manager stopped over today to show me a brand new Ortofon cartridge the design of which Leif has just completed. I can't talk about it or show it (that's why it's in his cupped hand).

AnalogPlanet Radio's "Island Records Special" WFDU HD2 Radio Show Streams Now

When Stereophile deadlines loom, AnalogPlanet content suffers. Nothing can be done. But the radio show must go on so this week's show is all Island Records and all from the storied label's early years.

AnalogPlanet Radio's "Motown From Original Stereo Vinyl" WFDU HD2 Radio Show Streams Now

Today's show is all-Motown sourced almost exclusively from original stereo pressings. Well, there's one curve-ball: The Clash's "Hitsville U.K.", which is sort of a Motown tribute song. And the Marvin Gaye Anthol

VPI Launches New Prime Scout Turntable

VPI recently launched a new Prime Scout turntable that refines the original Scout 'table, which has been in production for many years.

Rhino's 29 Title Record Store Day Drop!

Legacy's Vault-Opening Tenth Anniversary Record Store Day Swag

Legacy recently announced its swag for the April 22nd 2017 tenth Record Store Day, proving cynics wrong who claim Record Store Day is "so yesterday."

"Larry Young In Paris" From Resonance Records A Must Have

Over the past decade or so vinyl-loving jazz enthusiasts have been treated to a series of previously unreleased but significant recordings discovered under beds, in closets and in the vaults of European radio stations. Some were never before heard. Others were bootlegged from radio broadcasts.

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Artist: 
Larry Young
Album: 
Larry Young In Paris The ORTF Recordings
Cred Label: 
Resonance Records HLP-9022 2 180g LPs
Cred Prod: 
Zev Feldman
Cred Eng: 
N/A (Sound Restortation by George Klabin and Fran Gala
Cred Mix: 
N/A
Cred Mast: 
Fran Gala (at Resonance), Lacquers Cut by Bernie Grundman
Over the past decade or so vinyl-loving jazz enthusiasts have been treated to a series of previously unreleased but significant recordings discovered under beds, in closets and in the vaults of European radio stations. Some were never before heard. Others were bootlegged from radio broadcasts

Throw Away Your Old AudioQuest Carbon Fiber Brush!

AudioQuest's carbon fiber brush, in production for thirty five years, has been the industry "standard" dry record brush. If you have the one pictured above, please throw it out or donate it to a really needy record collector.

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