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Verve Label Group/UMe Announces Chad Kassem-Supervised All-Analog Classic Jazz Reissue Series
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 11, 2020
June 11, 2020—Verve Label Group and UMe announced today the July 31st launch of a new “audiophile grade”, all-analog reissue series supervised by Acoustic Sounds CEO Chad Kassem, featuring iconic titles from the Verve, Impulse!, Philips, EmArcy and Decca catalogs.

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"A Night For Austin" 6/10 Benefit Promises Two Hours of Great Music For A Good Cause
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2020
The lineup is like "Austin City Limits" on steroids for this two hour live video and audio stream organized by Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Willie and Annie Nelson and their organizations in conjunction with Luck Reunion to support and celebrate hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic Austin, Texas.

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These Six Upcoming Blue Notes Will Have a Vinyl Edition
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2020
Blue Note yesterday announced six upcoming jazz titles that will be issued on vinyl. We haven't an image for the Frisell album at this time.

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Crosley Radio Renews Beatles Licensed Accessories
Michael Fremer  |  May 27, 2020
Crosley Radio recently announced it had renewed its license for Beatles-branded accessories including the ones in the lead photo. The Beatles remain at or near the top of new vinyl sales 57 years after the group released its first single.

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Mack Avenue Music Group & Octave Music Partner With Vinyl Me, Please For Erroll Garner's Magician
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2020
Mack Avenue Music Group and Octave Music are proud to announce a partnership with Vinyl Me, Please on Erroll Garner’s Magician as their May Classics Record of the Month. The record is also featured as the 11th release of the critically acclaimed year-long 12-album Octave Remastered Series featuring newly restored and expanded editions of classical Garner albums from the 1960s and ‘70s. Vinyl Me, Please’s package includes 180g black audiophile vinyl and an exclusive listening notes booklet by Ted Gioia.

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dCS Expands "Legends" Award Program to Additional Grammy-Winning Engineers
Michael Fremer  |  May 20, 2020
dCS (Data Conversion Systems, Ltd.) announced earlier this month an expansion of its "Legends" program that acknowledges recording, mixing and mastering greats who have brought all of us so much listening pleasure through great recorded sound. The initial recipient, Bob Ludwig (third from the left after engineering greats Elliot Scheiner and Chuck Ainlay) was the first recipient at an awards ceremony in New York last October.

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Reprise Drops June 19th Neil Young's 1974/'75 "Lost Album" Homegrown
Michael Fremer  |  May 19, 2020
Neil Young describes Homegrown as "The One That Got Away". Recorded in 1974 and '75, the album should have been released a few years after Harvest, but the sad side of a love affair was too much for Young to deal with after recording it, so he "...kept it to myself, hidden away in the vault, on the shelf, in the back of my mind….but I should have shared it. It’s actually beautiful. That’s why I made it in the first place. Sometimes life hurts. You know what I mean. This is the one that got away."

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"Experiential" Grateful Dead 14 LP All-Analog Box Set in "Acid Flashback" Colors From Vinyl Me, Please
Michael Fremer  |  May 18, 2020
Denver CO—Vinyl Me, Please today announced The Story of the Grateful Dead, a limited-edition 8 album, 14-disc set deluxe box set featuring 4 studio albums and four "essential" live albums all cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering using the original analog master tapes, housed in "Tip-on" jackets and pressed at QRP on colored vinyl.("Acid Flashback" color characterization, AnalogPlanet's description, not VMP's).

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Music Direct's Josh Bizar Asked For a Quarantine Album Fave So We Delivered
Michael Fremer  |  May 14, 2020
Music Direct's Josh Bizar asked if Malachi and I to contribute short reviews to his website feature "Notes From My Listening Room" so we did.
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Is Tonearm Manufacturer JELCO a Covid-19 Victim?
Michael Fremer  |  May 11, 2020
This morning I received an email from Simon Brown designer and manufacturer of the innovative The Wand tonearm and new The Wand turntable telling me that Jelco tonearm's parent company Ichikawa Jewel Co. Ltd had announced it would be shutting down the business.

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Victor Goldstein R.I.P.
Michael Fremer  |  May 05, 2020
Few analogPlanet readers know the name but no doubt some do and I feel compelled to say a few words about my friend Victor Goldstein, shown here with Stereophile writer Jonathan Scull probably back in the late '80s when Victor was working with speaker manufacturer B&W (photo used without permission but I'm sure J10 will not mind). Goldstein passed away last night, a victim of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Electric Recording Company To Issue Sonny Rollins' "Way Out West" in Stereo
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2020
The Electric Recording Company announced today that it would release a limited edition version of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West cut as always using the original master tape.

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AXPONA 2020 CANCELED!
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2020
AXPONA 2020 has been canceled. CEO and Founder of show organizer JD Events just released the following letter:

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Mastering in the Time of Covid-19
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020
"Tone Poet" Joe Harley sent this photo taken today at a Kevin Gray mastering session. Analog life goes on at Cohearent Audio during the Pandemic.

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Mack Avenue Music Group Webstore Event Distributes 100% of Sales Directly to Artists
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2020
Mack Avenue Music Group launches an all-sales-go-directly to-the artist event starting Thursday, April 30th, which is also International Jazz Day, running through May 3rd. Mack Avenue Senior Director of A&R Will Wakefield says, "Almost everyone I know—musicians, managers, venue owners and booking agents—are facing unemployment or worse for an unknown amount of time. We are keenly aware of what that means and wants to be there to help in whatever way we can and I think this is good start."

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