Michael Fremer

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Beatles
"Revolver" On Target Or A Misfire?
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 19, 2012  |  27 comments
Of course Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was The Beatles' and George Martin's creative and technological pinnacle and the album most cite as their greatest, but there's plenty to be said for Revolver being their best and most consistent collection of songs and performances.
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Album Reviews
"Rock Of Ages" Even Better in Retrospect
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 08, 2012  |  15 comments
Recorded late 1971 during a multi-night gig at New York City's Academy of Music and released the next summer, Rock of Ages was intended to be a celebratory send-off for one of the greatest bands of that era as it contemplated a long touring and recording break that went on for far longer than expected.
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Book Reviews
"Rock'n'Roll Lens": Photographer Jimmy Steinfeldt Catalogues His "Money Shots"
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 22, 2012  |  1 comments
Stage photography begins with being at the right place at the right time. Some people have a knack for it. Within a very short time back in the 1980s music fan Jimmy Steinfeldt went from standing on a-chair fan snapshots to having his photographs published in major music magazines like SPIN and Rolling Stone.
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News
"Secret" Humble Pie Long Player For Record Store Day 2018 (No Longer Secret)
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2018  |  First Published: Apr 19, 2018  |  3 comments
Just going to publish the press release verbatim so if you have any friends in that part of the U.K.:

Immediate Records Presents “Humble Pie On 79th Street” Limited Edition Vinyl LP - A Secret Release For Record Store Day UK April 21

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Record Cleaning Machine Reviews
"Service Bulletin" For Audio Deske Owners
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 17, 2014  |  21 comments
An analog planet reader emailed to say his Audio Deske ultrasonic cleaning machine has ruined some of his collectible records and not because of ultrasonics.

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Set-Up Accessory ReviewsSet-Up Tips
"shaknspin" Electronically Measures Turntable Speed Plus a Great Deal More
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2021  |  First Published: Mar 19, 2021  |  32 comments
While the name "shaknspin" may sound like a child's toy, the device is anything but, though it does make child's play of measuring turntable speed, calculating wow and flutter, jitter and more, graphically representing speed variations as histograms by frequency and speed distribution and even mo
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Book Reviews
"sittin' in"—Jazz Clubs of the 1940s And 1950s (2 photos added)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 03, 2020  |  First Published: Nov 03, 2020  |  6 comments
While others tossed, self-described music executive, historian, collector, archivist and memorabilia dealer Jeff Gold (an accurate though woefully incomplete description, by the way) was one of those prescient individuals who, as a young man, saw the intrinsic value in most everything physical related to the wondrous post World War II growth of music both as culture and as business.

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News
"Sonny Clark Trio : The 1960 Time Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach" November 24th From Tompkins Square
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 09, 2017  |  First Published: Nov 09, 2017  |  2 comments
Tompkins Square announced today the upcoming release of Sonny Clark Trio : The 1960 Time Sessions, a limited edition 2LP set available exclusively via participating independent record stores as part of Record Store Day, on Black Friday, November 24th, 2017.

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Album Reviews
"Sonny Rollins Way Out West" Deluxe Edition From Craft Recordings—What Was, What Is, What Could Have Been
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 03, 2018  |  28 comments
In March of 1957 during his first trip to the west coast, 26 year old Sonny Rollins, then a member of The Max Roach Quintet, booked a session at Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Studios. With Ray Brown also in Los Angeles starring in Oscar Peterson’s Trio, and Contemporary Records regular and Los Angeles based Shelly Manne also available, Rollins could fulfill a long running desire to record sans piano.

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Album Reviews
"Soular Energy" Sounding Better Than Ever!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2013  |  5 comments
The late Carl E. Jefferson's Concord Records, (now owned by Concord Music Group, which owns Fantasy, Prestige, Riverside, Stax, Specialty, Telarc, Hear Music etc.), founded in 1972 at a time when the pioneering jazz "majors" Blue Note and the above mentioned Prestige, Riverside, etc. had been bought and turned into catalog to be "asset managed" with little or no forward direction, remains, like Norman Granz's Pablo Records, among the most underrated and undervalued on the used LP market.

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