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Mack Avenue Music Group Webstore Event Distributes 100% of Sales Directly to Artists

Michael Fremer | Apr 29, 2020 | First Published: Apr 29, 2020 | 0 comments

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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Mack Avenue Records Issues Limited Edition 5 LP Oscar Peterson Tribute Set Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Feb 25, 2020 | First Published: Feb 25, 2020 | 4 comments

Oscar, With Love, was released as a 3 CD set in 2015 to observe the 90th birthday of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson (1925-2007). To honor her late husband, Kelly Peterson assembled some of the most celebrated jazz artists in the world to perform and record on the luminary's prized personal piano, then released the recordings as a deluxe collector's edition shortly before the 10-year anniversary of the celebrated pianist’s passing. Now, a deluxe limited edition 5-LP 180-gram box set, re-sequenced for vinyl, is slated to be released on February 21 in a two-piece box with a 40-page booklet.

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Mack Avenue to Re-Release "Oscar With Love" Including 5 LP Edition Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 05, 2017 | First Published: Oct 05, 2017 | 2 comments

Mack Avenue Records will re-issue the 3 CD set Oscar With Love on November 17th—shortly before the 10th anniversary of Peterson's passing. A deluxe 5 LP edition will follow some time in 2018.

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Album Reviews

Mahalia Does the Gospel At Newport Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Dec 01, 2010 | 1 comments

Even atheists will swoon for Mahalia's unlikely Sunday morning thanksgiving at the 1958 Newport Jazz festival. Accompanied by piano, organ and bass Ms. Jackson begins with the solemn song "An Evening Prayer" and then moves to a more celebratory "I'm On My Way." Then it's back to the mournful "A City Called Heaven."

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Major Analog Vinyl/Turntable/Cartridge Survey Underway!

Michael Fremer | Jul 09, 2013 | 30 comments

Most of us are convinced that the media regularly underreports record sales. It seems that Nielsen/Soundscan's numbers can't possible be correct, nor does it seem likely they have the ability to dig deeply into the sales portals where much of the vinyl activity occurs.

Features

Major From the Roof Down Electricity Upgrade Produced Incredible Sonic Benefits!

Michael Fremer | Oct 15, 2021 | First Published: Oct 15, 2021 | 55 comments

The electrical service in my house has been problematic since I moved in 22 years ago. I’ve had ground hum issues, amplifiers that mysteriously buzz here but not elsewhere and general noise on the line problems too.

Album Reviews

Major Label Debut For Acclaimed Alternative Band

Michael Fremer | Dec 01, 2005 | 0 comments

Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard probably reads “Romeo and Juliet” as light comedy. Calling him a “hopeless romantic” would be an understatement of Grand Canyon-like proportions. If Bryan Ferry wears his heart on his sleeve, Gibbard wears it on a Times Square billboard with a seriousness I can't recall hearing expressed outside of opera.

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MAJOR VINYL PRODUCTION CATASTROPHE AS APOLLO/TRANSCO LACQUERS BURNS!

Michael Fremer | Feb 06, 2020 | First Published: Feb 06, 2020 | 35 comments

Sadly this is not April 1st, and this is not a joke. The Banning CA facility housing Apollo/Transco lacquer manufacturing burned today and is apparently a total loss. More than 80 firefighters fought the dangerous chemical-laden fire. I haven't had a chance to get into the story details but hopefully no one was seriously injured in the blaze.

Making Vinyl 2018

Making Vinyl 2018 "New Vinyl Pressing Plants Fire Up the Presses"

Michael Fremer | Oct 04, 2018 | First Published: Oct 04, 2018 | 9 comments

The second edition of "Making Vinyl" was an even greater success than last year's, which was plenty good. Following Record Store Day founder Michael Kurtz's panel "Record Store Day 11 Years Later", AnalogPlanet.com editor Michael Fremer ran "New Vinyl Plants Fire Up the Presses", which you can watch here. (Photo: Discogs sandwich of Jeffrey Smith and Sean Cannon).

Making Vinyl Symposium

Making Vinyl Detroit 2017 Day 1

Michael Fremer | Nov 06, 2017 | First Published: Nov 06, 2017 | 9 comments

Bryan Ekus, President and Executive Producer of Making Vinyl Detroit 2017 and Larry Jaffee, Conference Director have put together an outstanding two day Making Vinylconference comprehensively covering every aspect of modern vinyl production. It would have been a shame had weak industry participation marred the event. Fortunately, the worldwide industry responded to the call producing hundreds of attendees from throughout the industry, including pressing plant owners and executives including RTI's Don MacInnis, Rainbo's Steve Sheldon, Optimal Media's Peter Runge, MPO's Alban Pingoet and GZ Vinyl's MIchal Sterba, who were asked to discuss why they never gave up on vinyl in a panel discussion run by Third Man Pressing's Randy Cholewa. The picture is the view from the podium during the panel discussion led by analogPlanet Editor Michael Fremer

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