Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
Morgan's 1964 Classic Gets Double 45 Treatment
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  1 comments

More mysterious and less of a head-bobber than the pop fave The Sidewinder, Search For The New Land is the one to have if you’re going to have but one Lee Morgan Blue Note (too bad, though if you’re only going to have one).

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Album Reviews
Mosaic Makes Whole Fractured Getz Recording Era
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2011  |  1 comments

Few jazz musicians attain pop star status while retaining credibility with their "base." Louis Armstrong managed and of course so did Miles Davis. Stan Getz was another.

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News
Mosaic Returns to Vinyl Box Sets With New Monk Set
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 09, 2009  |  0 comments
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Album Reviews
Mosaic's Miraculous Roland Kirk Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 23, 2014  |  11 comments
In a truly just world every Jethro Tull fan would know and appreciate Rahsaan Roland Kirk but as with Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones, these things take time. If you don't know Kirk's music and you're a Tull fan you surely know his "Serenade To A Cuckoo" covered by Ian Anderson on his debut Tull album This Was.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Motown's "Tone Poet" Series—First Three Editions
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2019  |  8 comments
I'd be surprised if someone at UMe didn't look at the success of Blue Note's "Tone Poet" series and say to themselves "maybe the way to launch a Motown reissue series is to do it with the highest possible quality" because Motown/ UMe's new 5 LP Motown mono series duplicates in every way Blue Note's "Tone Poet" series: Kevin Gray cut from mono master tapes, RTI plated and pressed on 180g vinyl and the records are packaged in Stoughton tip on jackets.

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Album Reviews
Move Over Let Jimi Take Over?
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2010  |  0 comments

You gotta thank Sundazed for digging out and reissuing raw, vital stuff like this and not charging audiophile prices. For one thing, they wouldn’t be able to sell it for $30.00 and it wouldn’t be worth lavishing such care on it anyway. But that doesn’t mean stuff like this is any less worthy.

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Interviews
Movie Music Recording King: Shawn Murphy Part 2
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2005  |  1 comments

M.F.: I remember when we were working on "Tron" we were in London in the Royal Albert Hall, we had about 108 pieces waiting, and the guy's sitting up at the organ waiting, while a fight broke out between Wendy Carlos and her associate on one side, and a guy named John Mosley who we'd hired to supervise the recording sessions. And there was a copy of the score being pulled back and forth till it just about ripped in half, so that was a swell time.

S.M.:All about how it was gonna be done?

M.F.:How it was gonna be miked, and.....

S.M.:Yeah, you see that's not the time to have the discussion.

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Interviews
Movie Music Recording King: Shawn Murphy Part I
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 30, 2005  |  0 comments

(This Interview originally appeared in Volume 1, issues 5/6 of The Tracking Angle, published in the winter of 1995/96)

Ever hear an LP copy of Maurice Jarré's soundtrack to "Dr. Zhivago"? It was released by MGM during the label's "Sounds Great In Stereo" era. They'd put that statement on the record jacket whether or not what was inside was really recorded in stereo. "It would sound great if it had been recorded in stereo, but unfortunately, it wasn't, " is what MGM meant to put on the cover, I'm sure, but they probably didn't have room.

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Munich 2015
MPS Announces Ten Vinyl Jazz Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  May 23, 2015  |  First Published: May 23, 2015  |  4 comments
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AAA VinylNews
MPS Reissues '70s Era Jazz Classics AAA
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 11, 2016  |  First Published: Aug 11, 2016  |  4 comments
The German MPS label has just released five excellent jazz albums originally released in the early 1970s under the supervision of noted German audio journalist and record producer Dirk Sommer. All have been mastered AAA from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, who was responsible for the Oscar Peterson box set Exclusively For My Friends.

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