Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
"In A Silent Way" Finally Reissued AAA By Mobile Fidelity
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2013  |  15 comments
Note: What's directly below is a very personal review of Sony/Legacy's late 2000's In A Silent Way 180g vinyl reissue originally published on musicangle.com, followed by an update review of Mobile Fidelity's recent AAA reissue.-ed.

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Album Reviews
"In Between" Time For Miles Put in Focus
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 01, 2005  |  0 comments

This mostly fabulous sounding 10 LP set cut almost exclusively from original analog master tapes puts into focus a so-called “in between” period for Miles: between the end of the Kind of Blue era and the beginning of the Miles/Shorter/Hancock/Carter/Williams quintet era chronicled on Mosaic's The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 (Mosaic MQ 10-177).

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Features
"It's a Vinyl World, After All" DVD Now Available!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 30, 2009  |  1 comments

Can DVD number 2 match the first? Video being shot at RTI last August

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Album Reviews
"It's Monk's Time"—Speakers Corner Reissues Columbia Records Monk Classic
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 30, 2013  |  4 comments
A few months ago my friend and fellow Stereophile writer (not to mention Pulitzer Prize winner, author of a new book "Insurgents" about General Patraeus, etc.) Fred Kaplan and I were lamenting the absence of reissues of Thelonious Monk's Columbia catalog.
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Munich 2018
"IUC Syndrome" Strikes High End Munich Attendees, Hinders YouTube Video Uploads
Michael Fremer  |  May 12, 2018  |  First Published: May 12, 2018  |  3 comments
A treatable condition known as "IUC Syndrome" or Internet Upload Constipation Syndrome, a known and treatable condition, is hindering YouTube video uploads from High End Munich 2018.Symptoms include a choking sensation around the neck, panic, and finally despair.

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AAA Vinyl
"Jack Johnson"---Miles Makes a Rock Album
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 22, 2016  |  24 comments
1971's Jack Johnson is Miles Davis making as close to a rock record as he's made.

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News
"John Coltrane: The Complete Sun Ship Sessions" on 3 180 Gram LPs Coming From Mosaic
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 06, 2013  |  4 comments
Mosaic Records will issue on May 21st a 3 LP set of The Complete Sun Ship Sessions including newly discovered and previously unissued alternative takes from one of the John Coltrane Quartet's final studio sessions.

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Features
"John Wesley Harding" 3-Way Reveal!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 06, 2018  |  First Published: Dec 06, 2018  |  11 comments
AnalogPlanet recently posted 3 96/24 "John Wesley Harding" files recorded from original, Sony Legacy and Mobile Fidelity mono records and asked readers to weigh in on what they heard and which they preferred (if any).

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Album Reviews
"Josh At Midnight" Reissued by Ramseur Records
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 03, 2016  |  11 comments
Fred Hellerman's obituary appeared in today's (Sept. 3, 2016) New York Times. Hellerman was the last surviving member of The Weavers, the folk group that helped usher in what became known as the "folk revival" of the late '50s and '60s.

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Album Reviews
"King" Cole Classic on S&P Vinyl Better Than the Original Pressing
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2004  |  0 comments

This 1957 classic, an early LP concept album filled with break- up songs, has always sounded better in mono because Capitol had a bad habit back then of tacking on way too much echo to stereo mixes. Hoffman remixed from the original 3 track master tape, cutting way back on the reverb to produce a positively stunning studio document from the golden age of analog recording.

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