Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Reissues

But chaps - is it worth 2.5 hours of our time? Is it particularly interesting or covering well trodden ground? Any revelations?

Just waiting for one of these analogue mastering gurus to be photographed in front of shelves full of CDs.

Which reminds me, whatever happened to Fremer? No longer the go to guy? Mike45 seems to be the current favourite.

 

Well of course most have heard a lot of all of it before, but there is some interesting stuff. Bernie Grundman dominates the discussion, but has some interesting things to say. Including “Bigger is not always better”, not only with regard 96/192 digital, but also 1/4 inch 30ips tape is better than 1/2 inch 30ips tape. DSD is good as a storage medium, but you can only edit in pcm and every transfer causes deterioration.

 

Thanks Jim. That fact in itself opens up another can of worms - DSD transfers from analogue tape may not be as direct as some labels would have us believe.

 

Grundman has a lot to say, but appears open and honest throughout. He stresses everything you do in mastering makes a difference and usually at least a degree of deterioration, but it is a balancing act and if you take care the final result may be an improvement in the final result. I’m not really a believer in pieces of wire making a difference, but he makes a good case for why it does in the case of an AES to EBU connection wire.

The noise wars comes up and he and RKS both say they do try to persuade the client against excess compression, but again they are honest enough to if that is what the client insists on they don’t turn the job down.

So overall worth listening through the whole video.

 

For those of us still awaiting Pharoah Saunders - Karma now due 16th December here is the LJC take on an original 2nd Pressing.
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/pharoah-sanders-karma-1969-impulse/
I’m also still waiting on Roy Haynes - Out Of the Afternoon that was due in October, but still has no release date.

 

That's the one I really want too. I've been looking forward to it all year...

 

I am keen to get it as well, but see above as I edited as it now no rescheduled release date as far as I can see.

 

I'm reconciled to the wait, plenty of other good records to buy after all. Evolution is stunningly good for example.

It'll be interesting to see what they're planning for the next batch...

 

Some nice stuff on the December Jazz House Records LP lists (inc a few pages of new sealed items).

 

I'll drop this here - new merch from Acoustic Sounds. Got to love the 'Buy Now or Cry Later' T Shirt

 

Picked up Karma today. All I can say is absolutely stunning! No other vinyl versions to compare it to but this is an OMG! release. Definitely one of my reissues of the year.

 

Mine is supposedly arriving from Amazon tomorrow as well, but that may depend if the van get get into our still iced up road. I got it at just over £35 on pre order. I wonder how the track listing is on this reissue. Back to the original the back cover lists 3 tracks. The Creator Has a Master Plan on side 1 and Light of Love and Colours on side 2. The record labels though list Creator... side 1 and only Colours side 2, but the fade out on 1 and in at the start of 2 does indicate Creator carried over.
https://www.discogs.com/master/54110-Pharoah-Sanders-Karma/image/SW1hZ2U6NjYxODQwMw==

 

I'm still waiting on last week's order from Juno. RM is only delivering the tracked stuff so they don't get found out but the rest is in big piles. All the couriers are under severe pressure just now.

 

The new version replicates the original sleeve & labels

 

Well I suppose that makes some sense as Chad likes to replicate the originals as far as possible. Better than getting the track listings wrong as happen to a few of the Tone Poet reissues.

 

Looks like mine's an original, so I won't bother. Although, you know, curious.

 

I can confirm that it plays superbly straight out of the sleeve