An Afternoon At The Crack House

[tmazz]

Like Like Jerome I have been rather busy lately and haven't been able to keep up with my AN postings. But while Jerome has been buying but not listening, I have been listening (although  more causally while working around the house) but not buying. Well this weekend I saw that Jerome started listening again, so I felt it was my moral obligation to go record shopping again. 
I have a whole stack of things that I picked up and another of my listening over the past two weeks that I have to post up when I get some free time. (Maybe tonight?)

This morning I took a walk over to J&R Music Worldand picked up a few LPs. I know Jerome has had a lot of good things to say about Sundazed Records so I picked up their repressing of Kenny Burrell's A night at  the Vangaurd. I also grabbed an Abbey Road LP for my son and the new McCartney II double LP reissue set (They were sold out of the first McCartney solo album )


I also saw a 180g copy of Sonny Rolloins' Way Out West reissued by a company called Wax Time. Do any of you guys have any experience with Wax Time. I was really looking for the Analogue Productions release since I have a good track record with them, but I figured I would give this a try since they also had a number of other releases by them.

So I was wondering if anybody could give me a heads up on Wax Time before I opened the record If they are not that good I could always return it and order the AP version from Chad.

One last question, have any of you ever had any bad experiences shipping records at this time of year. I get very nervous thinking about records sitting in the back of a hot truck in this weather and worry about them arriving all warped from the heat. Is this a real concern or am I just being over protective?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Tom

[richidoo]

Wax Time Records is mfg in Hong Kong by Shun Cheong Record Company, distributed in Europe. It looks like they also print records for Blue Note, ECM, Linn, etc. 

http://www.shuncheongrec.com/home/shuncheong.html
http://www.shuncheongrec.com/lp/lp.html

New Wax time releases.. http://www.shuncheongrec.com/newreleases/nl/110706/waxtime/index.htm

According to these guys http://www.review33.com/m/forum_msg.php?db=1&topic=92091012152835&number=20&sort=1   It could be unlicensed chinese ripoff, copied from CD. But the list of pressing clients, if true would suggest they are legit.

They have several other Rollins sides on Spekers Corner, Pure Pleasure, Jazz Track labels. All 180 virgin vinyl, but do I think they are from original master tape? Nope.  I have an asian Clifford Brown boxed set that was copied from Vinyl! Fortunately there are only very minor clues to that fact.

I couldn't find anything specific about that Way out west.

[richidoo]

If the record is protected from bending with a piece of 1/8 hardboard it will be fine. Most record mailers have enough stiffness to protect it. It's only the odd time that it gets something heavy on top bending it and also too warm, not likely. The trucks are supposed to be AC. yeah right.  If it's warped send it back.

[jsaliga]

I don't follow CD releases like I used to.  Buying a lot of vintage vinyl will do that to you.  It is for that reason that I have lost track of the Kinks reissues in two-CD Deluxe Edition packaging.  In 2008 we saw the release of The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society.  I bought that set and did not know that all of the Kinks pre-1970 albums have been given Deluxe Edition treatment.  So today I ordered the Deluxe Editions of the following Kinks albums:

The Kinks
Kinda of Kinks
The Kink Kontroversy
Face to Face
Something Else by the Kinks
Arthur

I feel that the Kinks only real problem is that they were making records at the same time the Beatles were.  Now that we have that out of the way I can say that the Kinks are no less vital, and Ray Davies is every bit the musical and song writing genius that Lenon and McCartney were.

--Jerome

[eleazar]

If the record is protected from bending with a piece of 1/8 hardboard it will be fine. Most record mailers have enough stiffness to protect it. It's only the odd time that it gets something heavy on top bending it and also too warm, not likely. The trucks are supposed to be AC. yeah right.  If it's warped send it back.

I just mailed an LP last week to a friend in Mich. and had a concern due to the fact it is an album I don't come across all that often. So I cut 2 pieces 1/8 Masonite just slightly larger than the cover. Hopefully this will and it did prevent a damaged corner or worse. So we will use this over and over mailing LP's back and forth.......Bill

[richidoo]

Yeah, that's it Bill, masonite. It is very tough, and relatively cheap.

[tmazz]

OK guys, hang onto your hats.  

I made a big score at the Crack House about a week and a half before my wife passed (which I never had time to post up in light of what was going on at the time) and then again this past weekend, (I also made a stop at Infinity recorsds last Thursday night  ), so here it goes:

Classical LPs:

Mercury Golden Imports:
Frederick Fennell/Eaestman Wind Ensemble: Spirit of '76 - Music for Fifes and Drums
Frederick Fennell/Eaestman Wind Ensemble: Screamers - Circus Marches

RCA:
Brahms: Sympnony No. 2 - Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Brahms: Sympnony No. 4 - Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Dvorak: New World Symphony - Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Elgar: Enigma Variations - Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Berlioz: Harold in Italy - Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Berlioz: Symphony Fantasique -Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mono Shaded Dog
Mendelssohn: Scotch Symphony - Munch/Boston Symphony Orchestra, LSC Red Seal
The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts, LSC Red Seal
The Pachelbel Canon - Jean-Francoic Paillard Chamber Orchestra, RCA Gold Seal
Anderson: Fiddle Faddle - Fiedler/Boston Pops, LSC Red Seal
Chopin: Les Syplhides - Fiedler/Boston Pops, Shaded Dog Mono
Fiedler/Boston Pops - Fabulous Fiedler, Pair Records (RCA Special Products)
Fiedler/Boston Pops - Forgotten Dreams, Polydor

Argo
Evensong for Ash Wednesday -= The Chior of King's College, Cambridge (TAS Superdisc List)

London Treasury Series:
Lalo: Nanouna - Ansermet/L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet - Members of the Vienna Octet

DG
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Famous Choruses by Handel, Bach, Mozart & Beethoven/Various Artists


Jazz LPs:

Hank Mobley: Hi Voltage - Sealed Blue Note 150g reissue
Hank Mobley: Drippin' - Sealed Blue Note 150g reissue
John Coltrane : Blue Train - Sealed Blue Note  DMM reissue
Hank Mobley/Al Cohn/John Coltrane/Zoot Sims: Tenor Conclave - Sealed Prestige OJC Series
Jimmy Smith: A New Star, A New Sound - Blue Note
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder - Pacific Jazz reissue (1981)
The  Bud Shank Quartet: At Jazz Alley - Sealed Contemporary
Bob James: Grand POiano Canyon - Sealed WB
Larry Carlton: Alone/ But Never Alone - MCA Master Series (Pressed on MoFi Vinyl)
Cal Tjader: Good Vibes - Concord
Sarah Vaughan: The Lonely Hours - Roulette

Pop LPs:

Eagles Live - Asylum (1980 - Not Hell Freezes Over)
Linda Ronstadt: Mad Love - Asylum
Linda Ronstadt: Simple Dreams - Asylum
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: MCA
Janis Ian: Stars - Columbia
The J. Geils Band: Freeze Frame - EMI America
Peter Paul & Mary: Album 1700 - Original WB Stereo pressing
The Allman Brothers Bands: Beginnings - Polydor
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood - Epic

CDs to be con tinued on the next post.  

[tmazz]

Here come the CDs:

Ben Webster: Big Ben Time - Philips
Oscar Peterson: Standards - Sealed Verve
Oscar Peterson & Benny Green: Oscar and Benny - Telarc
Bobby Short: Songs of New York - Telarc
Kenny Burrell: Ode to 52nd Street - Chessmates
Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light 'til Dawn - Blue Note
Holly Cole: Temptation - Metro Blue
Rosemary Clooney: Mothers and Daughters - Concord
Peter Cincotti (self titled): Concord
Various Artists: Jazz for the Open Road - 32 Jazz
Elisabeth Fontgonanou: Waiting for Spring - Nocturne
Trisha Yearwood: Songbook, A Collection of Hits - MCA HDCD
The Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble: Music for Productivity - ABT Music
Godspell:Orignal Braodway Cast Recording - Arista
Movie Night: A collection of Cinamatic Classics - Pottery Barn/Rock River

[lonewolfny42]

Wow....score...all that for $5.00....nice Tom !!!!          

[tmazz]

Wow....score...all that for $5.00....nice Tom !!!!          

I wish Chris. This time I actually had to pay real money for for the ones I bought at Infinity. (Not a large amount, but not Crack House prices either. I can't complain too much about) $75 for 8 LPs (5 of them sealed) and 7 CDs (1 sealed) is a great buy even thoug it is 3X more what I paid for all the rest of the music from the Crack House.

Hey, you can't expect to win them all.

[eleazar]

My thanks go to out to my friend Paul for my Crack House post today

[tmazz]

I'm listening to mthe radio this afternoon and a special report comes on warning people about the dangers of being exposed to the 100+ degree heat.  They wqere advising people to stay indoors and seek air conditioning. So I ask myself "Self, what can we do to keep cool this afternoon." And then it hits me, I know several local record styores thatg are all air conditioned. 

Hey, it's a health issue, I had to go. 

So I went out looking for cool air and cool music and did rather well on both counts

LPs:

RCA LSC Series -

Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, Rubinstein/Leinsdorf/Boston Symphony
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Symphony No.2, Gould/Chicago Symphony
Stan Getz & Arthur Fiedler at Tangelwood (with the Boston Pops)
Respighi: Feste Romane, Zubin Mehta/LA Philharmonic
Fiedler/Boston Pops: Music from the Million Dallar Movies

Mercury Living Presence
Tchaikovsky: 1812, Dorati/ Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Screamers! (No, not what you think  ) Circus MArchers played by Fredericj Fennell & the Eastman Wind Ensemble

Blue Note
Hank Mobly. The Flip (150 gram Reissue)
Lee Morgan: The RumpRoller (150 gram Reissue)
Lee Morgan: Cornbread (150 gram Reissue)
Bobby MdCFerrin: Stontaneous Interventions

Verve
Ella Swings Softly with Nelson  (Fitgerald and Riddle)

Misc.
The Phil Woods Quintet: Songs for Sisiphus  (Century Records Direct to Disc)
Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits (Monument)
David Crosby: If I could Onlt\y Remember My Name (TAS List)
Yes: Cose to the Edge
The Who Meaty, Beatry, Big & Bouncy
Eric Weisberg & Steve Mandel: Dueling Banjos and other music frp "Deliverence"


CDs:
Jon Jarvis: Purfe Contours - MCA Masrer Series
Kim Pensyl: Eyes of Wonder - GRP
GRP& FM98 KiFM Present Jazz San Diego Style - Voilume III
Still Strung Out on U2 - A String Quartet Tribute (Vitamin Records)
The String Quartet Tribute to Creed (Vitamin Records)
Tribute to Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight (Vitamin Records)
Ain't that America: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Mellencamp
The Steve Miller BAnd: Greatest Hits 1974 - 78
Ben Webster: Big Ben Time (Philips)
Dick Hyman: In Rectial (Reference Recordings)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter  Songbook - Vol II (Verve)
Sting: The Dream of trhe Blue Turtles
Sting: Nothing Like the Sun

Wow, I'm out of shape with regards to this vampire stuff. I still have a whole pile of CDas left to post and I'm falling asleep. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

[tmazz]

OK, back to the list of my recent CD aquisitions:

Fourplay: Elixir
Ben Webster (with strings):Music for Loving
Madeline Peyroux: Bare Bones
Al Jarreau: Hevean and Earth
The Police: Every Breath You Take - The Singles
Now This is What We Cal Blues (Telarc)
32 Jems From 32 Jazz

And I found the following discs at the library:

Blue Note:
Blue Beat - Blue Note Plays the Music of Lennon & McCartney
Blue Porter - Blue Note Plays the Music of Cole Porter
Blue Big Bands - A Swingin' Affair
Blue Ballads
Cassandra Wilson: Lovely
Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony

32 Jazz
Jazz for When You're Alone
Jazz for When You're Not Alone
Jazz for Those Peaceful Moments
Jazz for a Lazy Day
Jazz for the Open Road

Misc

David Benoit: Jazz for Peanuts - A Retrospective of the Charlie Brown TV Themes
Jim Brickman: Beautiful World
Jim Brickman: Greatest Hits

[eleazar]

Yerterdays acquisitions at PREX on vinyl


 Jimi Hendrix on 180 gram vinyl
1. The Jimi Hendrix Expierence
2. Axis: Bold As Love
3. Electric Ladyland

4. Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
5. Gary Burton Chick Corea ~ Crystal Silence
6. Dave Crusin Lee Ritenour ~ Harlequin  

plus 26 CD's 14 for me and 12 for the wife I think she should stay home next trip  

[etcarroll]

Yerterdays acquisitions at PREX on vinyl

plus 26 CD's 14 for me and 12 for the wife I think she should stay next trip   

Oh c'mon, she's a good girl and deserves to get out of the house and buy stuff to!

You didn't get the Getz/Gilberto #2 I mentioned I saw?