Get in the Groove: A Beginners Guide to Vinyl in the 21st Century

I believe you, of course, but I need photographic evidence to add to the story. As a reward, you get a photo credit byline. Seriously, shoot as much as you are able to, front back and both labels, and email me as file attachments, and I will prep and upload. Lubinsky was the sole founder and sole proprietor from until his death in Only some of these labels are ones that fit that description comfortably.

Some are labels that recorded one or two isolated sessions that ended up with Savoy e. Parrot or Regal , and one, Elektra, is of course still active even today and just happened to license five jazz LPs to Savoy once upon a time. Furthermore, the Regal and Century labels illustrated do not have any connection to Savoy.

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This Regal label is from as opposed to the Regal label with which future Savoy producer Fred Mendelsohn was associated. And this Century was not a record company at all, but a custom pressing service that was active from to It was a remnant of an attempt made in the late s to get radio stations to pay royalties to record companies and not just songwriters.

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It means the record is a cut-out, and is merely a more aesthetic way of indicating this than the drill holes and saw cuts used by other labels. This makes it sound as if Arista was created to take over the Savoy catalogue. Also, Clive Davis did not start Arista in partnership with Columbia Records, but with the film studio Columbia Pictures which had been associated with several other record labels earlier: Colpix, Colgems and latterly Bell.

The suffix indicates the countries to which UK Decca had the right to export copies of each release; some labels had more than one e. Most of the Savoy issues on Realm predate this. Any Market Street covers must probably be earlier than the spring of , because the Ferry Street address was already being used in magazine advertising by that point: Thank you Boursin, a lot to digest, delighted to have my guesswork corrected.

I am at the tail-end of correcting the label collection, thanks to all the guys that sent me in pictures of their copies, any more for any more please send. Second Edition of Guide is looking strong. Any more, keep it coming. I am not an expert, merely an aggregator of the knowledge of others. The combination however is powerful stuff. I re-read the Savoy entry in its entirety and noticed that work is in good progress. The labels are blood red, with marks indicating that the pressing is French.

The sleeves are of the soft flip-over type. As in the case of Danish Metronome pressings, which kept the U. I have only copy left: The lease operation must have come to an end around Savoy went into a new French adventure by leasing their masters to Musidisc. We are in the mid-sixties by then. Leased masters by Savoy from Europe: The cover courtesy French Tourist Office? Cover is Courtesy of British Travel Association. Tony Hall, like a real Tempo album. An album every serious collector, not only from the British Isles, should possess. There are some really wonderful post jazz releases worth mentioning: Whether the laminated front is wrapped around, for first issues, or is a pasted on sheet, leaving a white rim in front.

The labels going with these second issues are blood coloured, but not DG, instead they have a circular imprint around the spindle hole of about 2 cms. The first Mobley album was initially with an all black front, the second issue has the white rim because the sleeve was produced in another way, ditto for the labels, no deep grooves. Record collectors never sleep: I notice that your picture of Jazz Message is the first. I will send you a picture of the edition. Take a close look at the cover of Dexter Rides Again, sure looks like a white dude to me and not Dexter.

A little too pale, if you get my drift. Looks like they may have used a stock photo, and…added a saxophone apparently slung over his shoulder. Thank you for tackling the Savoy Label! What a wonderful overview of the legendary Savoy label. I always believed the NR stood for New Release. What year did Savoy take over the DeeGee catalogue?

I think that Abbey Record Mfg Co. Years ago at a WBGO record fair a record dealer was selling a large collection of lps with no covers. He had bought them from the son of an Abbey Record employee who had taken home all these records in generic paper sleeves. He had a lot of lps with blank Abbey test labels that could only be identified by the catalog number in the dead wax. One of the blank test labels was red wax but it had a NJ in the trail-off so I knew it was a New Jazz title was really hoping it was Eric Dolphy.

I suspect the employee took some liberties with pressing up copies for himself which makes me wonder what other anomalies could be out there. Nice job well done on Savoy which made me look into my own collection and then remembered that on the Savoy Reisssues Serie they put wonderfull watercolors of the artists on the cover; being a jazzpainter myself, I did enjoy it. Bushwhacking through the Savoy jungle.

As I come across this label in the used bins, they tend to be in very poor condition. Maybe that attests to the quality of the music — the records have been played to death. So obviously, Savoy would toss together whatever covers and labels they had on hand. Label is same color and style as what is pictured for It does not have a deep groove. I agree, must be something like that, no return, no retail. I mention the Regent, Savoy and Dawn labels.

Dawn did not have the NR stamp, all of the Savoys and Regents did. The one that comes to mind as stellar is the quartet with Bill Dixon and Archie Shepp. A very interesting subject. Like the Mehegan you show. The coloured versions came later. Thank you, Rudolf, a point entirely missing from online descriptions. I sense we have a long way to go with the Savoy legacy. I have my boots on, we go whatever is the distance. They actually hand drawn, trust me, this was a lot harder before photoshop. Upgraded the photo comparison. I must have been coverblind, I completely failed to notice the change first time around.

Now whenever I look at my lp I see Mobley in prayer. My father always used to tell me that Hank Mobley dated my mother before they got married. He spoke very highly of Mobley saying that he was a gentleman and never cursed or used foul language. Worth mentioning are the Savoy reissues of titles from the Signal label.

A very rewarding copy and better than the later terrible stereo re-issues. Savoy bought masters from companies which went broke, like Discovery, Signal, DeeGee and others.

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Many updates, corrections, additions. There are a few anomalies where records were released out of catalogue number sequence, and notably some Curtis Fuller titles that were not released for over a decade after recording MG , MG Colour fidelity varied between printers,, and the blood red can be a mid tone red or a darker red, but in both cases the vinyl should be deep groove.

Savoy Test Pressing The only thing better sounding than a promo is a test pressing, of which maybe a dozen will have been made of each record in order to gain approval and sign-off by the artists. Savoy Promo copies The best pressings are often though not always promos, first off the stampers, and usually carry the provenance of first original pressing. Illustrated, two editions of MG Fats Navarro, left original, right, later reissue: Hat-tip Aaron Cover art touches all the bases, from the bland, crass, stylish and dramatic. The Alternative Covers Colour was added later to many earlier monochrome covers, or an entirely different design or picture: Illustrated below, mids through to s Charlie Parker Memorial album and their respective colour labels: Just one readable copy of the Stereo sales pitch could be found from a seller who scanned his material: The British are coming!

Savoy Label Colour Label colour description is essential, and language can be an unreliable friend. Pressing dies and the deep groove DG The impression left by the dies which held the stamper in the record press are the strongest clue to identifying the earliest Savoy pressings and distinguishing them from later reissues. Small circular central ring sometimes may be like 3 below 3. Time to get out the trusty macro and get in close view at full screen to really get into the groove It is not the wide flat-bottom trench of Type 1, but neither is it the familiar single step-down of later die impressions.

The only ones who make any real money are the corporate types who are pushing the whole thing. The corporations are playing a numbers game here: The same thing is happening with stock photography. The mistaken idea of the digital age is to assume that everything can and should translate to the digital world. A similar and equally false assumption is that the digital version of something is necessarily as good as its "real" self. For instance, digital food is not really a good idea.

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Digital music works, of course, but as we're moving toward subscription services the whole thing is starting to feel pretty flimsy. Today, many people are deciding that we don't need no stinkin' subscription services. There are a lot of people listening to CD's, vinyl, cassettes, and even the occasional 8-track tape, and they're doing it because they enjoy the whole process of listening to "real" music. They also like the better audio quality, as opposed to the vapid streams of digitized audio they'd been hearing.

MP3's encoded at kbps are potentially pretty good, but a lot of MP3's are not They're not even kbps. Even the best ones are still just a fleeting bunch of ones and zeroes, unless you go ahead and record them to a tangible medium such as a CD. I've also mentioned that a lot of MP3's are junk no matter what the bitrate, because the "masters" they used were not really "masters", but poor copies. In a world where certainty and familiarity seem to be eroding fast into what often feels like a sea of madness, the vinyl LP represents an island of joy. I never thought I'd feel that way about cassettes and CD's, but yeah, those too.

The other day I just realized it would be pretty awesome if bands would put out tapes on CrO 2 cassette Vinyl is still the king of tangible music, and when you get a record that was done right, it's also the king of sound quality. The question is, what's the best way to record vinyl so you can listen to it elsewhere? Is the process difficult? We're going to have a quick primer on vinyl recording. As we'll see, the process is really not difficult.

It can actually be a lot of fun. What You'll Need - Turntable with a good cartridge check out my buyer's guide here and here - Stereo receiver or amplifer with a phono stage see buyers guide - Sound card with 3. I really like these because they are visually easy to recognize as music CD's amid a heap of data discs. The exact procedure will vary depending on what software you use. Basically, here's a summary: Make sure your "record" or "mic" input is not muted in your computer's volume control.

It often is, by default. Make sure your mp3 player software is closed, because it takes over your sound card! Open up your recording software. Start the software recording and then carefully lower the stylus onto the record. If it worked, you should end up with waveforms like this on your screen: In Audacity, recording is as easy as clicking on the button with the red circle sixth one from the left, in the upper left-hand corner of the screen , then clicking "stop" yellowish-gray square when the music is over. Record the whole side of the record.

You can split up the tracks and save them individually later make sure to do this before trying to burn a CD, or you won't be able to select different tracks in your car!! It's easier to do noise reduction on a whole side than to do it through each individual song, so do your noise reduction before saving the individual tracks. Not every recording will need noise reduction. Mostly, it's for vinyl that's been played quite a bit and has some surface noise.

Don't forget to save the audio project before you close out of the software. If you save the project as a WAV file, you will be able to open and edit it in most any software. This is also a lossless format. But this loss did not stop Brown and the next version of the J.

The veracity of that story aside, this album is funky as hell. In classic James Brown fashion, he lets the band do most of the work, featuring solos from the inimitable Fred Wesley on trombone, Maceo Parker on alto sax, and St. Clair Pinckney on tenor sax. Blasted open by its instrumental title track, Machine Gun is unapologetically sweaty. Led by legendary funk auteur George Clinton and featuring former members of the J.

Though clearly influenced by the disco scene, I Am showcases the kind of exuberant funk that only EWF could make. His first to go multi-platinum, launched Prince to new levels of popularity while foreshadowing the sound of his next juggernaut, Purple Rain. Click here to buy.