[78-L] New 78 rpm re-issues - is there anything else but opera?

[Kristjan Saag]

Milan P Milovanovic wrote:

> I always wonder if anything besides opera ever saw the light of the day, 
> recently, in vinyl - pressed > directly from original metal parts?
> I mean jazz, pop music, classical symphony pieces or solo works etc. It 
> will be real pleasure to
> listen i.e. Goodman, Ellington, Basie on newly processed 78 rpm record in 
> quiet (virgin) vinyl. Or > 16" transcriptions, also.
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This would have been a good idea about ten-fifteen years ago. But with 
virtually everything issued today being converted into audio files, without 
loss of sound quality, and with the improvements of sound restoration 
techniques, I'd doubt that there'd be enough collectors to make such a 
project profitable. Even with previously unissued Beiderbecke or Basie 
masters as raw material.
Kristjan