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

[David Lennick]

Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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.
> --
> 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 
> 

I was going to say something similar. The market for reissues, even the best 
ones, is very small, and virtually everything that is put out gets swiped and 
put online for free.

dl