[78-L] New Armstrong set - Jazz Times review

[David Lennick]

EMI listened years ago when their first "A Record of Singing" proved to have 
pitch problems and defective transfers. Maybe enough sh*t will hit the fan over 
this one. It may be "old music" but it was given exposure during the last 
season of "Treme".

dl

On 12/15/2012 12:31 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> Bureaucracies often sacrifice quality for expediency. No doubt they did not start from scratch but simply used something that they used before in order to get it out quickly with a minimum of upfront cost. This is standard operating procedure for the major record companies and has been for years. As Alec Issigonis, designer of the Mini automobile in 1959 once said (and which Allan Sherman stole for "Peter and the Commissar"), "A camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."
> Cary Ginell
>
>> From: timhuskisson at btinternet.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:10:43 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] New Armstrong set - Jazz Times review
>>
>> "The first two discs (containing the Hot Five and Seven material) are
>> mastered off-pitch, a half-tone low."
>>
>> This is outrageous. How does such carelessness still happen?
>>
>> Tim Huskisson
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Cary Ginell
>> Sent: 15 December 2012 17:04
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] New Armstrong set - Jazz Times review
>>
>>
>> http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/a-box-of-blessings-slightly-mixed-
>> louis-armstrong-the-okeh-columbia-and-rca-victor-recordings-1925-1933-sony-m
>> usic/
>> Cary Ginell