[Leica] OT - Music

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Jeff,
Sorry missed that one about buying the album. Makes it more useful, if
they will sell to me in India (Amazon will not, for example, sell me
music downloads, but will sell and ship me the physical CD or DVD). I
will check it out. By the way, "The Koln Concert" CD sells in India
for Rs.399 or approximately US$ 8.50. Literally the whole Blue Note
catalogue is available here on CD between Rs.199 and Rs.249 - US$ 4.25
- 5.30.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
> 2010-07-07-23:25:33 Jayanand Govindaraj:
>> Jeff,
>> I agree with you that composition is a better description than
>> improvisation for Jarrett's solo outings. Thanks for the link. The
>> problem with such sites is that they do not offer the complete album
>> for download, buying bits and pieces for an album like this one just
>> interrupts the flow. Works fine for general jazz and rock, though, as
>> a sampler.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "such sites"... ?did you actually look
> at the hdtracks.com site? ?You'll note that while they do, indeed,
> offer some individual tracks to buy separately, I guess because those
> darned Kids Today have come to expect such, they always also (and I'd
> say primarily -- that's certainly the only way I've bought music from
> them) offer entire albums. ?All tracks, cover artwork, the whole bit.
> Play them in the proper order, and it's just like you're playing the
> CD. ?Except you don't have to get up and change discs if it would've
> been a multi-CD release. ?And if you got a higher-than-CD resolution
> it sounds a bit more like real music than a CD can.
>
> See up top where it says "Buy Album"?
>
> It'd be silly to grab just one out-of-context hunk of a Jarrett
> concert. ?You have to hear it develop.
>
> Here that one is in high quality:
>
> https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD602527095837
>
> ...and here it is in mere CD quality:
>
> https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=602527095837
>
> Paris/London is expensive than most albums on the site because there's
> a lot of music there -- if delivered on physical media I guess it'd
> take three CDs.
>
> The classic Koln [where'd the umlaut go?] performance from 1975, for
> example, is $11.98 for the whole album.
>
> https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=042281006722
>
> Too bad it isn't available (yet?) in higher-res than the CD I already
> have. ?That raises a question: did ECM stop running analog tape (often
> higher resolution and more musical than 16/44.1 digital) at a certain
> point, and record some concerts irretrievably in low-res digital? ?I
> fear so, they were so convinced they were being "modern".
>
> Anyway, the hdtracks folk keep signing more and more labels, and much of
> what's available is actual excellent music, not just excellent-sounding
> but perhaps less-than-musically-involving "audiophile" fodder.
>
> They just added some Johnny Cash and Howlin' Wolf recordings from Sun
> Records!
>
> https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php
>
> ?-Jeff
>
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