Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Indymisanthrope said:
So I’ve seen this (I know you and he have a long-standing correspondence) and the offer Cam apparently made to chat with @johnpisme... It’s a little weird to do this level of individual customer contact for something you’re claiming was intentional, isn’t it? It’s either a problem for all of the customers, or it’s an intentional thing, but in neither case is the right-size solution for two of the company execs to be PMing individual customers and trying to talk them down over the phone.

That’s not even a criticism, it’s just something I don’t understand.
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They probably see it as a win-win. First, that they're humanizing themselves and going above and beyond what's required of them in reaching out personally. And 2nd, if no one takes them up on the offer, they can somehow spin it like, "well, we tried reaching out to all of you and was turned down, so what do you expect?"

And lastly, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH MORE TIME
 
TCell said:
Cam just posted in the FB Group the 12 albums Don Was came to them with:

Bop
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2
Horace Silver – Horace Silver Trio

Hard Bop
Dexter Gordon – Dexter Calling
Hank Mobley – Roll Call

Post Bop
Lee Morgan –The Procrastinator
Wayne Shorter – Schizophrenia

Soul Jazz
Big John Patton –Got a Good Thing Goin’
Lou Donaldson –The Natural Soul

Fusion
Bobby Hutcherson – Montara
Eddie Henderson –Heritage

Modern
Robert Glasper – In My Element
Ambrose Akinmusire – Origami Harvest
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I can’t find this post!
 
High Rant District said:
IIRC, the relatively recent Rolling Stones in Mono box set had poorly-recreated album art. The sound quality is supposedly fantastic though.



I think the difference is that they had true long-time Blue Note aficionados working on those releases - people who grew up loving, buying and listening to Blue Note. Differences in labels are a big deal to folks like that, and they'd spot an aberration in a heartbeat. VMP didn't have that going for them (AFAIK) on this project.

That said, even the well-regarded audiophile reissuers make mistakes. The recent Analogue Productions UHQR Hendrix releases were supposed to be foil-stamped on the boxes but were not, and were supposed to have a hand-signed something-or-other in the package but don't.



I ordered for the education aspect as well ("Join us and become a true student of jazz."). I don't do Facebook so have no idea what's happening with that aspect of the purchase. Hoping to at least learn how to differentiate between the six different 'flavors' offered in this set, and maybe have something 'click' for me with old-time jazz. Worse-case scenario is I'll have a mostly AAA box set that should have pretty good sound quality; had it been pressed at GZ rather than RTI I wouldn't have purchased.
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Holy cow! I've spent the past 6 days trying to remember your screen name and wondered if you'd find your way over here. Happy to see you, man and hope you're well. You always made me chuckle.
 
botherly said:
Oh serious question, why was there an AMA with Storf? Did he do his PhD in music theory with an emphasis on post-bop or something? Or was it just like, hey this guy works here and loves music so ask him some questions! I'm trying not to judge that since I didn't watch it (the thing's an hour long so...) but that seemed weird honestly.

Now I think I'm just nitpicking, but man. I really did think there'd be an education experience. Maybe there still will be as we go forward but I doubt it.
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I definitely remember getting the impression that there would be an AMA or two with someone from the industry. Like a producer, engineer, label guy, musician. I'm not sure if this was from a list of possibilities that was thrown out by staff on the old forum or if I just saw that there would be AMAs and jazz education and made an assumption, or maybe it was stated somewhere at some point.
 
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