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In Reply to: RE: Baloney. nt posted by Rick W on February 27, 2015 at 22:13:57
... at the point of sale.
A placard or two would help. This is why our CDs sound better than MP3s.
A little squib on the back about how the CD was recorded wouldn't hurt, either.
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Since you don't even know my name, have never heard my recordings, and haven't read the liner notes for my cd's it would have been sensible to ask me a question or two before providing unneeded advice.
Tom, I read/enjoyed your column for decades. But your posts about this subject are needlessly harmful. You shouldn't be making blanket negative comments about jazz musicians' cd's offered for sale at gigs - especially since you refuse to back up what you say.
I repeat -- none of the MANY jazz musicians I know sell mp3's at gigs. They sell exactly what fans of their music can buy at vendors like Amazon - burned or pressed Redbook cd's.
I can't remember where you live, so maybe you're referring to some group of young local musicians you heard at a small town club that in fact doesn't have real cd's released. But it is definitely NOT representative of the norm. Patrons of jazz clubs/concerts who go out to hear professional musicians have no reason to worry that if they purchase cd's at gigs they'll be getting inferior mp3's pawned off as cd quality recordings.
I remember jamming with a local reggae band at a Jamaican resort where they were part of the night's entertainment and I was a guest who was very ... much in a party mood. Ahem. For some reason they wanted to rehearse with me -- repeatedly -- our song, Jamaica Farewell (which they referred to as "De Island Song, Mon") before letting me go on stage with them.
After our performance, they offered me the opportunity to buy a homemade CD from them which they played for me with a boom box. Even in my impaired state I could tell it sounded like sh#t, and I didn't buy it.
Sam/Tom is likely thinking about something like that, certainly not your work or that of musicians on your level.
nt
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