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In Reply to: RE: Thanks, and it did feel like an adventure of a lifetime , since I'm 68 already posted by alaskahiatt on April 23, 2014 at 23:36:06
Great story. Many of the great clubs are small and cramped and used to be so hazzy that you couldn't see 5 feet. Congrats. Can you or someone else explain a little more about "Srorpio" if you don't mind.
Tom Collins
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better to do a search in the archives using the word scorpio. I couldn't really pick out the best post in the archives, and there are over 200. I haven't had a chance to play my four Scorpio LPs yet, so I cannot give you any personal experience. From what I read, quality control and sound quality are frequently inferior. My four records were $13 each brand new. Many people have said that they would rather purchase the CD due to the digital sourcing and mastering.
things to look for. The album jackets are deceiving, as they have no publishing information and look like the originals. In fact ,this is one way to identify a Scorpio release.
Another way to identify the Scorpio releases is the address on the back bottom of the jacket. It will say 304 Park Ave. South.
The most positive way to ID the Scorpios is to observe the "S" in the deadwax, but you have to break the seal to do that.
Concentric glossy and non-glossy rings from the outer edge of the label to the spindle hole.
Scorpios...ah, well. It's surprising to me how many of them I've managed to pick up over the years. The company didn't just press LPs for Blue Note; it also contracted with Atlantic, Rhino, BMG, and a host of small labels. I've got Scorpio pressings of Sun Ra albums, Pharoah Sanders albums, the Dap Kings, Lee Konitz...
I strongly suspect that the LP+CD Blue Note reissues were pressed by Scorpio. "Mastered by Capitol" in the deadwax but the matrix code begins with that familiar "S."
Scorpio LPs range from pretty good to downright awful. Their only virtue is that they're cheap.
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The little old ladies wait in wild anticipation for the meetings of the Double-A-C-ASSN...
thanks hiatt. these sound like records sold by half-price books with a label called "wax time". about $13. they are mostly famous jazz records, expecially miles an brubeck. my understanding is that they are pressed overseas possibly in Italy and mastered from digital recordings, possibly even cds. i have bought a few brubecks that sounded pretty good and the well loved cannonball adderly, somethin else that is dog shit.
for that price, to get that music, if an original is $50 and up and the good reissues are $30 to $50 and up is a bargain even if it is not the same quality but decent, as these brubecks are. but when they are as bad as the addrely, then just a rip off.
Tom Collins
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