Author Archives: Joseph Taylor

June 2023

It’s onerous to consider a at present energetic mastering engineer whose initials seem on extra LP lead-out grooves than Kevin Gray’s. He cuts the lacquers for Blue Note’s Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl collection, in addition to for rock recordings launched on vinyl by Intervention Records. He additionally remasters vinyl reissues for a few of Concord’s Craft Recordings reissues, together with the newly resurrected Original Jazz Classics collection. And that’s only a sampling of his present work.

May 2023

If you desire a good instance of vinyl’s wholesome return as a format, check out Blue Note’s Tone Poet reissue collection. Jazz lovers have embraced it, regardless of the marginally greater prices. The Tone Poet LPs are mastered to an audiophile customary and the packaging displays the care everybody has taken in presenting the good Blue Note and Pacific Jazz titles within the collection. The covers are product of heavy cardboard, with tipped-on, laminated paintings ready by Stoughton Printing. Most of the covers are gatefolds, with pictures from the unique periods. Record Technology Incorporated, among the best vinyl vegetation on this planet, presses the 180gm LPs.

March 2023

I’m on the e-mail listing for the author Ted Gioia, who maintains a Substack weblog publication referred to as The Honest Broker. Gioia’s listing of accomplishments is lengthy—he’s a music historian whose many books, together with The History of Jazz (in its third version as of 2021) and Music: A Subversive History (2019), are properly regarded. Gioia has additionally written many music opinions, and, for a time, owned a file label. His fiction opinions are additionally properly price studying, however they appear to have migrated to The Honest Broker, which is a pay website.

February 2023

Music is the reason for high-end audio. I still recall the first time I heard music on something that was better quality than the stereo console my parents owned. When I was in high school, I knew a keyboard player who worked part-time in an electronics supply shop. He convinced the owner, who might have been his dad—we’re going back quite a few years so the details are a bit fuzzy—to let him set up an audio shop in a section of the store.

February 2023

Music is the reason for high-end audio. I still recall the first time I heard music on something that was better quality than the stereo console my parents owned. When I was in high school, I knew a keyboard player who worked part-time in an electronics supply shop. He convinced the owner, who might have been his dad—we’re going back quite a few years so the details are a bit fuzzy—to let him set up an audio shop in a section of the store.