Folks, I am so excited I’m about to wet my pants. One of the greatest live dates of all time, Dave Liebman’s Pendulum, recorded at the Village Vangard in the late 70s, has just been re-released by Mosaic Records. It has never been released in CD form.
But that’s not all. Get this: it is not […]

I’m not talking about burning a 1) copy of a CD you own so you can have a copy to play in your car, 2) a mix CD of your favorite songs from your CD collection, 3) replacement CD for a store bought CD you own that doesn’t play (see my post CD Doesn’t Play […]

STRATEGY FOR DEFECTIVE STORE BOUGHT CD
Well, check Amazon.com to see if the CD is still available. If it is, replace your CD.
If the CD isn’t available, all is not lost. Simply rip your store bought defective CD with your computer, edit the files to make sure that all clicks and pops are removed, and then […]

HOW TO CHECK IF THE PROBLEM IS YOUR CD PLAYER
How do you check to see if this is the case? Well, you check your CD on a player that works! If the CD plays perfectly, you know what the problem is. Go out and buy a new CD player!
If you prefer a CD changer, especially […]

DON’T AUTOMATICALLY THROW OUT THAT CD!
There are a number of situations that might arise when a CD doesn’t play, and as counterintuitive as it might seem, it almost NEVER means you should throw out your CD. I’ll take these situations one at a time.
BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CD PLAYER
Let’s say you have a store bought CD […]

Premiering today is a new section in the site - Classics That I Hate. 
You may as well know –- there are absolute jazz classics that I just don’t like. What do I mean by classic? Well, classic in this context means that these recordings were hugely influential or there is a large subset of jazz […]

WHO THIS POST IS NOT FOR
All right, some of you are probably audiophiles. You have plastic sleeves for all of your records. You hold the records by the edges when you play them. You don’t have kids who use your records for a frisbee. Or dogs. Or cats. You actually clean your records. You actually […]

If you want to have more control over the LP to CD conversion process than a turnplayer/CD Recorder combo can afford you, there is another solution.
RECORD PLAYER TO COMPUTER
Basically, you will need to transfer your analog signal (that’s your stereo) to digital (that’s your computer), where your sound card will record the signal. For that, […]

THE PROBLEM
A lot of old fogies (like me) may have a library of 500 or more LPs left over from back in the days before CDs. And a good thing, too. A lot of those old LPs were never reissued as CDs.
Or maybe you’ve heard about some classic LP that isn’t available on CD (see […]

If you’re over a certain age, you probably have a collection of LPs somewhere, and you need something to play them on, but that’s not the only reason you need to own a turntable. 
If you’ve read my post Finding Out of Print titles, you know that since jazz is a niche market, titles go out of print […]