Charles Mingus『Tijuana Moods』の1957年セッションテープには、演奏の合間の声と、37箇所の継ぎ目が残っている。2001年の2CDから聞き取れる会話を文字起こしし、テイク番号の欠落とデジタル無音の分布から、失われたものの輪郭を描く。
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Revisiting “Tijuana Moods”: the voices and the seams left on the session tapes
Charles Mingus’s Tijuana Moods, twenty years on: voices between takes, 37 splices, skipped take numbers and digital silence on the 1957 RCA session tapes.
Things I learned on Phono EQ curves, Pt. 20
1953 NARTB / 1954 改訂 AES / 1954 RIAA の規格が出揃ったあと、米国の各レーベルはどのように RIAA カーブによるカッティングへと移行していったのか、その変遷をさまざまな資料をたどって追ってみました。同時に、過去〜現在の再生カーブ調査探求の系譜についても調べてみました。
Microgroove War May Be Settled Soon
I have introduced various old record catalogues in my previous articles (see “Old Record Catalogues” articles, Part 1, 2, 3, and 4, although they are currently written only in Japanese), and some articles also featured qutations from disc reviews and ads on Down Beat magazine back issues which I have. Actually it’s always fun and interesting to read from pages to pages, ads to ads, reviews to reviews – such magazines and newspapers of many many years ago still delivers atmosphere of that era, working like “time capsules” of when Jazz was one of the driving forces in the Popular music. Other than that, they are full of invaluable information which is very useful for discographic purpose.