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Re: [ARSCLIST] Good prices on good music
I should add, I placed an order on Tuesday, picking from all their labels. It all arrived in great
shape today. Alas, one of the Stax titles is now out of print.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "phillip holmes" <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Good prices on good music
I contacted them a few months ago about vinyl and they deleted it all, which I understand. That's
not a big deal. There is plenty of OJC still floating around and can be had for $10 or less.
They're still licensing the jazz stuff to boutique audiophile labels for SACD and high quality
vinyl. I think the new company makes for a great music oriented label that can weather the MP3
storm (as opposed to a BS oriented label that can't find their buttocks with both hands).
Phillip
Tom Fine wrote:
Concord Music Group is the company that has rolled up Concord, Fantasy and Telarc. They sell
everything right from their website:
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/
Good prices, see especially the Stax 50th anniversary promo.
Also interesting, Concord seems serious about breathing new life into their now vast holdings.
They have already issued some modern remasters of the Stax catalog, which was last remastered by
Fantasy mostly in the 1980's. And, they've contracted legendary jazz producer Orin Keepnews to
supervise remastering of his favorite Riverside titles, called the Keepnews Collection. I hope
they go back and do a wave of remastering for the Pablo catalog, because many of the Fantasy CD's
don't do justice to the excellent recordings. Also would be nice to remaster all the great
Contemporary albums engineered by Roy Du Nann. Need to do it right, though. Du Nann explained in
an interview some years back with Stereophile magazine that he sometimes added plate reverb
during LP mastering, which is why some of the Fantasy CD's don't sound right vs. the original
LPs.
I think but can't confirm that Concord Group either never went into LPs or quickly sold out all
the remaining Fantasy LPs. If you notice, the last of the Fantasy LP stock from the 80's and
early 90's is widely discounted in the online retail world.
See also all the Fantasy and Telarc SACD titles available.
Overall, I'm very impressed with the stated intentions of this company. If they can make it work
in the modern music business model, it's great news for fans and collectors. Selling directly
from their website at very competitive prices is a great start that other, bigger, companies can
learn from!
Finally, there's a good interview with Orin Keepnews about this reissue series at Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/2f4pgx
see the "video" link about 1/3 down the page. I hope I'm of that clear mind when I get into my
80's!
-- Tom Fine