been a busy month, june, and i’ll be kicking back a bit over the next month… see you in august, mebbe a bit sooner.
Jun 282014
Jun 182014
i just downloaded “lester young – complete unreleased live recordings” over at ubu roi (http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/), and am listening to it now. well, part of it… it’s over 16 hours (!) of unreleased music by ‘prez’. this may take a few days, a couple of listens. ubu only shared it in mp3, not flac, but they’re at 192kbps, 44.1mhz and as ubu says on his blog “often with such old and non hi-fi recordings, the quality difference is barely noticeable at all…”
indeed, the shows sound very good (disclaimer: i use a tv with built-in speakers as a computer monitor; on the other hand, the monitor is only around 60cm/2feet away, so the speakers aren’t being pushed). lets just say i’ve enjoyed some audience recordings that were worse… much worse.
so… thanks, ubu!
Jun 132014
look for links to firedrive.com, in the comments of each post.
Apr 222014
i ran across the 100 greatest bootlegs blog recently. like my blog, it shares only in flac (free lossless audio codec) format, but doesn’t have a lot of jazz.
i don’t claim to be sharing anything that might remotely be described as “the greatest”… just whatever strikes my fancy at the moment.
but “100 greatest bootlegs” is a great idea and gets a big tip o’ the hat from me (even if i question the sad dearth of jazz in their selection). as does the all-to-rare use of flac, so many such blogs sharing low-quality mp3.
also like my site, the 100-greatest blog doesn’t share commercial releases, saying that “the music available for download on this blog has not been released officially by the artists and record companies. If any forthcoming releases contain music available here the links will be removed and the post kept for informative purposes only”.
Dec 302013
greetings from Vietnam. http://bullen.eu/lunch/. more when I am home.
Aug 062013
i’m in transit to s. korea… no new posts for a little while…
Dec 162012
i listen to music while i work, practically nonstop as i work from home and there is nobody to be bothered. it’s become sort of a measure of how busy i am, i think — if too busy to put on something new when the last selection ran out, then i’m pretty busy. sometimes, i’ll just queue up several concerts, maybe a whole day of one artist maybe a selection of shows by different artists, and just let it run. but even that doesn’t work: conference calls, speaker phone, i end up having to stop the music, and we’re back to the sort of measurement again. as my daughter (then four) said, when asked to do something, “too busy, too busy”. i suppose this’ll all change next year when we’re home in dublin again.
Nov 112012
in the parking garages in dublin, the machines where you pay flash little messages. the first message just tells you change is possible
so this blog.