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13 Responses to “Friday Night Jazz: $5 MP3s”

1. wunsacon Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 10:11 pm

   I hope folks sell .flac (or other loss-less format) someday…

2. Ramstone Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

   Is there any way to turn off the grid view. No way I’m gonna navigate 80 pages of album covers.

3. Fredex Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

   Vince Guaraldi has been gone thirty four years. Just sayin’

   ~~~

   BR: Fantastic disc. Few people have created more evocative music for a specific mood. As soon as you hear the first few notes, you know exactly what this is.

4. badtrader Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

   Shame on Amazon for propagating a terrible compression format like MP3 and not giving the option to download the music in FLAC or shorten (both lossless formats). Music lovers should shun MP3 (and let sellers know it too – I will inform Amazon of this, I encourage others to do the same) and insist that FLAC or Shorten formats be offered. When people share these MP3 recordings in the future, they will be spreading inferior recordings which hurts the music “gene” pool.

   Speaking of great music being offered in FLAC format, you can download from Wolfgang’s Vault a great Chicago (as in Chicago Transit Authority) recording from a show they did at the Fillmore West (in San Francisco) on Aug 17, 1969. It’s $10 to download it in FLAC and a smokin’ performance. If you like Terry Kath (the one playing the excellent guitar on 25 Or 6 To 4), you need this one (great recording too). That’s a great site, tons of recordings from great concerts done in the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s from the late Bill Graham’s vault (Wolfgang was his first name).

   http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/chicago-transit-authority/concerts/fillmore-west-august-17-1969-late-show.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100115

5. badtrader Says:
   January 15th, 2010 at 11:38 pm

   I should have added you can listen to the entire show there (for free) if you want to know if you’ll like it before you buy the download. I also should add (and will) that I have no financial interest at all with WV – just a big music fan who’s putting the word out for people who like music from that era, especially live shows.

6. DL Says:
   January 16th, 2010 at 1:50 am

   The George Thorogood album is not a bad deal for 5 bucks.

7. Barry Ritholtz Says:
   January 16th, 2010 at 5:07 am

   I prefer CDs, which I then have the choice of lossless compression when I move to a HD.

   I bought some discs last month, and got a free credit for Amazon MP3s (got Taylor Swift MP3s for the missus, and truth be told the album art for me).

   Like I said, I am not a fan of MP3s — Dark Side of the Moon in MP3 is a crime — but at $5 per, it ain’t a bad deal . . .

8. smerritt Says:
   January 16th, 2010 at 8:20 am

   I was looking for the post from Kanye- “you know Barry Taylor Swift is good, but Beyonce…”

   I’ve got a couple of the Coltrane albums and they’re both excellent.

9. ToNYC Says:
   January 16th, 2010 at 9:05 am

   Not for nothing, but just asking..when Prez blew some million and a half notes a night on 52nd Street back in the day, he got a few bucks, a rush of love and a night of reefer…his estate got nothing. Money is only one very divertable means to the end, so why is the music BUSINESS getting in the way of old love being free. His notes went out and have echoed and reverberated and resonated to, back and then again from the outer sphere of the universe and come back through the internet…so you pay Amazon? I don’t get it, but then I got too much.
   The Summer of Love is back again having jumped the shark of Synthetic Terror.

10. January 16, 2010 – Greg's Blog Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 11:23 am

    [...] Big Picture found a deal on CD MP3’s [...]

11. Mark E Hoffer Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    “Shame on Amazon for propagating a terrible compression format like MP3 and not giving the option to download the music in FLAC or shorten (both lossless formats). Music lovers should shun MP3″–badtrader, above..

    yes, I was fixin’ to ask if these really were MP3s, or that was just a ‘short-hand’ reference to ‘digital file’..

    MP3s should have left behind with the ‘dial-up’-Age..very 20th C., to be charitable..

    What’s worse, I think, is that many now think MP3s Are what Music sounds like..

    yet, another form of retardation..

12. Robert M Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Thanks for the post on the jazz albums. Next stop to peruse and buy.

13. The Ghost of Y2K Says:
    January 18th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    You just cost me 60 bucks!!