Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Complete Lansdowne Recordings (1965-69)

Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet - Stranded Records

 

For anyone in Australia I just preordered Shades of Blue LP from Discrepancy Records in Melbourne. Expected dispatch was mid March.

 

And Norman Records in the UK too. As for AAA? The box suggests that they are, but if you search this thread, there seems to be some conflicting information.

Don Rendell. Vinyl, CD and tapes by Don Rendell at Norman Records UK.

 

Cool, thank you for the heads up on the UK.

 

I preordered the five individual albums today. No way I'm gonna let this slip through my fingers again.

 

I think this is an example of new vinyl marketing: creating a hype while implying the record is AAA - i.e. cut from the analog master - while the truth is: digital master. They carefully not state this was cut from the tapes, but you get the impression. I did anyway when I read this the first time:
"We located and acquired the original analogue master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce (...)" and
"180g vinyl mastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London"
No doubt these records sound fine - I'll be ordering one or two - but they most certainly would have sounded better when cut from the tapes. I have yet to hear a digitally sourced record that sounds better than the analog original or reissue.

 

Information is stated on the aaa process on the booklet from the box.

 

Thanks, I did not see "analogue cut and mastering" before. This is not mentioned online as far as I know. So we have not only a suggestion but a claim from the label that it's AAA and the email from Abbey Road that indicated digital, right?

 

I am almost 100% it has been heavily discussed in this thread I may have posted that picture before. At the time it was being thrown back and forward so I uploaded the shot to discogs & I think this thread. I really wish companies would make them so it’s clearly stated if it’s digits or AAA as it is very important. I must confess I still have not played all these yet I just can’t get away from acoustic blues to go listening to jazz, the day will come though.

 

You're right, this was discussed in this thread, that why i hesitated ordering these records. And I meant that Jazzman did not mention online (on the website) the info you provided with your scan. Today I ordered Dusk Fire and Shades of Blue, your info convinced me enough.

 

I think the confusion comes from Abbey Road itself, not the label. Abbey Road is a large enough studio with all sorts of folks mastering lps there that whomever answered the original post's question about analog or digital probably wasn't informed enough to answer the question and likely reading off a sheet of information.

 

Now in stock at Jazzman!

 

Ordered the three still available from Jazzman, Dusk Fire from somewhere else, and was pleased to pick up Shades Of Blue from Honest Jon's this afternoon.
Utterly great: music, sound quality, packaging (oh those flipbacks), everything.
Wunderbar!

 

Yes, I screwed up on an order direct with Jazzman and now everything is out of stock with them (also including the 2 new Spiritual Jazz albums that they released this week). Good for them - I dropped them a note and it sounds like it will be May before there are any more available. I managed to get everything apart from 'Shades of Blue' from various places (I had to order from 3 seperate vendors)! Looking forward to getting them and spending some time with them - hopefully I can pick up any I miss when the next batch comes through.

It really is incredible to see how these are selling out - everywhere is out of stock - Juno, Rough Trade, Normans etc. I'm really happy for Jazzman records.

 

I'm getting really pi**ed at Universal. How can those represses be sold out before release? They knew exactly how big demand was. This and Universal's policy to release Blue Note's Tone Poet titles in Europe with a 6 week delay (Sam River's "Contours") leaves me wondering what their agenda is...

 

Available in the States.

 

All titles listed as still available at Honest Jon's in London.

 

Picked up all 5 titles today and with what limited listening to I've done so far am extremely impressed. I've only had some downloads to listen to previously, and obviously these are on a completely different level. And yes, the packaging is top rate as well. Very pleased.

 

Urgh. Most places are sold out of some (if not all) of the titles. Where is the go-to place to buy all 5 of these in one fell swoop? All 5 in stock and ready to ship?

 

Is Stranded sold out? They are holding themselves out as having copies for sale: Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet - Shades Of Blue LP Jazzman - Stranded Records

 

They are very good about updating their website so I would say they have them. It's where I got mine over the weekend. I would order them online and call to follow up.

 

For anyone who missed out, there are more coming in May.

 

My copy of Dusk Fire arrived today. Beautifully done, quality pressing, sounds FANTASTIC!

 

As of right now Stranded has all titles in stock. Just ordered the three I didn’t have.

 

Great. I have the box but was thinking I would pick up extra copies because they are so good.