[Trombone-l] Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit

[Chris Tune]

It could very well be that earlier pressings were made with the Cactus CD 
protection.  Perhaps after the record company heard the very negative 
reactions throughout the CD buying world (this has been pretty well 
publicized), they then continued pressings without the Cactus protection 
scheme.  Thus, some of you have the thing with no copy protection.

There is no way to tell when this CD was actually stamped and whether that 
pressing was a copy protected one or not.  I'm OK now, because my analog 
copy (via the audio card - Echo Gina, or Mona or whatever the name is. . 
.and the Behringer audio console, and the tiny Panasonic portable CD player. 
. .came out just fine. . . no spikes.)

This look to me to definitely be the Cactus process.  My *.wav files had all 
these bizarre spikes.   That is a dead giveaway.   I've skimmed a "white 
paper" about the process (the intent was to urge programmers to create VST 
or DirectX plugins that would provide the Reed-Solomon error correction--I 
understand the process).

Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Tune" <crtune at adelphia.net>
To: "Mike Irwin" <theimpalakid at gmail.com>; <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit


> Coincindence. . .definitely.  I just happened across this one at Tower a 
> few
> weeks ago.  I always look for West Coast Jazz greats like the Lighthouse
> groups, Sheldon, Kamuca, and so forth.  When I glanced at this one, I
> immediately saw that these were Holman charts that I've known and loved 
> for
> years and the band was great with all the guys you so dilligently listed 
> on
> the eBay listing.
>
> I'd highly recommend the CD even though there is no "extended" trombone
> soloing.  Most solos by anybody, whether Holman, Kamuca, Feldman, 
> Rosolino,
> Fontana, or Sheldon and Candoli. . . .are all basically "one chorus and
> away" type solo flights.  The thing is that this is the best of this 
> genre.
> I'd call it Hollywood Contrapuntal Jazz of the late Fifties.   Different
> than the more famous Mulligan and Brubeck stuff of roughly the same 
> period.
> This is a regular big band, voiced so you have three bone unison lines
> playing against unison trumpets and then sax block chord tags (for 
> example -
> Holman has many other, similar techniques. . .the idea is that the big 
> band
> moves like a small band. . .and it DOES).  Bill Holman figured, I guess,
> that you could write for big band with elements composed very much the way
> Mulligan did for an Octet or Septet or Whatevertet.   The first thing you
> note about Bill's charts are the vast amount of unison, tempered with nice
> stabs of chord voicings, or the occasional voiced out sax soli.  Plenty of
> room for everybody who can do jazz (which is basically every, single soul 
> in
> the band). to be heard doing it.
>
> I really like the album--though I'd point out that this is not an ordinary
> big band sound. . .really something quite different.
>
> I really don't like the copy protection.  It plays great on my portable CD
> player, my CD player in the Honda and I'm sure any other classic CD 
> player.
> But it is a mess on the PC and on the laptop. I ripped files to mp3 and 
> they
> were a mess. I'm now wondering if there is a directX or VST thingy that 
> will
> add in the Solomon Reed error correction that eliminates the noise.
>
> Now I've brought everything via analog over to Cubase and exported to 
> 320kbs
> /44.1khz / 16bit mp3 files.   A long, but effective process.
>
>
> Chris Tune
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Irwin" <theimpalakid at gmail.com>
> To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit
>
>
>> What a co-inky-dink this was mentioned... I happen to have a CD of this
>> out
>> on eBay...
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200031819082
>>
>> Pardon the shameless self-promotion....
>>
>> Mike Irwin
>> theimpalakid at gmail.com
>> Lesser Southern Nicholasville-Jessamine County (KY) Brass Quartet Minus
>> Three
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