Patrick Gleeson

Hi Bill,

I was looking for him too recently. There's:

http://www.patrickgleeson.com/

which has just a photo and "Please check back in July!" - and I don't think they mean this July! More up to date is:

http://profile.myspace.com/ind…D=78596661

but Rainbow Delta doesn't get a lookin, just the stuff in the Jazz world.

I also found a site with it as what looks (superficially legit) download album, but the samples sound like a really bad crackly vinyl transfer.

Rainbow Delta is one of the few albums I still need to transfer to cd. Lacking time though.

By the way, it was our very own Vignoble that pointed me to this album (IIRC)... back in 80-something. We've never met. And now we're working together on the EMPortal. It's a small world!

On Gemm, I also found out that he might be the composer of Star Wars' Cantina music. Is he?

I have never bought anything from them. It is sort a personal principle never to pay for a legal mp3 (even if that means that I have to miss out on some great music every now and then, like the new Altus recording and it's good cause). And not to download illegal material that is still available on it's original medium for that matter...

To be perfectly honest, I have no problem with downloading OOP material that has been willingly deleted by the (major) record companies, regardless of it's origin- legal or illegal... If they refuse to reissue them on a proper medium like CD, I refuse to pay for it, it's as simple as that. So call me a thief...I feel that I have been robbed for too long by record companies to feel any remorse. But we're getting off-topic here...

I just found Anthology Recordings during my googlesearch for Patrick Gleeson. A little survey on their webside revealed that they use 320 kb/s MP3 resolution, so that is absolutely defendable from a sound quality point of view. The Gleeson tracks however had a lot of audible "clicks" in them (at least, the snippets you can listen to prior to ordering, and I don't think the ones you pay for will be cleaned up...).

Cleaning up vinyl recordings is not just a simple matter of running the music through a program like Steinberg Clean! or any other software for that matter. Even the ludicrously expensive restoration software by Algorithmix delivers a compromise between click removal and loss of high frequencies, although Algorithmix is the best I ever heard...

The only thing you can do is try to find the best/cleanest copy you can get, use a good record cleaner, and a very good mastering turntable. Not a boot-sale leftover with a blunt beedle, but a proper record player with a good, deep tracking needle (like a vygerII shaped needle or a vdHul modified needle).

And finally some minor automated cleaning, and a lot of honest click-removal by hand. That is true vinyl restoration, but this is far too expensive...therefore, most of the commercial vinyl-to-CDr re-issues will sound rather poor... For instance: the vinyl re-issues from Fonos. They all sound rather dull because of mediocre cleaning software on a much too high setting... Their OOP CD copies sound much brighter and livelier.