On the record: Winona State digitizes big band jazz memories: The memories are etched in vinyl. Gary Urness, 71, still remembers the days when he and his fellow musicians piled into their cars and drove up to the Kay Bank Recording Studios in Minneapolis. “It wasn’t as high-tech as now,” Urness said. That was in the early 1960s, when Urness blew trumpet in the 18-member jazz ensemble Rhythmasters at Winona State University. The group would record up to 12 songs in a single day, pressing them onto 33-1/3 vinyl albums for posterity. The titles were all big band-era classics, such as “Making Whoopie,” “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” “Blue Velvet” and “Polka Dots and Moonbeams.”
Doug’s Records owner says it’s time to move on: YAKIMA, Wash. — The way Doug O’Leary sells used records — buying entire collections on the cheap and then reselling them for $3-$5 a record — may not exist for much longer, if it even still does outside of his Doug’s Records business. The boom in used record prices over the past several years has made cheap collections harder to come by. And O’Leary, who winces as he admits to bumping his own prices up by a dollar on many titles this year, doesn’t want to charge the higher prices needed to maintain his margins. Those market forces, combined with a bad back and the fact that he’s 81 years old, led O’Leary to tell his regular customers last month that he’s retiring at the end of this year.
Lidl and Aldi launch discount turntables for vinyl lovers, Music fans can play their records on some cheap vinyl players as we approach Christmas: The vinyl revival shows no sign of slowing down – with more and more music lovers turning to vintage forms of entertainment. Vinyl aficionados will say that nothing plays their music better than a proper record player. And, to tap into the renaissance of vinyl, two budget supermarkets are launching cheap turntables. Lidl and Aldi, two competitors which both boast multiple stores in Coventry and across Warwickshire, are going to be stocking the items.
Wellington City Libraries is riding the vinyl revival with a $21,000 record collection: It’s a record collection any vinyl junkie would be proud of – and it cost Wellington Central Library $21,000. More than a decade after it ditched its last records, the library has mirrored the cultural shift back to vinyl and invested in a new collection for borrowers earlier this year…Slow Boat Records assistant manager Jeremy Taylor said he gave a few tips to Monty Masseurs from Wellington City Libraries when Masseurs visited the Cuba St store earlier this year looking to cater for a diverse range of tastes.
RUSH Announces 40th-Anniversary Edition Of ‘2112’, Featuring Plenty Of Bonus Material: After celebrating over 40 years together with the same trio line-up, UMe continues the celebration of the RUSH catalog with the release of three 40th-anniversary expanded editions of the band’s classic 1976 album “2112”…UMe is also releasing a three-LP 200-gram vinyl edition incorporating all of the aforementioned audio material, plus a special laser-etched LP side, the 2015 hologram on “2112”‘s side B and a unique turntable mat featuring the band’s iconic Starman character. Fans will also have the option of purchasing a Super Deluxe edition of “2112”, incorporating both CDs, the DVD, all three LPs plus its bonus items, and several exclusive collectable items…
The music goes round at Saltaire retro and record fair: It shows they’ve never lost their groove. Records were the big sellers at a record and retro fair in Saltaire at the weekend. Several hundred people passed through the doors of the Caroline Social Club, where 20 stalls were selling everything from vinyl through CDs, to quirky 1960s furniture, vintage toys and film posters. Event organiser Julian Cole said: “A lot of people much younger than me are coming along in their 20s, perhaps starting to buy vinyl for the first time. It’s a new thing to them.
