{"id":1530,"date":"2008-11-25T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2008-11-25T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T18:27:05","slug":"the-listening-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-listening-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Listening Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fatherbrownatleisure.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/rene-and-rabbit-random-links-and-snarky.html\">John Salmon notes<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren\u00e9_Magritte\">Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>&#8216;s 110th Birthday was last Friday. Coincidentally, one of the LPs I recently recently transferred to CD was the first <strong><em>Dreams<\/em><\/strong> album, the cover of which is based on a Magritte painting. I  posted one of the tunes <a href=\"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2008\/11\/13\/hot-licks-horns-and-hippos\/\">here<\/a>. ((<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beck-Ola\">Beck Ola<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, another album with a Magritte cover, will probably be in the next batch that I digitize.))<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dreams2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dreams2-500x499.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dreams2\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1542\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are the Brecker brothers, Billy Cobham and their bandmates floating in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Below the fold are a few more of the albums that I pulled out to digitize recently. CDs have a lot of advantages over vinyl \u2014 they&#8217;re far more convenient; they don&#8217;t skip or get stuck (usually); there are no pops, clicks, hisses or rumbles \u2014 but for cover art, they can&#8217;t compare to LPs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><figure id=\"attachment_1544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1544\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/klezmorim2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/klezmorim2-500x497.jpg\" alt=\"Art by R. Crumb.\" title=\"klezmorim2\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1544\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by R. Crumb.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/smallfaces2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/smallfaces2-498x500.jpg\" alt=\"The square version. The original cover was round and notorious for rolling off shelves.\" title=\"smallfaces2\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1545\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The square version. The original cover was round and notorious for rolling off shelves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hicks3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hicks3-500x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hicks3\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/argent2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/argent2-246x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"argent2\" width=\"246\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/backdoor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/backdoor2-500x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"backdoor2\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1549\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: uploaded better pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Salmon notes that Ren\u00e9 Magritte&#8216;s 110th Birthday was last Friday. Coincidentally, one of the LPs I recently recently transferred to CD was the first Dreams album, the cover of which is based on a Magritte painting. I posted one of the tunes here. ((Beck Ola, another album with a Magritte cover, will probably be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-listening-room\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Listening Room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[340,345],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","tag-lp-covers","tag-magritte"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-oG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}