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Actually this album had three distinct lives: 1. The Fortissimo version listed below 2. Pachanga With Barretto-Riverside RLP 97506 3. Barretto Para Bailar-Riverside RS 93531 With RLP 97506 coming first, followed by Fortissimo and finally 93531...I think. AA Tom Fine wrote: > Hi David/Aaron: > > I just read something somewhat relevant to this, in one of the Orin > Keepnews Collection CD reissues booklets. Apparently, Bill Gauer, > Keepnews' partner at Riverside, was a racing car nut and was very into > making these "environmental audio" recordings. The "super-fi" records > were not mentioned in Keepnews' notes, this was to a Blue Mitchell > album. The reference was that Keepnews was down in Florida with Gauer > helping out on one of these racing-cars recordings. Cannonball > Adderley insisted Keepnews go with him and hear Blue Mitchell in a > club during the trip, and Keepnews was duly impressed and signed > Mitchell to Riverside. To everyone's chagrin, the Mitchell records on > Riverside never sold well, and it's a credit to Keepnews that he still > felt strongly enough about Mitchell's talent to include "Blue Soul" in > the Keepnews Collection reissues. > > Tying in to Aaron's post, Ray Barretto provided some tasty percussion > on that album. > > -- Tom Fine > > PS -- one of the earliest "stereo spectacular" albums featuring race > cars was "500 Miles to Victory" on Mercury, recorded by Bill Putnam > and originally issued in stereo on a 2-track tape in 1956. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:56 PM > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Fortissimo > > >> Anyone remember, or even hear of, a label called FORTISSIMO produced >> by Riverside in 1961? Super-quiet surfaces (wonder how they managed >> that? Riverside never turned out a quiet disc in their lives), discs >> cut from the inside out (changer owners must have loved that), master >> tapes recorded at 60 IPS "with the heads oriented horizontally" >> (whaaaaa..?), a 400hz alignment tone, and repertoire such as Racing >> Cars, Jets, Pipe Organ (miked from inside, I think) and Banjo Polkas. >> >> Amazing what turns up in some of these old audio magazines that I've >> never run across in over 45 years of record collecting. >> >> dl >> >