Steve Marcus = スティーヴ・マーカス* + J. Inagaki & Soul Media* = ソウル・メディア* – Something = サムシング
Label: | Columbia – NCB-7003 |
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Series: | Adventure In Sounds, MS Master Sonic |
Format: | |
Country: | Japan |
Released: | |
Genre: | Jazz |
Style: | Fusion, Avant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz |
Tracklist
| A1 | Something | 6:50 | |
| A2 | Fairy Rings | 9:49 | |
| B | Serenity | 11:44 |
Companies, etc.
- Made By – Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.
Credits
- Arranged By – M. Satō*
- Bass – Yasuo Arakawa
- Drums – Hajime Ishimatsu, Seiji Tanaka
- Electric Guitar – Ryo Kawasaki
- Electric Piano, Piano – Masahiko Sato*
- Tenor Saxophone – Jiro Inagaki
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Steve Marcus
Notes
Recorded in Tokyo, September 1970 (Denon prototype system)
Ⓒ 71・1 ㋑☆
発売元 ・ 日本コロムビア株式会社
Master Sonic
PCM Recording
Non-distortion Cutting
Ⓒ 71・1 ㋑☆
発売元 ・ 日本コロムビア株式会社
Master Sonic
PCM Recording
Non-distortion Cutting
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): SX-2893
- Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): SX-2894
- Other (Price): ¥2,000
Other Versions (3)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission | Something (LP, Test Pressing, Gatefold) | Columbia | NCB-7003 | Japan | 1971 | ||
New Submission | Something = サムシング (CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered) | Columbia | COCB-54056 | Japan | 2013 | ||
New Submission | Something (LP, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo) | Cobrarose Records | CR69055 | South Korea | 2022 |
Recommendations
1972 JapanVinyl —LP, Album
Reviews
Edited one year agoSteve does it again!
Fairy rings has great electric piano playing and a loose dreamy feel like Miles Davis' 1968 track "Stuff". it sounds great coming right after the titular Beatles cover, like a spooky cousin to George Harrison's classic.
Serenity is anything but , its a proper gnarly Free Jazz/Rock work out!
It was an inspired move to hook up with Soul Media, they have the edgy abrasive sound of his first 3 albums down cold.
The prices that even a recent reissue command speaks to the esteem in which Steve Marcus is held.
Thankfully his 4 previous albums remain a little more affordable for the curious newcomer
As other have mentioned, this was, in fact, the first commercially released digital recording; released obviously as an analog LP, 11 years before Compact Disc was introduced. They used the NHK Japan PCM recorder - which ran at 13 bit, 32kHz (for comparison, CD is 16 bit, 44.1kHz). This would capture dynamic range similar to analog tape and slightly better than vinyl LP, but a frequency range (bandwidth) cutting off below 16kHz. Analog tape and vinyl extend far beyond 20kHz.
Info per various AES archives; https://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/fine_dawn-of-digital.pdf- Edited 2 years agothere is a reussie by beatball music (korea) out in november. 180 vinyl, remastered and cut from master tape source according to their announcement.
- The version of Fairy Rings is a great! I must keep typing because this review requires at least 10 words.
Probably this is the first commercial digital recording, using PCM digital technology.
Release
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