Ep322: Zev Feldman - Record Producer / Jazz Detective
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Zev Feldman has earned the title "The Jazz Detective", locating lost and rare works from Jazz legends like Bill Evans, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk & more. Today Zev shares his story, talks vinyl, lost & rare recordings and what's coming up soon!
Topics include:
- The evolution of Zev's record collection
- Zev's thoughts on collectable records
- The thrill of searching for records
- Zev going to estate sales & flipping records
- Original pressings v Modern pressings
- Enjoying Tone Poet & Music Matters pressings
- Searching archives for rare & lost recordings
- Balancing historic recordings with compromised audio
- Is there a recording of Lee Morgan's final performance?
- Discussing Lee Morgan Live at the Lighthouse boxset
- Reissuing modern records that are now rare and expensive
- The story of Monk - Palo Alto
- Finding tapes that were ruined over time
- Discussing the Blue Note archive
- Zev's upcoming projects
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| 0:54.8 | Well, hey there, everyone. Welcome to episode 32 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record |
| 1:01.0 | collectors, music nerds, and purveyors of good taste. My name is Nate. I do this here |
| 1:06.1 | podcast, and I absolutely love talking to my heroes about vinyl records, and today we have got a great |
| 1:13.4 | guest, record producer, and the guy who's earned the title, The Jazz Detective, Mr. Zev Feldman. |
| 1:20.6 | Now, Zev has produced some of the most interesting, amazing jazz titles of the last decade |
| 1:26.1 | through his ability to find and restore obscure and lost recordings from titles of the last decade through his ability to find and restore obscure |
| 1:29.6 | and lost recordings from some of the greats, including Thelodeus Monk, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, |
| 1:35.3 | that's just naming a few there. And if you've got the Lee Morgan Live at the Lighthouse |
| 1:40.3 | 12 LP box set, well, his fingerprints are all over that too. Now today, Zev and I cover |
| 1:46.1 | all this ground and more. Plus, he gives us a few clues about what the future may be holding |
| 1:51.9 | for some titles that may be right around the corner. And of course, if you like this conversation, |
| 1:57.4 | there's more of it available to our patreon.com slash vinyl guide community. |
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