Unknown about Miles and more

“The critics were still not up to me, but my albums were in demand. This was evident, if only because around this time Bob Weinstock, on Prestige, gave me $ 3,000 to record my next records — more than before. I felt that I was moving in the right direction, and on my own terms, without compromising for recognition. And if I have managed to keep my principles up to this point, then I am not going to give them up in the future.” [Miles Davis, 1955]

My friend went to Finland last winter. I read an ad on “Litsekniga” about the sale of  for a private radio station in Turku and went. I brought back a Studer and a box of old tapes. Then he called me and cryptically told me that there was something I needed to hear…
In fact, in the analog era, record labels often cut tapes into tracks when they sent copies to radio stations. Convenient: you put a single on one of the reels on AEG iron, and forward to the air — you do not need to wind kilometers of tapes back and forth. Continue reading →