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GEORGE LEWIS WITH KID SHOTS/THE GEORGE LEWIS RAGTIME JAZZ BAND OF NEW ORLEANS (American Music, 1206 Decatur St., New Orleans, La. 70116). These two CDs bracket the first decade of the so-called New Orleans jazz revival, spearheaded by this lyrical and passionate clarinetist who inspired jazz traditionalists around the world. The first album is a remastering of the legendary 1944 sides recorded by jazz historian William Russell; the second is a previously unissued 1952 session. Both capture the power and drive of Lewis at his peak...
...bootleg CD boom began in 1988 with the appearance of the Ultra Rare Trax series, a high-fidelity compendium of alternate versions and outtakes of songs by the Beatles. Since then, the market has been flooded with CDs featuring live concerts and unreleased tracks by such performers as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen. One of the most sought-after bootlegs is Prince's so-called Black Album, which his label, Warner Bros., has never released at the singer's request. Since May, bootleg copies of outtakes from U2's unfinished new album have been...
...broadcasts, sneaking portable recorders into live concerts, surreptitiously tapping into studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
...record industry hopes that it will be able to control the production of bootleg CDs because of the relatively small number (about 115) of disc- manufacturing plants around the world, vs. millions of cassette-dubbing machines. But that advantage may prove fleeting because an array of new formats is poised to enter the market: digital audiotapes, digital compact cassettes and even recordable mini discs. While those formats are likely to contain devices to thwart mass copying, musicians may find that the only way to beat the bootleggers is to drown them out with legitimate material...
...wall encounter with Charlie Parker. Producer Joel Dorn has so far accumulated more than 200,000 hours of ad-lib material, including doo-wop, early rock and classics as well as jazz. The tapes were made mostly by amateurs; the sound, to judge by Night's initial CDs, is crisp and professional...