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Re: Polyphonic Label

>From my experience, recording companies are reluctant to give personnel due to
changes
in the band. They don't want to be 'months behind.'

Monkey


Martin Irwin wrote:

> Graham,
> I agree with your comments, there should be a list of players on brass band
> CD's.  I must have done about 15 CD's with B&R band since being a member,
> and we have 1 (I think) with a list of players names.  It seems to be the
> norm these days.  Its good for the ego's of the players involved to have
> their names listed, but more importantly to let the rest of the world know
> who they are, especially the players down the rows who are not household
> names.  They should get the credit too.  I find it frustrating when buying
> for example a Black Dyke CD (yes, even a B&R player buys the opposition's
> CD's!!) that no names are listed, I would like to know.
>
> Martin.
>
> ----------
> > From: gyoung <gyoung@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Polyphonic Label
> > Date: 10 May 1998 16:57
> >
> > Graham Young (905) 575-8440
> > Weston Silver Band, Symphony Hamilton
> > Celebration Brass, McMaster Chamber Orchestra
> > gyoung@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > I have just bought a recording of the Yorkshire Building Society Band
> > on the Polyphonic label and am disturbed to find that
> > there is no list of personnel for the band listed.
> >
> > There is five pages of wide spaced fairly large print
> > with the typical record jacket blather.
> >
> > Dear Polyphonic:
> >
> > Some people who buy your recordings are actually interested
> > in the names of the players. Since they are amateurs,
> > perhaps they would like to see their participation accredited.
> > This is especially of interest in North America where we are
> > somewhat "out of touch" with who is playing with which band.
> > Just set the type a little smaller and list the musicians names.
> >  It is easy to do you just change the type from 11 point to 9 and
> > add in the names.
> >
> > On jazz recordings the list of personnel is almost always
> > given. This should be required for classical and band
> > recordings as well. how many times have you listened to
> > a recording of an orchestra as wondered who was playing?
> >
> > I think that on Brass Band recordings it should be
> > done as a courtesy to the players.
> >
> >
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