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Newvelle Records Completes First Year and Funds Second
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 27, 2016  |  13 comments
The subscription-based, vinyl-only record label Newvelle Records is an audacious project on many levels—a “closed loop” system wherein jazz enthusiasts pay an annual “membership fee” of $425 (includes shipping) and receive six Newvelle-produced records—all performed by mostly familiar “world class” artists— over the course of the year.
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Newvelle Records Is An Exciting New Curated Vinyl-Only Label Featuring Jazz Greats (fact-corrected 2/4/16)
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 26, 2016  |  17 comments
Newvelle is a new vinyl-only jazz label founded by Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau. Mr. Mehler is a New York jazz pianist and composer who has toured worldwide and has released five albums. Mr. Morisseau is a Paris-based business executive with a twenty-plus year background in international global business development.

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Newvelle Records Launches Season Four And There's A Discount For AnalogPlanet Readers
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 30, 2018  |  7 comments
The by-subscription Newvelle jazz label just launched season four of its unique original LP series. The vinyl-only 6 LP series consists of original productions, all recorded and mixed at East Side Sound in New York by Marc Urselli with lacquers mastered by Alex DeTurk. Pressing has moved from MPO to Chad Kassem's QRP in Salina, Kansas.

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Newvelle Records Launches Third Year of Subscription Series Jazz LPs
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2017  |  3 comments
Subscription-based jazz label Newvelle Records recently announced its third year of vinyl-only original productions. The six gatefold packaged albums ship every other month. Subscribers get a box in which to store the albums.

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Newvelle Records Live On Stage and In the Studio September 3-8 In New York City
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 05, 2019  |  0 comments
The by-subscription jazz vinyl-only label Newvelle recently announced "Newvelle Live", a week of music on the stage and in the studio to celebrate Newvelle’s 5th Anniversary. The week-long event features two New York premieres , four world premieres, and five live recording sessions. Alumni from each season of the label’s subscription-based box sets will perform at the legendary Jazz Standard, NYC, Jazz Record’s 2017 “venue of the year.”

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Newvelle Records Vinyl Project Launches Season Two Via Kickstarter
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2016  |  2 comments
The jazz subscription vinyl-only label Newvelle, which had a successful first year, releasing albums by Frank Kimbraugh, Jack DeJohnnette, Noah Preminger, Don Friedman, Ben Allison and Leo Genovese (feauturing Esperanza Spalding and Jack DeJohnette), just announced its second year kickstarter launch.

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Newvelle Releases As a "Stand Alone" album, Irma Thomas's Love Is the Foundation
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 08, 2021  |  1 comments
Newvelle Records yesterday announced it was releasing as a "stand alone" LP from the 4 LP New Orleans Collection Irma Thomas' remarkable Love Is The Foundation.

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Next Dylan Bootleg Series Release "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966" Offers Multiple Editions
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 25, 2015  |  10 comments
The latest "Bootleg Series" Dylan release covers but fourteen months during which time Dylan released three of his greatest albums: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

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Nitty Gritty Closes Its Doors
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 30, 2017  |  20 comments
Sad to report that record cleaning specialist Nitty Gritty is going out of business—and not because business is poor.

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Norman Pickering RIP
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 24, 2015  |  6 comments
Sadly, Mr. Norman Pickering passed away November 18th, 2015 at age 99.

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Numero Group Announces Pastor T.L. Barrett 5 LP Box Set In Standard and Deluxe Editions
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 23, 2021  |  1 comments
Numero Group is set to issue 5 LP box set and deluxe box set editions of Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir's I Shall Wear a Crown. You probably know some of this amazing music even if you think you don't.

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Numerogroup's Rob Sevier Responds!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 13, 2013  |  30 comments
Numerogroup's Rob Sevier has responded to my charge that his Wire piece was the "Stupidest Article Ever Written About Vinyl". And as expected, his response was infantile, petulant and utterly predictable.

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Oh No! An Even Stupider Vinyl Story!
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 13, 2013  |  39 comments
The numerogroup can rest easy. An even more foolish vinyl story has just appeared online in The New Jersey Star Ledger.

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Old Vinyl Addict
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 28, 2011  |  1 comments
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OMA (Oswalds Mill Audio) Debuts K3 Direct Drive Turntable—An AnalogPlanet Exclusive
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 28, 2020  |  11 comments
Oswalds Mill Audio demoed yesterday (Feb. 27th) at its Brooklyn showroom the K3— a brand new, more than 3 years in the planning and manufacturing direct drive turntable that aims to define "state of the turntable art". What you see in the photo is not the final finish nor is it the 100% completed physical design.

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