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Thank You for the hot tip.
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Black Mountain! The spiritual successor to LZ! |
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2nd Sass Jordan Christian McBride |
Christian McBride Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard. |
Over the weekend
Sass Jordan - Racine
Wow! what a talent. Its such a shame she never got the proper backing from the record execs who instead tried to make her into something she is not.
Toronzo Cannon (blues) The Chicago Way & The Preacher, The Politician & The Pimp
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Continuing Wayne Shorter investigations.
Tonight it is Juju...Wayne and McCoy + bass and drums.
Rudy Van Gelder remaster version that, despite much negative commentary about the series, does not sound all that bad (a little thin but not ear bleed bright). Did fiddle a little with Lokius tone settings mainly to try and bring up the piano in the mix. At times sounding like it was placed at the back of a big room with the mic positioned too far away from it.
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Hate typos. Make that, "Jonathan Kreisberg kinda steals the show".
Sorry, Tweak. No clue about locking an Oppo onto a DVD. |
Dianna Krall and Tony Bennett, an exceptional recording
Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands
Dire Straits 19 anniversary Edition SACD
BTW, does anybody know how to get my Oppo 105 to lock onto DVD? |
Spiral - (Dr.) Lonnie Smith
2010 recording. Excellent organ trio work (guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg kinda steels the show at times). Spectacular sonics. |
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Full House (live) - Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly trio + Johnny Griffin.
From 1962. Sounding very "spry" at 60. |
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The Houston Kid by Rodney Crowell, one of my very favorite albums. All killer, no filler! Guest appearance by Johnny Cash, Rodney's one-time father-in-law. |
The Paris Blue album by Kyle Eastwood. Great standup bass. Yes, Clint is his dad, but don't hold that against him. |
Ricky Lee Jones reissue from the set of 4 discs. AMAZING sound
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More ZZ Top (Party on the Patio) |
2-Fer
Slipknot - (R.I.P. Joey) ZZ Top - (R.I.P. Dusty) |
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"All The Nasties"
with that crescendo-ing outro has some real magic.
"All The Nasties" brilliant!!!!!!! Called being uncompressed back then, when there were no iphones/tablets/earbuds/walkmans etc etc to blow up and the earphones when the big crescendos/transients came along. Now they have to compress otherwise they would blow those teeny speakers/earbuds, if turned up during the quiter intros/passages. So they have to compress it these days, to stop all that destruction, and as a bonus for them less space is used when they stream, so less space less streaming costs to them Like this unfortunate compressed junk. Good also in cars in heavy city traffic, jackhammers etc. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/103194https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/182565Here’s something good to look at EJ early uncompressed https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/1?artist=elton+johnCompared it to most of the later stuff https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/3?artist=elton+john (something happened though between 2017 to 2019) they went back to uncompressed????? Which is weird, someone said something to someone?? Cheers George |
@jafant Thanks for the Lee Morgan suggestion.
@georgehifi Not a huge EJ fan either, but Madman is a favorite album: the title track, exceptional and powerful 50 years later; the lesser known "All The Nasties" with that crescendo-ing outro has some real magic. |
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georgehifi
Elton's debut and all of the 70's discs are must-own ! Yes, original pressings are the best.
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ghosthouse
Right On! Freddie is my next suggestion. A very strong suggestion! A good starting point with Lee Morgan - Lee-Way.
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Elton John "Madman Across the Water" not a big fan, but this is something else, brilliant, stunning there are no adjectives that can describe just how good this album was. Naturally the best release, was the most uncompressed one, that was the first 1985 as usual. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/186376Cheers George |
Night Dreamer followed by Juju. Wayne Shorter again.
Juju (new to me) is impressive. |
I guess you knew that's Lee playing trumpet on Night Dreamer. But don't forget Freddie (on Speak No Evil). He always seems to make me sit up and pay attention. |
ghosthouse
You cannot go wrong with McCoy nor Wayne! Throw a little Lee Morgan in there for good measure!
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Thanks @jafant
I'm so ignorant about most of the standard jazz catalog and I'm a slow "reader". Takes me a long time to "get" some of it...well, what doesn't bore me and that, I'm finding, often means quintets. So, that's how we arrived at these three. Though a good quartet is okay too!
Probably be spending more time with one or more of them again tonight.
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Nice! selections |
Sun Ra. Space Is The Place
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McCoy Tyner - Illuminations
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
WS - Night Dreamer
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Golden Earring: The Naked Truth |
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Randall Clark - Imaginary World
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